- Update to version 3.8
A project name containing hyphens is now automatically translated to use underscores for the import name (PR #566).
New option flit install --only-deps to install the dependencies of the package, but not the package itself.
Add support for recursive globbing (**) in sdist includes and excludes (PR #550).
Python’s bytecode cache files (__pycache__ folders and .pyc files) are now always excluded from sdists (PR #581).
Use tomllib in Python 3.11, rather than tomli (PR #573, PR #604).
Fix crash when unable to get a password from keyring (PR #567).
Fix including modified files in sdist when using Mercurial (PR #541).
Fix for some cases of determining whether a package supports Python 2 or not (PR #593).
Fix parsing version number from code using multiple assignments (PR #474).
Document how to use a PyPI token with FLIT_PASSWORD (PR #602).
Fix link to information about environment variables for pip (PR #576).
Link to the docs for the latest stable version in package metadata (PR #589).
Remove a mention of the toml package, which is no longer needed, from the Developing Flit page (PR #601).
The bootstrap install script for flit_core accepts a new --install-root option.
Ensure the license file is included in packages on PyPI (PR #603).