docutils 0.20rc1 released

The release candidate is on pip

When installing with pip add the --pre option::

  pip install --pre docutils

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*Release Notes*

Note

Docutils 0.20 is the last version supporting Python 3.7 and 3.8.

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   General
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      Support Python 3.11 (patch #198 by Hugo van Kemenade).
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   Output changes:
   HTML5:

   Use dpub-ARIA role "doc-footnote" (instead of ARIA role "note") for
   footnotes.
   LaTeX:

   Do not load the inputenc package in UTF-8 encoded LaTeX sources. (UTF-8
   is the default encoding for LaTeX2e since 2018).
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   Configuration changes:
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      Settings in the [latex2e writer] configuration file section are now
      ignored by the "xetex" writer. Place common settings in section [latex
      writers]
      <https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/config.html#latex-writers>.
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      New command line setting output
      <https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/config.html#output>.
      Obsoletes the <destination> positional argument (cf. future changes
      <https://docutils.sourceforge.io/RELEASE-NOTES.html#command-line-usage-pattern>
      ).
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   utils.find_file_in_dirs() now returns a POSIX path also on Windows;
   utils.get_stylesheet_list() no longer converts \ to /.
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   docutils/languages/ docutils/parsers/rst/languages/
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      Support Ukrainian. Patch by Dmytro Kazanzhy.
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   test/coverage.sh
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      Removed. Use the coverage.py <https://pypi.org/project/coverage/>
      project instead, coverage run test/alltests.py and coverage report.
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   tools/
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      Moved quicktest.py to tools/dev/.


Detailed changes in https://docutils.sourceforge.io/HISTORY.html