Build the changelog from news/ fragments with towncrier

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
-2.2.0 (UNRELEASED)
-------------------
-
-* `#380 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/execnet/pull/380>`__: Add support for Python 3.13 and 3.14, and drop EOL 3.8 and 3.9.
-
-* `#429 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/execnet/issues/429>`__: ``safe_terminate`` now waits for a terminated worker once more after the kill attempt, so a released worker is joined instead of abandoned, and returns whether all workers finished within the bounds instead of discarding the wait result. ``Group.terminate()`` now propagates that result to its callers.
+.. towncrier release notes start
 
 2.1.2 (2025-11-11)
 ------------------

RELEASING.rst

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ Version
 
 ``main`` should always be green and a potential release candidate. ``execnet`` follows
 semantic versioning, so given that the current version is ``X.Y.Z``, to find the next version number
-one needs to look at the ``CHANGELOG.rst`` file:
+one needs to look at the fragments in the ``news/`` directory:
 
-- If there any new feature, then we must make a new **minor** release: next
+- If there any new feature (``news/*.feature.rst``), then we must make a new **minor** release: next
   release will be ``X.Y+1.0``.
 
 - Otherwise it is just a **bug fix** release: ``X.Y.Z+1``.
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ To publish a new release ``X.Y.Z``, the steps are as follows:
 
 #. Create a new branch named ``release-X.Y.Z`` from the latest ``main``.
 
-#. Update the ``CHANGELOG.rst`` file with the new release information.
+#. Build the changelog from the ``news/`` fragments, which also removes them::
+
+     uvx towncrier build --yes --version X.Y.Z
 
 #. Commit and push the branch to ``upstream`` and open a PR.
 

news/380.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add support for Python 3.13 and 3.14, and drop EOL 3.8 and 3.9.

pyproject.toml

@@ -127,3 +127,10 @@ module = [
     "gevent.thread.*",
 ]
 ignore_missing_imports = true
+
+[tool.towncrier]
+directory = "news/"
+filename = "CHANGELOG.rst"
+title_format = "{version} ({project_date})"
+issue_format = "`#{issue} <https://github.com/pytest-dev/execnet/issues/{issue}>`__"
+underlines = ["-", "~"]