8.1.0
Improve GitHub release workflow
Migrate from autoflake, black, isort, pyupgrade, flake8 and pydocstyle, to ruff
[flake8-bugbear] Re-raise all exceptions with proper exception chaining
releasing: Add template for major releases (#9596)
Update text and links in announce templates
scripts: Use release branch for changelog URL (#9380)
[ruff] Fix all consider [*cats, garfield] instead of cats + [garfield]
Fix mention of the prefix for pytest plugins in `plugin_list`