4.0.0 -- 2021-10-10
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You can view the `4.0.0 milestone`_ on GitHub for more details.

Backwards Incompatible Changes
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- Remove ``--install-hook`` vcs integration (See also :issue:`1008`).
- Remove ``setuptools`` command (See also :issue:`1009`).
- Migrate from GitLab to GitHub (See also :pull:`1305`).
- Due to constant confusion by users, user-level |Flake8| configuration files
  are no longer supported. Files will not be searched for in the user's home
  directory (e.g., ``~/.flake8``) nor in the XDG config directory (e.g.,
  ``~/.config/flake8``).  (See also :pull:`1404`).

New Dependency Information
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- pycodestyle has been updated to >= 2.8.0, < 2.9.0 (See also :pull:`1406`).
- Pyflakes has been updated to >= 2.4.0, < 2.5.0 (See also :pull:`1406`).
- flake8 requires python >= 3.6 (See also :issue:`1010`).

Features
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- Add ``--extend-select`` option (See also :pull:`1312` :issue:`1061`).
- Automatically create directories for output files (See also :pull:`1329`).

Bugs Fixed
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- ``ast`` parse before tokenizing to improve ``SyntaxError`` errors (See also
  :pull:`1320` :issue:`740`).
- Fix warning in ``--indent-size`` argparse help (See also :pull:`1367`).
- Fix handling ``SyntaxError`` in python 3.10+ (See also :pull:`1374`
  :issue:`1372`).
- Fix writing non-cp1252-encodable when output is piped on windows (See also
  :pull:`1382` :issue:`1381`).

.. all links
.. _4.0.0 milestone:
    https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8/milestone/39