6.0.0 -- 2022-11-23
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You can view the `6.0.0 milestone`_ on GitHub for more details.

Backwards Incompatible Changes
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- Remove ``--diff`` option (See also :issue:`1389`, :pull:`1720`).
- Produce an error when invalid codes are specified in configuration (See also
  :issue:`1689`, :pull:`1713`).
- Produce an error if the file specified in ``--extend-config`` does not exist
  (See also :issue:`1729`, :pull:`1732`).
- Remove ``optparse`` compatibility support (See also :pull:`1739`).

New Dependency Information
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- pycodestyle has been updated to >= 2.10.0, < 2.11.0 (See also :pull:`1746`).
- Pyflakes has been updated to >= 3.0.0, < 3.1.0 (See also :pull:`1748`).

Features
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- Require python >= 3.8.1 (See also :pull:`1633`, :pull:`1741`).
- List available formatters in for ``--format`` option in ``--help`` (See also
  :issue:`223`, :pull:`1624`).
- Improve multiprocessing performance (See also :pull:`1723`).
- Enable multiprocessing on non-fork platforms (See also :pull:`1723`).
- Ensure results are sorted when discovered from files (See also :issue:`1670`,
  :pull:`1726`).

.. all links
.. _6.0.0 milestone:
    https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8/milestone/47