December 30, 2024 - January 5, 2025 in Darker: Major improvements in formatter handling and CI performance

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Several significant changes landed improving formatter handling. A new pyupgrade formatter plugin (#755) is in progress, along with more detailed documentation for using Ruff as a formatter (#800). Support for Black is now optional (#759), allowing Darker to run just isort and/or flynt through the new --formatter=none option. A bug with exotic newline characters is being fixed (#790) through improvements in Darkgraylib #87.

The test suite received major performance improvements (#761) by using module-scoped Git repository fixtures from Darkgraylib #84, nearly doubling test speed on Windows. Contributors are being recognized through comprehensive documentation updates (#606). Several ongoing projects are advancing, including Python 3.8 deprecation (#754), enhanced GitHub Action functionality (#591), and better handling of isort's skip_glob setting (#751).

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