5.1.1 - 2026-02-06

Summary

In this patch release, we:

  • Fixed a bug which was affecting new GitHub projects from using the nox session release:prepare.

  • Switched from using a string verified by PyYaml to directly using ruamel-yaml for rendering the GitHub workflows.

Bug

  • #692: Fixed bug where creating first release failed due to no previous tags

Documentation

  • #585: Added instructions how to ignore sonar issues to the User Guide

  • #630: Updated cookiecutter command to reduce errors experienced by users

Refactoring

  • #686: Switched GitHub templates to be fully parsed by ruamel-yaml

Dependency Updates

main

  • Removed dependency pyyaml:6.0.3

  • Added dependency ruamel-yaml:0.18.16