Pin cookiecutter to latest version 2.6.0

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This PR pins cookiecutter to the latest release 2.6.0.

Changelog

2.6.0

Minor Changes

* Support Python 3.12 (1989) ericof
* Modifying Jinja2 start and end variable strings (1997) sacha-c

CI/CD and QA changes

* Add isort as a pre-commit hook (1988) kurtmckee
* Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 (2000) dependabot
* Bump actions/upload-artifact from 3 to 4 (1999) dependabot
* Quick resolution of 2003 (2004) jensens
* Support Python 3.12 (1989) ericof
* [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (1996) pre-commit-ci
* Quick resolution of 2003 (2004) jensens

Documentation updates

* Support Python 3.12 (1989) ericof

Bugfixes

* Fix regression 2009: Adding value to nested dicts broken (2010) jensens
* Fixed errors caused by invalid config files. (1995) alanverresen

This release is made by wonderful contributors:

alanverresen, dependabot, dependabot[bot], ericof, jensens, kurtmckee, pre-commit-ci, pre-commit-ci[bot] and sacha-c

2.5.0

Minor Changes

* Default values can be passed as a dict (1924) matveyvarg
* Implement new style for nested templates config (1981) ericof

CI/CD and QA changes

* Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (1953) dependabot
* [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (1977) pre-commit-ci
* [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (1957) pre-commit-ci

Documentation updates

* Add argument run to pipx command in README.md (1964) staeff
* Fix tutorial2 generated HTML (1971) aantoin
* Update README.md (1967) HarshRanaOC
* Update README.md to fix broken link (1952) david-abn
* Update README.md to include installation instructions (1949) david-abn
* Update cookiecutter-plone-starter link in readme (1965) zahidkizmaz

Bugfixes

* Fix FileExistsError when using a relative template path (1968) pkrueger-cariad
* Fix recursive context overwrites (1961) padraic-padraic

This release is made by wonderful contributors:

HarshRanaOC, aantoin, david-abn, dependabot, dependabot[bot], ericof, matveyvarg, padraic-padraic, pkrueger-cariad, pre-commit-ci, pre-commit-ci[bot], staeff and zahidkizmaz

2.4.0

Minor Changes

* Gracefully handle files with mixed lined endings (1942) EricHripko
* Implement a pre_prompt hook that will run before prompts (1950) ericof

Documentation updates

* Implement a pre_prompt hook that will run before prompts (1950) ericof
* update main docstrings to include overwrite_if_exists and skip_if_file_exists (1947) david-abn

This release is made by wonderful contributors:

EricHripko, david-abn and ericof

2.3.1

Minor Changes

* add checkout details to the context (fixes 1759) (1923) JonZeolla

CI/CD and QA changes

* Update the black pre-commit hook URL and version (1934) kurtmckee
* Use UTF-8 for file reading/writing (1937) rmartin16

Documentation updates

* Add missing "parent dir" symbol in tutorial 2 (1932) tvoirand
* Remove colons from exemplary prompt messages (1912) paduszyk
* docs: add install instruction for Void Linux (1917) tranzystorek-io

Bugfixes

* Fix nested templates in Git repository (1922) BTatlock
* Fix prompt counter. (1940) ericof
* Fix variables with null default not being required (1919) (1920) limtis0

This release is made by wonderful contributors:

BTatlock, JonZeolla, ericof, kurtmckee, limtis0, paduszyk, rmartin16, tranzystorek-io and tvoirand

2.3.0

Minor Changes

* Improve style of prompts using `rich` (1901) vemonet

CI/CD and QA changes

* Bump paambaati/codeclimate-action from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0 (1908) dependabot
* [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (1907) pre-commit-ci

Bugfixes

* Fix replay (1904) vemonet
* Support multichoice overwrite (1903) Meepit

This release is made by wonderful contributors:

Meepit, dependabot, dependabot[bot], ericof, pre-commit-ci, pre-commit-ci[bot] and vemonet

2.2.3

Changes

Minor Changes

* Add support for adding human-readable labels for choices when defining multiple choices questions (1898) vemonet

* Prompt with replay file (1758) w1ndblow

CI/CD and QA changes

* Set cookiecutter/VERSION.txt as source of truth for version number (1896) ericof
* [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (1897) pre-commit-ci

Bugfixes

* Fix issue where the prompts dict was not passed for yes_no questions (1895) vemonet
* Set cookiecutter/VERSION.txt as source of truth for version number (1896) ericof

This release is made by wonderful contributors:

ericof, pre-commit-ci, pre-commit-ci[bot], vemonet and w1ndblow

2.2.2

CI/CD and QA changes

* Improve gitignore (1889) audreyfeldroy
* Add warning for jinja2_time (1890) henryiii

This release is made by wonderful contributors:

audreyfeldroy, ericof and henryiii

2.2.0

Changes

* Added timeout on request.get() for ensuring that if a recipient serve… (1772) openrefactory
* Fixing Carriage Return Line Feed (CRLF) order in docs 1792 (1793) Lahiry
* Reduce I/O (1877) kurtmckee
* Remove a pre-commit hook special case (1875) kurtmckee
* Remove universal bdist_wheel option; use "python -m build" (1739) mwtoews
* Remove unused import from post-generate hook script example (1795) KAZYPinkSaurus
* Standardize newlines for all platforms (1870) kurtmckee
* feat: Add resolved template repository path as _repo_dir to the context (1771) tmeckel

Minor Changes

* Added support for providing human-readable prompts to the different variables (1881) vemonet
* Added: Boolean variable support in JSON (1626) liortct
* Added: CLI option to keep project files on failure. (1669) MaciejPatro
* Added: Support partially overwrite keys in nested dict (1692) cksac
* Added: Templates inheritance (1485) simobasso
* Code quality: Tests upgrade: Use pathlib for files read/write (1718) insspb
* Inline jinja2-time extension code (1779) tranzystorek-io
* Support Python 3.11 (1850) kurtmckee
* Support nested config files (1770) dariocurr
* preserves original options in `_cookiecutter` (1874) kjaymiller

CI/CD and QA changes

* Add a Dependabot config to autoupdate GitHub workflow actions (1851) kurtmckee
* Added: Readthedocs build config (1707) insspb
* Bump actions/setup-python from 3 to 4 (1854) dependabot
* Bump paambaati/codeclimate-action from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0 (1853) dependabot
* CI/CD: Tox -> Nox: Added nox configuration (1706) insspb
* CI/CD: Tox -> Nox: Github actions definition minimized + Sync nox and github actions (1714) insspb
* CI/CD: Tox -> Nox: Makefile update: Removed watchmedo and sed dependency, tox replaced with nox (1713) insspb
* CI/CD: Updated .pre-commit-config.yaml to use latest hooks versions (1712) insspb
* Code quality: Core files: Added exception reason reraise when exception class changed (PEP 3134) (1719) insspb
* Code quality: Tests upgrade: Use pathlib for files read/write (1718) insspb
* Code quality: core files: Format replaced with f-strings (1716) insspb
* Code quality: find.py refactored and type annotated (1721) insspb
* Code quality: tests files: Simplify statements fixes (1717) insspb
* Code quality: utils.make_sure_path_exists refactored and type annotated (1722) insspb
* Fixed: recommonmark replaced with myst, as recommonmark is deprecated (1709) insspb
* Pretty-format JSON files (1864) kurtmckee
* Rename `master` to `main` so CI runs correctly on merge (1852) kurtmckee
* Standardize EOF newlines (1876) kurtmckee
* Update `.gitignore` and cite where it was copied from (1879) kurtmckee
* Update base docs, remove tox (1858) ericof
* Update pre-commit hook versions (1849) kurtmckee
* Updated: Release drafter configuration (1704) insspb
* Use tox (1866) kurtmckee
* Verify an expected warning is raised (1869) kurtmckee
* fixed failing lint ci action by updating repo of flake8 (1838) Tamronimus

Documentation updates

* Add jinja env docs (1872) pamelafox
* Documentation extension: Create a Cookiecutter From Scratch tutorial (1592) miro-jelaska
* Easy PR! Fix typos and add minor doc updates (1741) Alex0Blackwell
* Expand cli documentation relating to the no-input flag (1543) (1587) jeremyswerdlow
* Fix audreyr to audreyfeldroy github account rename (1604) ri0t
* Fixed broken links to jinja docs (1691) insspb
* Fixed minor typos in docs (1753) segunb
* Fixed: Python code block in the replay documentation (1715) juhannc
* Fixed: recommonmark replaced with myst, as recommonmark is deprecated (1709) insspb
* Improve Docs Readability (1690) ryanrussell
* Update base docs, remove tox (1858) ericof
* Updated: Boolean Variables documentation and docstrings (1705) italomaia
* docs: fix simple typo, shat -> that (1749) timgates42
* fixing badge display problem (1798) Paulokim1

Bugfixes

* Fixed the override not working with copy only dir 1650 (1651) zhongdai
* Fixed: Removed mention of packages versions, to exclude dependabot warnings alerts (1711) insspb
* cleanup files if panics during hooks - bugfix (1760) liortct

This release is made by wonderful contributors:

Alex0Blackwell, KAZYPinkSaurus, Lahiry, MaciejPatro, Paulokim1, Tamronimus, cksac, cookies-xor-cream, dariocurr, dependabot, dependabot[bot], ericof, insspb, italomaia, jeremyswerdlow, juhannc, kjaymiller, kurtmckee, liortct, miro-jelaska, mwtoews, openrefactory, pamelafox, ri0t, ryanrussell, segunb, simobasso, timgates42, tmeckel, tranzystorek-io, vemonet and zhongdai

2.1.1

Documentation updates

* Fix local extensions documentation (1686) alkatar21

Bugfixes

* Sanitize Mercurial branch information before checkout. (1689) ericof

This release is made by wonderfull contributors:

alkatar21, ericof and jensens

2.1.0

Changes

* Move contributors and backers to credits section (1599) doobrie
* test_generate_file_verbose_template_syntax_error fixed (1671) MaciejPatro
* Removed changes related to setuptools_scm (1629) ozer550
* Feature/local extensions (1240) mwesterhof

CI/CD and QA changes

* Check manifest: pre-commit, fixes, cleaning (1683) jensens
* Follow PyPA guide to release package using GitHub Actions. (1682) ericof

Documentation updates

* Fix typo in dict_variables.rst (1680) ericof
* Documentation overhaul (1677) jensens
* Fixed incorrect link on docs. (1649) luzfcb

Bugfixes

* Restore accidentally deleted support for click 8.x (1643) jaklan

This release was made possible by our wonderful contributors:

doobrie, jensens, ericof, luzfcb

2.0.2

*Remark: This release never made it to official PyPI*

* Fix Python version number in cookiecutter --version and test on Python 3.10 (1621) ozer550
* Removed changes related to setuptools_scm (1629) audreyfeldroy ozer550

2.0.1

*Remark: This release never made it to official PyPI*

Breaking Changes

* Release preparation for 2.0.1rc1 (1608) audreyfeldroy
* Replace poyo with pyyaml. (1489) dHannasch
* Added: Path templates will be rendered when copy_without_render used (839) noirbizarre
* Added: End of line detection and configuration. (1407) insspb
* Remove support for python2.7 (1386) ssbarnea

Minor Changes

* Adopt setuptools-scm packaging (1577) ssbarnea
* Log the error message when git clone fails, not just the return code (1505) logworthy
* allow jinja 3.0.0 (1548) wouterdb
* Added uuid extension to be able to generate uuids (1493) jonaswre
* Alert user if choice is invalid (1496) dHannasch
* Replace poyo with pyyaml. (1489) dHannasch
* update AUTHOR lead (1532) HosamAlmoghraby
* Add Python 3.9 (1478) gliptak
* Added: --list-installed cli option, listing already downloaded cookiecutter packages (1096) chrisbrake
* Added: Jinja2 Environment extension on files generation stage (1419) insspb
* Added: --replay-file cli option, for replay file distributing (906) Cadair
* Added: _output_dir to cookiecutter context (1034) Casyfill
* Added: CLI option to ignore hooks (992) rgreinho
* Changed: Generated projects can use multiple type hooks at same time. (sh + py) (974) milonimrod
* Added: Path templates will be rendered when copy_without_render used (839) noirbizarre
* Added: End of line detection and configuration. (1407) insspb
* Making code python 3 only: Remove python2 u' sign, fix some strings (1402) insspb
* py3: remove futures, six and encoding (1401) insspb
* Render variables starting with an underscore. (1339) smoothml
* Tests refactoring: test_utils write issues fixed 1405 (1406) insspb

CI/CD and QA changes

* enable branch coverage (1542) simobasso
* Make release-drafter diff only between master releases (1568) SharpEdgeMarshall
* ensure filesystem isolation during tests execution (1564) simobasso
* add safety ci step (1560) simobasso
* pre-commit: add bandit hook (1559) simobasso
* Replace tmpdir in favour of tmp_path (1545) SharpEdgeMarshall
* Fix linting in CI (1546) SharpEdgeMarshall
* Coverage 100% (1526) SharpEdgeMarshall
* Run coverage with matrix (1521) SharpEdgeMarshall
* Lint rst files (1443) ssbarnea
* Python3: Changed io.open to build-in open (PEP3116) (1408) insspb
* Making code python 3 only: Remove python2 u' sign, fix some strings (1402) insspb
* py3: remove futures, six and encoding (1401) insspb
* Removed: Bumpversion, setup.py arguments. (1404) insspb
* Tests refactoring: test_utils write issues fixed 1405 (1406) insspb
* Added: Automatic PyPI deploy on tag creation (1400) insspb
* Changed: Restored coverage reporter (1399) insspb

Documentation updates

* Fix pull requests checklist reference (1537) glumia
* Fix author name (1544) HosamAlmoghraby
* Add missing contributors (1535) glumia
* Update CONTRIBUTING.md (1529) glumia
* Update LICENSE (1519) simobasso
* docs: rewrite the conditional files / directories example description. (1437) lyz-code
* Fix incorrect years in release history (1473) graue70
* Add slugify in the default extensions list (1470) oncleben31
* Renamed cookiecutter.package to API (1442) grrlic
* Fixed wording detail (1427) steltenpower
* Changed: CLI Commands documentation engine (1418) insspb
* Added: Example for conditional files / directories in hooks (1397) xyb
* Changed: README.md PyPI URLs changed to the modern PyPI last version (1391) brettcannon
* Fixed: Comma in README.md (1390) Cy-dev-tex
* Fixed: Replaced no longer maintained pipsi by pipx (1395) ndclt

Bugfixes

* Add support for click 8.x (1569) cjolowicz
* Force click<8.0.0 (1562) SharpEdgeMarshall
* Remove direct dependency on markupsafe (1549) ssbarnea
* fixes prompting private rendered dicts (1504) juhuebner
* User's JSON parse error causes ugly Python exception 809 (1468) noone234
* config: set default on missing default_context key (1516) simobasso
* Fixed: Values encoding on Windows (1414) agateau
* Fixed: Fail with gitolite repositories (1144) javiersanp
* MANIFEST: Fix file name extensions (1387) sebix

Deprecations

* Removed: Bumpversion, setup.py arguments. (1404) insspb
* Removed support for Python 3.6 and PyPy (1608) audreyfeldroy

This release was made possible by our wonderful contributors:

Cadair, Casyfill, Cy-dev-tex, HosamAlmoghraby, SharpEdgeMarshall, agateau, audreyfeldroy, brettcannon, chrisbrake, cjolowicz, dHannasch, gliptak, glumia, graue70, grrlic, insspb, javiersanp, jonaswre, jsoref, Jthevos, juhuebner, logworthy, lyz-code, milonimrod, ndclt, noirbizarre, noone234, oncleben31, ozer550, rgreinho, sebix, Sahil-101, simobasso, smoothml, ssbarnea, steltenpower, wouterdb, xyb, Christopher Wolfe and Hosam Almoghraby ( RIAG Digital )

1.7.2

* Fixed: Jinja2&Six version limits causing build errors with ansible project [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1385)

1.7.1

This release was focused on internal code and CI/CD changes. During this release
all code was verified to match pep8, pep257 and other code-styling guides.
Project CI/CD was significantly changed, Windows platform checks based on Appveyor
engine was replaced by GitHub actions tests. Appveyor was removed. Also our
CI/CD was extended with Mac builds, to verify project builds on Apple devices.

Important Changes:

* Added: Added debug messages for get_user_config [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1357)
* Multiple templates per one repository feature added. [RomHartmann](https://github.com/RomHartmann) (#1224, 1063)
* Update replay.py json.dump indent for easy viewing [nicain](https://github.com/nicain) (#1293)
* 'future' library replaced with 'six' as a more lightweight python porting library [asottile](https://github.com/asottile) (#941)
* Added extension: Slugify template filter [ppanero](https://github.com/ppanero) (#1336)
* Added command line option: `--skip-if-file-exists`, allow to skip the existing files when doing `overwrite_if_exists`. [chhsiao1981](https://github.com/chhsiao1981) (#1076)
* Some packages versions limited to be compatible with python2.7 and python 3.5 [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1349)

Internal CI/CD and tests changes:

* Coverage comment in future merge requests disabled [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1279)
* Fixed Python 3.8 travis tests and setup.py message [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1295, 1297)
* Travis builds extended with Windows setup for all supported python versions [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1300, 1301)
* Update .travis.yml to be compatible with latest travis cfg specs [luzfcb](https://github.com/luzfcb) (#1346)
* Added new test to improve tests coverage [amey589](https://github.com/amey589) (#1023)
* Added missed coverage lines highlight to pytest-coverage report [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1352)
* pytest-catchlog package removed from test_requirements, as now it is included in pytest [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1347)
* Fixed `cov-report` tox invocation environment [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1350)
* Added: Release drafter support and configuration to exclude changelog update work and focus on development [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1356, 1362)
* Added: CI/CD steps for Github actions to speedup CI/CD [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1360)
* Removed: Appveyor CI/CD completely removed [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1363, 1367)

Code style and docs changes:

* Added black formatting verification on lint stage + project files reformatting [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1368)
* Added pep257 docstring for tests/* files [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1369, 1370, 1371, 1372, 1373, 1374, 1375, 1376, 1377, 1378, 1380, 1381)
* Added pep257 docstring for tests/conftests.py [kishan](https://github.com/kishan3) (#1272, 1263)
* Added pep257 docstring for tests/replay/conftest.py [kishan](https://github.com/kishan3) (#1270, 1268)
* Added pep257 docstring for docs/__init__.py [kishan](https://github.com/kishan3) (#1273, 1265)
* Added missing docstring headers to all files [croesnick](https://github.com/croesnick) (#1269, 1283)
* Gitter links replaced by Slack in README [browniebroke](https://github.com/browniebroke) (#1282)
* flake8-docstrings tests added to CI/CD [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1284)
* Activated pydocstyle rule: D401 - First line should be in imperative mood [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1285)
* Activated pydocstyle rule: D200 - One-line docstring should fit on one line with quotes [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1288)
* Activated pydocstyle rule: D202 - No blank lines allowed after function docstring [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1288)
* Activated pydocstyle rule: D205 - 1 blank line required between summary line and description [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1286, 1287)
* Activated pydocstyle rule: ABS101 [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1288)
* Replaced click documentation links to point to version 7 [igorbasko01](https://github.com/igorbasko01) (#1303)
* Updated submodule link to latest version with documentation links fix [DanBoothDev](https://github.com/DanBoothDev) (#1388)
* Fixed links in main README file. [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1342)
* Fix indentation of .cookiecutterrc in README.md [mhsekhavat](https://github.com/mhsekhavat) (#1322)
* Changed format of loggers invocation [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1307)

1.7.0

Important Changes:

* Drop support for EOL Python 3.4, thanks to [jamescurtin](https://github.com/jamescurtin) and [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1024)
* Drop support for EOL Python 3.3, thanks to [hugovk](https://github.com/hugovk) (#1024)
* Increase the minimum click version to 7.0, thanks to [rly](https://github.com/rly) and [luzfcb](https://github.com/luzfcb) (#1168)

Other Changes:

* PEP257 fixing docstrings in exceptions.py. Thanks to [MinchinWeb](https://github.com/MinchinWeb) (#1237)
* PEP257 fixing docstrings in replay.py. Thanks to [kishan](https://github.com/kishan3) (#1234)
* PEP257 fixing docstrings in test_unzip.py. Thanks to [tonytheleg](https://github.com/tonytheleg) and [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1236, 1262)
* Fixed tests sequence for appveyor, to exclude file not found bug. Thanks to [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1257)
* Updates REAMDE.md with svg badge for appveyor. Thanks to [sobolevn](https://github.com/sobolevn) (#1254)
* Add missing {% endif %} to Choice Variables example. Thanks to [mattstibbs](https://github.com/mattstibbs) (#1249)
* Core documentation converted to Markdown format thanks to [wagnernegrao](https://github.com/wagnernegrao), [insspb](https://github.com/insspb) (#1216)
* Tests update: use sys.executable when invoking python in python 3 only environment thanks to [vincentbernat](https://github.com/vincentbernat) (#1221)
* Prevent `click` API v7.0 from showing choices when already shown, thanks to [rly](https://github.com/rly) and [luzfcb](https://github.com/luzfcb) (#1168)
* Test the codebase with python3.8 beta on tox and travis-ci (1206), thanks to [mihrab34](https://github.com/mihrab34)
* Add a [CODE\_OF\_CONDUCT.md](https://github.com/audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) file to the project, thanks to [andreagrandi](https://github.com/andreagrandi) (#1009)
* Update docstrings in `cookiecutter/main.py`, `cookiecutter/__init__.py`, and `cookiecutter/log.py` to follow the PEP 257 style guide, thanks to [meahow](https://github.com/meahow) (#998, 999, 1000)
* Update docstrings in `cookiecutter/utils.py` to follow the PEP 257 style guide, thanks to [dornheimer](https://github.com/dornheimer)(#1026)
* Fix grammar in *Choice Variables* documentation, thanks to [jubrilissa](https://github.com/jubrilissa) (#1011)
* Update installation docs with links to the Windows Subsystem and GNU utilities, thanks to [Nythiennzo](https://github.com/Nythiennzo) for the PR and [BruceEckel](https://github.com/BruceEckel) for the review (#1016)
* Upgrade flake8 to version 3.5.0, thanks to [cclauss](https://github.com/cclauss) (#1038)
* Update tutorial with explanation for how cookiecutter finds the template file, thanks to [accraze](https://github.com/accraze)(#1025)
* Update CI config files to use `TOXENV` environment variable, thanks to [asottile](https://github.com/asottile) (#1019)
* Improve user documentation for writing hooks, thanks to [jonathansick](https://github.com/jonathansick) (#1057)
* Make sure to preserve the order of items in the generated cookiecutter context, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#1074)
* Fixed DeprecationWarning for a regular expression on python 3.6, thanks to [reinout](https://github.com/reinout) (#1124)
* Document use of cookiecutter-template topic on GitHub, thanks to [ssbarnea](https://github.com/ssbarnea) (#1189)
* Update README badge links, thanks to [luzfcb](https://github.com/luzfcb) (#1207)
* Update prompt.py to match pep257 guidelines, thanks to [jairideout](https://github.com/jairideout) (#1105)
* Update link to Jinja2 extensions documentation, thanks to [dacog](https://github.com/dacog) (#1193)
* Require pip 9.0.0 or newer for tox environments, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#1215)
* Use io.open contextmanager when reading hook files, thanks to [jcb91](https://github.com/jcb91) (#1147)
* Add more cookiecutter templates to the mix:
* [cookiecutter-python-cli](https://github.com/xuanluong/cookiecutter-python-cli) by [xuanluong](https://github.com/xuanluong) (#1003)
* [cookiecutter-docker-science](https://github.com/docker-science/cookiecutter-docker-science) by [takahi-i](https://github.com/takahi-i) (#1040)
* [cookiecutter-flask-skeleton](https://github.com/realpython/cookiecutter-flask-skeleton) by [mjhea0](https://github.com/mjhea0) (#1052)
* [cookiecutter-awesome](https://github.com/Pawamoy/cookiecutter-awesome) by [Pawamoy](https://github.com/Pawamoy) (#1051)
* [cookiecutter-flask-ask](https://github.com/chrisvoncsefalvay/cookiecutter-flask-ask) by [machinekoder](https://github.com/machinekoder) (#1056)
* [cookiecutter-data-driven-journalism](https://github.com/jastark/cookiecutter-data-driven-journalism) by [JAStark](https://github.com/JAStark) (#1020)
* [cookiecutter-tox-plugin](https://github.com/tox-dev/cookiecutter-tox-plugin) by [obestwalter](https://github.com/obestwalter) (#1103)
* [cookiecutter-django-dokku](https://github.com/mashrikt/cookiecutter-django-dokku) by [mashrikt](https://github.com/mashrikt) (#1093)

1.6.0

New Features:

* Include template path or template URL in cookiecutter context under `_template`, thanks to [aroig](https://github.com/aroig) (#774)
* Add a URL abbreviation for GitLab template projects, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#963)
* Add option to use templates from Zip files or Zip URLs, thanks to [freakboy3742](https://github.com/freakboy3742) (#961)

Bug Fixes:

* Fix an issue with missing default template abbreviations for when a user defined custom abbreviations, thanks to [noirbizarre](https://github.com/noirbizarre) for the issue report and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for the fix (#966, 967)
* Preserve existing output directory on project generation failure, thanks to [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc) for the report and
[michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) for the fix (#629, 964)
* Fix Python 3.x error handling for `git` operation failures, thanks to [jmcarp](https://github.com/jmcarp) (#905)

Other Changes:

* Fix broken link to *Copy without Render* docs, thanks to [coreysnyder04](https://github.com/coreysnyder04) (#912)
* Improve debug log message for when a hook is not found, thanks to [raphigaziano](https://github.com/raphigaziano/) (#160)
* Fix module summary and `expand_abbreviations()` doc string as per pep257, thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates)
(772)
* Update doc strings in `cookiecutter/cli.py` and `cookiecutter/config.py` according to pep257, thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#922, 931)
* Update doc string for `is_copy_only_path()` according to pep257, thanks to [mathagician](https://github.com/mathagician) and
[terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#935, 949)
* Update doc strings in `cookiecutter/extensions.py` according to pep257, thanks to [meahow](https://github.com/meahow) (#996)
* Fix miscellaneous issues with building docs, thanks to [stevepiercy](https://github.com/stevepiercy) (#889)
* Re-implement Makefile and update several make rules, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#930)
* Fix broken link to pytest docs, thanks to [eyalev](https://github.com/eyalev) for the issue report and [devstrat](https://github.com/devstrat) for the fix (#939, 940)
* Add `test_requirements.txt` file for easier testing outside of tox, thanks to [ramnes](https://github.com/ramnes) (#945)
* Improve wording in *copy without render* docs, thanks to [eyalev](https://github.com/eyalev) (#938)
* Fix a number of typos, thanks to [delirious-lettuce](https://github.com/delirious-lettuce) (#968)
* Improved *extra context* docs by noting that extra context keys must be present in the template\'s `cookiecutter.json`, thanks to
[karantan](https://github.com/karantan) for the report and fix (#863, 864)
* Added more cookiecutter templates to the mix:
* [cookiecutter-kata-cpputest](https://github.com/13coders/cookiecutter-kata-cpputest) by [13coders](https://github.com/13coders) (#901)
* [cookiecutter-kata-gtest](https://github.com/13coders/cookiecutter-kata-gtest) by [13coders](https://github.com/13coders) (#901)
* [cookiecutter-pyramid-talk-python-starter](https://github.com/mikeckennedy/cookiecutter-pyramid-talk-python-starter) by [mikeckennedy](https://github.com/mikeckennedy) (#915)
* [cookiecutter-android](https://github.com/alexfu/cookiecutter-android) by [alexfu](https://github.com/alexfu) (#890)
* [cookiecutter-lux-python](https://github.com/alexkey/cookiecutter-lux-python) by [alexkey](https://github.com/alexkey) (#895)
* [cookiecutter-git](https://github.com/webevllc/cookiecutter-git) by [tuxredux](https://github.com/tuxredux) (#921)
* [cookiecutter-ansible-role-ci](https://github.com/ferrarimarco/cookiecutter-ansible-role) by [ferrarimarco](https://github.com/ferrarimarco) (#903)
* [cookiecutter\_dotfile](https://github.com/bdcaf/cookiecutter_dotfile) by [bdcaf](https://github.com/bdcaf) (#925)
* [painless-continuous-delivery](https://github.com/painless-software/painless-continuous-delivery) by [painless-software](https://github.com/painless-software)
     (927)
* [cookiecutter-molecule](https://github.com/retr0h/cookiecutter-molecule) by [retr0h](https://github.com/retr0h) (#954)
* [sublime-snippet-package-template](https://github.com/agenoria/sublime-snippet-package-template) by [agenoria](https://github.com/agenoria) (#956)
* [cookiecutter-conda-python](https://github.com/conda/cookiecutter-conda-python) by [conda](https://github.com/conda) (#969)
* [cookiecutter-flask-minimal](https://github.com/candidtim/cookiecutter-flask-minimal) by [candidtim](https://github.com/candidtim) (#977)
* [cookiecutter-pypackage-rust-cross-platform-publish](https://github.com/mckaymatt/cookiecutter-pypackage-rust-cross-platform-publish) by [mckaymatt](https://github.com/mckaymatt) (#957)
* [cookie-cookie](https://github.com/tuxredux/cookie-cookie) by [tuxredux](https://github.com/tuxredux) (#951)
* [cookiecutter-telegram-bot](https://github.com/Ars2014/cookiecutter-telegram-bot) by [Ars2014](https://github.com/Ars2014) (#984)
* [python-project-template](https://github.com/Kwpolska/python-project-template) by [Kwpolska](https://github.com/Kwpolska) (#986)
* [wemake-django-template](https://github.com/wemake-services/wemake-django-template) by [wemake-services](https://github.com/wemake-services) (#990)
* [cookiecutter-raml](https://github.com/genzj/cookiecutter-raml) by [genzj](https://github.com/genzj) (#994)
* [cookiecutter-anyblok-project](https://github.com/AnyBlok/cookiecutter-anyblok-project) by [AnyBlok](https://github.com/AnyBlok) (#988)
* [cookiecutter-devenv](https://bitbucket.org/greenguavalabs/cookiecutter-devenv.git) by [greenguavalabs](https://bitbucket.org/greenguavalabs) (#991)

1.5.1

New Features:

* Major update to installation documentation, thanks to [stevepiercy](https://github.com/stevepiercy) (#880)

Bug Fixes:

* Resolve an issue around default values for dict variables, thanks to [e-kolpakov](https://github.com/e-kolpakov) for raising the issue and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for the PR (#882, 884)

Other Changes:

* Contributor documentation reST fixes, thanks to [stevepiercy](https://github.com/stevepiercy) (#878)
* Added more cookiecutter templates to the mix:
* [widget-cookiecutter](https://github.com/jupyter/widget-cookiecutter) by [willingc](https://github.com/willingc) (#781)
* [cookiecutter-django-foundation](https://github.com/Parbhat/cookiecutter-django-foundation) by [Parbhat](https://github.com/Parbhat) (#804)
* [cookiecutter-tornado](https://github.com/hkage/cookiecutter-tornado) by [hkage](https://github.com/hkage) (#807)
* [cookiecutter-django-ansible](https://github.com/HackSoftware/cookiecutter-django-ansible) by [Ivaylo-Bachvarov](https://github.com/Ivaylo-Bachvarov)(#816)
* [CICADA](https://github.com/TAMU-CPT/CICADA) by [elenimijalis](https://github.com/elenimijalis) (#840)
* [cookiecutter-tf-module](https://github.com/DualSpark/cookiecutter-tf-module) by [VDuda](https://github.com/VDuda) (#843)
* [cookiecutter-pyqt4](https://github.com/aeroaks/cookiecutter-pyqt4) by [aeroaks](https://github.com/aeroaks) (#847)
* [cookiecutter-golang](https://github.com/lacion/cookiecutter-golang) by [mjhea0](https://github.com/mjhea0) and [lacion](https://github.com/lacion) (#872, 873)
* [cookiecutter-elm](https://github.com/m-x-k/cookiecutter-elm.git), [cookiecutter-java](https://github.com/m-x-k/cookiecutter-java.git) and [cookiecutter-spring-boot](https://github.com/m-x-k/cookiecutter-spring-boot.git) by [m-x-k](https://github.com/m-x-k) (#879)

1.5.0

The primary goal of this release was to add command-line support for passing extra context, address minor bugs and make a number of
improvements.

New Features:

* Inject extra context with command-line arguments, thanks to [msabramo](https://github.com/msabramo) and [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#666).
* Updated conda installation instructions to work with the new conda-forge distribution of Cookiecutter, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) and especially [bollwyvl](https://github.com/bollwyvl) (#232, 705).
* Refactor code responsible for interaction with version control systems and raise better error messages, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#778).
* Add support for executing cookiecutter using `python -m cookiecutter` or from a checkout/zip file, thanks to [brettcannon](https://github.com/brettcannon) (#788).
* New CLI option `--debug-file PATH` to store a log file on disk. By default no log file is written. Entries for `DEBUG` level and     higher. Thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot)(#792).
* Existing templates in a user\'s `cookiecutters_dir` (default is `~/.cookiecutters/`) can now be referenced by directory name, thanks
to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#825).
* Add support for dict values in `cookiecutter.json`, thanks to [freakboy3742](https://github.com/freakboy3742) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#815, 858).
* Add a `jsonify` filter to default jinja2 extensions that json.dumps a Python object into a string, thanks to [aroig](https://github.com/aroig) (#791).

Bug Fixes:

* Fix typo in the error logging text for when a hook did not exit successfully, thanks to [luzfcb](https://github.com/luzfcb)    (#656)
* Fix an issue around **replay** file names when **cookiecutter** is used with a relative path to a template, thanks to    [eliasdorneles](https://github.com/eliasdorneles) for raising the issue and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for the PR (#752, 753)
* Ignore hook files with tilde-suffixes, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#768)
* Fix a minor issue with the code that generates a name for a template, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot)(#798)
* Handle empty hook file or other OS errors, thanks to [christianmlong](https://github.com/christianmlong) for raising this bug and [jcarbaugh](https://github.com/jcarbaugh) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for the fix (#632, 729, 862)
* Resolve an issue with custom extensions not being loaded for `pre_gen_project` and `post_gen_project` hooks, thanks to [cheungnj](https://github.com/cheungnj) (#860)

Other Changes:

* Remove external dependencies from tests, so that tests can be run w/o network connection, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#603)
* Remove execute permissions on Python files, thanks to [mozillazg](https://github.com/mozillazg) (#650)
* Report code coverage info from AppVeyor build to codecov, thanks to [ewjoachim](https://github.com/ewjoachim) (#670)
* Documented functions and methods lacking documentation, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#673)
* Documented `__init__` methods for Environment objects, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#677)
* Updated whichcraft to 0.4.0, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny).
* Updated documentation link to Read the Docs, thanks to [natim](https://github.com/Natim) (#687)
* Moved cookiecutter templates and added category links, thanks to [willingc](https://github.com/willingc) (#674)
* Added Github Issue Template, thanks to [luzfcb](https://github.com/luzfcb) (#700)
* Added `ssh` repository examples, thanks to [pokoli](https://github.com/pokoli/) (#702)
* Fix links to the cookiecutter-data-science template and its documentation, thanks to [tephyr](https://github.com/tephyr) for the PR and [willingc](https://github.com/willingc) for the review (#711, 714)
* Update link to docs for Django\'s `--template` command line option, thanks to [purplediane](https://github.com/purplediane) (#754)
* Create *hook backup files* during the tests as opposed to having them as static files in the repository, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#789)

* Applied PEP 257 docstring conventions to:
* `environment.py`, thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#759)
* `find.py`, thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#761)
* `generate.py`, thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#764)
* `hooks.py`, thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#766)
* `repository.py`, thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#833)
* `vcs.py`, thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#831)

* Fix link to the Tryton cookiecutter, thanks to [cedk](https://github.com/cedk) and [nicoe](https://github.com/nicoe) (#697, 698)
* Added PyCon US 2016 sponsorship to README, thanks to [purplediane](https://github.com/purplediane) (#720)
* Added a sprint contributor doc, thanks to [phoebebauer](https://github.com/phoebebauer) (#727)
* Converted readthedocs links (.org -\> .io), thanks to [adamchainz](https://github.com/adamchainz) (#718)
* Added Python 3.6 support, thanks to [suledev](https://github.com/suledev) (#728)
* Update occurrences of `repo_name` in documentation, thanks to [palmerev](https://github.com/palmerev) (#734)
* Added case studies document, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#735)
* Added first steps cookiecutter creation tutorial, thanks to [BruceEckel](https://github.com/BruceEckel) (#736)
* Reorganised tutorials and setup git submodule to external tutorial, thanks to [dot2dotseurat](https://github.com/dot2dotseurat) (#740)
* Debian installation instructions, thanks to [ivanlyon](https://github.com/ivanlyon) (#738)
* Usage documentation typo fix., thanks to [terryjbates](https://github.com/terryjbates) (#739)
* Updated documentation copyright date, thanks to [zzzirk](https://github.com/zzzirk) (#747)
* Add a make rule to update git submodules, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#746)
* Split up advanced usage docs, thanks to [zzzirk](https://github.com/zzzirk) (#749)
* Documentation for the `no_input` option, thanks to [pokoli](https://github.com/pokoli/) (#701)
* Remove unnecessary shebangs from python files, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#763)
* Refactor cookiecutter template identification, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#777)
* Add a `cli_runner` test fixture to simplify CLI tests, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#790)
* Add a check to ensure cookiecutter repositories have JSON context, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph)(#782)
* Rename the internal function that determines whether a file should be rendered, thanks to [audreyfeldroy](https://github.com/audreyfeldroy) for raising the issue and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot)for the PR (#741, 802)
* Fix typo in docs, thanks to [mwarkentin](https://github.com/mwarkentin) (#828)
* Fix broken link to *Invoke* docs, thanks to [B3QL](https://github.com/B3QL) (#820)
* Add documentation to `render_variable` function in `prompt.py`, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#678)
* Fix python3.6 travis-ci and tox configuration, thanks to [luzfcb](https://github.com/luzfcb) (#844)
* Add missing encoding declarations to python files, thanks to [andytom](https://github.com/andytom) (#852)
* Disable poyo logging for tests, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#855)
* Remove pycache directories in make clean-pyc, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#849)
* Refactor hook system to only find the requested hook, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#834)
* Add tests for custom extensions in `pre_gen_project` and `post_gen_project` hooks, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#856)
* Make the build reproducible by avoiding nondeterministic keyword arguments, thanks to [lamby](https://github.com/lamby) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#800, 861)
* Extend CLI help message and point users to the github project to engage with the community, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#859)

* Added more cookiecutter templates to the mix:
* [cookiecutter-funkload-friendly](https://github.com/tokibito/cookiecutter-funkload-friendly) by [tokibito](https://github.com/tokibito) (#657)
* [cookiecutter-reveal.js](https://github.com/keimlink/cookiecutter-reveal.js) by [keimlink](https://github.com/keimlink) (#660)
* [cookiecutter-python-app](https://github.com/mdklatt/cookiecutter-python-app) by [mdklatt](https://github.com/mdklatt) (#659)
* [morepath-cookiecutter](https://github.com/morepath/morepath-cookiecutter) by [href](https://github.com/href) (#672)
* [hovercraft-slides](https://github.com/Springerle/hovercraft-slides) by [jhermann](https://github.com/jhermann) (#665)
* [cookiecutter-es6-package](https://github.com/ratson/cookiecutter-es6-package) by [ratson](https://github.com/ratson) (#667)
* [cookiecutter-webpack](https://github.com/hzdg/cookiecutter-webpack) by [hzdg](https://github.com/hzdg) (#668)
* [cookiecutter-django-herokuapp](https://github.com/dulaccc/cookiecutter-django-herokuapp) by [dulaccc](https://github.com/dulaccc) (#374)
* [cookiecutter-django-aws-eb](https://github.com/dolphinkiss/cookiecutter-django-aws-eb) by [peterlauri](https://github.com/peterlauri) (#626)
* [wagtail-starter-kit](https://github.com/tkjone/wagtail-starter-kit) by [tkjone](https://github.com/tkjone) (#658)
* [cookiecutter-dpf-effect](https://github.com/SpotlightKid/cookiecutter-dpf-effect) by [SpotlightKid](https://github.com/SpotlightKid) (#663)
* [cookiecutter-dpf-audiotk](https://github.com/SpotlightKid/cookiecutter-dpf-audiotk) by [SpotlightKid](https://github.com/SpotlightKid) (#663)
* [cookiecutter-template](https://github.com/eviweb/cookiecutter-template) by [eviweb](https://github.com/eviweb) (#664)
* [cookiecutter-angular2](https://github.com/matheuspoleza/cookiecutter-angular2) by [matheuspoleza](https://github.com/matheuspoleza) (#675)
* [cookiecutter-data-science](http://drivendata.github.io/cookiecutter-data-science/) by [pjbull](https://github.com/pjbull) (#680)
* [cc\_django\_ember\_app](https://bitbucket.org/levit_scs/cc_django_ember_app) by [nanuxbe](https://github.com/nanuxbe) (#686)
* [cc\_project\_app\_drf](https://bitbucket.org/levit_scs/cc_project_app_drf) by [nanuxbe](https://github.com/nanuxbe) (#686)
* [cc\_project\_app\_full\_with\_hooks](https://bitbucket.org/levit_scs/cc_project_app_full_with_hooks) by [nanuxbe](https://github.com/nanuxbe) (#686)
* [beat-generator](https://github.com/elastic/beat-generator) by [ruflin](https://github.com/ruflin) (#695)
* [cookiecutter-scala](https://github.com/Plippe/cookiecutter-scala) by [Plippe](https://github.com/Plippe) (#751)
* [cookiecutter-snakemake-analysis-pipeline](https://github.com/xguse/cookiecutter-snakemake-analysis-pipeline) by [xguse](https://github.com/xguse) (#692)
* [cookiecutter-py3tkinter](https://github.com/ivanlyon/cookiecutter-py3tkinter) by [ivanlyon](https://github.com/ivanlyon) (#730)
* [pyramid-cookiecutter-alchemy](https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid-cookiecutter-alchemy) by [stevepiercy](https://github.com/stevepiercy) (#745)
* [pyramid-cookiecutter-starter](https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid-cookiecutter-starter) by [stevepiercy](https://github.com/stevepiercy) (#745)
* [pyramid-cookiecutter-zodb](https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid-cookiecutter-zodb) by [stevepiercy](https://github.com/stevepiercy) (#745)
* [substanced-cookiecutter](https://github.com/Pylons/substanced-cookiecutter) by [stevepiercy](https://github.com/stevepiercy) (#745)
* [cookiecutter-simple-django-cn](https://github.com/shenyushun/cookiecutter-simple-django-cn) by [shenyushun](https://github.com/shenyushun) (#765)
* [cookiecutter-pyqt5](https://github.com/mandeepbhutani/cookiecutter-pyqt5) by [mandeepbhutani](https://github.com/mandeepbhutani) (#797)
* [cookiecutter-xontrib](https://github.com/laerus/cookiecutter-xontrib) by [laerus](https://github.com/laerus) (#817)
* [cookiecutter-reproducible-science](https://github.com/mkrapp/cookiecutter-reproducible-science) by [mkrapp](https://github.com/mkrapp) (#826)
* [cc-automated-drf-template](https://github.com/TAMU-CPT/cc-automated-drf-template) by [elenimijalis](https://github.com/elenimijalis) (#832)

1.4.0

The goal of this release is changing to a strict Jinja2 environment, paving the way to more awesome in the future, as well as adding support
for Jinja2 extensions.

New Features:

* Added support for Jinja2 extension support, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#617).
* Now raises an error if Cookiecutter tries to render a template that contains an undefined variable. Makes generation more robust and
secure (586). Work done by [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#111, 586, 592)
* Uses strict Jinja2 env in prompt, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#598, 613)
* Switched from pyyaml/ruamel.yaml libraries that were problematic across platforms to the pure Python [poyo](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/poyo) library, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#557, 569, 621)
* User config values for `cookiecutters_dir` and `replay_dir` now support environment variable and user home expansion, thanks to   [nfarrar](https://github.com/nfarrar) for the suggestion and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for the PR (#640,642)
* Add [jinja2-time](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jinja2-time) as default extension for dates and times in templates via `{% now 'utc' %}`,thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#653)

Bug Fixes:

* Provided way to define options that have no defaults, thanks to [johtso](https://github.com/johtso) (#587, 588)
* Make sure that `replay.dump()` and `replay.load()` use the correct user config, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot)
(590, 594)
* Added correct CA bundle for Git on Appveyor, thanks to [maiksensi](https://github.com/maiksensi) (#599, 602)
* Open `HISTORY.rst` with `utf-8` encoding when reading the changelog, thanks to [0-wiz-0](https://github.com/0-wiz-0) for submitting the issue and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for the fix (#638, 639)
* Fix repository indicators for [privaterepository](http://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#works-with-private-repos)
urls, thanks to [habnabit](https://github.com/habnabit) for the fix (#595) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for the
tests (655)

Other Changes:

* Set path before running tox, thanks to [maiksensi](https://github.com/maiksensi) (#615, 620)
* Removed xfail in test\_cookiecutters, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#618)
* Removed django-cms-plugin on account of 404 error, thanks to [mativs](https://github.com/mativs) and [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#593)
* Fixed docs/usage.rst, thanks to [macrotim](https://github.com/macrotim) (#604)
* Update .gitignore to latest Python.gitignore and ignore PyCharm files, thanks to [audreyfeldroy](https://github.com/audreyfeldroy)
* Use open context manager to read context\_file in generate() function, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot)
(607, 608)
* Added documentation for choice variables, thanks to [maiksensi](https://github.com/maiksensi) (#611)
* Set up Scrutinizer to check code quality, thanks to [audreyfeldroy](https://github.com/audreyfeldroy)
* Drop distutils support in setup.py, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#606, 609)
* Change cookiecutter-pypackage-minimal link, thanks to [kragniz](https://github.com/kragniz) (#614)
* Fix typo in one of the template\'s description, thanks to [ryanfreckleton](https://github.com/ryanfreckleton) (#643)
* Fix broken link to [\_copy\_without\_render](http://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced_usage.html#copy-without-render)
 in *troubleshooting.rst*, thanks to [ptim](https://github.com/ptim) (#647)

* Added more cookiecutter templates to the mix:
* [cookiecutter-pipproject](https://github.com/wdm0006/cookiecutter-pipproject) by [wdm0006](https://github.com/wdm0006) (#624)
* [cookiecutter-flask-2](https://github.com/wdm0006/cookiecutter-flask) by [wdm0006](https://github.com/wdm0006) (#624)
* [cookiecutter-kotlin-gradle](https://github.com/thomaslee/cookiecutter-kotlin-gradle) by [thomaslee](https://github.com/thomaslee) (#622)
* [cookiecutter-tryton-fulfilio](https://github.com/fulfilio/cookiecutter-tryton) by [cedk](https://github.com/cedk) (#631)
* [django-starter](https://github.com/tkjone/django-starter) by [tkjone](https://github.com/tkjone) (#635)
* [django-docker-bootstrap](https://github.com/legios89/django-docker-bootstrap) by [legios89](https://github.com/legios89) (#636)
* [cookiecutter-mediawiki-extension](https://github.com/JonasGroeger/cookiecutter-mediawiki-extension) by [JonasGroeger](https://github.com/JonasGroeger) (#645)
* [cookiecutter-django-gulp](https://github.com/valerymelou/cookiecutter-django-gulp) by [valerymelou](https://github.com/valerymelou) (#648)

1.3.0

The goal of this release is to extend the user config feature and to make hook execution more robust.

New Features:

* Abort project generation if `pre_gen_project` or `post_gen_project` hook scripts fail, thanks to [eliasdorneles](https://github.com/eliasdorneles) (#464, 549)
* Extend user config capabilities with additional cli options `--config-file` and `--default-config` and environment variable   `COOKIECUTTER_CONFIG`, thanks to [jhermann](https://github.com/jhermann), [pfmoore](https://github.com/pfmoore), and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#258, 424, 565)

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed conditional dependencies for wheels in setup.py, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#557, 568)
* Reverted skipif markers to use correct reasons (bug fixed in pytest), thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot)
(574)

Other Changes:

* Improved path and documentation for rendering the Sphinx documentation, thanks to [eliasdorneles](https://github.com/eliasdorneles) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#562, 583)
* Added additional help entrypoints, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#563, 492)
* Added Two Scoops Academy to the README, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#576)
* Now handling trailing slash on URL, thanks to [ramiroluz](https://github.com/ramiroluz) (#573, 546)
* Support for testing x86 and x86-64 architectures on appveyor, thanks to [maiksensi](https://github.com/maiksensi) (#567)
* Made tests work without installing Cookiecutter, thanks to [vincentbernat](https://github.com/vincentbernat) (#550)
* Encoded the result of the hook template to utf8, thanks to [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc) (#577. 578)
* Added test for \_run\_hook\_from\_repo\_dir, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#579, 580)
* Implemented bumpversion, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#582)
* Added more cookiecutter templates to the mix:
* [cookiecutter-octoprint-plugin](https://github.com/OctoPrint/cookiecutter-octoprint-plugin) by [foosel](https://github.com/foosel) (#560)
* [wagtail-cookiecutter-foundation](https://github.com/chrisdev/wagtail-cookiecutter-foundation) by [chrisdev](https://github.com/chrisdev), et al. (#566)

1.2.1

*Zimtsterne are cinnamon star cookies.*

New Feature:

* Returns rendered project dir, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#553)

Bug Fixes:

* Factor in *choice* variables (as introduced in 1.1.0) when using a user config or extra context, thanks to [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#536, 542).

Other Changes:

* Enable py35 support on Travis by using Python 3.5 as base Python ([maiksensi](https://github.com/maiksensi) / #540)
* If a filename is empty, do not generate. Log instead ([iljabauer](https://github.com/iljabauer) / #444)
* Fix tests as per last changes in [cookiecutter-pypackage](https://github.com/audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage), thanks to [eliasdorneles](https://github.com/eliasdorneles)(#555).
* Removed deprecated cookiecutter-pylibrary-minimal from the list, thanks to [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc) (#556)
* Moved to using rualmel.yaml instead of PyYAML, except for Windows users on Python 2.7, thanks
 to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#557)

*Why 1.2.1 instead of 1.2.0? There was a problem in the distribution that we pushed to PyPI. Since you can\'t replace previous files uploaded to PyPI, we deleted the files on PyPI and released 1.2.1.*

1.1.0

The goals of this release were copy without render and a few additional command-line options such as --overwrite-if-exists, ---replay, and output-dir.

Features:

* Added [copy without render](http://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced_usage.html#copy-without-render) feature, making it much easier for developers of Ansible, Salt Stack, and other recipe-based tools to work with Cookiecutter. Thanks to [osantana](https://github.com/osantana) and [LucianU](https://github.com/LucianU) for their innovation, as well as [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for fixing the Windows problems (#132, 184, 425).
* Added specify output directory, thanks to [tony](https://github.com/tony) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#531, 452).
* Abort template rendering if the project output directory already exists, thanks to [lgp171188](https://github.com/lgp171188)
(470, 471).
* Add a flag to overwrite existing output directory, thanks to [lgp171188](https://github.com/lgp171188) for the implementation (#495) and [schacki](https://github.com/schacki), [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc), [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) for submitting issues and code reviews (#475, 493).
* Remove test command in favor of tox, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#480).
* Allow cookiecutter invocation, even without installing it, via `python -m cookiecutter.cli`, thanks to [vincentbernat](https://github.com/vincentbernat) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#449, 487).
* Improve the type detection handler for online and offline repositories, thanks to [charlax](https://github.com/charlax)
(490).
* Add replay feature, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#501).
* Be more precise when raising an error for an invalid user config file, thanks to [vaab](https://github.com/vaab) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#378, 528).
* Added official Python 3.5 support, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) and [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#522).
* Added support for *choice* variables and switch to click style prompts, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#441, 455).

Other Changes:

* Updated click requirement to \< 6.0, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#473).
* Added landscape.io flair, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#439).
* Descriptions of PEP8 specifications and milestone management, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#440).
* Added alternate installation options in the documentation, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#117, 315).
* The test of the which() function now tests against the date command, thanks to [vincentbernat](https://github.com/vincentbernat) (#446)
* Ensure file handles in setup.py are closed using with statement, thanks to [svisser](https://github.com/svisser) (#280).
* Removed deprecated and fully extraneous compat.is\_exe() function, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#485).
* Disabled sudo in .travis, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#482).
* Switched to shields.io for problematic badges, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#491).
* Added whichcraft and removed `compat.which()`, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#511).
* Changed to export tox environment variables to codecov, thanks to [maiksensi](https://github.com/maiksensi). (#508).
* Moved to using click version command, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#489).
* Don\'t use unicode\_literals to please click, thanks to [vincentbernat](https://github.com/vincentbernat) (#503).
* Remove warning for Python 2.6 from \_\_init\_\_.py, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot).
* Removed compat.py module, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot).
* Added future to requirements, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot).
* Fixed problem where expanduser does not resolve \"\~\" correctly on windows 10 using tox, thanks to [maiksensi](https://github.com/maiksensi). (#527)

* Added more cookiecutter templates to the mix:
* [cookiecutter-beamer](https://github.com/luismartingil/cookiecutter-beamer) by [luismartingil](https://github.com/luismartingil) (#307)
* [cookiecutter-pytest-plugin](https://github.com/pytest-dev/cookiecutter-pytest-plugin) by [pytest-dev](https://github.com/pytest-dev) and
     [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#481)
* [cookiecutter-csharp-objc-binding](https://github.com/SandyChapman/cookiecutter-csharp-objc-binding) by [SandyChapman](https://github.com/SandyChapman) (#460)
* [cookiecutter-flask-foundation](https://github.com/JackStouffer/cookiecutter-Flask-Foundation) by [JackStouffer](https://github.com/JackStouffer) (#457)
* [cookiecutter-tryton-fulfilio](https://github.com/fulfilio/cookiecutter-tryton) by [fulfilio](https://github.com/fulfilio) (#465)
* [cookiecutter-tapioca](https://github.com/vintasoftware/cookiecutter-tapioca) by [vintasoftware](https://github.com/vintasoftware) (#496)
* [cookiecutter-sublime-text-3-plugin](https://github.com/kkujawinski/cookiecutter-sublime-text-3-plugin) by [kkujawinski](https://github.com/kkujawinski) (#500)
* [cookiecutter-muffin](https://github.com/drgarcia1986/cookiecutter-muffin) by [drgarcia1986](https://github.com/drgarcia1986) (#494)
* [cookiecutter-django-rest](https://github.com/agconti/cookiecutter-django-rest) by [agconti](https://github.com/agconti) (#520)
* [cookiecutter-es6-boilerplate](https://github.com/agconti/cookiecutter-es6-boilerplate) by [agconti](https://github.com/agconti) (#521)
* [cookiecutter-tampermonkey](https://github.com/christabor/cookiecutter-tampermonkey) by [christabor](https://github.com/christabor) (#516)
* [cookiecutter-wagtail](https://github.com/torchbox/cookiecutter-wagtail) by [torchbox](https://github.com/torchbox) (#533)

1.0.0

The goals of this release was to formally remove support for Python 2.6 and continue the move to using py.test.

Features:

* Convert the unittest suite to py.test for the sake of comprehensibility, thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#322, 332, 334, 336, 337, 338, 340, 341, 343, 345, 347, 351, 412, 413, 414).
* Generate pytest coverage, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#326).
* Documenting of Pull Request merging and HISTORY.rst maintenance, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph)
(330).
* Large expansions to the tutorials thanks to [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot) (#384)
* Switch to using Click for command-line options, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#391, 393).
* Added support for working with private repos, thanks to [marctc](https://github.com/marctc) (#265).
* Wheel configuration thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#118).

Other Changes:

* Formally removed support for 2.6, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#201).
* Moved to codecov for continuous integration test coverage and badges, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#71, 369).
* Made JSON parsing errors easier to debug, thanks to [rsyring](https://github.com/rsyring) and [mark0978](https://github.com/mark0978) (#355, 358, 388).
* Updated to Jinja 2.7 or higher in order to control trailing new lines in templates, thanks to [sfermigier](https://github.com/sfermigier) (#356).
* Tweaked flake8 to ignore e731, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#390).
* Fixed failing Windows tests and corrected AppVeyor badge link thanks to [msabramo](https://github.com/msabramo) (#403).

* Added more Cookiecutters to the list:
* [cookiecutter-scala-spark](https://github.com/jpzk/cookiecutter-scala-spark) by [jpzk](https://github.com/jpzk)
* [cookiecutter-atari2600](https://github.com/joeyjoejoejr/cookiecutter-atari2600) by [joeyjoejoejr](https://github.com/joeyjoejoejr)
* [cookiecutter-bottle](https://github.com/avelino/cookiecutter-bottle) by [avelino](https://github.com/avelino)
* [cookiecutter-latex-article](https://github.com/Kreger51/cookiecutter-latex-article) by [Kreger51](https://github.com/Kreger51)
* [cookiecutter-django-rest-framework](https://github.com/jpadilla/cookiecutter-django-rest-framework) by [jpadilla](https://github.com/jpadilla)
* [cookiedozer](https://github.com/hackebrot/cookiedozer) by [hackebrot](https://github.com/hackebrot)

0.9.0

The goals of this release were to add the ability to Jinja2ify the cookiecutter.json default values, and formally launch support for Python 3.4.

Features:

* Python 3.4 is now a first class citizen, thanks to everyone.
* cookiecutter.json values are now rendered Jinja2 templates, thanks to \bollwyvl (291).
* Move to py.test, thanks to [pfmoore](https://github.com/pfmoore) (#319) and [ramiroluz](https://github.com/ramiroluz) (#310).
* Add PendingDeprecation warning for users of Python 2.6, as support for it is gone in Python 2.7, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#201).

Bug Fixes:

* Corrected typo in Makefile, thanks to [inglesp](https://github.com/inglesp) (#297).
* Raise an exception when users don\'t have git or hg installed, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny) (#303).

Other changes:

* Creation of [gitter](https://gitter.im/audreyr/cookiecutter) account for logged chat, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph).
* Added ReadTheDocs badge, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph).
* Added AppVeyor badge, thanks to [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny)
* Documentation and PyPI trove classifier updates, thanks to [thedrow](https://github.com/thedrow) (#323 and 324)

0.8.0

The goal of this release was to allow for injection of extra context via the Cookiecutter API, and to fix minor bugs.

Features:

* cookiecutter() now takes an optional extra\_context parameter, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph), [fcurella](https://github.com/fcurella), [aventurella](https://github.com/aventurella),  [emonty](https://github.com/emonty), [schacki](https://github.com/schacki), [ryanolson](https://github.com/ryanolson), [pfmoore](https://github.com/pfmoore), [pydanny](https://github.com/pydanny), [audreyfeldroy](https://github.com/audreyfeldroy) (#260).
* Context is now injected into hooks, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) and [dinopetrone](https://github.com/dinopetrone).
* Moved all Python 2/3 compatibility code into cookiecutter.compat, making the eventual move to six easier, thanks to [michaeljoseph](https://github.com/michaeljoseph) (#60, 102).
* Added cookiecutterrc defined aliases for cookiecutters, thanks to [pfmoore](https://github.com/pfmoore) (#246)
* Added flake8 to tox to check for pep8 violations, thanks to [natim](https://github.com/Natim).

Bug Fixes:

* Newlines at the end of files are no longer s