September 1-15, 2024 in Darker: Introducing formatter plugins and marching towards the 3.0.0 release

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This period saw significant progress towards supporting multiple formatter backends. We introduced a new --formatter command line option and formatter configuration setting (PR #738), with black as the initial supported value and none as the option to do no code re-formatting. This change, which addresses a long-standing feature request (issue #562), lays the groundwork for future support of additional formatters.

On the CI front, we're working on updating our GitHub Actions workflows. A PR to bump the actions/download-artifact action from version 3 to 4.1.7 is under review (#736). We're also considering using uv in our workflows to speed up test runs (Issue #737).

Several pull requests are awaiting review, including changes to remove deprecated options in [tool.darker] (#607), and remove baseline linting support in favor of the separate Graylint tool (#608). These reviews are currently delaying the Darker 3.0.0 release. Lastly, we merged a fix for a Path.resolve bug affecting Windows environments on Python 3.8 and 3.9 (PR #612).

We've also improved the GitHub Action to respect working-directory (#591), an added new exitcode and stdout outputs to provide visibility into Darker's status. The caching and installation processes for the GitHub action are also being improved.

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