🐛 Bug Fixes Fix f-string syntax in error message of the uncurl remote. https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/pull/455 (by @christian-monch) FileSystemItem.from_path() now honors its link_target parameter, and resolves a target for any symlink item conditional on this setting. Previously, a symlink target was always resolved. Fixes https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/issues/462 via https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/pull/464 (by @mih) Update the vendor installation of versioneer to v0.29. This resolves an installation failure with Python 3.12 due to the removal of an ancient class. Fixes https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/issues/475 via https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/pull/483 (by @mih) Bump dependency on Python to 3.8. This is presently the oldest version still supported upstream. However, some functionality already used 3.8 features, so this is also a bug fix. Fixes https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/issues/481 via https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/pull/486 (by @mih) 💫 Enhancements and new features Patch datalad-core's run command to honor configuration defaults for substitutions. This enables placeholders like {python} that point to sys.executable by default, and need not be explicitly defined in system/user/dataset configuration. Fixes https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/issues/478 via https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/pull/485 (by @mih) 📝 Documentation Include gitworktree among the available file collection types listed in ls-file-collection's docstring. Fixes https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/issues/470 via https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/pull/471 (by @mslw) The renderer API documentation now includes an entrypoint for the runner-related functionality and documentation at https://docs.datalad.org/projects/next/en/latest/generated/datalad_next.runners.html Fixes https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/issues/466 via https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/pull/467 (by @mih) 🛡 Tests Simplified setup for subprocess test-coverage reporting. Standard pytest-cov features are not employed, rather than the previous approach that was adopted from datalad-core, which originated in a time when testing was performed via nose. Fixes https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/issues/453 via https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/pull/457 (by @mih)