v0.10.40

New Checks:

• InvalidMetadataRestrict: now also validates the restrict attribute on <stabilize-allarches> and <straight-to-stable> metadata.xml elements (@arthurzam)
• EclassDocMissingInternal: Enforce any eclass function prefixed with _ is marked with @INTERNAL, with _elibtoolize being exempted (@arthurzam)
• StabilizationGroupsCheck: check for invalid and non-existant stabilization groups (@arthurzam)
• DescriptionCheck: check for descriptions ending with a full-stop (@arthurzam, @mgorny, #472)
• InvalidRemoteID: add missing upstreams (@arthurzam)

Packaging:

• python 3.12 is now the minimal version supported (@ferringb)
• chardet-normalizer is now used instead of chardet due to upstream API breakage and AI rewrite copyright concerns (@CyberTailor, #775)
• pytest >= 9.0 is now required for tests (@ferringb)

Fixes:

• EclassExportFuncsBeforeInherit: this is not non-flakey. See #702; the cause of that was quite subtle, our thanks to the author for running it down (@laumann, #778)
• PythonPackageNamespaceCheck: fix exception thrown when parsing invalid
  metadata.xml (@falbrechtskirchinger, #776)
• LineLengthCheck: do not count \n against the limit- now 120 characters are allowed, rather than 119 (@ferringb, #774)
• small fixes to bash completion and zsh completion (@arthurzam)