3.5.0 -- 2017-10-23
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You can view the `3.5.0 milestone`_ on GitLab for more details.

New Dependency Information
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- Allow for PyFlakes 1.6.0 (See also `GitLab#359`_)

- Start using new PyCodestyle checks for bare excepts and ambiguous identifier
  (See also `GitLab#361`_)

Features
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- Print out information about configuring VCS hooks (See also `GitLab#335`_)

- Allow users to develop plugins "local" to a repository without using
  setuptools. See our documentation on local plugins for more information.
  (See also `GitLab#357`_)

Bugs Fixed
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- Catch and helpfully report ``UnicodeDecodeError``\ s when parsing
  configuration files. (See also `GitLab#358`_)


.. all links
.. _3.5.0 milestone:
    https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/milestones/20

.. issue links
.. _GitLab#335:
    https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/335
.. _GitLab#357:
    https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/357
.. _GitLab#358:
    https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/358
.. _GitLab#359:
    https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/359
.. _GitLab#361:
    https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/361

.. merge request links