docs: prepare for 1.6 (#1029)

* docs: prepare for 1.6

Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>

* style: pre-commit fixes

* fix: more stable wheel build

Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: henryiii

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ jobs:
             only: cp313-win_amd64
           - os: macos-13
             only: cp314t-macosx_x86_64
-          - os: macos-14
+          - os: macos-latest
             only: cp312-macosx_arm64
           - os: windows-11-arm
             only: cp311-win_arm64

.github/workflows/wheels.yml

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
             arch: auto64
             build: "*"
 
-          - os: macos-14
+          - os: macos-latest
             arch: auto64
             build: "*"
 

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ repos:
         types_or: [yaml, markdown, html, css, scss, javascript, json]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: "v0.12.7"
+    rev: "v0.12.8"
     hooks:
       - id: ruff-check
         args: ["--fix", "--show-fixes"]
@@ -84,6 +84,6 @@ repos:
       - id: check-github-workflows
 
   - repo: https://github.com/henryiii/validate-pyproject-schema-store
-    rev: 2025.07.28
+    rev: 2025.08.07
     hooks:
       - id: validate-pyproject

docs/changelog.md

@@ -1,5 +1,56 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Version 1.6
+
+### Version 1.6.0
+
+#### Features
+
+- Initial support for uhi's serialization [#997][], [#1030][], [#1033][], [#1034][], [#1035][]
+- Drop Python 3.8 [#976][]
+- Support Windows ARM [#1001][]
+- Support Python 3.14 and 3.14t [#1018][]
+- Support iOS [#1020][], [#1027][]
+- Added diagnostics test [#1022][]
+- Recommend/use `np.s_` for slicing in dicts [#1002][]
+
+#### Bug fixes
+
+- Support setting ranges with histograms (fixes `*=` too) [#1036][]
+- Support a callable in range setting [#1036][]
+- Support setting a range with a scalar [#1000][]
+- Account for fuzzy edge values in rebinning with edges [#999][]
+- Rename C++ metadata to `raw_metadata` [#979][]
+- Address lots of clang-tidy suggestions, should be faster with less copies/refcount bumps [#1009][], [#1010][], [#1011][], [#1012][], [#1013][], [#1014][], [#1015][]
+
+#### CI and testing
+
+- Add CMake presets for testing and clang-tidy [#1009][]
+
+[#976]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/976
+[#979]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/979
+[#997]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/997
+[#999]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/999
+[#1000]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1000
+[#1001]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1001
+[#1002]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1002
+[#1009]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1009
+[#1010]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1010
+[#1011]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1011
+[#1012]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1012
+[#1013]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1013
+[#1014]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1014
+[#1015]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1015
+[#1018]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1018
+[#1020]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1020
+[#1022]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1022
+[#1027]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1027
+[#1030]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1030
+[#1033]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1033
+[#1034]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1034
+[#1035]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1035
+[#1036]: https://github.com/scikit-hep/boost-histogram/pull/1036
+
 ## Version 1.5
 
 ### Version 1.5.2

pyproject.toml

@@ -32,12 +32,14 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: C++",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: Free Threading :: 3 - Stable",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: Free Threading",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
     "Programming Language :: Python",
@@ -180,6 +182,7 @@ build-frontend = "build[uv]"
 test-groups = ["test"]
 test-command = "python -m pytest -n auto --benchmark-disable tests"
 test-sources = ["pyproject.toml", "tests"]
+test-environment.CI = "1"  # Hypothosis needs this on GraalPy
 test-skip = [
   "cp3{9,10}-win_arm64",
   "cp3{9,10}-musllinux_*",
@@ -206,7 +209,7 @@ test-groups = ["test-core"]  # Working around a bug with markers in pyodide
 [tool.cibuildwheel.ios]
 build-frontend = "build"
 xbuild-tools = ["cmake", "ninja"]
-test-command = "pytest --benchmark-disable tests"
+test-command = "python -m pytest --benchmark-disable tests"
 environment.PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL = "https://pypi.anaconda.org/beeware/simple/"
 
 # [tool.cibuildwheel.android]