Sourced from watchdog's releases.

2.1.9

• [fsevents] Fix flakey test to assert that there are no errors when stopping the emitter.
• [inotify] Suppress occasional OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor at shutdown. #805
• [watchmedo] Make auto-restart restart the sub-process if it terminates. #896
• [watchmedo] Avoid zombie sub-processes when running shell-command without --wait. #405

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​samschott, @​taleinat, @​altendky, @​BoboTiG

2.1.8

• Fix adding failed emitters on observer schedule. (#872)
• [inotify] Fix hang when unscheduling watch on a path in an unmounted filesystem. (#869)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of --kill-after argument for the auto-restart command. (#870)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of boolean arguments. (#887)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of commands from auto-restart, and shell-command. (#888)
• [watchmedo] Support setting verbosity level via -q/--quiet and -v/--verbose arguments. (#889)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​taleinat, @​kianmeng, @​palfrey, @​IlayRosenberg, @​BoboTiG

2.1.7

• Eliminate timeout in waiting on event queue. (#861)
• [inotify] Fix not equality implementation for InotifyEvent. (#848)
• [watchmedo] Fix calling commands from within a Python script. (#879)
• [watchmedo] PyYAML is loaded only when strictly necessary. Simple usages of watchmedo are possible without the module being installed. (#847)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​sattlerc, @​JanzenLiu, @​BoboTiG

2.1.6

• [bsd] Fixed returned paths in kqueue.py and restored the overall results of the test suite. (#842)
• [bsd] Updated FreeBSD CI support .(#841)
• [watchmedo] Removed the argh dependency in favor of the builtin argparse module. (#836)
• [watchmedo] Removed unexistant WindowsApiAsyncObserver references and --debug-force-winapi-async arguments.
• [watchmedo] Improved the help output.

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​knobix, @​AndreaRe9, @​BoboTiG

2.1.5

• Fix regression introduced in 2.1.4 (reverted "Allow overriding or adding custom event handlers to event dispatch map. (#814)"). (#830)
• Convert regexes of type str to list. (#831)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​unique1o1, @​BoboTiG

2.1.4

• [watchmedo] Fix usage of os.setsid() and os.killpg() Unix-only functions. (#809)
• [mac] Fix missing FileModifiedEvent on permission or ownership changes of a file. (#815)
• [mac] Convert absolute watch path in FSEeventsEmitter with os.path.realpath(). (#822)
• Fix a possible AttributeError in SkipRepeatsQueue._put(). (#818)
• Allow overriding or adding custom event handlers to event dispatch map. (#814)
• Fix tests on big endian platforms. (#828)

💟 Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​replabrobin, @​BoboTiG, @​SamSchott, @​AndreiB97, @​NiklasRosenstein, @​ikokollari, @​mgorny

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2.1.9

2022-06-10 • `full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.8...v2.1.9>`__

[fsevents] Fix flakey test to assert that there are no errors when stopping the emitter.
[inotify] Suppress occasional OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor at shutdown. ([#805](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/805) &lt;https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/805&gt;__)
[watchmedo] Make auto-restart restart the sub-process if it terminates. ([#896](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/896) &lt;https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/896&gt;__)
[watchmedo] Avoid zombie sub-processes when running shell-command without --wait. ([#405](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/405) &lt;https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/405&gt;__)
Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​samschott, @​taleinat, @​altendky, @​BoboTiG

2.1.8

2022-05-15 • full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.7...v2.1.8>__

• Fix adding failed emitters on observer schedule. ([#872](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/872) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/872>__)
• [inotify] Fix hang when unscheduling watch on a path in an unmounted filesystem. ([#869](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/869) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/869>__)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of --kill-after argument for the auto-restart command. ([#870](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/870) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/870>__)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of boolean arguments. ([#887](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/887) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/887>__)
• [watchmedo] Fix broken parsing of commands from auto-restart, and shell-command. ([#888](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/888) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/888>__)
• [watchmedo] Support setting verbosity level via -q/--quiet and -v/--verbose arguments. ([#889](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/889) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/889>__)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​taleinat, @​kianmeng, @​palfrey, @​IlayRosenberg, @​BoboTiG

2.1.7

2022-03-25 • `full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.6...v2.1.7>`__

Eliminate timeout in waiting on event queue. ([#861](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/861) &lt;https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/861&gt;__)
[inotify] Fix not equality implementation for InotifyEvent. ([#848](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/848) &lt;https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/848&gt;__)
[watchmedo] Fix calling commands from within a Python script. ([#879](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/879) &lt;https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/879&gt;__)
[watchmedo] PyYAML is loaded only when strictly necessary. Simple usages of watchmedo are possible without the module being installed. ([#847](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/847) &lt;https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/847&gt;__)
Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​sattlerc, @​JanzenLiu, @​BoboTiG

2.1.6

2021-10-01 • full history <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/compare/v2.1.5...v2.1.6>__

• [bsd] Fixed returned paths in kqueue.py and restored the overall results of the test suite. ([#842](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/842) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/842>__)
• [bsd] Updated FreeBSD CI support .([#841](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/841) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/841>__)
• [watchmedo] Removed the argh dependency in favor of the builtin argparse module. ([#836](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/836) <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/836>__)
• [watchmedo] Removed unexistant WindowsApiAsyncObserver references and --debug-force-winapi-async arguments.
• [watchmedo] Improved the help output.
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @​knobix, @​AndreaRe9, @​BoboTiG

2.1.5

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• 72f2eb7 [CI] Run flake8 only once in CI (#892)
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