v9.12.0 (2026-02-21)

[sisp]

Feat

• add new settings API with minimal surface
• re-export Phase enum at package level

Fix

• updating: apply skip-if-exists patterns as gitignore-style at subproject root in
  update algorithm
• updating: anchor removed file paths to project root in update algorithm
• updating: normalize user-deleted paths before skip-if-exists pattern matching
  during updates

Refactor

• typing: use builtin types in public API signatures
• deprecate public settings module and its symbols
• replace **kwargs with explicit parameters in run_{copy,recopy,update} functions

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This discussion was created from the release v9.12.0 (2026-02-21).