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Version 7.8.1 — 2025-05-21

• A number of EncodingWarnings were fixed that could appear if you've enabled PYTHONWARNDEFAULTENCODING, fixing issue 1966. Thanks, Henry Schreiner <pull 1967_>.

• Fixed a race condition when using sys.monitoring with free-threading Python, closing issue 1970_.

.. _issue 1966: nedbat/coveragepy#1966 .. _pull 1967: nedbat/coveragepy#1967 .. _issue 1970: nedbat/coveragepy#1970

.. _changes_7-8-0:

• ed98b87 docs: sample HTML for 7.8.1
• b98bc9b docs: prep for 7.8.1
• ecbd4da build: make a step more explicit
• 2774410 test: simplify skipper, and make it suppressable
• 8b9cecc fix: close a sys.monitoring race condition with free-threading. #1970
• 66e4f8d test: try to unflake a test
• 9975d0c build: no need for a separate doc_upgrade target
• 6dec28b build: delete unused code in igor.py
• 6376e35 build: clarify a .ignore rule
• 9bdf366 chore: make upgrade doc_upgrade
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