Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.9.2

2024-01-01   2.9.2:
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* optimize initialization from strings by not constantly resizing buffer
* optimize `util.hex2ba()` and `util.base2ba()` by avoiding unnecessary
  copies
* optimize `util.base2ba()` and `util.ba2base()` for `n=16` (hexadecimal)

2023-12-23   2.9.1:
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* avoid buffer being unnecessarily initialized with 0s in several
  functions of the `bitarray.util` module
* fix `.count()` type hint in pyi-file
* improve testing

2023-12-17   2.9.0:
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* deprecate support for Python 2 - Python 2.7 support will be removed
  in bitarray version 3.0,
* `bitarray(n)` for integer initializer `n` will always return a bitarray
  of length `n` with all items initialized to `0`
* allow sub-bitarray in `.count()`
* add `util.ones()`
* `.find()` and `.index()`: add keyword argument `right` for rightmost index
* `.itersearch()`: add start and stop argument, and keyword
  argument `right` (for descending order - starting with rightmost match)
* deprecate `util.rindex()` (will be removed in 3.0 release),
  use `.index(..., right=True)` instead
* deprecate `util.make_endian()` (will be removed in 3.0 release),
  use `bitarray(..., endian=...)` instead

Log message:
py-bitarray: update to 2.8.5.

2023-12-09   2.8.5:
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  * speedup unaligned copies by always using word shifts (in combination
    with builtin byte swap 64 when available) when bit-endianness and
    machine byte-order are opposite
  * add `HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP64` to header
  * avoid misaligned pointers when casting to `(uint64_t *)`
  * add tests

Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.8.4

2.8.4 (2023-12-04):

simplify copy_n() (remove special cases)
add word shift example C program, and simplify shift_r8()
improve documentation and testing
add roadmap

Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.8.3

2.8.3:
* ensure readonly attribute is set correctly when creating new objects,
* optimize sparse bitarray compression for raw block type
* improve hash functions in Bloom filter example

Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.8.2

2.8.2:
* update cibuildwheel to 2.16.1 in order to provide cp312 wheels on PyPI
* improve error messages for masked assignment
* simplify test collection
* added `pytest.ini` to allow running pytest with no additional arguments,
* `util.sc_encode()`: avoid writing empty blocks at end of compressed
  stream, ie. skip encoding when total population count is reached

Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.8.1

2.8.1:
* use reconstructor function for pickling
* simplify implementation of `.reverse()`

Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.8.0

2.8.0:
* allow [integer sequence indexing](indexing.rst) by list of indices
* add [masked indexing](indexing.rst) by bitarray masks
* improve `.bytereverse()` docstring

Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.7.6

2.7.6
remove caching hash value

Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.7.5

2.7.5:
* fix for pypy3.9-v7.3.11
* enable building wheels for PyPy

Log message:
py-bitarray: updated to 2.7.4

2.7.4:
* register `bitarray` as `abc.MutableSequence`
* cibuildwheel: update macOS version to 11 from unsupported 10.15, see
  https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/5583
* improve documentation regarding type when indexing single
  bitarray items