From afa53685a6b934328e16c5617fc03988c7da77df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Tsou <chris@komposta.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:23:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Releasing 24.2 (#944)

---
 CHANGES.md         | 10 ++++++++++
 LICENSE            |  2 +-
 MANIFEST.in        |  4 +---
 README.md          | 43 +++++++++----------------------------------
 xsdata/__init__.py |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 475684e5a..ff9c1f8e6 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## 24.2 (2024-02-17)
+
+- Added Dict encoder/decoder ([#921](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/921))
+- Deprecated Serializer config pretty_print/pretty_print_indentation
+  ([#942](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/942))
+- Fixed lxml event writer to respect the encoding configuration
+  ([#940](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/940))
+- Migrated documentation to mkdocs with markdown
+- Refactored project docstrings
+
 ## 24.1 (2024-01-04)
 
 - Fixed XmlParser to ignore xsi attrs when fail on unknown attributes is enabled
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 78a731afb..5fe8908ed 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2021 Christodoulos Tsoulloftas
+Copyright (c) 2021-2024 Christodoulos Tsoulloftas
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 28722d3ab..311c284bd 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@ recursive-include tests *
 recursive-include xsdata *
 
 
-prune docs/_build
-prune docs/api/reference
-exclude docs/_static/logo.png
 exclude .readthedocs.yml
+exclude .mkdocs.yml
 exclude .pre-commit-config.yaml
 
 global-exclude .DS_Store *.pyc
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 75d7be695..216c610d1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -73,37 +73,12 @@ Check the [documentation](https://xsdata.readthedocs.io) for more ✨✨✨
   - Support xinclude statements and unknown properties
   - Customize behaviour through config
 
-## Changelog: 24.1 (2024-01-04)
-
-- Fixed XmlParser to ignore xsi attrs when fail on unknown attributes is enabled
-  ([#846](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/846))
-- Fixed parsing mandatory byte elements with no value
-  ([#873](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/873))
-- Fixed issue in json binding with union fields
-  ([#864](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/864))
-- Fixed PycodeSerializer to escape unicode characters in string values
-  ([#877](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/877))
-- Fixed compound field choices with forward references
-  ([#886](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/886))
-- Fixed google style docstrings to add missing colon
-  ([#884](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/884))
-- Fixed deprecation warnings for datetime.datetime.utcnow()
-- Fixed XmlSerializer to ignore empty non-nillable/required tokens
-  ([#902](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/902))
-- Fixed issue with invalid variable names when using originalCase naming convention
-  ([#881](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/881))
-- Added type hints for compound fields
-  ([#858](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/858),
-  [#885](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/885))
-- Added http header when loading remote resources
-  ([#867](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/867))
-- Added warning when converting parent field to a list
-  ([#871](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/871))
-- Added ruff to format generated code ([#892](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/892))
-- Added option to use substitution group names for compound field name
-  ([#905](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/905))
-- Updated base64 decoding to enable validation
-  ([#875](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/875))
-- Updated generator to render prohibited parent fields with restriction extensions
-  ([#908](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/908))
-- Updated generator so plugins can easily override templates
+## Changelog: 24.2 (2024-02-17)
+
+- Added Dict encoder/decoder ([#921](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/921))
+- Deprecated Serializer config pretty_print/pretty_print_indentation
+  ([#942](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/942))
+- Fixed lxml event writer to respect the encoding configuration
+  ([#940](https://github.com/tefra/xsdata/pull/940))
+- Migrated documentation to mkdocs with markdown
+- Refactored project docstrings
diff --git a/xsdata/__init__.py b/xsdata/__init__.py
index 61641b1fb..e83b37ee0 100644
--- a/xsdata/__init__.py
+++ b/xsdata/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "24.1"
+__version__ = "24.2"