Fix

• updating: render templated skip-if-exists patterns before applying patch with
  excluded paths
• updating: exclude only Git-ignored files when applying patch
• updating: ignore paths added to the _exclude list in new template version when
  updating

Fix

• deps: remove prompt-toolkit version cap

Fix

• deps: cap prompt-toolkit to <3.0.52

Feat

• add support for nested multi-document includes in copier.yml (#2251)

Fix

• disable default answer validator for secret questions

Security

• disallow render paths outside destination directory
• cast Jinja context path variables to pathlib.PurePath

Feat

• add support for prompting filesystem paths (#2210)

Fix

• updating: disable secret question validator when replaying old copy
• vcs: fix cloning local dirty template repo when core.fsmonitor=true (#2151)

Feat

• add support for providing serialized answers to multiselect choice questions
• updating: add VCS ref sentinel :current: for referring to the current template
  ref

Fix

• avoid infinite recursion when accessing _copier_conf.answers_file via Jinja
  context hook
• validate default answers
• correct git stage order on merge conflicts

Refactor

• import from module _tools instead of tools

Feat

• raise new TaskError exception on task errors
• raise InteractiveSessionError when prompting in non-interactive environment

Fix

• settings: use <CONFIG_ROOT>/copier as settings directory on Windows (#2071)
• updating: ignore last answer of when: false questions
• restore access to full rendering context in prompt phase

Refactor

• re-expose API with deprecation warnings on non-public API imports
• rename internal modules with a _ prefix

Feat

• Add _copier_operation variable (#1733)
• context: expose a _copier_phase context variable

Fix

• explicitly specify file encoding for windows (#2007)
• auto-detect encoding when reading external data file
• settings: auto-detect encoding when reading settings file
• cli: auto-detect encoding when reading unicode-encoded file specified with
  --data-file
• expose only answers in question rendering context
• ignore $file if $file.tmpl exists when subdirectory is used
• decode external data file content explicitly as UTF-8
• decode answers file content explicitly as UTF-8

Refactor

• use common answers file loader