• Dockerfile: install Gentoo::PerlMod::Version for PerlCheck (@arthurzam)
• Replace p7zip with 7zip as the required decompressor for .7z files (@GoGoOtaku, #744)
• bash: update support for tree-sitter 0.25 (@arthurzam)

New Checks:

• MisplacedEPyTestVar: check for misplaced EPYTEST_* variables (@mgorny, #739, #747)
• ShadowedEPyTestTimeout: detect EPYTEST_TIMEOUT overriding user values (@mgorny, #740, #747)
• MasterPackageClobbered: check for master packages clobbered by packages with the same name in overlays (@mgorny, #745, #746)

Check Updates:

• DependencyCheck: extend missing revision checks to <= and > operators (@mgorny, #743)
• DependencyCheck: provide replacement suggestions (@mgorny, #743)
• python: allow use of PYTHON_SINGLE_USEDEP in python_has_version (@parona-source, #749)
• StableRequestCheck: ignore "old" non-stable slots (@arthurzam, #750)
• TooManyCrates: warn only for the ::gentoo repository (@arthurzam , #752)

• fix Dockerfile to include zstd (@arthurzam)

• caches: support compression of the profiles cache file, reducing its size from 192MB to 4MB (@arthurzam)
• Fix compatibility with Python 3.14 (@mgorny, #738)

Check Updates:

• BadPackageUpdate: fix issues when not running under the profiles/ directory (@arthurzam)
• VisibilityCheck: check for masked dependencies in master repos (@CyberTailor, #736)

New Checks:

• NonConsistentTarUsage: detect tar invocations missing the -f argument (@arthurzam, #709)
• TooManyCrates: flag packages with more than 300 CRATES (@arthurzam)

Check Updates:

• OutdatedBlocker: extend the threshold for outdated blockers from 2 years to 4 years (@thesamesam)
• DeprecatedInsinto: add support for paths related to shell completion and systemd (@arthurzam)
• DirectStableKeywords: exclude sec-keys/* and virtual/* categories from this check (@arthurzam, #719)
• RequiredUseDefaults: skip all USE flags prefixed with cpu_flags_ (@arthurzam)
• git: suggest clearing the pkgcheck cache when encountering a git log error (@martin-kokos, #729)
• PythonCompatUpdate: ignore *t (freethreading) Python targets (@arthurzam, @mgorny, #711, #732)
• DeadUrl: prevent crashes when servers return invalid UTF-8 data (@arthurzam)
• PathVariablesCheck: expand the list of names checked for path variable issues (@arthurzam)
• MissingRemoteId: exclude URIs used for fetching -crates or -deps tarballs from this check (@arthurzam)

• fix compatibility with Python 3.12.8 (@mgorny)

Checks Updates:

• various Python checks: recognize dev-lang/pypy as a Python interpreter package (@mgorny, #708)
• EclassManualDepsCheck: update for the new rust eclass: direct dependencies on dev-lang/rust and dev-lang/rust-bin; RUST_OPTIONAL variable (@mgorny, #718)
• PythonPackageNameCheck: enforce the stricter PyPI package naming policy that requires using lowercase names with hyphens (@mgorny, #717)

• fix compatibility with tree-sitter 0.23 (@arthurzam)
• bash completion: improve path handling (@arthurzam)

New Checks:

• OldPackageNameDep: check for dependency using previously moved package's name (@arthurzam, #659, #694)
• BadDependency: catch := slot operator in PDEPEND (@arthurzam, #660)

Checks Updates:

• DistutilsNonPEP517Build: handle false positives when defined by eclass (@arthurzam)
• PythonCompatCheck: add whitelist for backports (@arthurzam)
• EmptyGlobalAssignment: ignore empty KEYWORDS (@arthurzam, #695)

• pyproject: fix python compat with snakeoil (@antecrescent, #678)
• NetAddon: fix ftp call with --timeout 0 (@antecrescent, #678)
• NewerEAPIAvailable: handle better when no eclasses EAPI (@arthurzam, #679)
• fix compatibility with newest version of tree-sitter (@arthurzam)

• drop bundling of tree-sitter-bash (@arthurzam)
• use flit as build backend for pkgcheck (@arthurzam)
• PkgBadlyFormedXml: change level to error instead of a warning (@arthurzam, #668)
• git addon: support user global gitignore (@arthurzam, #671, #672)

New checks:

• NewerEAPIAvailable: committing new ebuilds with old EAPI (@arthurzam, #666)

• docs: Add intersphinx linkages (@ferringb, #658)

New checks:

• VariableOrderWrong: Enforce skel.ebuild variable order (@anthonyryan1, #645)

Fixed bugs:

• git: fix issues with no-copies (@arthurzam, @thesamesam, #663, #664)
• addons.net: suppress urllib3 import warnings (@CyberTailor, #661)