This release moves to using a pyproject.toml based packaging backend (hatchling).

What's Changed

• local: Accept path-like objects (#627)
• Move the build backend to hatchling and hatch-vcs. Users should be unaffected. Third-party packaging may need to adapt to the new build system. (#607)

New Contributors

• @doronz88 made their first contribution in #627

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1