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Author: LarsAsplund

docs/news.d/1105.feature.rst

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+Added support for GHDL with LLVM-JIT backend.

docs/news.d/1135.feature.rst

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+Added support for VHDL-2019 in Questa. Related issues #1135 and #1169.

docs/news.d/1156.feature.rst

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+Added support for new Questa ``-ini`` option.

docs/news.d/1163.deprecation.rst

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+Dropped support for Python 3.8 and 3.9 which have reached their end of life, see https://devguide.python.org/versions.

docs/news.d/1166.feature.rst

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+Added initial support for external package addition. This is in preparation for supporting third-party additions to
+VUnit in a controlled way. Some packages currently shipped alongside VUnit will also be moved to this new system, for
+example the JSON-for-VHDL package. By separating the packages from the core of VUnit, we make it easier for users to
+create, maintain, and share their own packages independent of the VUnit core. Package management is based on the Python
+ecosystem, i.e they can be hosted on PyPi and installed by using pip.

docs/news.d/1167.feature.rst

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+Improved support for non UTF-8 encoded outputs from simulators.

docs/news.d/1171.breaking.rst

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+JSON-for-VHDL is no longer shipped with VUnit. Support is now provided through a separate VUnit package. Install it with:
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+``pip install vunit-json-for-vhdl``
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+Calls to the ``add_json4vhdl()`` method must be replaced with ``add_package("vunit-json-for-vhdl")``.