From ba37c8010f9ad2aee8929df24504ddb58011a8bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roberto Prevato <roberto.prevato@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 10:01:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare for 3.12

---
 .github/workflows/build.yml | 2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                | 5 +++++
 pyproject.toml              | 9 +++++++--
 requirements.txt            | 3 +--
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index a4572e6..076cc0e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v1
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ce9ae42..8d11b42 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [2.0.4] - 2023-12-28 :snowman_with_snow:
+- Improve the library to deep-merge dictionaries of values instead of replacing
+  objects entirely (fix [#10](https://github.com/Neoteroi/essentials-configuration/issues/10)), by @StummeJ.
+- Add Python 3.12 to the build matrix.
+
 ## [2.0.3] - 2023-04-15 :crown:
 - Adopts `Rich`, through `rich-click` for the project CLI.
 - Renames the recently added `secrets` feature to `settings`.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a2ca48c..aee7601 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "essentials-configuration"
-version = "2.0.3"
+version = "2.0.4"
 authors = [{ name = "Roberto Prevato", email = "roberto.prevato@gmail.com" }]
 description = "Implementation of key-value pair based configuration for Python applications."
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -17,11 +17,16 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
 ]
 keywords = ["configuration", "root", "management", "strategy", "settings"]
 
-dependencies = ["deepmerge~=1.1.0", "tomli; python_version < '3.11'", "python-dotenv~=1.0.0"]
+dependencies = [
+    "deepmerge~=1.1.0",
+    "tomli; python_version < '3.11'",
+    "python-dotenv~=1.0.0",
+]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 yaml = ["PyYAML"]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index efe10ba..d401dad 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 appdirs==1.4.4
 attrs==22.1.0
-black==22.10.0
+black
 build==0.10.0
 click==8.1.3
 coverage==6.5.0
@@ -33,5 +33,4 @@ rich==13.3.4
 rich-click==1.6.1
 toml==0.10.2
 tomli==2.0.1
-typed-ast==1.5.4
 typing_extensions==4.5.0