Prepare for the 2.0.0a1 release

Signed-off-by: Stavros Ntentos <[email protected]>

Author: stdedos

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [2.0.0a1] - _tbd; started 2025-10-17_
+
+A small pylint update lead into a full-blown dependency updates.
+
+That, additionally, lead to deprecating Python 3.8 and 3.9 support.
+_Technically_, as of writing this, https://devguide.python.org/versions/ does NOT show 3.9 as deprecated.
+However, many dependencies have already dropped support for them - and, according to the page, 3.9's deprecation date 2025-10.
+
+### Development details / information
+
+The project will _soon_ ™️ migrate to `uv` for anything related to packaging, testing, and building:
+https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint-pytest/issues/132
+
 ## [2.0.0a0] - 2024-02-02
 
 ### Added

README.md

@@ -28,15 +28,15 @@ Requirements:
 To install:
 
 ```bash
-$ pip install pylint-pytest
+pip install pylint-pytest
 ```
 
 ## Usage
 
 Enable via command line option `--load-plugins`
 
 ```bash
-$ pylint --load-plugins pylint_pytest <path_to_your_sources>
+pylint --load-plugins pylint_pytest <path_to_your_sources>
 ```
 
 Or in `.pylintrc`:

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "pylint-pytest"
-version = "2.0.0a0"
+version = "2.0.0a1"
 license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 description = "A Pylint plugin to suppress pytest-related false positives."