What's Changed

• Audit MSVC references in cmake files to consider clang++ by @Maetveis in #1669
• Make json and csv output consistent. by @andreas-abel in #1662
• Update bazel.yml by @mosfet80 in #1671
• Fix building on MinGW: default WINVER is too old by @zm1060 in #1681
• Increase the kMaxIterations limit by @andreas-abel in #1668
• Set -Wno-unused-variable for tests by @oontvoo in #1682
• Add no-unititialized-variable to tests by @dmah42 in #1683
• Add Python 3.12 support by @nicholasjng in #1676
• Change nanobind linkage to response file approach on macOS by @nicholasjng in #1638
• Reapply size optimizations for clang & MSVC, LTO for Mac+Linux by @nicholasjng in #1685
• [bindings] Add LTO builds on Windows+MSVC by @nicholasjng in #1687
• Add pre-commit config and GitHub Actions job by @nicholasjng in #1688
• Replace isort hook with ruff builtin import sorting by @nicholasjng in #1689
• Add setuptools_scm for dynamic zero-config Python versioning by @nicholasjng in #1690
• Fix unit tests compilation by non-gnu/msvc compilers with c++11 support. by @ivafanas in #1691
• Fixed compiler warnings by @tmiguelf in #1697
• Switch out black for ruff format by @nicholasjng in #1698
• Add Missing \n at the End of Error Log String by @itzmeanjan in #1700
• Fix CMakeLists.txt for perf_counters_test by @illbegood in #1701
• [CI] Fix sanitizer builds by pinning the LLVM revision by @LebedevRI in #1703
• Support windows MSYS2 environments by @LebedevRI in #1704
• Fix pre-commit GitHub Actions job by @nicholasjng in #1708
• [NFC] complexity_n is not of IterationCount type by @LebedevRI in #1709
• Fix editable install by unsetting build_ext.copy_extensions_to_source by @nicholasjng in #1710
• Upgrade core bazel dependencies by @nicholasjng in #1711
• Run pre-commit autoupdate, fix stale pyproject.toml comments by @nicholasjng in #1712
• Check out repo at depth 0 for Python tests, bump Python and PyPI actions by @nicholasjng in #1713
• Fix mis-matching argument in closing tag for cmake macro (#1714) by @iakovs in #1715
• define HOST_NAME_MAX for z/OS by @abhina-sree in #1717
• Fix division by zero for low frequency timers for CV statistics by @ivafanas in #1724
• Remove the use of "Sanity" and replace it with "Safety" by @hamptonm1 in #1728
• CycleClock: use RDTIME instead of RDCYCLE on RISC-V by @aurel32 in #1727
• Enable Large-file Support by @oToToT in #1726
• Fix per-thread timing error on z/OS by @abhina-sree in #1719
• Avoid leaking LFS flags to reverse dependencies by @afq984 in #1730
• Change Fixture to use non-const SetUp and TearDown in example by @FantasqueX in #1723
• fix: fail to import gbench in bazel and python3.12 by @dhmemi in #1721
• Issue1731 created console does not receive output by @bstordrup in #1732
• tools/compare: don't actually discard valid (but zero) pvalue by @LebedevRI in #1733
• Issue 1734: Streams not flushed if not running actual benchmarks by @bstordrup in #1735
• fix(cmakelists.txt): enforce CMake to find PFM or fail when BENCHMARK… by @ananta in #1705
• Docs: reducing_variance.md: proofreading, fix typos by @LebedevRI in #1736
• Fix C-style typecasting in QNX-specific code by @Arech in #1739
• Bump pre-commit dependencies by @nicholasjng in #1740
• Output library / schema versions in JSON context block by @LebedevRI in #1742
• set library version in bazel by @dmah42 in #1746
• Add BENCHMARK_TEMPLATE[12]_CAPTURE, fusion of BENCHMARK_CAPTURE and BENCHMARK_TEMPLATE by @LebedevRI in #1747
• Deflake CI by @LebedevRI in #1751
• Fix typo in GetBenchmarkVersion() by @Liedtke in #1755
• CycleClock: Add support for Alpha architecture by @thesamesam in #1753
• sysinfo.cc: Always abort on GetNumCPUs failure by @thesamesam in #1756
• Rewrite complexity_test to use (hardcoded) manual time by @LebedevRI in #1757
• Revert "fix some warnings" by @LebedevRI in #1762
• Fixed LTO issue on no discard variable by @tmiguelf in #1761
• mitigate clang build warnings -Wconversion by @dmah42 in #1763
• Add Python bindings build using bzlmod by @nicholasjng in #1764
• Fix implicit conversion changes signess warning in perf_counters.cc by @ivafanas in #1765
• clang-tidy broke the world by @LebedevRI in #1766
• allow BENCHMARK_VERSION to be undefined by @PhilipDeegan in #1769
• fix OpenBSD build by @vazub in #1772
• Remove COMPILER_IBMXL macro for z/OS by @fanbo-meng in #1777
• Refactor: Return frequency as double by @dhairyarungta in #1782
• Add benchmark_main.pc to link main() containing library by @SoapGentoo in #1779
• Switch git override to stable BCR tag for nanobind_bazel by @nicholasjng in #1778
• Modernize wheel building job config by @nicholasjng in #1783
• preparing for v1.8.4 by @dmah42 in #1788

New Contributors

• @Maetveis made their first contribution in #1669
• @andreas-abel made their first contribution in #1662
• @mosfet80 made their first contribution in #1671
• @zm1060 made their first contribution in #1681
• @ivafanas made their first contribution in #1691
• @tmiguelf made their first contribution in #1697
• @itzmeanjan made their first contribution in #1700
• @illbegood made their first contribution in #1701
• @iakovs made their first contribution in #1715
• @aurel32 made their first contribution in #1727
• @oToToT made their first contribution in #1726
• @afq984 made their first contribution in #1730
• @FantasqueX made their first contribution in #1723
• @dhmemi made their first contribution in #1721
• @bstordrup made their first contribution in #1732
• @ananta made their first contribution in #1705
• @Arech made their first contribution in #1739
• @Liedtke made their first contribution in #1755
• @thesamesam made their first contribution in #1753
• @vazub made their first contribution in #1772
• @dhairyarungta made their first contribution in #1782
• @SoapGentoo made their first contribution in #1779

Full Changelog: v1.8.3...v1.8.4