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This PR initiates the development cycle for NVDA 2026.1, marking a compatibility-breaking release that drops support for Windows 8.1/32-bit and upgrades to Python 3.13.
- Updates version information from 2025.3 to 2026.1 across build files
- Adds a new changelog section for 2026.1 with breaking changes documentation
- Bumps add-on API compatibility to break backward compatibility with previous versions
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| user_docs/en/changes.md | Adds new 2026.1 changelog section documenting breaking changes |
| source/versionInfo.py | Updates copyright years to include 2025-2026 |
| source/buildVersion.py | Changes version from 2025.3 to 2026.1 and updates copyright |
| source/addonAPIVersion.py | Bumps API compatibility, modernizes type hints, and documents breaking changes |
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Follow up to #18680 Summary of the issue: We use a glob import in versionInfo which is not recommended Description of user facing changes: Description of developer facing changes: versionInfo no longer imports all variables from buildVersion Description of development approach: Update imports
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Start the dev cycle for the 20XY.Z release. This will be a compatibility breaking release. Complete: - [x] New section in the change log. - [x] Update NVDA version in `master` - [x] Bump the add-on API compatibility in `master` - [x] Update [`nvdaAPIVersions.json` to include the next version](https://github.com/nvaccess/addon-datastore-transform) - Re-run the last "Transform NVDA addons to views" on [addon-datastore](https://github.com/nvaccess/addon-datastore/actions/workflows/transformDataToViews.yml) to regenerate projections (views) for the add-on datastore API. On merge: - [ ] [Update auto milestone ID](https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/settings/variables/actions)
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Follow up to nvaccess#18680 Summary of the issue: We use a glob import in versionInfo which is not recommended Description of user facing changes: Description of developer facing changes: versionInfo no longer imports all variables from buildVersion Description of development approach: Update imports
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Start the dev cycle for the 20XY.Z release. This will be a compatibility breaking release. Complete: - [x] New section in the change log. - [x] Update NVDA version in `master` - [x] Bump the add-on API compatibility in `master` - [x] Update [`nvdaAPIVersions.json` to include the next version](https://github.com/nvaccess/addon-datastore-transform) - Re-run the last "Transform NVDA addons to views" on [addon-datastore](https://github.com/nvaccess/addon-datastore/actions/workflows/transformDataToViews.yml) to regenerate projections (views) for the add-on datastore API. On merge: - [ ] [Update auto milestone ID](https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/settings/variables/actions)
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Follow up to nvaccess#18680 Summary of the issue: We use a glob import in versionInfo which is not recommended Description of user facing changes: Description of developer facing changes: versionInfo no longer imports all variables from buildVersion Description of development approach: Update imports
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Start the dev cycle for the 2026.1 release.
This will be a compatibility breaking release.
Complete:
mastermasternvdaAPIVersions.jsonto include the next versionOn merge: