Bump sphinx-autoapi from 3.6.1 to 3.8.1

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Bumps sphinx-autoapi from 3.6.1 to 3.8.1.

Release notes

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v3.8.1

Bugfixes

• Preserve ellipsis literals when rendering type annotations. (#562)

Improved Documentation

• Document the autoapisummary directive. (#377)

Misc

• #564
• Switch to tox.toml and reorganise repo structure

v3.8.0

Features

• Autodoc-style directives can access members excluded by autoapi_options

Misc

• #553

v3.7.0

Features

• Added autoapi.import warning for when AutoAPI directives are given non-existent objects
• Adding autoapi_follow_symlinks, which allows api to traverse into symlinked directories when generating the API documentation.
• Drop support for Python 3.9 and officially support Python 3.14
• Support rendering PEP-695 type parameters

Bugfixes

• Render typing_extensions.TypeAlias like other type aliases (#520)
• Fix PythonFunction.overloads typing when source code overload(s) do not provide a return type (#523)

Misc

• Fix deprecation warnings raised by astroid and sphinx
• Handling case where match returns None to fix mypy unit test.

Changelog

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v3.8.1 (2026-08-23)

Bugfixes ^^^^^^^^

• Preserve ellipsis literals when rendering type annotations. (#562)

Improved Documentation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Document the autoapisummary directive. (#377)

Misc ^^^^

• #564
• Switch to tox.toml and reorganise repo structure

v3.8.0 (2026-03-07)

Features ^^^^^^^^

• Autodoc-style directives can access members excluded by autoapi_options

Misc ^^^^

• #553

v3.7.0 (2026-02-10)

Features ^^^^^^^^

• Added autoapi.import warning for when AutoAPI directives are given non-existent objects
• Adding autoapi_follow_symlinks, which allows api to traverse into symlinked directories when generating the API documentation.
• Drop support for Python 3.9 and officially support Python 3.14
• Support rendering PEP-695 type parameters

Bugfixes

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Commits

• 7018ce6 Version 3.8.1
• 9079d5b Fix ellipsis rendering in type annotations
• f37bd4b Fix towncrier check failing in CI
• 6df6d61 Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates
• b76b462 Fix linting errors
• 2b7d443 Fix use of class-scoped fixture as instance method
• 2b8bb52 Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates
• 2088028 Switch to tox.toml and reorganise repo structure
• eca0b11 Document autoapisummary directive
• 74ed53e Bump sigstore/gh-action-sigstore-python in the github-actions group
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