- Add ``fail-on-uncommitted-changes`` as a composable local scheme: raise when the working tree is dirty, otherwise defer to the next local scheme in the list so any ``version_scheme`` can be used. ([#1205](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools-scm/issues/1205))

- When ``HEAD`` is exactly on a tag (``git describe --exact-match``), shallow Git worktrees no longer trigger ``warn_on_shallow``, ``fail_on_shallow``, or ``fetch_on_shallow``—shallow clones are enough for tagged release builds and avoid unnecessary unshallow fetches. ([#1241](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools-scm/issues/1241))

- The "fetch_on_shallow" option for Git worktrees no longer fetches the contents of Git commits--

only their tags and refs.

It takes hardly any bandwidth as a result, and is quite fast. ([#1303](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools-scm/issues/1303))

- Build ``vcs-versioning`` with setuptools instead of hatchling to avoid a bootstrap cycle (hatchling → pluggy → setuptools-scm → vcs-versioning) for downstream packagers. ([#1302](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools-scm/issues/1302))