v0.13.0

New features:

    You can now associate arbitrary user data with the manifest repository itself in the manifest: self: userdata: value, like so:

    manifest:
      self:
        userdata: <any YAML value can go here>

Bug fixes:

    The path to the manifest repository reported by west could be incorrect in certain circumstances detailed in [issue #572](https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/west/issues/572). This has been fixed as part of a larger overhaul of path handling support in the west.manifest [API](https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/develop/west/west-apis.html#west-apis) module.

    The west.Manifest.ManifestProject.__repr__ return value was fixed

API changes:

    west.configuration.Configuration: new object-oriented interface to the current configuration. This reflects the system, global, and workspace-local configuration values, and allows you to read, write, and delete configuration options from any or all of these locations.

    west.commands.WestCommand:

        config: new attribute, returns a Configuration object or aborts the program if none is set. This is always usable from within extension command do_run() implementations.

        has_config: new boolean attribute, which is True if and only if reading self.config will abort the program.

    The path handling in the west.manifest package has been overhauled in a backwards-incompatible way. For more details, see commit [56cfe8d1d1](https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/west/commit/56cfe8d1d1f3c9b45de3e793c738acd62db52aca).

    west.manifest.Manifest.validate(): this now returns the validated data as a Python dict. This can be useful if the value passed to this function was a str, and the dict is desired.

    west.manifest.Manifest: new:

        path attributes abspath, posixpath, relative_path, yaml_path, repo_path, repo_posixpath

        userdata attribute, which contains the parsed value from manifest: self: userdata:, or is None

        from_topdir() factory method

    west.manifest.ManifestProject: new userdata attribute, which also contains the parsed value from manifest: self: userdata:, or is None

    west.manifest.ManifestImportFailed: the constructor can now take any value; this can be used to reflect failed imports from a [map](https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/develop/west/manifest.html#west-manifest-import-map) or other compound value.

    Deprecated configuration APIs:

    The following APIs are now deprecated in favor of using a Configuration object. Usually this will be done via self.config from a WestCommand instance, but this can be done directly by instantiating a Configuration object for other usages.

        west.configuration.config

        west.configuration.read_config

        west.configuration.update_config

        west.configuration.delete_config