### Added
- Add the ability to specify a wildcard version (`*`) for external formatter executables. ([#2757](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/issues/2757))
### Changes
- Dramatic (~100x) performance improvement when using git `ratchetFrom`. ([#2805](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/2805))
### Fixed
- [fix] `NPE` due to workingTreeIterator being null for git ignored files. #911 ([#2771](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/issues/2771))
- Prevent race conditions when multiple npm-based formatters launch the server process simultaneously while sharing the same `node_modules` directory. ([#2786](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/2786))

### Changes
* Bump default `ktfmt` version to latest `0.59` -> `0.61`. ([2804](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/2804))
* Bump default `ktlint` version to latest `1.7.1` -> `1.8.0`. ([2763](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/2763))
* Bump default `gherkin-utils` version to latest `9.2.0` -> `10.0.0`. ([#2619](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/pull/2619))