From 53862de906ce48767005790672aada59b59c5614 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damian Shaw <damian.peter.shaw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:59:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add news entry

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+Optimized usage of --find-links=<path-to-dir>, by only scanning the relevant directory once, only considering file names that are valid wheel or sdist names, and only considering files in the directory that are related to the install.