diff --git a/.python-version-default b/.python-version-default
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.python-version-default
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.12
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 8e054210..e76db701 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,19 +1,201 @@
-Contributing
-============
+# Contributing
 
-Issues
-------
-Issues are intended for bug report and feature requests. For any bug report please make sure to include the complete
-stack trace and DEBUG level logs as well as reproduce steps.
+Thank you for considering contributing to *subliminal*!
 
-If you use the CLI, you can create a debug log file with `subliminal --debug [...] 2> debug.log`.
+This document presents general guidelines to make contributions easier.
 
-Pull Requests
--------------
-You can contribute code and documentation with pull requests. Any code contribution must be unit tested and the pull
-request open against the *develop* branch.
+## Translations
 
-Translations
-------------
 Contribution to translations can be made on [subliminal's transifex page](https://www.transifex.com/subliminal/subliminal/)
 Subliminal is configured to work with [transifex-client](http://docs.transifex.com/client/)
+
+## Issues
+
+Issues are intended for bug report and feature requests.
+For any bug report please make sure to include the complete stack trace and DEBUG level logs as well as reproduce steps.
+
+If you use the CLI, you can create a debug log file with
+`subliminal --debug [...] 2> debug.log`.
+
+## Pull Requests
+
+You can contribute code and documentation with pull requests.
+Here follow some general guidelines for making a pull request.
+
+### Workflow
+
+- Any contribution is appreciated!
+- Try to limit each pull request to *one* change only.
+- Pull request should be linked to an issue. Create an issue first,
+that is solved by this pull request.
+- *Always* add tests and docs for your code.
+  If tests are not passing, ask for advice.
+- Make sure your changes pass our [CI].
+  You won't get any feedback until it's green unless you ask for it.
+- For the CI to pass, the coverage must be 100%.
+  If you have problems to test something, open anyway and ask for advice.
+  In some situations, we may agree to add an `# pragma: no cover`.
+- Once you've addressed review feedback, make sure to bump the pull request with a short note, so we know you're done.
+- Don’t break backwards-compatibility.
+
+
+### Local Development Environment
+
+You can (and should) run our test suite using [*tox*].
+However, you’ll probably want a more traditional environment as well.
+
+First, create a [virtual environment](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/) so you don't break your system-wide Python installation.
+We recommend using the Python version from the `.python-version-default` file in project's root directory.
+
+---
+
+Then, [fork](https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal/fork) the repository on GitHub.
+
+Clone the fork to your computer:
+
+```console
+$ git clone git@github.com:<your-username>/subliminal.git
+```
+
+Or if you prefer to use Git via HTTPS:
+
+```console
+$ git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/subliminal.git
+```
+
+Then add the *subliminal* repository as *upstream* remote:
+
+```console
+$ git remote add -t main -m main --tags upstream https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal.git
+```
+
+The next step is to sync your local copy with the upstream repository:
+
+```console
+$ git fetch upstream
+```
+
+This is important to obtain eventually missing tags, which are needed to install the development version later on.
+
+Change into the newly created directory and after activating a virtual environment install an editable version of *subliminal* along with its tests and docs requirements:
+
+```console
+$ cd subliminal
+$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel  # PLEASE don't skip this step
+$ python -m pip install -e '.[dev]'
+```
+
+At this point,
+
+```console
+$ python -m pytest
+```
+
+should work and pass.
+You can *significantly* speed up the test suite by installing [*pytest-xdist*](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist)
+and passing `-n auto` to *pytest* to take advantage of all your CPU cores.
+
+
+To build the documentation and run doctests, use:
+
+```console
+$ tox run -e docs
+```
+
+You will find the built documentation in `docs/_build/html`.
+
+
+---
+
+To file a pull request, create a new branch on top of the upstream repository's `main` branch:
+
+```console
+$ git fetch upstream
+$ git checkout -b my_topical_branch upstream/main
+```
+
+Make your changes, push them to your fork (the remote *origin*):
+
+```console
+$ git push -u origin
+```
+
+and publish the PR in GitHub's web interface!
+
+After your pull request is merged and the branch is no longer needed, delete it:
+
+```console
+$ git checkout main
+$ git push --delete origin my_topical_branch && git branch -D my_topical_branch
+```
+
+Before starting to work on your next pull request, run the following command to sync your local repository with the remote *upstream*:
+
+```console
+$ git fetch upstream -u main:main
+```
+
+---
+
+To avoid committing code that violates our style guide, we strongly advise you to install [*pre-commit*] and its hooks:
+
+```console
+$ pre-commit install
+```
+
+This is not strictly necessary, because our [*tox*] file contains an environment that runs:
+
+```console
+$ pre-commit run --all-files
+```
+
+and our CI has integration with [pre-commit.ci](https://pre-commit.ci).
+But it's way more comfortable to run it locally and *git* catching avoidable errors.
+
+
+### Changelog
+
+If your change is noteworthy, there needs to be a changelog entry so our users can learn about it!
+
+To avoid merge conflicts, we use the [*Towncrier*](https://pypi.org/project/towncrier) package to manage our changelog.
+*towncrier* uses independent *Markdown* files for each pull request – so called *news fragments* – instead of one monolithic changelog file.
+On release, those news fragments are compiled into our [`HISTORY.rst`](https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal/blob/main/HISTORY.rst).
+
+You don't need to install *Towncrier* yourself, you just have to abide by a few simple rules:
+
+- For each pull request, add a new file into `changelog.d` with a filename adhering to the `issue#.(breaking|change|provider|refiner|deprecation|misc).md` schema:
+  For example, `changelog.d/42.change.md` for a non-breaking change that is proposed in issue #42.
+- As with other docs, please use [semantic newlines] within news fragments.
+- Wrap symbols like modules, functions, or classes into backticks so they are rendered in a `monospace font`.
+- Wrap arguments into asterisks like in docstrings:
+  `Added new argument *an_argument*.`
+- If you mention functions or other callables, add parentheses at the end of their names:
+  `subliminal.func()` or `subliminal.Class.method()`.
+  This makes the changelog a lot more readable.
+- Prefer simple past tense or constructions with "now".
+  For example:
+
+  + Added `subliminal.super_cool_func()`.
+  + `subliminal.func()` now doesn't crash anymore.
+- If you want to reference multiple issues, copy the news fragment to another filename.
+  *Towncrier* will merge all news fragments with identical contents into one entry with multiple links to the respective pull requests.
+
+Example entry:
+
+  ```md
+  Added `subliminal.super_cool_func()`.
+  The feature is really *super cool*.
+
+  ```
+
+`tox run -e changelog` will render the current changelog to the terminal if you have any doubts.
+
+---
+
+*Thanks to Hynek and the [attrs development team](https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs) for the fantastic workflows and documentation, this file was shamelessly modified from theirs.*
+
+
+[CI]: https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal/actions?query=workflow%3ACI
+[*pre-commit*]: https://pre-commit.com/
+[*tox*]: https://tox.wiki/
+[semantic newlines]: https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 09049630..5e4af6bd 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ include Dockerfile
 include .dockerignore
 include .pre-commit-config.yaml
 include .readthedocs.yaml
+include .python-version-default
 include tox.ini
 
 graft docs
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 880d8d95..3d2613fb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -66,11 +66,13 @@ test = [
     "pytest>=6.0",
     "pytest-cov",
     "pytest-flakes",
+    "pytest-xdist",
     "sympy",
     "vcrpy>=1.6.1",
     "importlib_metadata>=4.6; python_version<'3.10'",
 ]
 dev = [
+    "pre-commit",
     "doc8",
     "mypy",
     "ruff",
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 1f4aeedc..b6497b5f 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,7 +1,57 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = {py38,py39,py310,py311,py312}-{native,lxml}
+min_version = 4
+env_list =
+    pre-commit,
+    py3{9,10,11,12}-tests,
+    changelog,
+    pre-commit,
+    docs,
+    docs-linkcheck,
+
+[testenv:.pkg]
+pass_env = SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION
 
 [testenv]
-deps =
-    lxml: lxml
-commands = pytest
+package = wheel
+wheel_build_env = .pkg
+extras =
+    tests: test
+    coverage: test
+    mypy: test
+commands =
+    tests: pytest {posargs:-n auto}
+    coverage: pytest --cov --cov-report term {posargs:-n auto}
+    mypy: mypy --install-types --non-interactive subliminal tests
+
+
+[testenv:pre-commit]
+description =
+    run pre-commit-defined linters under `{basepython}`
+skip_install = True
+basepython = python3
+deps = pre-commit>=2.9.3
+commands = pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure {posargs:}
+setenv =
+    # pre-commit and tools it launches are not clean of this warning.
+    PYTHONWARNDEFAULTENCODING=
+
+
+[testenv:docs]
+# Keep base_python in-sync with check.yaml/docs and .readthedocs.yaml.
+base_python = py312
+extras = docs
+commands =
+    sphinx-build -n -T -W --keep-going -b html -d {envtmpdir}/doctrees docs docs/_build/html
+    sphinx-build -n -T -W --keep-going -b doctest -d {envtmpdir}/doctrees docs docs/_build/html
+
+[testenv:docs-linkcheck]
+package = editable
+base_python = {[testenv:docs]base_python}
+extras = {[testenv:docs]extras}
+commands = sphinx-build -W --keep-going -b linkcheck -d {envtmpdir}/doctrees docs docs/_build/html
+
+[testenv:changelog]
+extras = docs
+allowlist_externals = towncrier
+skip_install = true
+commands = towncrier build --version main --draft