0.9.26

• 0.9.26:
  • Significant performance improvements, especially on the POSIX side.
  • This is mainly from keeping the file handles open for both the log file and the lock file, reducing
    system calls and overhead.
  • You can revert to the old behavior by setting keep_file_open=False in the constructor. The default
    is True.
  • On Windows, the log file must be closed after each write to achieve rollovers, due to the
    behavior of the Windows filesystem APIs. However, the keep_file_open option still applies
    to the lock file and can improve performance when True.
  • Fixed some bugs in the Timed handler around file rotation (selecting files to delete). These
    would likely only arise with artificially low rotation intervals such as in the unit tests.
  • Make the gzip option slightly more robust to errors. In the future, we may offload this to a
    background process, and introduce additional compression options.
  • Developer items:
    • Updated the GitHub Actions CI test matrix:
      • Added Python 3.13 for testing.
      • GitHub Actions no longer supports runners for automated testing under Python 3.6 and 3.7.
      • Note: The package continues to target Python 3.6+ for runtime compatibility.
    • Ensure required packages like black are installed in "dev mode" (pip install -e .[dev]).
    • Added a lint.sh script to run Black, ruff, and mypy in one go.
    • Added additional unit tests for different scenarios, including the new keep_file_open option.
    • Better configuration of test coverage, which is now approx. 74% of the main file, with most
      non-covered code consisting of error conditions and fallbacks which aren't crucial to test.

Full Changelog: 0.9.25...0.9.26