Academy v0.3.0

Overview

This release makes numerous quality-of-life updates to simplify user code and reduce hard-to-debug errors related to sharing handles. Check out the Migrating to v0.3 guide to learn more about the key changes.

Upgrade Steps

pip install --upgrade academy-py

What's Changed

Breaking Changes

• Change default behavior of handles to return final action result instead of awaitable future by @gpauloski in #171
• Read exchange client from context in handle by @AK2000 in #177
• Allow handles to be used by multiple clients by @AK2000 in #181
• Consolidate Handle protocol with RemoteHandle by @AK2000 in #183

New Features

• Add context manager support to Runtime by @gpauloski in #162
• Add helper method for safely running sync functions within async actions by @gpauloski in #175
• Re-export exchange factories and transports by @AK2000 in #184

Bug Fixes

• Improve attribute discovery on derived Agent types by @gpauloski in #172
• Hold action and loop execution until agent startup sequence has completed by @gpauloski in #173
• Fix KeyError from unhandled shutdown errors responses in Handle by @gpauloski in #186

Internal Changes

• Clean up testing utilities by @gpauloski in #166
• Refactor messages to use header/body model by @gpauloski in #160

Documentation

• Update contributing guide and templates by @gpauloski in #161
• Re-organized the docs site by @gpauloski in #179
• Change default docs version from latest to stable by @gpauloski in #180
• Correct documentation aliases in version policy by @gpauloski in #182
• Improve clarity of new docs additions by @gpauloski in #188

Build and Packaging

• Add integration test suite by @gpauloski in #163
• Add GitHub Issue templates by @gpauloski in #165

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0