v6.0.0rc0

6.0.0rc0

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Enhancements made

• Add opt-in macOS RAM disk and reuse writer.mat file handle #398 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Add check() diagnostic utility, debugging docs, and issue templates #396 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Add pydantic-settings support with Oct2PySettings and configure() #395 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Add backend='disable' to suppress all figure rendering #390 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Add workspace proxy for MATLAB-style variable access #375 (@blink1073)
• Add Oct2Py.run() to execute scripts in the base workspace #374 (@blink1073)
• Fix per-call overhead in Octave 7+ by passing --no-line-editing #363 (@blink1073)
• Add binder support and JupyterHub Qt docs #356 (@blink1073)
• Add executable trait to OctaveMagics and bump octave-kernel to 0.39 #355 (@blink1073)
• Simplify snap/flatpak temp dir support via engine.tmp_dir #352 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Add support for ubuntu snap #351 (@blink1073)

Bugs fixed

• Fix logging/warning hygiene: remove NullHandler, add Oct2PyWarning #397 (@blink1073)
• Support Octave package namespace access (closes #286) #393 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Fix system() failures on Windows — augment PATH with Octave's MinGW/MSYS tool dirs #392 (@blink1073)
• Fix Octave startup crash when opencv-python is imported on Linux #391 (@blink1073)
• Fix Python bool → Octave logical conversion (closes #153) #389 (@blink1073)
• Fix logging configuration to follow Python library best practices #386 (@blink1073)
• Add auto_show and show() for PyCharm/IDE inline plot display (closes #164) #385 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Fix TypeError when returning old-style Octave objects like ss (closes #166) #384 (@blink1073)
• Add expr=True support to get_pointer (closes #169) #383 (@blink1073)
• Preserve SIGINT handler across engine startup (closes #168) #381 (@blink1073)
• Fix classdef return for classes with required-argument constructors #380 (@blink1073)
• Fix interactive figure display and exit TypeError #379 (@blink1073)
• Convert scipy TypeError to Oct2PyError for char encoding issues #378 (@blink1073)
• Add quiet parameter to eval/feval to suppress output capture #372 (@blink1073)
• Fix save_safe_struct: function handles, integer types, top-level objects (closes #215) #370 (@blink1073)
• Fix multiprocessing.Pool fork safety (issue #283) #366 (@blink1073)
• Fix deep recursion crashing Octave session #365 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Fix Octave subprocess leak in ThreadPoolExecutor #364 (@blink1073)
• Fix calling .m scripts (not functions) via feval #361 (@blink1073)
• Drop legacy scipy compatibility shims and bump minimum versions #354 (@blink1073, @claude)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• Restructure CI: split cover job, add test-opencv job, configure Codecov notify #394 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Document pandas DataFrame and Series support (closes #157) #388 (@blink1073)
• Add regression tests for eval() plot capture and interactive display (closes #158) #387 (@blink1073)
• Document plot-rendering limitation for .m files and add regression test #382 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Fix coverage upload #377 (@blink1073)
• Add pull request template #373 (@blink1073)
• Increase branch coverage: pragma nocover, fork-reset tests, docstring fix #371 (@blink1073)
• Fix codecov.yml structure to use canonical notify.after_n_builds #369 (@blink1073)
• Improve Codecov configuration with coverage targets and PR comments #368 (@blink1073)
• Add ASV benchmark suite and CI job #367 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Add branch coverage tests for Oct2Py core methods #360 (@blink1073)
• Bump octave_kernel action to v0.39.0 #359 (@blink1073)
• Add justfile targets for running the example notebook #357 (@blink1073)
• Pin GitHub Actions to commit SHAs and add zizmor security scanning #350 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Expand test environments #349 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Add macOS CI job for test_usage.py #348 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Update dependabot config #347 (@blink1073)
• Add CodeQL analysis workflow configuration #345 (@blink1073)
• Add pytest-xdist for parallel test execution #344 (@blink1073)
• Switch to coverage run and upload results to Codecov #343 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Update linters and pre-commit checks #342 (@blink1073, @claude)
• Convert top-level RST files to Markdown #341 (@blink1073)
• Switch from hatch to uv + just for project management #340 (@blink1073)
• Update supported Pythons and fix octave install in ci #338 (@blink1073)

Documentation improvements

• Switch documentation from Sphinx to MkDocs #358 (@blink1073)
• docs: document qt backend requirements and OCTAVE_EXECUTABLE #353 (@blink1073, @claude)

Contributors to this release

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