v0.6.5

v0.6.3 – v0.6.5: Durable Venvs

• Improved durability of the virtual environments.
  The function meerschaum.utils.packages.manually_import_module() behaves as expected, allowing you to import different versions of modules. More work needs to be done to see if reintroducing import hooks would be beneficial.
• Activate plugin virtual environments for API plugins.
  If a plugin uses the @api_plugin decorator, its virtual environment will be activated before starting the API server. This could potentially cause problems if you have many API plugins with conflicting dependencies, but this could be mitigated by isolating environments with MRSM_ROOT_DIR.
• Changed name to import_name for determine_version().
  The first argument in meerschaum.utils.packages.determine_version() has been renamed from name to the less-ambiguous import_name.
• Shortened the IDs for API environments.
  Rather than a long UUID, each instance of the API server will have a randomly generated ID of six letters. Keep in mind it is randomly generated, so please excuse any randomly generated words.
• Removed version enforcement for uvicorn and gunicorn.
  Uvicorn has a lot of hidden imports, and using our home-brewed import system breaks things. Instead, we now use the default attempt_import behavior of check_update=False.
• Reintroduced verify packages to setup.py.
  Upgrading Meerschaum will check if the virtual environment packages satisfy their required versions.
• Moved pkg_resources patch from the module-level.
  In v0.6.3, the monkey-patching for flask-compress happened at the module level, but this was quickly moved to a lazy patch in v0.6.4.
• Bugfixes
  Versions 0.6.3 and 0.6.4 were yanked due to some unforeseen broken features.
• Bumped several dependencies.