1.0.0

Highlights

This is the first stable 1.0 release of octave_kernel. It includes a significant round of bug fixes for long-standing
interactive prompt issues, a new documentation site, Docker image publishing, performance improvements, and a
modernized project toolchain.

Bugs fixed

• Fix input() prompt garbled when called inside a for-loop (closes #179) #283
• Fix kernel hang when calling doc() or open() (closes #184) #282
• Fix pause() prompt not shown when called from a user-defined function #279
• Fix do_shutdown coroutine warning and improve console UX #280

Enhancements

• Add load_octaverc trait to allow skipping ~/.octaverc on startup #290
• Add --no-line-editing flag to Octave startup command for improved performance #296
• Improve check.py diagnostics and add GitHub issue templates #295
• Publish Docker image to quay.io on release #305
• Modernize Dockerfile #303

Documentation

• Add MkDocs documentation site #277
• Add debugging instructions for the kernel #278
• Add dedicated docs section for managing the Octave executable #274
• Add Docker usage documentation #306

Dependency updates

• Drop support for outdated dependencies and Python versions following SPEC 0 #298
• Require metakernel >= 1.0 #299, #312

Maintenance and upkeep

• Adopt poetry for dependency management and development workflows #301
• Add ASV benchmark suite with CI performance comparison job #285
• Add Codecov integration with 95% coverage thresholds #286
• Cache apt, Homebrew, and Windows Octave installers in CI for faster builds #302
• Migrate CI to calysto/maintainer_tools #304