v0.12.0

What's Changed

• Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4.1.7 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot[bot] in #644
• Add on_clear handlers to (Global)Table and ChangeloggedSet by @egao1980 in #645
• Replace aredis with redis-py by @wbarnha in #635
• Update python-package.yml to formally support Python 3.13 by @wbarnha in #648
• Update handling of artifacts in python-package.yml by @wbarnha in #649
• EOL support for Python 3.8 by @wbarnha in #650
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #647
• fix: support aiokafka 0.13.0 which removed api_version parameter by @nightcityblade in #674
• Fix CI lint formatting drift in tests and aerospike store by @wbarnha in #677
• Pin black and isort in requirements/test.txt for reproducible lint by @wbarnha in #680
• Readd Confluent Kafka transport driver (rebased on master, working on released confluent-kafka) by @wbarnha in #679
• Fix release artifact handling for upload-artifact@v4 (would drop wheels/sdist on next release) by @wbarnha in #684
• fix(aiokafka): keep Faust assignor for changelog tables; drop Python 3.9 by @wbarnha in #682
• Add unit tests for functional/platforms/agent_stopper utils (real coverage) by @wbarnha in #687
• ci: test on Python 3.14 with and without Cython by @wbarnha in #691
• ci: add live-broker integration test harness (Kafka in CI) by @wbarnha in #706
• Modernize CI: wheel runners, Windows wheels, and test matrix (drop 3.9, require 3.14) by @wbarnha in #690
• docs: correct stale dependency and version references by @wbarnha in #710
• docs: prepare v0.12.0 release notes, changelog, and docs version by @wbarnha in #708

New Contributors

• @egao1980 made their first contribution in #645
• @nightcityblade made their first contribution in #674

Full Changelog: v0.11.3...v0.12.0