v4.2.0

This release has no changes for users, only for distribution packagers.

Changes

• Switched build backend from poetry to hatchling.
• Switched the docs build from using the toml library to the better maintained tomli library.
• Development is now done using uv and tox-uv, but you should not need uv to package pykka.
• Updated some dev tooling, including ruff and pyright.

v4.1.2

Changes

• Drop pydantic as a test dependency, as this made Pykka quite a lot harder to package.
• Add Python 3.14 pre-releases to the CI test matrix.
• Move tox' config into pyproject.toml.

v4.1.1

Changes

• Use Trusted Publishing to when releasing to PyPI.

v4.1.0

Breaking changes

• Remove support for Python 3.8. It reaches end-of-life later this month. (PR: #220)

Features

• Support Python 3.13. No changes required.

Bug fixes

• Fix proxy introspection breaking if an actor attribute is a Pydantic model. (PR: #221)

v4.0.2

Type hints

• Make get_all() generic over the futures' type.

Development environment

• Format with ruff format instead of black. (#210)

v4.0.1

Development environment

• Update test suite to pass on Python 3.12 (#207)

v4.0.0

Breaking changes

• Require block and timeout arguments to always be keyword arguments. (PR: #198)
• Remove support for Python 3.7. It reached end-of-life in June 2023. (PR: #190)

Features

• Type hints: All typing stubs have been inlined in the source code and have been greatly improved. They are now tested using both Mypy and Pyright. (PR: #192, #193, #195)
• Type hints: Due to the dynamic nature of ActorProxy objects, it is impossible to automatically type them correctly. pykka.typing is a new module with helpers for manually typing ActorProxy objects. Check out the docs for how to use the helpers. (PR: #199)

Development environment

• Linting: Replace flake8, isort, and friends with ruff. (PR: #190)

v4.0.0rc1

Breaking changes

• Require block and timeout arguments to always be keyword arguments. (PR: #198)
• Remove support for Python 3.7. It reached end-of-life in June 2023. (PR: #190)

Features

• Type hints: All typing stubs have been inlined in the source code and have been greatly improved. They are now tested using both Mypy and Pyright. (PR: #192, #193, #195)
• Type hints: Due to the dynamic nature of ActorProxy objects, it is impossible to automatically type them correctly. pykka.typing is a new module with helpers for manually typing ActorProxy objects. Check out the docs for how to use the helpers. (PR: #199)

Development environment

• Linting: Replace flake8, isort, and friends with ruff. (PR: #190)

v3.1.1

Bugfix release.

• Installs from the source tarball using the setup.py file generated by Poetry installed setup.cfg and tox.ini into site-packages. The workaround for this was to simply not include those files in the source tarball. (Fixes: #172)

v3.1.0

Breaking changes

• Remove support for Python 3.6. It reached end-of-life in December 2021. (PR: #159)

Bug fixes

• Include docs, examples, and tests in the source release. (Fixes: #171)

Development environment

• Require mypy 0.960 and use the latest typing features, as these seem to work nicely even on Python 3.7, given that the typing information is in separate *.pyi files and that you have a recent mypy version.