v0.8.20260912: rolling release

Whoops.. didn't release for the whole year somehow.
Mainly releasing to fix a breaking change due to timezonefinder version update: #509

What's Changed

Breaking changes

• general: set min version to 3.12; update ci to run 3.14 by @karlicoss in #468

Deprecations

• core.utils.itertools: remove support for HPI_CHECK_UNIQUE_EVERSEEN by @karlicoss in #480
• core: deprecate PathIsh = Path | str alias by @karlicoss in #481

Core

• core: fix warning when using relative path in MY_CONFIG by @karlicoss in #490
• core: add experimental provider dev snapshot and dev diff commands by @karlicoss in #502
• core: add better help for 'hpi dev' commands by @karlicoss in #503
• core: add checked date and datetime types by @karlicoss in #508

Modules

• twitter.archive: workaround for broken dates in some archive tweets by @karlicoss in #467
• minor monzoexport/my.twitter.android updates by @karlicoss in #488
• my.twitter.archive: try using DateType library instead of datetime_aware by @karlicoss in #491
• bluemaestro: fix for crashing when _meta table is missing by @karlicoss in #482
• Filter non-watch YouTube Takeout activity by @AndrewSB in #494
• google.maps.android: use immutable sqlite connection by @karlicoss in #498
• my.whatsapp.android: support older, pre-202209 schema format by @karlicoss in #500
• my.bumble.android: some enhancements by @karlicoss in #501
• my.taplog: some enhancements/cleanup by @karlicoss in #504
• instagram.gdpr: relax assert about presence of files with messages by @karlicoss in #506
• my.hackernews: add evidence for datetime_aware type by @karlicoss in #507
• my.time.tz.via_location: fix compatibility with timezonefinder 9 by @karlicoss in #509

Testing

• general: add 'tests' covering different ways of configuring modules; both runtime and type checks by @karlicoss in #477
• tests.location.fallback: use mock data for ipgeocache by @karlicoss in #499

Documentation

• quarto: add rendering pipeline to tox by @karlicoss in #478
• docs: add more docs on hpi module configuration by @karlicoss in #479
• docs: clean up quarto setup and move docs into doc/ folder by @karlicoss in #492
• docs: retire old CONFIGURING.org in favor of new quarto docs by @karlicoss in #493
• docs: migrate module list to quarto by @karlicoss in #496

Chores

• Upgrade ty type checker to v0.0.1a21 and remove 14 unnecessary ty: ignore comments by @karlicoss with @Copilot in #464
• general: migrate to python 3.12 type ... = syntax after the cachew fix by @karlicoss in #470
• chore: update all CI files by @karlicoss in #471
• chore: some fixes for ruff/pandas by @karlicoss in #473
• emfit: some fixes after emfitexport update by @karlicoss in #472
• general: update CI files; migrate some configs to newer abstractmethod-based format by @karlicoss in #475
• chores: improve type annotations; update ty and clean up formatting by @karlicoss in #476
• github actions: install python via uv; remove .local/bin hack by @karlicoss in #484
• github actions: some cleanup for publishing process by @karlicoss in #485
• chore: update all ci files to a common tempate by @karlicoss in #487
• chore: fix errors after ty upgrade by @karlicoss in #489
• chore: fix ci after ruff and ty updates by @karlicoss in #497
• ci: fix ty 0.0.75 diagnostics by @karlicoss in #505

New Contributors

• @karlicoss with @Copilot made their first contribution in #464
• @AndrewSB made their first contribution in #494

Full Changelog: v0.7.20250911...v0.8.20260912