ntpstats 3.0.0

The stable API is final. No breaking changes: code written for 2.15 or later runs unchanged.

Changed

• ntpstats.api is final for the whole 3.x series. Stable names are only added or deprecated
  within 3.x, and a deprecated name keeps working, with a warning, until the next major
  release. The command line and the files ntpstats writes follow the same rule
  (Stable API docs page, CONTRIBUTING).
• Package metadata: "Production/Stable", supported Python versions (3.9 to 3.13), typed, and
  links to the documentation and changelog. Security fixes go to the latest 3.x minor release
  (SECURITY.md).

Stable API changes since 2.15.0

Generated with python docs/api_changes.py v2.15.0.

• Added: ChainResult (class, from ntpstats.ptpsim); ChainScenario (class, from ntpstats.ptpsim); DelayTrace (class, from ntpstats.trace); LinRegServo (class, from ntpstats.ptpsim); Link (class, from ntpstats.ptpsim); PIServo (class, from ntpstats.ptpsim); TracePath (class, from ntpstats.trace); inet_oscillator (function, from ntpstats.simio); load_trace (function, from ntpstats.trace); read_omnetpp_vec (function, from ntpstats.simio); simulate_chain (function, from ntpstats.ptpsim); trace_from_series (function, from ntpstats.trace); write_omnetpp_vec (function, from ntpstats.simio).
• Changed: Scenario: new init trace=; new fields trace; ServerSpec: new init trace=; new fields trace.
• Removed: nothing. Code written against the stable API of an earlier release keeps working.

Added

• docs/api_changes.py: lists the stable-API changes between a tag and the working tree, from
  the frozen surface, for release notes.
• A draft software paper for the Journal of Open Source Software (paper/), and a workflow that
  builds its PDF (#38).

Documentation

• New docs home page organised by task; the README introduction, the tools landscape, the
  roadmap ("After 3.0") and the wiki describe the toolkit as it is now.