End of summer 2024 release

[2.2.0] - 2024-09-04

This release brings some general bugfixes, improvements, and new library APIs.

Added

• New sub-endpoint /users/{id}/uploads (GH #136)
• Better support for third-party plugins (GH #136)
• New plugins configuration field for plugin-specific settings (GH #136)
• Introduce project_dir to plugin metadata file elapi_plugin_metadata.yml (GH #136, 191a049)
• Aggressive logging support for elapi.loggers.add_message; add change_logger_state that controls logger class
  state (4aea161, 5a68585)
• New and improved HTTP APIs: shared client support, SimpleClient, GlobalSharedSession (GH #137)
• elAPI specific user-agent string elAPI/<elAPI version> python-httpx/<HTTPX version> (4bde6cd)
• Improved BaseFormat with package_identifier attribute; better plugin formatter class support (GH #138)
• Add get_active_host_url_without_api_suffix that compliments get_active_host (6e42a9c)
• Add new elAPI logo (4ca1f1f)

Fixed

• Fix configuration not being validated when developer_mode is missing (GH #133)
• Fix third-party plugins breaking if they used relative imports (GH #134)

Changed

• Disable --OC/--override-config support for development_mode (GH #136)
• All public CLI commands now use GlobalSharedSession (GH #137)
• Use uvloop instead of built-in asyncio event loop for bill-teams plugin (8c3750b); add uvloop as an optional
  dependency to uhd-urz
• Bump versions of following dependencies and optional dependencies: rich to 13.8.0, tenacity to 9.0,
  python-dateutil to 2.9.0.post0

Removed

• Remove keep_session_argument parameter from HTTP APIs, which is replaced with shared_client parameter (GH #137)

In collaboration with @alexander-haller.