v0.0.24 - Python 3.9 type hints (#275)

🌟 Summary

v0.0.24 delivers a developer-focused refresh: modern Python typing across hub-sdk, cleaner docs badges, and infrastructure polish — all with no behavior changes for users. 🚀

📊 Key Changes

• Modern Python typing overhaul (PR #275: Python 3.9 type hints by @glenn-jocher) ✨
  • Adopted from __future__ import annotations and Python 3.10+ union syntax (e.g., Response | None)
  • Replaced legacy typing.Optional, Dict, List with native dict, list, etc.
  • Standardized method signatures and return types across API client, auth, CRUD clients, models, projects, datasets, teams, and users
  • Updated README with clear PyPI, downloads, and Python version badges
  • Bumped version: 0.0.23 → 0.0.24
  • No functional logic changes
• Docs tooling update (PR #274: Update pyproject.toml for mkdocs-ultralytics-plugin>=0.1.29) 📚
  • Improves documentation generation stability, metadata, and SEO for contributors
• CI improvements (PR #271: Bump actions/checkout to v5) 🔧
  • Aligns GitHub Actions with latest runner requirements; minor workflow tweaks (e.g., path excludes)
• General refactor and cleanup (PR #272: Ultralytics Refactor) 🧹
  • Streamlined code for readability and maintainability

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Better developer experience 🧑‍💻
  • Modern type hints make the codebase easier to understand, navigate, and statically analyze (e.g., with IDEs and linters)
• Safer, more consistent SDK internals ✅
  • Clearer method contracts reduce integration mistakes and improve confidence when extending hub-sdk
• Smoother docs building for contributors 📖
  • Updated MkDocs plugin reduces build friction and improves generated docs quality
• Stable for end users 🛡️
  • No runtime behavior changes; your existing workflows and integrations with Ultralytics HUB continue to work as-is

Tip: If you contribute to the repo, ensure your environment supports the newer typing syntax and install the updated docs plugin if building docs locally. 🎯

What's Changed

• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot[bot] in #271
• Ultralytics Refactor https://ultralytics.com/actions by @pderrenger in #272
• Update pyproject.toml for mkdocs-ultralytics-plugin>=0.1.29 by @glenn-jocher in #274
• Python 3.9 type hints by @glenn-jocher in #275

Full Changelog: v0.0.23...v0.0.24