v0.6.0

A maintenance release covering supported Python versions, dependency
security, and release automation. The client's own code is unchanged from
0.5.1 apart from the version string: every public method has the same
signature and behavior. The only difference an installer sees is the
raised Python floor.

Prototype api-availability methods remain disabled pending further
testing, so they are not part of this release.

Added

• Python 3.14 to the supported and tested versions.
• Automatic tagging, GitHub release creation, and PyPI publishing when a
  new version reaches main. Release notes are taken from this file, and
  pre-release versions are refused on every route into the production
  publish.
• A security audit workflow running pip-audit against the locked
  dependencies on changes and weekly, plus ruff's S rules, which port
  bandit's static security checks into the existing lint pass.
• This changelog, backfilled from git history and release tags.
• AI.md, recording how AI tooling is used in this project and what it
  has and has not touched.

Changed

• Updated all locked dependencies, clearing eleven security advisories.
  Every remaining fix required Python 3.10 or newer, which is what
  prompted the version floor below.
• Replaced pylama with ruff for linting. pylama has been unreleased since
  2022 and depends on pkg_resources, which recent setuptools removed. The
  same rules carry over: pycodestyle, pyflakes, and a 128 character line
  length. setup.cfg is gone, since it only held pylama's configuration.
• Replaced pdoc3 with pdoc for API documentation. pdoc3 has been unreleased
  since 2021 and imports distutils, which left the standard library in
  3.12. The module page moves from docs/akips/index.html to
  docs/akips.html; the previous path redirects, so existing links keep
  working.
• API documentation is now generated and published by CI on every push to
  main, rather than being generated by hand and committed. The published
  site tracks main and no longer follows develop.
• Publishing now uses separate pypi and testpypi environments instead
  of one shared environment named prod, so production releases and
  TestPyPI rehearsals can be governed independently.
• CI runs on pinned runner images rather than -latest, so moving to a
  new Ubuntu is a deliberate change rather than one that arrives on
  GitHub's schedule.

Removed

• Python 3.9 support. The minimum supported version is now 3.10.
  Breaking for anyone still on 3.9, which reached end of life in
  October 2025.
• All long-lived PyPI and TestPyPI API tokens. Publishing is entirely
  through trusted publishing, so the project stores no credential that
  could leak or need rotating.