Breaking changes

• Remove pykka.__version__. Use importlib.metadata.version("pykka") instead. (by @jodal in #242)

Changes

• Port docs from Sphinx to Mkdocs and generally refresh docs (by @jodal in #241)

Full Changelog: v4.3.0...v4.4.0

Breaking changes

• Remove support for Python 3.9 as it reaches end-of-life next month (by @jodal in #238)
• Only allow one of Future's set(), set_exception(), and set_get_hook() methods to be called (by @jodal in #240)

Changes

• Change ThreadingFuture[T] to use a threading.Condition instead of queue.Queue (by @mpdetwiler in #233)
• Only call future hook once, even if it returns None (by @jodal in #239)
• Use the standard library's tomllib in the docs build on Python 3.11+, removing a dependency om tomli (by @a-detiste in #237)

New Contributors

• @a-detiste made their first contribution in #237
• @mpdetwiler made their first contribution in #233

Full Changelog: v4.2.0...v4.3.0

This release has no changes for users, only for distribution packagers.

Changes

• Switched build backend from poetry to hatchling.
• Switched the docs build from using the toml library to the better maintained tomli library.
• Development is now done using uv and tox-uv, but you should not need uv to package pykka.
• Updated some dev tooling, including ruff and pyright.

Changes

• Drop pydantic as a test dependency, as this made Pykka quite a lot harder to package.
• Add Python 3.14 pre-releases to the CI test matrix.
• Move tox' config into pyproject.toml.

Changes

• Use Trusted Publishing to when releasing to PyPI.

Breaking changes

• Remove support for Python 3.8. It reaches end-of-life later this month. (PR: #220)

Features

• Support Python 3.13. No changes required.

Bug fixes

• Fix proxy introspection breaking if an actor attribute is a Pydantic model. (PR: #221)

Type hints

• Make get_all() generic over the futures' type.

Development environment

• Format with ruff format instead of black. (#210)

Development environment

• Update test suite to pass on Python 3.12 (#207)

Breaking changes

• Require block and timeout arguments to always be keyword arguments. (PR: #198)
• Remove support for Python 3.7. It reached end-of-life in June 2023. (PR: #190)

Features

• Type hints: All typing stubs have been inlined in the source code and have been greatly improved. They are now tested using both Mypy and Pyright. (PR: #192, #193, #195)
• Type hints: Due to the dynamic nature of ActorProxy objects, it is impossible to automatically type them correctly. pykka.typing is a new module with helpers for manually typing ActorProxy objects. Check out the docs for how to use the helpers. (PR: #199)

Development environment

• Linting: Replace flake8, isort, and friends with ruff. (PR: #190)

Breaking changes

• Require block and timeout arguments to always be keyword arguments. (PR: #198)
• Remove support for Python 3.7. It reached end-of-life in June 2023. (PR: #190)

Features

• Type hints: All typing stubs have been inlined in the source code and have been greatly improved. They are now tested using both Mypy and Pyright. (PR: #192, #193, #195)
• Type hints: Due to the dynamic nature of ActorProxy objects, it is impossible to automatically type them correctly. pykka.typing is a new module with helpers for manually typing ActorProxy objects. Check out the docs for how to use the helpers. (PR: #199)

Development environment

• Linting: Replace flake8, isort, and friends with ruff. (PR: #190)