What's Changed

• build(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #248
• fix: Break reference cycle between Actor and ActorRef by @jodal in #251

Full Changelog: v4.4.1...v4.4.2

What's Changed

• fix: Simplify the actor thread's name by @jodal in #247

Full Changelog: v4.4.0...v4.4.1

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)