release: 0.24.0

[davidhewitt]

I think it's time we shipped a release.

Thank you to @Icxolu, @ngoldbaum and @bschoenmaeckers in particular, who have done a huge amount of the work and support in heading towards this release while I've been busy. I'm hopeful that I can be much more active in the coming months so we can make further progress on some of the things we know we want to improve in the releases to follow 0.24.

I'd like to ship ASAP; I think there's just a couple of PRs I would like to get merged before this is finalised and I prepare the CHANGELOG:

• remove Deref implementations for old "gil refs" types #4593 was marked for 0.24 and I think is a small, straightforward clean up.
• improve signature of ffi::PyIter_Send & add PyIterator::send #4746 is ready to merge but failed in the FFI checks; I want to investigate and ideally fix & merge before releasing.

Please ping if there's anything else you think must be included in the release. Once those PRs are in, I will do a final rebase & prep here and leave just a couple days for cooling off.

[bschoenmaeckers]

I'm investigating the jiff failure in the CI. It looks like jiff 0.2.2 broke something.

[BurntSushi]

Your CI failures might have found a legit bug in the latest Jiff release. I'll take a closer look too.

[bschoenmaeckers]

Your CI failures might have found a legit bug in the latest Jiff release. I'll take a closer look too.

I've created a issue in the jiff repo with a minimal example.
BurntSushi/jiff#290

[ahlinc]

@davidhewitt Could you consider to include this #4951 PR too?

[davidhewitt]

With the above PRs merged, I have prepped the release notes and plan to ship this tomorrow evening.

@ahlinc sorry for not replying to your PR yet. Thank you for working on __init__ support; it's an important feature and I would love to get it merged, there are also a few other similar PRs with awesome features which are long overdue reviews from me, and I want to help review and merge these in the coming days. But I think for all of these, better to allow some time to iterate / review these and get them in good shape for 0.25 rather than rush them. This 0.24 release already contains ~4 months of features and is very due for release!

[arielb1]

Do you think we should merge #4874 ?

[davidhewitt]

Done, will do a last rebase here 👍

[messense]

docs is broken, it returns Page not found currently: https://pyo3.rs/v0.24.0/