0.14 Release

[davidhewitt]

I think the 0.14 release would be worth putting out soon. We've merged a lot of cleanups as well as a couple of new features. Also the updates to the num and hashbrown dependencies will probably be useful for the downstream crates to have.

This is what I propose we could merge before the 0.14 release goes live:

• macros: support #[pyo3(name = "...")] in pyfunction #1567 and some follow-up PRs to tidy up the attributes like #[name = "..."], #[text_signature = "..."] to be a single #[pyo3(name = "...", text_signature = "...")]. Also documentation Guide: #[pyo3(name = "")] and #[pyo3(from_py_with = "")] #1432
• pyproto: deprecate py_methods #1560 - I think we all agree that simplifying #[pyproto] can be a good thing
• I'd like to write some new notes on "Getting Started" and "Installing Python" to just make the first words in the README and guide just a little easier for new users. (This should close a few of the easy docs issues.)
• Some PRs which have been waiting for a while, which would be nice to merge. If the original authors have been diverted by other callings I'll finish them off:
  • Define missing import APIs #1475
  • Add support for arbitrary arrays #1128
  • Need to be able to create structs via macro_rules #832

[davidhewitt]

However, also none of these changes would be breaking, so I could just release 0.14 already?

[davidhewitt]

Note: #1626 (comment) - cross-compiling on main is temporarily broken thanks to the new pyo3-build-config crate - need to fix (or revert) pyo3-build-config before any release can happen.

[davidhewitt]

@messense @birkenfeld I think we're very close now to a 0.14 release. This is what I still would like to see merged:

• The cross-compiling fix for pyo3-build-config: fix cross compilation #1648 needs to go in
• pyclass: refactor tp_new / tp_dealloc / remove PyCellInner #1657 - this has a bugfix that I think is really important (inherited dict memory leak)
• #[pymodule(name)] PR - that's the last change for macros: support #[pyo3(name = "...")] in pyfunction #1567 / Macro attribute reworks #1601 which I'd like to put into 0.14

The remaining items I suggested in the OP are just documentation and bugfixes, which I think are good candidates to work on immediately after a release anyway.

Anything else you folks think we should include? Would you be willing to review those outstanding PRs? Once they're merged I'll prepare a release branch and propose a date to put it live.

[davidhewitt]

The release is now live!