Re: ANN: PyObjC 11.0

Glyph <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:43:48 -0800
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Thanks Ronald! Congratulations! Definitely been looking forward to this =
one.

> On Jan 14, 2025, at 12:50=E2=80=AFPM, Ronald Oussoren via =
Pythonmac-SIG <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I'm happy to announce the 11.0 release of PyObjC, slightly delayed =
from the normal major release in October.
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> This release has two major features:
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> Support for the macOS 15.2 SDK, including new bindings for the =
frameworks MediaExtension and DeviceDiscoveryExtension
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> Experimental support for GIL-less operation in the free-threaded build =
of Python 3.13
>=20
> The latter feature is an important reason for the delay: Supporting =
GIL-less operation required reworking parts of the internals of PyObjC, =
both to rely on other locks than the GIL and to avoid CPython APIs that =
are known to be problematic when the GIL isn't present ("borrowed =
references" for anyone familiar with the CPython API).
>=20
> Free-threaded support is experimental at this point in time and has =
seen only limited testing for multi-threading. I've also focussed on =
getting the basics right, and have not worked at optimizing =
free-threading support. Expect improvements in future releases.
>=20
> With PyObjC 11 I'm dropping support for Python 3.8, given that that's =
gone out of support by the CPython team.
>=20
> Finally, there's a number of bug fixes and smaller features mentioned =
in the changelog at =
https://pyobjc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html
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> Ronald
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> --
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> Twitter / micro.blog: @ronaldoussoren
> Mastodon: @[email protected].
> Blog: https://blog.ronaldoussoren.net/
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charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; =
-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks Ronald! =
Congratulations! Definitely been looking forward to this =
one.<div><div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>On Jan 14, 2025, at =
12:50=E2=80=AFPM, Ronald Oussoren via Pythonmac-SIG =
&lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote:</div><br =
class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type"=
 content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii"><div style=3D"overflow-wrap: =
break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: =
after-white-space;"><div>I'm happy to announce the 11.0 release of =
PyObjC, slightly delayed from the normal major release in =
October.</div><div><br></div><div>This release has two major =
features:</div><div><br></div><div>Support for the macOS 15.2 SDK, =
including new bindings for the frameworks MediaExtension and =
DeviceDiscoveryExtension</div><div><br></div><div>Experimental support =
for GIL-less operation in the free-threaded build of Python =
3.13</div><div><br></div><div>The latter feature is an important reason =
for the delay: Supporting GIL-less operation required reworking parts of =
the internals of PyObjC, both to rely on other locks than the GIL and to =
avoid CPython APIs that are known to be problematic when the GIL isn't =
present ("borrowed references" for anyone familiar with the CPython =
API).</div><div><br></div><div>Free-threaded support is experimental at =
this point in time and has seen only limited testing for =
multi-threading. I've also focussed on getting the basics right, and =
have not worked at optimizing free-threading support. Expect =
improvements in future releases.</div><div><br></div><div>With PyObjC 11 =
I'm dropping support for Python 3.8, given that that's gone out of =
support by the CPython team.</div><div><br></div>Finally, there's a =
number of bug fixes and smaller features mentioned in the changelog =
at&nbsp;<a =
href=3D"https://pyobjc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html">https://py=
objc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html</a><div><br></div><div>Ronald=
</div><div><br></div><div>--<br><div><div dir=3D"auto" =
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text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, =
0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; =
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text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: =
normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; =
text-decoration: none;">Twitter / micro.blog: @ronaldoussoren</div><div =
style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: =
12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: =
normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; =
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; =
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Mastodon: =
@[email protected].</div><div style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, =
0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; =
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; =
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: =
normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; =
text-decoration: none;">Blog: =
https://blog.ronaldoussoren.net/</div></div></div>
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