🎉 SafeText v0.2.0 - Modern Infrastructure & Enhanced Developer Experience

[fcakyon]

We're excited to announce SafeText v0.2.0, a major release that modernizes our project infrastructure while maintaining full backward compatibility for users. This release focuses on improving developer experience, testing infrastructure, and packaging standards.

🚀 What's New

📦 Modern Python Packaging

• Migrated to pyproject.toml - Adopted PEP 517/518 standards, replacing legacy setup.py
• Unified dependency management - All project metadata now in a single source of truth
• Python 3.10+ support - Officially supporting Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13

🛠️ Developer Experience Improvements

• ⚡ Lightning-fast package management with uv - 10-100x faster than pip
• 🎯 Simplified linting with ruff - Single tool replacing flake8/black/isort
• 📜 Cross-platform convenience scripts - Easy setup and testing on Windows/macOS/Linux
• 🧪 Comprehensive test suite - Organized tests with parallel execution support

🔄 Robust CI/CD Pipeline

• GitHub Actions integration - Automated testing across all supported Python versions
• Daily cross-platform tests - Ensuring compatibility on Ubuntu, Windows, and macOS
• Automated PyPI publishing - Streamlined release process

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed lingua 2.1.1 compatibility issues
• Updated all repository URLs from safevideo to viddexa
• Enhanced error handling with proper exception chaining
• Improved whitelist functionality with file support

💻 For Users

The API remains unchanged - simply upgrade to enjoy better performance and reliability:

pip install --upgrade safetext

🔧 For Contributors

Quick Setup (Recommended)

# Install uv (one-time)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Clone and setup
git clone https://github.com/viddexa/safetext.git
cd safetext
./scripts/setup.sh  # or scripts\setup.bat on Windows

# Run tests
./scripts/run_tests.sh

What's Changed for Development

• Use uv sync --extra dev instead of pip install -r requirements.txt
• Use ruff for linting/formatting instead of multiple tools
• Run pytest -n auto for parallel test execution
• Check out our enhanced CONTRIBUTING.md for details

📊 Release Statistics

• 24 files changed - 1,097 additions, 330 deletions
• 29 commits - Comprehensive modernization effort
• 13 languages supported - No changes to language support

🙏 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to @fcakyon for leading this modernization effort!

📝 Full Changelog

Infrastructure & Tooling

• Migrate from setup.py to pyproject.toml (Modernize project infrastructure with pyproject.toml, uv, and comprehensive CI/CD #56)
• Introduce uv for faster package management
• Replace pre-commit hooks with ruff
• Add cross-platform setup and test scripts

Testing & CI/CD

• Add comprehensive test suite with pytest-xdist
• Implement GitHub Actions CI for Python 3.10-3.13
• Add daily package testing across platforms
• Automate PyPI publishing workflow

Documentation

• Enhance CONTRIBUTING.md with detailed setup instructions
• Add test suite documentation
• Update all repository references
• Fix broken links and outdated information

Bug Fixes

• Fix lingua 2.1.1 compatibility with Language.all()
• Improve exception handling
• Update repository URLs

⬆️ Upgrading

This release maintains full backward compatibility. To upgrade:

pip install safetext==0.2.0

For development setup with the new tooling, see our Contributing Guide.

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Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.2.0