v0.7.0

• Major changes:

  • Add realtime UDP protocol including unit tests
  • Add several missing rest calls in ControlInterface
  • Unit test all methods in ControlInterface

• Other bugfixes and improvements:

  • Provide a short guide how to install packages from PyPI
  • Provide python_requires in setup.py
  • Add project URLs to metadata
  • Corrected import of security, and removed some old comments
  • Make encrypt_wifi_password work also with python3
  • More flexible parameters to set_mqtt_config
  • Enable options in set_network_mode_ap and _station
  • Enable relative values in set_brightness
  • Make firmware_update compatible with Generation II
  • Fix error in python setup.py install (fix #82)
  • Use generic Exception in discover module
  • On Python 2.7 ignore VCR deprecation warning
  • On Python 2.7 ignore cryptography deprecation warning
  • Fix dependencies for python 2.7
  • Don't debug log reapped devices
  • Time format as hardcoded value instead of locale specific
  • Raise an exception with a error message firmware update failed
  • Get MAC address from gestalt API call
  • Always UTF-8 decode response from JOINED event in discovery
  • Log instead of print in discovery interface and return on unknown event
  • If hw_address wasn't possible to resolve don't use None as a peer
  • Configure all loggers used by CLI with cli_log.basic_config()
  • Make response assertions less strict
  • Reformat setup py so tox tests pass

• Documentation updates:

  • Update example in README to use reflect change in API
  • Add Gitter badge
  • Update of xled and xled-docs should be done hand in hand
  • Remove Enhancement section from Contributing as there is no such thing
  • Write down support for OS, devices, python and guide to CLI
  • Rewrite README file
  • Fix documentation for set_led_movie_config

• Changes in CI/CD:

  • Run linters as GitHub action
  • Use generic python3 in black pre-commit config
  • Configure pytest to collect tests only from tests/
  • Use GitHub action for PyPI publish
  • Update URL for CI from Travis to GitHub actions
  • One more place to update supported python versions
  • Make Travis environment python again
  • Remove non-deploy section from travis.yml
  • Fix typo in travis.yml dep install
  • Ignore Flake8 error on Sphinx configuration file
  • Run pytest directly from Tox
  • Add bug report template for GitHub issues and reference it
  • Switch to token authentication for deployment to pypi through Travis

• Changes in dependencies and python versions:

  • Add 3.10 to supported Python versions
  • Update coverage from 4.4.2 to 5.5
  • Update pip from 20.2.3 to 21.1
  • Update travis.yaml: remove python 3.5 and add 3.8 and 3.9
  • Add 3.9 to supported Python versions
  • Drop Python 3.5 support
  • Drop compatibility code for Python version 3.4
  • Add Python 3.8 as a supported language
  • Update pip from 19.0.3 to 20.2.3
  • Update sphinx from 1.6.5 to 3.0.4