The module has been reworked for the `hutch-python` project. The code is much cleaner, and we expect it to perform better. Many features have been removed. There is not a chance that this is directly compatible with older versions. There are definitely bugs. More cleaning can be done. Treat this as an api-breaking pre-1.0.0 release.
We are not committing to a 1.0.0 release in case the scientists dislike it and we have to make major API changes.