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10.1

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* Upgrade framework bindings for the macOS 14.2 SDK

* :issue:`579`: Make sure the ``install.py`` and ``develop.py`` scripts in the
repository work when run out of tree.

* :issue:`577`: ``os.fspath(someURL)`` will not work with Cocoa URLs (NSURL, CFURLRef) that
refer to local filesystem paths. ``TypeError`` will be raised for other URLs.

This enables using regular Python filesystem APIs with URLs that refer to
local filesystem paths.

* :issue:`572`: Fix compilation issue when building on macOS 13 or earlier

* Fix build error on ancient macOS versions where clang doesn't support
``-flto=thin``.

* Add a workaround for a crash in pyobjc-core when running the testsuite
on macOS 10.14.

* Fix some issues found while running the testsuite on macOS 10.9 to
macOS 13, instead of only testing on the latest macOS version. Most
issues found where problems in the testsuite itself, but not all.

Some of the changes skip tests on older macOS versions (10.12, 10.13
and 10.14) due to running into what appears to be crashing
platform bugs.

* :issue:`581`: Fix dependencies between framework binding packages

* Fix build error with the current Python 3.13 alpha release (3.13a2).

10.0

------------

* Update bindings for macOS 14

Symbols newly introduced in macOS 14 were added to the existing bindings,
and the following new bindings were introduced:

* Cinematic

* MediaExtension

* SensitiveContentAnalysis

* Symbols

* The "IMServicePlugIn" bindings are no longer available

The entire framework was deprecated in macOS 10.13 and removed in macOS 14.
The bindings can not be build using the latest SDK, and had (at best) limited
use.

* :issue:`542`: PyObjC 10 requires Python 3.8 and no longer supports Python 3.7

* :issue:`547`: Removed all ``MAC_OS_X_VERSION*`` constants from ``objc``.

These constants are needed in practice (switch to :func:`objc.available` to
check for platform availability), and caused unnecessary code churn.

* The value for ``objc.options.deprecation_warnings`` is now a string
instead of an integer.

* :issue:`555`: Fix unintended incompatibility with pytest in PyObjCTools.TestSupport

* :issue:`295`: The lazy loading machinery by default no longer uses
:class:`objc.ObjCLazyModule`, but uses module level ``__dir__`` and
``__getattr__`` instead. The class :class:`objc.ObjCLazyModule` is still
available, but is deprecated

As a side effect of this ``objc`` is no longer an attribute of framework
binding packages (e.g ``Foundation.objc`` is no longer a valid attribute).

Another side effect of this is that all attributes added by the import system
are now correctly present in the packages for framework bindings.

And a final side effect is that private symbols (prefixed with underscore) are
no longer imported from dependencies of framework bindings (more closely matching
the ``from dependency import *`` behaviour that the lazy importer emulates.

* Add attribute ``__framework_identifier__`` to all framework bindings with the
identifier of the corresponding system framework.

* :issue:`295`: Introduce :func:`objc.createFrameworkDirAndGetattr` to
create module level ``__dir__`` and ``__getattr__`` for use by
framework bindings.

* :issue:`561`: Tests now validate the bundle identifier value used in framework bindings.

This resulted in a number of changes to framework bindings with incorrect
bundle identifier values. This shouldn't affect user code because the
bundle loader falls back on the framework path when the identifier cannot be found.

* :issue:`559`: Avoid test failures in pyobjc-core when pyobjc-framework-Quartz is
not installed.

* A number of classes can no longer be subclasses in Python because they are marked as non-subclassable
in the macOS 14 SDK (either directly or as "subclassing is deprecated":

``CKAllowedSharingOptions``,
``CKAsset``,
``CKContainer``,
``CKDatabase``,
``CKDatabaseNotification``,
``CKDatabaseSubscription``,
``CKFetchRecordZoneChangesConfiguration``,
``CKNotification``,
``CKNotificationID``,
``CKNotificationInfo``,
``CKOperationConfiguration``,
``CKOperationGroup``,
``CKQuery``,
``CKQueryCursor``,
``CKQueryNotification``,
``CKQuerySubscription``,
``CKRecord``,
``CKRecordID``,
``CKRecordZone``,
``CKRecordZoneID``,
``CKRecordZoneNotification``,
``CKRecordZoneSubscription``,
``CKReference``,
``CKServerChangeToken``,
``CKShare``,
``CKShareMetadata``,
``CKShareParticipant``,
``CKSubscription``,
``CKSyncEngine``,
``CKSyncEngineAccountChangeEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineConfiguration``,
``CKSyncEngineDidFetchChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineDidFetchRecordZoneChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineDidSendChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineFailedRecordSave``,
``CKSyncEngineFailedZoneSave``,
``CKSyncEngineFetchChangesOptions``,
``CKSyncEngineFetchedDatabaseChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineFetchedRecordDeletion``,
``CKSyncEngineFetchedRecordZoneChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineFetchedZoneDeletion``,
``CKSyncEnginePendingDatabaseChange``,
``CKSyncEnginePendingRecordZoneChange``,
``CKSyncEnginePendingZoneDelete``,
``CKSyncEnginePendingZoneSave``,
``CKSyncEngineRecordZoneChangeBatch``,
``CKSyncEngineSendChangesContext``,
``CKSyncEngineSendChangesOptions``,
``CKSyncEngineSentDatabaseChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineSentRecordZoneChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineState``,
``CKSyncEngineStateSerialization``,
``CKSyncEngineStateUpdateEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineWillFetchChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineWillFetchRecordZoneChangesEvent``,
``CKSyncEngineWillSendChangesEvent``,
``CKSystemSharingUIObserver``,
``CKUserIdentity``,
``CKUserIdentityLookupInfo``.

* The encoding of a number of basic types changes, in particular those
of CoreFoundation struct types and SIMD struct types. None of this
should affect user code.

* ``objc.getClassList`` now has an optional positional argument to
ignore classes with a name that aren't identifiers.

* Some of the functionality in CoreFoundation was rewritten in Swift
in macOS 14, with Swift subclasses of ``NSArray`` and ``NSDictionary``.
Those classes break an invariant of PyObjC: the superclass of the root
of the Swift class hierarchy changes when the class is instantiated
for the first time (from ``NSObject`` to the correct superclass).

PyObjC 10 contains a workaround for this by ignoring these classes
unless they are needed to create a proxy for an instance (FB12286520).

* Fix crash when the method signature retrieved from the Objective-C runtime
contains the class name for a method returning ``id``.

* Remove old 32-bit support in metadata override files.

* Restructure ``objc.simd``: The matrix types are now named ``simd_float3x3``
instead of ``matrix_float3x3``, with the older name as an alias (to match
older system headers).

* Fix crash when loading the libdispatch bindings on recent macOS versions
(at least macOS 13, possibly earlier)

* ``dispatch.dispatch_source_t`` is renamed to ``dispatch.dispatch_source_type_t``
to match the type name in C code.

* :issue:`569`: Xcode 15 has a bug when using weak symbols and targeting older macOS
versions. Switch to the old linker when detecting Xcode 15.

9.2.1

-------------

* :issue:`563`: Fix incompatibility with macOS 14 beta 1

9.2

-----------

* :issue:`549`: Added warning ``objc.ObjCSuperWarning`` that is used
to warn about classes that use argument-less super without binding that
name to ``objc.super``.

The correct code pattern is:


.. sourcecode:: python3

from Foundation import NSObject
from objc import super


class MyObject(NSObject):
def init(self):
self = super().init()
if self is None:
return None

...
return self


* :issue:`549`: Document that ``objc.super`` must be used instead of
``builtin.super`` when calling superclass methods in a Cocoa subclass.

See `the documentation <(https://pyobjc.readthedocs.io/core/super.html>`_
for more details.

* :issue:`550`: Add minimal ``pyproject.toml`` to all subprojects

Recent versions of pip give a deprecation warning for projects without
a ``pyproject.toml``, and version 23.1 enabled the ``pyproject.toml``
backend by default. Add a minimal ``pyproject.toml`` to get a consistent
build regardless of the version of pip

* :issue:`551`: Fix crash in pyobjc-core when using Python 3.12a7.

* :issue:`449`: Added explicit tests for dealing with Objective-C categories
that are loaded while using classes from Python.

* :issue:`552`: Fix the version of macOS where the SafariServices framework is
present.

* :issue:`552`: Fixed some issues found by testing on a macOS 10.11 system

* Trying to implement a method with SIMD types as arguments or return value
will now give a more useful error when the bridge does not support the
signature.

* :issue:`554`: Fix incomplete metadata for ``CoreMediaIO.CMIOObjectSetPropertyData``

* Fix incorrect metadata for
``xpc.xpc_uuid_create``,
``xpc.xpc_dictionary_set_uuid`` ,
``xpc.xpc_array_set_uuid``,
``JavaScriptCore.JSObjectMakeDeferredPromise``,
``JavaScriptCore.JSValueIsEqual``,
``JavaScriptCore.JSValueIsInstanceOfConstructor``,
``JavaScriptCore.JSValueCreateJSONString``,
``JavaScriptCore.JSValueToNumber``,
``JavaScriptCore.JSValueToStringCopy``,
``JavaScriptCore.JSValueToObject``,
``Quartz.CGImageCreateWithJPEGDataProvider``,
``Quartz.CGImageCreateWithPNGDataProvider``,
``Quartz.CGImageMaskCreate``,
``Quartz.CVBufferCopyAttachment``,
``Quartz.CVMetalTextureCacheCreate``,
``Quartz.CVMetalTextureCacheCreateFromImage``,
``Quartz.CVOpenGLTextureCacheCreate``,
``CoreMedia.CMAudioClockCreate``,
``CoreMedia.CMAudioFormatDescriptionCreate``,
``CoreMedia.CMBlockBufferGetDataPointer``,
``CoreMedia.CMBlockBufferAccessDataBytes``,
``CoreMedia.CMBlockBufferGetDataPointer``,
``CoreMedia.CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetMostCompatibleFormat``,
``CoreMedia.CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetRichestDecodableFormat``,
``CoreMedia.CMSampleBufferCreateWithMakeDataReadyHandler``,
``CoreMedia.CMSampleBufferCreateForImageBufferWithMakeDataReadyHandler``,
``CFNetwork.CFNetServiceBrowserSearchForDomains``,
``CFNetwork.CFNetServiceBrowserStopSearch``,
``CFNetwork.CFNetServiceMonitorStop``,
``CFNetwork.CFNetServiceRegister``,
``CFNetwork.CFNetServiceResolve``,
``CoreText.CTFontCreateCopyWithSymbolicTraits``,
``CoreText.CTFontCreateCopyWithFamily``,
``CoreText.CTFontCreateCopyWithAttributes``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDISourceCreateWithProtocol``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDISourceCreate``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDISetupCreate``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIDestinationCreate``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIClientCreate``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIClientCreateWithBlock``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIOutputPortCreate``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIObjectGetStringProperty``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIObjectGetProperties``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIObjectGetIntegerProperty``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIObjectGetDictionaryProperty``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIObjectGetDataProperty``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIObjectFindByUniqueID``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIDestinationCreateWithProtocol``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIEndpointGetEntity``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIEntityGetDevice``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIEntityGetRefCons``,
``CoreMIDI.MIDIEntitySetRefCons``,
``DVDPlayback.DVDRegisterEventCallBack``,
``DiskArbitration.DADiskMountWithArguments``,
``GameController.NSDataFromGCExtendedGamepadSnapShotDataV100``,
``HealthKit.HKAppleWalkingSteadinessClassificationForQuantity``,
``IOSurface.IOSurfaceSetPurgeable``,
``Network.nw_ethernet_channel_send``,

* Removed ``Quartz.CGColorConversionInfoCreateFromListWithArguments``. This function
was already documented as unsupported, but was still present in the framework
wrapper.

* Removed ``Quartz.CVPixelBufferCreateWithPlanarBytes``. This function requires a
manual binding, but was still present with a generic (and non-working) binding.

* Removed ``CoreMedia.CMBufferQueueCreate``, ``CoreMedia.CMBufferQueueGetCallbacksForSampleBuffersSortedByOutputPTS``,
``CoreMedia.CMBufferQueueGetCallbacksForUnsortedSampleBuffers``, ``CoreMedia.CMVideoFormatDescriptionGetH264ParameterSetAtIndex``,
``CoreMedia.CMVideoFormatDescriptionGetHVECParameterSetAtIndex``,
These functions require a manual binding, but were still present with a generic (and non-working) binding.

* Explicitly exclude definitions from ``CMIOHardwarePlugIn.h`` from the CoreMediaIO
bindings.

* Added ``deref_result_pointer`` key to the metadata for a return value. Use this
when a callable returns a pointer to a single value (for example ``CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetMostCompatibleFormat``)

* Removed unsupported functions from the ApplicationServices bindings (not named individually
due to the size of the list). Also fixed annotations for other ApplicationServices bindings.

* Add manual binding for ``CFNetwork.CFNetServiceBrowserCreate``, ``CFNetwork.CFNetServiceSetClient``,
and ``CFNetwork.CFNetServiceMonitorCreate``.

* Fix incompatibility with Python 3.12 beta 1.

.. warning::

Due to changes to the bytecode compiler the bridge will (incorrectly)
deduce that a method does not return a value (``void`` return in Objective-C)
when a method only contains ``return None`` statements and no return
statements that return some other value (expressions or constants).

That is the following method is implied to return ``id`` for Python 3.11 or
earlier, but is implied to return ``void`` in Python 3.12.

.. sourcecode:: python

def mymethod(self):
return None

9.1.1

-------------

* :issue:`548`: Fix unexpected error when using mix-in classes

9.1

------------

* Fix handling ``python_method(native_selector)`` when assigning to a class
attribute. That is, the following was broken in 9.1b1:

.. sourcecode:: python

import Foundation, objc

NSArray.makeArray = objc.python_method(NSArray.arrayWithArray_)

* :issue:`535`: Reverted ome of the speedups in ``assertCallableMetadataIsSane``

A new sanity check required reverting some of the speedups in
``assertCallableMetadataIsSane``.

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