v0.5.0

Python support

• Support PyPy 3.11.

Added

• Add initial support for bundling and loading Python bytecode (.pyc files).

  Performance testing on Linux shows that loading from sqlite is now twice as fast.

  The implementation is currently inflexible:
  it binds the sqlite database to the Python version used to bundle it.

Documentation

• Add the changelog and a colophon to the documentation.
• Configure ReadtheDocs to use the dirhtml builder.
• Update the links shown on PyPI.

Development

• Fix test project regeneration, which broke when Poetry 2 was released.

  • Migrate from Poetry to build to build the test project wheels.
  • Pin the regeneration tool dependencies.
  • Update the test projects' pyproject.toml files to use PEP 621 metadata keys.

• Add a script to log performance comparisons across multiple importers,
  including source and bytecode files when imported from the filesystem,
  from sqlite, and from zip files with varying compression levels.