Brokkr 0.4.0

Stable release supporting Python 3.6-3.10.

Summary of changes since 0.3.x

This is an overview of what's new in Brokkr 0.4.0 relative to 0.3.x stable.
See the individual alpha release entries for full details.
The remaining sections discuss the changes since the last alpha.

• Add input and output queues to tie together multiple pipelines
• Add support for TCP and arbitrary network packets as inputs
• Add arbitrary binary decode on input and writing on output
• Add external drive discovery, mounting and selection
• Add install-scripts command to install symlinks to system scripts
• Add netcat command to interactively send and receive network data

Core features

• Add support for many new service installation options & per-mode services
• Detect when not invoked from Brokkr's own CLI and ignore CLI args in config

Bug fixes

• Fix FileOutputStep bug when processing unhashable DataValue types
• Fix multiple bugs and issues with service installation

Infrastructure

• Migrate from toml to tomli for better perf, maintenance & TOML 1.0.0 support
• Modernize packaging infrastructure for PEP 517 w/pyproject.toml & setup.cfg
• Officially document support for Python 3.10 (now supports 3.6-3.10)
• Add detailed Contributing Guide and greatly expand Readme

Under the hood

• Add hook to run custom callback on multiprocess worker start
• Add extra debug logging during filepath rendering
• Fix/suppress new Pylint messages & add a suite of extension checkers
• Update Release Guide to use more modern and robust procedure
• Further related refactoring