Version 1.3.0 release

[rdoursenaud]

"10 years anniversary edition"

Did you know it's been 10 years since version 1.0 has been released?

Let's celebrate with a new release!

-- Raphaël Doursenaud @rdoursenaud

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the contributors to this release:

• Aarni Koskela @akx
• Andrii Oriekhov @andriyor
• Drew Edwards @almostimplemented
• @Frnot
• @gulaki
• @kyleclaassen
• Maciej Sokołowski @matemaciek
• Morgan Kenyon @morgakenyon
• M. Vondano @m-vo
• @nomadbyte
• Ole Martin Bjørndalen @olemb
• Radovan Bast @bast
• Raphaël Doursenaud @rdoursenaud
• Sebastian Böck @superbock
• Simon Waloschek @sonovice
• Yinan Lang @langyinan

A few stats: 16 contributors, 149 files changed, 107 commits.

Changes

Important

• Removed support for Python 2.7. * Mido now requires Python 3.7 or
  higher. (Ole Martin Bjørndalen, pull request Removed 2.7 support. Now requires 3.7 or higher. #408, with additional cleanup
  from @rdoursenaud)

Bugfixes

• Backends: The rtmidi and python-rtmidi 1.2.10 sometimes
  returned duplicate port names. (Bug introduced in 1.2.10. Fix by Maciej
  Sokołowski, pull request Fix for duplicated devices in mido output #321)

• Backends/rtmidi: Prevent virtual port name mangling (@rdoursenaud,
  thanks to @digitalsignalperson for reporting)

• Backends/rtmidi: Remove callback before closing the port to avoid a
  race condition (@rdoursenaud)

• Backends/Portmidi (@akx, pull request Don't use star imports in portmidi_init #483)

• Backends/Socket: Disable buffering (@m-vo, pull request Set socket file buffering to 0 #342)

• Backends/Socket: In Python 3, PortServer used to crashe when a socket
  client disconnects. (issue PortServer crashes on client disconnect in Python 3 #290) (@kyleclaassen, pull request Fix PortServer disconnect crash in Python 3 #291)

• MidiFile: Properly decode/encode SMPTE hours in the SMPTE offset Meta
  (Thanks to @laori93 for reporting and @heilei for investigating. Issue smpte_offset frame rate at 25fps  #156)

• MidiFile: BPM <-> MIDI tempo conversions (@superbock, pull request Fix BPM <-> MIDI tempo conversions #114)

Features & Enhancements

• MidiFile: Move merging track out of __iter__() to prevent hanging on
  first call (@Frnot, pull request move complex function out of __iter__() first loop #470)

• MidiFile: play() can now use an optional custom clock source
  (@almostimplemented, pull request Synchronizing MIDI to clock #153)

• MidiFile: Make UnknownMetaMessage robust to faulty MIDI files (@sonovice,
  pull request Make UnknownMetaMessage robust to faulty MIDIs #286)

• MidiFile: Added from_bytes() to MetaMessage (@gulaki, pull request
  Added from_bytes() method to MetaMessage class #149)

Project

• Installation: support the "extras" syntax to install optional dependencies
  (@rdoursenaud)

• Documentation: updated, overhauled and proofread (@rdoursenaud, nomadbyte,
  @superbock)

• The project is now REUSE compliant. See https://reuse.software/ for details
  (@rdoursenaud)

• Packaging is now PEP-518 compliant (@rdoursenaud)

• New project co-maintainers: @bast & @rdoursenaud

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