0.29.0

In a nutshell

This is merely a maintenance release, with some improvements to both the Pushover and the SMTP service plugins, as well as some documentation improvements addressing people on Windows 10 using PowerShell.

Official changelog

• Improve error handling: Remove the exception_traceback() helper function again, and use logger.exception() instead.
• Improve error messages: Remove all ellipsis
• SMTP service plugin: Add software tests
• SMTP service plugin: Fix evaluation of htmlmsg parameter
• SMTP service plugin: Add support for minimal configuration w/o TLS and AUTH. Thanks, @symonjim.
• Update dependencies: Use Jinja2 3.x; Remove configparser, it is built into Python 3
• Add support for Python 3.11
• Pushover service plugin: Enable passing of parameters html, url, url_title. Thanks, @jlrgraham.
• Add test for exercising configuration file scaffolding
• Improve README regarding configuration file scaffolding on Windows 10/PowerShell. Thanks, @symonjim.
• Improve support for VSCode. Thanks, @psyciknz.
• Improve mqttwarn command line entry point testing

What's Changed

• Chore: Maintenance updates. Modernize sandbox tooling, CI recipe, and list of dependencies by @amotl in #568
• Chore: Improve exception handling by @amotl in #572
• Improve SMTP service plugin by @amotl in #574
• Chore: Various minor modernizations by @amotl in #575
• Enable passing of more Pushover API parameters. by @jlrgraham in #570
• Add test for exercising configuration file scaffolding by @amotl in #576
• Improve support for VSCode by @amotl in #539

New Contributors

• @jlrgraham made their first contribution in #570

Full Changelog: 0.28.1...0.29.0