Release 0.9.0

[tomwhite]

This is a small release to pin NumPy < 2 (#1228) and Zarr < 3 (#1230). It also deprecates VCF reading functions (#1232).

[jeromekelleher]

Could be 0.8.1, given it's a pretty minor release?

[tomwhite]

Could be 0.8.1, given it's a pretty minor release?

I was thinking that since it deprecates a bunch of functions it would be better not to be a bugfix release.

[tomwhite]

Release instructions (based on #817 (comment))

VERSION=0.9.0
git tag -a $VERSION -m "Release $VERSION"
git push origin --tags # 'origin' is upstream branch

Documentation instructions (based on #984 (comment))

• Update docs/_static/switcher.json to add the new release version.
• Update docs/changelog.rst to add any missing changes and a date for the new release.
• Build docs locally and check they look OK.
• Commit to main branch.

# based on docs.yml
(cd docs; make clean html SPHINXOPTS="-W --keep-going -n")
git clone https://github.com/sgkit-dev/sgkit.git --branch gh-pages --single-branch gh-pages
mkdir gh-pages/$VERSION
cp -r docs/_build/html/* gh-pages/$VERSION
cd gh-pages
git add $VERSION
git commit -am "Add documentation for $VERSION"
git push origin gh-pages
# check https://sgkit-dev.github.io/sgkit/$VERSION/
cd ..
rm -rf gh-pages

• Update docs/changelog.rst to add a new section for the next version.
• Commit and push to main

Final steps

Publish the draft release on the releases page. Publishing this release will cause the github action to deploy to the production PyPI. After release, close the GitHub issue milestone of the release.

[tomwhite]

Closing now that packages are on PyPI and conda.