v2.4.1: PyPI compatibility hot-fix

Compatibility Notes

This will be the last release compatible with Python 3.8, which has already reached end-of-life state since 2024.

Enhancements

• Add all public API parts to all by @friederschueler in #462
• Export PdoMap and PdoVariable classes in pdo module by @acolomb in #464
• Raise ValueError for unknown formats in the import/export OD APIs by @erlend-aasland in #476
• Expose and improve the docstrings of export_od and import_id by @erlend-aasland in #473
• Bail early if an unsupported doctype is passed to export_od() by @erlend-aasland in #486
• Improve the RemoteNode.load_configuration() docs by @erlend-aasland in #477
• Add support for loading DCF configuration to remote node by @meifonglow in #427
• CI: Build docs in CI by @erlend-aasland in #498
• Make Network.notifier timeouts customizable (fixes #530) by @acolomb in #536
• Skip the "highest subindex" entry when iterating over SdoRecord by @acolomb in #538
• Add a dummy object to designate "uninitialized" networks (fixes #511) by @acolomb in #525
• Add mypy CI and config (ref #358) by @erlend-aasland in #518
• Type annotate everywhere Network is used by @sveinse in #575
• Add some type annotations for the nmt module by @acolomb in #586
• Gracefully handle readonly entries in PdoMap.save() (fixes #541) by @acolomb in #593

Bug Fixes

• build: Explicitly specify packages to install (fixes #467) by @sveinse in #468
• Ensure proper close after open in export_od by @sveinse in #469
• Adapt to renamed "bustype" parameter on can.Bus by @acolomb in #489
• Save the passed node ID to the resulting OD in import_od() by @erlend-aasland in #484
• Gracefully handle missing Baudrate setting in DCF by @acolomb in #492
• Add back PdoBase.export() dependency (canmatrix) by @erlend-aasland in #493
• Ensure NmtBase.state always returns a string by @erlend-aasland in #506
• Fix some type checker errors in network module by @acolomb in #534
• Fix SDO writes of empty strings by @willson556 in #551
• Fix multiple associations and removals of networks by @sveinse in #573
• Correctly apply offset to custom timestamp value (fixes #563) by @sveinse in #576
• Fix check for retransmission of discarded block segments by @samsamfire in #546
• Avoid truncating unknown types in SDO upload (fixes #436) by @acolomb in #591
• Fix OD item lookup evaluating object's length (fixes #588) by @sveinse in #589
• Abort SDO server upload when the object has zero length by @acolomb in #587
• Prevent warnings if SDO setup fails by @sveinse in #590
• sdo.client: Add missing abort messages by @acolomb in #594
• eds: Avoid float formatting in BaudRate_xxx export keys by @acolomb in #606
• build: Fix package auto-discovery (ref #468) by @acolomb in #608

Code Cleaning and Modernization

• doc: Clean up and modernize sphinx configuration (fixes #463) by @acolomb in #465
• Increase export_eds() test coverage by @erlend-aasland in #474
• Remove temporary files created in EDS tests by @erlend-aasland in #482
• Add tests for bitrate parsing in import_eds() by @erlend-aasland in #495
• README: Add formatting and amend doc build instructions by @erlend-aasland in #494
• Git: correctly ignore docs build directory by @erlend-aasland in #499
• Tests: establish test/util.py and test/test_nmt.py by @erlend-aasland in #503
• Add tests for NMT base and NMT master by @erlend-aasland in #504
• Tests: harden TestNetwork by @erlend-aasland in #505
• Tests: make sure temporary files are pre-closed by @erlend-aasland in #507
• Purge import hack from network.py by @erlend-aasland in #510
• Tests: improve coverage of Network by @erlend-aasland in #515
• Tests: harden TestNetwork and TestNmt even more by @erlend-aasland in #508
• Tests: improve coverage of NodeScanner by @erlend-aasland in #517
• Make node scanner tests more deterministic by @erlend-aasland in #526
• Remove unused NodeScanner.active member by @erlend-aasland in #527
• Tests: improve EMCY coverage by @erlend-aasland in #529
• Docs: remove unused Sphinx config 'html_static_path' by @erlend-aasland in #521
• Tests: improve SYNC coverage by @erlend-aasland in #531
• Tests: harden test_emcy_consumer_wait by @erlend-aasland in #532
• CI: Add requirements-dev.txt and add pip cache by @erlend-aasland in #533
• Tests: speed up test suite by @erlend-aasland in #537
• Tests: Verify some basic SDO record and array assumptions by @acolomb in #539
• Updated debian packaging for reprepro by @tonybaltovski in #557
• sdo: Define constants for all standardized abort codes by @acolomb in #596

New Contributors

• @erlend-aasland made their first contribution in #476
• @willson556 made their first contribution in #551
• @tonybaltovski made their first contribution in #557

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.1