Prepare obstore 0.5; bump to 0.5.0-rc.1 (#370)

* Prepare obstore 0.5

* bump to 0.5.0-rc.1

Author: kylebarron

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
-## [0.5.0] - 2025-03-10
+## [0.5.0] - 2025-03-17
 
 ### New Features :magic_wand:
 
+- **Class methods wrapper**. Instead of calling `obstore.get(store)`, you can now call `store.get()` directly. by @kylebarron in https://github.com/developmentseed/obstore/pull/331
 - **User-supplied credential callback** by @kylebarron in https://github.com/developmentseed/obstore/pull/234
+  - Add Azure credential providers by @daviewales in https://github.com/developmentseed/obstore/pull/343
 - **Fsspec updates**:
   - [FEAT] Create obstore store in fsspec on demand by @machichima in https://github.com/developmentseed/obstore/pull/198
   - [FEAT] support df.to_parquet and df.read_parquet() by @machichima in https://github.com/developmentseed/obstore/pull/165

Cargo.lock

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 ---
 draft: false
-date: 2025-03-10
+date: 2025-03-17
 categories:
   - Release
 authors:
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 Refer to the [changelog](../../CHANGELOG.md) for all updates.
 
+## Class method wrappers
+
+Until now, obstore provided only a _functional_ API with top-level functions exported from the `obstore` module. Now, obstore additionally provides these functions as methods on each store class.
+
+**Previously**:
+
+```py
+import obstore as obs
+from obstore.store import AzureStore
+
+store = AzureStore()
+obs.put(store, ...)
+```
+
+**Now**:
+
+```py
+from obstore.store import AzureStore
+
+store = AzureStore()
+store.put(...) # (1)!
+```
+
+1.  Note that this calls the class method `store.put` instead of the module-level function `obstore.put`.
+
+This also can ease understanding of the API, since you can explore available methods from the store object directly.
+
+![](../../assets/class-methods-vscode-suggestions.jpg)
+
 ## Credential providers
 
 Authentication tends to be among the trickiest but most important elements of connecting to object storage. There are many ways to handle credentials, and trying to support every one natively in Obstore demands a high maintenance burden.

docs/assets/class-methods-vscode-suggestions.jpg

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 [package]
 name = "obstore"
-version = "0.5.0-beta.1"
+version = "0.5.0-rc.1"
 authors = { workspace = true }
 edition = { workspace = true }
 description = "The simplest, highest-throughput interface to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and S3-compliant APIs like Cloudflare R2."