Release 1.1.0

What's Changed

• Add support for Python 3.14, PyPy 3.11 (#225) by @lemenkov and @hendrikmakait
• Drop support for Python 3.8, PyPy 3.8 (#225) by @eriknw
• Add experimental (untested!) support for free-threading, including building wheels (#225, #228) by @eriknw
• Update to match toolz 1.1.0 (#225) by @eriknw
• Faster concat (#218) by @BobTheBuidler
• Improve performance by avoiding global lookups (#219) by @BobTheBuidler
• Modernization (#225, #226, #227) by @eriknw
  • Now PEP 517-compliant; use pyproject.toml and setuptools.build_meta build backend
  • Use setuptools-git-versioning instead of versioneer.py for versioning
  • Use Trusted Publishing between Github and PyPI to publish releases to PyPI
  • Generate artifact attestation for sdist and wheel
  • Build wheels for more platforms (172 wheels built for this release!)
  • Add git pre-commit checks (but this isn't documented for contributors)
    • These also get run in CI
    • Including validate-pyproject, pyupgrade, actionlint, yamllint, zizmor

New Contributors 🚀

• @BobTheBuidler made their first contribution in #218 (and second in #219)
• @lemenkov made their first contribution in #225
• @hendrikmakait made their first contribution in #225