Release v0.5.0

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Added

• Added support for Python 3.14 (Add support for Python 3.14 #1282)
• Added support for Unicode escape sequences in string literals (Reader support for \uXXXX escape codes #1295)
• Added environment variable configurations for the PyTest testrunner to allow more specific test discovery (Support more specific test discovery parameters for the testrunner #1301)
• Added no-op Clojure compatibility functions: inc', dec', int-array, long-array, short-array, float-array, double-array, bool-array (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)

Changed

• try and catch special form bodies may now be empty and will return nil when no expressions are given (try/catch forms should allow empty bodies #1294)
• basilisp.str/blank? now matches the behavior of Clojure, which returns true for nil, empty strings, and strings consisting of all whitespace (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• String representations of infinity and NaN values now matches Clojure (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• Promises can now be called to deliver the result (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• Calling keyword on nil now returns nil (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• cons always returns an ISeq now, not specifically a PersistentList (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• seqable? now returns true for nil (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• Calling a vector with an invalid index will now raise IndexError (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• keys and vals now return nil rather than an empty seq if the input collection is empty (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• get-in always returns the input mapping if no keys are given (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• assoc! allows an odd number of arguments, substituting nil for the missing value (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• nthrest and nthnext return the input collection unchanged if the index given is negative (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• even? and odd? predicates throw exceptions for non-integral inputs (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• min and max now return ##NaN if any input argument is ##NaN (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• Ratios which reduce to an integer are now returned from the reader as integers (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• mod, quot, and rem return values are now consistent with the Clojure return values for the same inputs (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• derive will throw exceptions if the provided hierarchy is invalid or if the tag and parent are invalid types (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• Map types now print out comma separators between key/value pairs (Separate hash map elements with comma in printer output #1275)

Fixed

• Fix a bug where import refers would incorrectly be applied to all import modules in the same form (Importing multiple modules with :refer causes AttributeError #1274)
• Suppress pytest assertion rewrite warning for basilisp when running basilisp test (basilisp test always emits a PytestAssertRewriteWarning message #1252)
• Fix a bug where + characters were not allowed after the e in scientific notation literal numbers (+ character not allowed in scientific notation literals #1292)
• Fix a bug where namespaces created dynamically at the REPL could not be required from other namespaces in the REPL (NameError when requiring a namespace after evaluating it inline in the REPL #1302)
• Fix a bug where NaN floats were not properly represented in compiled code (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• Fix a bug where calling dissoc on a record type would throw an exception for keys which weren't defined on the record (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• Fix a bug where arithmetic functions with operands of different types would throw exceptions (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)
• Fix a bug where number? and integer? would return true for Python bool types (Fixes in support of clojure-test-suite #1305)

Removed

• Removed support for Python 3.9 (Drop support for Python 3.9 #1283)

Other

• Improve the state of the Python type hints in basilisp.lang.multifn (Improve the Python type hints for basilisp.lang.multifn #800)

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

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