Px v0.10.0

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I'm happy to announce that Px v0.10.0 has been released.

The main goal was to spin off the libcurl backend as an alternative to pycurl. This was an idea from when v0.8.0 was released. Unlike the ctypes based libcurl backend introduced in v0.7.0, pymcurl uses cffi and supports many more environments. It is built with cibuildwheel and tested with pytest. It also bundles all the required binaries so Px can run with the latest libcurl.

v0.10.0 adds support for the following thanks to this new backend and availability of test hardware:

• Mac arm64 (Apple silicon) px 0.9.0 responds with "URL malformed" on macOS #207
• Linux aarch64 for glibc and musl though --hostonly and --quit are not supported.

A few issues were also fixed as part of the release:

• composer patches provoke error in mcurl.py: curl.xheaders is None but no check before loop #214
• sCHANNEL Native SSL for Px-Windows #219
• PAC download with custom CA #224
• NTLM auth locking service user #234

In the process, several internal improvements have been made:

• Move from legacy setup.py to pyproject.toml
• Test framework migrated to pytest and tox
• Consistent build and test process across all configurations
• Leverage uv to speed up builds and testing

The binaries support the following versions:

• Python versions from v3.8 - v3.13
• Linux from manylinux2014 and musllinux_1_2
• Mac 15.0 for arm64 and 12.0 for x86_64

There are still many open issues that will be addressed in upcoming releases. Thanks for all the bug reports and support.