Plans for Archipelago 0.6.0

[black-sliver]

What task needs to be completed?

• Drop py3.8 support
• Add py3.13 support
• Update docs for supported py versions
• Drop versions from CommonClient
• Remove persistent_load() "datapackage" (and delete when saving?)
• Remove back compat of
  • ... list which ones ...
• Hard deprecate back compat of
  • ... list which ones ...

Post what you want to add to core (and deprecate) below.

[Berserker66]

Some of the progress is in #3973

[black-sliver]

I think I'd like to try

• bundling and versioning the CSS files:
  • use source files for DEBUG=True
  • use unique filenames for the bundles with DEBUG=False so we can enable proper cache control for them
• recompressing / optimizing the images:
  • check if sizes make sense, if not rescale
  • zopflipng them
  • convert them to webp and check if it makes sense to switch
  • preferably keep both png and webp in
  • actually use the webp images and the island atlas; see WebHost: improve image asset loading performance #4123 for stats on webp vs PNG
• update SoE (not a core feature though)

[nicholassaylor]

Everything in #914 should probably be taken care of

[black-sliver]

I added it to the milestone

[nicholassaylor]

#4170 Depends on not being on Py3.8 and will have to wait for post-0.5.x