v0.0.35 - Update `ruff>=0.8.4` (#343)

🌟 Summary

The v0.0.35 release updates dependencies, optimizes workflows, and improves functionality, security, and compatibility, ensuring a smoother experience for developers and users. 🚀

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📊 Key Changes

• Dependency Updates:

  • Upgraded ruff to >=0.8.4 (previously >=0.1.6) for enhanced linting and code quality checks. 📦
  • Updated requests library to >=2.32.3 for security fixes and improved stability. 🛡️
  • Bumped GitHub Action astral-sh/setup-uv to v5 for better pipeline efficiency and caching defaults. 🔄

• Workflow Enhancements:

  • Updated GitHub workflows (format.yml and publish.yml) to ensure token fallback reliability and utilize the latest action versions. ⚙️
  • Optimized formatting and package installation processes for macOS compatibility and minimized redundant installations. 🍎

• Code Improvements:

  • Broader URL validation support by adding domains like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google Cloud Storage to the allowlist. 🌐
  • Modernized link checking with requests.head for better performance and simplified code. 🛠️
  • Multi-threaded link validation for faster processing. ⚡

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🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Improved Development Efficiency: Keeping dependencies up to date ensures access to the latest features, security enhancements, and compatibility fixes. 🏗️
• Enhanced Reliability: Workflow improvements and better URL validation reduce potential errors and improve robustness in CI/CD pipelines. ✅
• Faster Processing: Multi-threaded URL checking ensures performance remains optimal for large datasets or projects with numerous links. 🚀
• Simplified Maintenance: Streamlining workflows, removing unused dependencies, and modernizing tools make the codebase leaner and easier to manage. 🧹

This release delivers critical quality-of-life updates to developers and reinforces the infrastructure to prevent potential issues while improving speed and adaptability. 📈

What's Changed

• Update format.yml by @glenn-jocher in #338
• Update is_url link checking by @glenn-jocher in #341
• Update check_links_in_string by @glenn-jocher in #342
• Update requests>=2.32.3 by @glenn-jocher in #344
• Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #339
• Update format.yml by @glenn-jocher in #345
• Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 4 to 5 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot[bot] in #340
• Update ruff>=0.8.4 by @glenn-jocher in #343

Full Changelog: v0.0.34...v0.0.35