v4.2.0

WARNING: a new dependency was introduced packaging, as no better alternative was found to replace pkg_resources.parse_version after the release of Python 3.12 (see first point in section "Bug Fixes").

Bug Fixes

• added support python 3.12. Thanks to @markm-io (see PR #75)
• Removed this warning from sqlalchemy (see PR #81):

 MovedIn20Warning: The ``declarative_base()`` function is now available as sqlalchemy.orm.declarative_base(). (deprecated since: 2.0) (Background on SQLAlchemy 2.0 at: https://sqlalche.me/e/b8d9)

Documentation

• added minimal example in wiki. Thanks to @triberichard (see issue #74)

Development

• migrated from circleci to GitHub actions (see PR #78)
• added testing via CI for Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 (see PR #78 and #80)