Update to version 7

Author: peterpolidoro

.github/workflows/ci.yml

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+name: CI
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: Tests (${{ matrix.python-version }})
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Install project and dev dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: python -m pytest -q
+
+  package:
+    name: Build distribution
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: test
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.13"
+
+      - name: Build and validate distribution metadata
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install build twine
+          python -m build
+          python -m twine check dist/*
+
+      - name: Store the distribution packages
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+        with:
+          name: python-package-distributions
+          path: dist/

.github/workflows/publish.yml

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+name: Publish
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "v*"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: Build distribution
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.13"
+
+      - name: Install project and build tools
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: python -m pytest -q
+
+      - name: Build a binary wheel and a source tarball
+        run: python -m build
+
+      - name: Store the distribution packages
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+        with:
+          name: python-package-distributions
+          path: dist/
+
+  publish-to-pypi:
+    name: Publish Python distribution to PyPI
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    needs:
+      - build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment:
+      name: pypi
+      url: https://pypi.org/p/arena-interface
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Download all the dists
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: python-package-distributions
+          path: dist/
+
+      - name: Publish distribution to PyPI
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1

.gitignore

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 # Bench outputs
 bench_results*.jsonl
 bench_matrix*.jsonl
+.DS_Store

CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+## 7.0.0 - 2026-03-13
+
+- moved package versioning to a single source of truth in
+  `src/arena_interface/__about__.py`
+- modernized `pyproject.toml` for current PyPI metadata practices, including
+  SPDX licensing metadata and explicit typed-package data
+- added an explicit `MANIFEST.in` so sdists include repository assets that are
+  useful to downstream builders and maintainers
+- made the top-level package import resilient when `pyserial` is unavailable,
+  while still requiring it for serial transport usage
+- added CI and PyPI Trusted Publishing GitHub Actions workflows
+- documented a reproducible release process for PyPI and conda-forge

MANIFEST.in

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+include AUTHORS
+include CHANGELOG.md
+include LICENSE
+include README.md
+include RELEASING.md
+include codemeta.json
+recursive-include patterns *.pat
+recursive-include scripts *.py
+recursive-include tests *.py
+recursive-include tools *.py
+global-exclude __pycache__ *.py[cod] .DS_Store