prepare release 2.0.0a

Author: tpaviot

NOTES

@@ -1,5 +1,30 @@
 RELEASE NOTES
 
+Version 2.0.0a
+==============
+This release introduces major API changes.
+
+Bump z3-solver to release 4.12.5.0
+
+Refactoring:
+  - port codebase to pydantic V2
+
+  - export solution to pandas dataframe
+
+  - define LinearFunction, PolynomialFunction etc. for costs
+
+  - JSON importer/exporter improvements thanks to pydantic
+
+  - use pytest for unittest suite
+
+  - poetry support
+
+  - refactor Indicator and Objective
+
+  - documentation use mkdocs material
+
+  - more tests
+
 Version 0.9.4
 =============
 Bump z3-solver to release 4.12.4.0

README.md

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ ProcessScheduler is a Python package for creating optimized scheduling based on
 
 ## Updates
 
+-   2024/01/30: Release 2.0.0a
 -   2023/12/13: Huge on-going refactoring [#133](https://github.com/tpaviot/ProcessScheduler/issues/133)
 -   2023/12/12: Release 0.9.4
 

setup.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="ProcessScheduler",
-    version="2.0.0.dev",
+    version="2.0.0.a",
     description=DESCRIPTION,
     long_description=open("README.md").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",