Litestar v3 roadmap

[provinzkraut]

Summary

Litestar v3 is coming soon*! 🚀

We’re thrilled to announce that Litestar v3 is on the horizon, bringing a host of exciting new features, improvements, and some breaking changes to make your development experience even better. Here’s what you can expect

Things to do for v3

• Remove StaticFileConfig
• Drop support for implicit Optional Default Parameters
• Replace OpenAPI Controller with Plugins
  • Elimination of OpenAPIController Subclassing
  • Changes to Endpoint Configuration
  • Modification to root_schema_site Handling
• Remove deprecated app parameter for Response.to_asgi_response
• Remove deprecated scope state utilities
• Remove deprecated utility function is_sync_or_async_generator
• Remove of semantic HTTP route handler classes in favour of functional style decorators
• Remove of deprecated litestar.middleware.exceptions module and ExceptionHandlerMiddleware
• Overhaul route handler configuration (feat!: static handler configuration #3900)
• Remove litestar.contrib namespace
• Improve "file system" abstractions
• Remove all deprecated items scheduled for removal in 3.0
• Remove pagination
• Don't use `future.annotations, only use stringized annotations where strictly necessary / clean up signature namsepaces
• Deprecate plugin protocols in favour of abstract base classes
• Remove deprecated plugin protocols
• Use native event loop in AsyncTestClient
• Drop Python 3.8 support (feat(core)!: drop Python 3.8 support #4010)
• Add CLI shell command
• Improve and simplify logging interface (Better Logging Interface (Also simplified) #2858)
• Update sentry integration
• Add migration guide :)

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We will update this issue with information about the release, how to prepare, upcoming pre-releases etc.

If you've got any questions, remarks or additions, this is the place to leave them :)