v4.0.0

[rawilk]

This release is a pre-release! It is considered mostly stable, however breaking changes may possibly be introduced before a stable 4.x release is published, however I will do my best to prevent breaking changes as bugs are discovered and patched in this major version.

What's Changed

• Cups by @vatsake in Cups #92
• Bump aglipanci/laravel-pint-action from 2.4 to 2.5 by @dependabot in Bump aglipanci/laravel-pint-action from 2.4 to 2.5 #101
• [Release] 4.x by @rawilk in [Release] 4.x #99
• Bump dependabot/fetch-metadata from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 by @dependabot in Bump dependabot/fetch-metadata from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 #100

New Contributors

• @vatsake made their first contribution in Cups #92

Breaking Changes

• Drop Laravel 8 & 9 support
• Drop PHP 8.0 support
• Drop PHP 8.1 support
• printing.factory singleton renamed to \Rawilk\Printing\Factory::class
• printing.driver singleton renamed to \Rawilk\Printing\Contracts\Driver::class
• Remove Cups api singleton
• Remove PrintNode api singleton
• Rename PrintNode api class to PrintNodeClient
• PrintNode API Entity classes are now namespaced as Resources
• PrintNode API collection classes like Computers and Printers are removed in favor of default Laravel collections
• Convert Rawilk\Printing\Drivers\PrintNode\ContentType to enum and move to Rawilk\Printing\Api\PrintNode\Enums namespace
• Change ContentType casing to PascalCase
• Change method signature to retrieve jobs() on Rawilk\Printing\Drivers\PrintNode\Entity\Printer
• Force Rawilk\Printing\Contracts\Printer interface to use Arrayable and JsonSerializable
• Force Rawilk\Printing\Contracts\PrintJob interface to use Arrayable and JsonSerializable

Other Changes

• Use Str::random() instead of uniqid when generating print job names
• Add new PrintDriver enum
• Add logging (configurable through .env through PRINTING_LOGGER)
• Add base PrintingException and have most of the package exceptions extend it
• Add ExceptionInterface contract that all package exceptions implement
• Add PrintJobState service and resource to the PrintNode API

Full Changelog: v3.0.5...v4.0.0-beta.1

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