Enhance release workflow: Add uv setup for faster dependency installation and update build skip settings for 32-bit Linux

Author: networmix

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -21,15 +21,21 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
+      # Install uv for faster dependency installation (required on macOS, bundled in manylinux)
+      - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+
       # Build wheels using cibuildwheel
       # ENV variables control the build (architectures, python versions)
       - name: Build wheels
         uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.21.3
         env:
           # Build for Python 3.9+
           CIBW_BUILD: "cp39-* cp310-* cp311-* cp312-* cp313-*"
-          # Skip PyPy and musllinux for now (unless desired)
-          CIBW_SKIP: "pp* *-musllinux_*"
+          # Skip PyPy, musllinux, and 32-bit Linux
+          CIBW_SKIP: "pp* *-musllinux_* *-manylinux_i686"
+
+          # Use uv for faster dependency installation (10-100x faster than pip)
+          CIBW_BUILD_FRONTEND: "build[uv]"
 
           # macOS: Build Universal2 wheels on Intel runner (macos-13)
           CIBW_ARCHS_MACOS: "universal2"

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [0.2.1] - 2025-11-25
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Build**: Use `uv` build frontend for wheel builds.
+- **Build**: Drop 32-bit Linux (i686) wheels.
+
 ## [0.2.0] - 2025-11-25
 
 ### Added

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "netgraph-core"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.1"
 description = "C++ implementation of graph algorithms for network flow analysis and traffic engineering with Python bindings"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"

python/netgraph_core/_version.py

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 __all__ = ["__version__"]
 
-__version__ = "0.2.0"
+__version__ = "0.2.1"