release: 4.1.0

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Automated Release PR

4.1.0 (2026-02-13)

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.1.0

Features

• api: update via SDK Studio (#61) (9c0c551)
• clean up environment call outs (696f18b)
• client: add custom JSON encoder for extended type support (87eaded)
• client: add follow_redirects request option (6eb41c9)
• client: add support for aiohttp (6f6ddd9)
• client: add support for binary request streaming (41c399b)
• client: allow passing NotGiven for body (#67) (3ad7f25)
• client: send X-Stainless-Read-Timeout header (#63) (a594c75)
• client: support file upload requests (fde965a)
• improve future compat with pydantic v3 (bccbddf)
• types: replace List[str] with SequenceNotStr in params (0578887)

Bug Fixes

• asyncify on non-asyncio runtimes (#66) (ca310cd)
• avoid newer type syntax (db10820)
• ci: correct conditional (66eb0ef)
• ci: ensure pip is always available (#78) (d3d295a)
• ci: release-doctor — report correct token name (65cdccf)
• ci: remove publishing patch (#79) (493f504)
• client: close streams without requiring full consumption (e783145)
• client: correctly parse binary response | stream (3924997)
• client: don't send Content-Type header on GET requests (6bcbc4e)
• client: mark some request bodies as optional (3ad7f25)
• compat with Python 3.14 (f7d6103)
• compat: update signatures of model_dump and model_dump_json for Pydantic v1 (898ca7b)
• ensure streams are always closed (f89af68)
• package: support direct resource imports (ad2d130)
• parsing: correctly handle nested discriminated unions (cd511d2)
• parsing: ignore empty metadata (bdd8ead)
• parsing: parse extra field types (470d8a8)
• perf: optimize some hot paths (7cc4937)
• perf: skip traversing types for NotGiven values (38509ba)
• pydantic v1: more robust ModelField.annotation check (3dc3480)
• tests: fix: tests which call HTTP endpoints directly with the example parameters (539215f)
• types: allow pyright to infer TypedDict types within SequenceNotStr (84b4806)
• types: handle more discriminated union shapes (#77) (8b6dcf0)
• use async_to_httpx_files in patch method (6bfd0c0)

Chores

• add Python 3.14 classifier and testing (c172e9c)
• broadly detect json family of content-type headers (febefbc)
• bump httpx-aiohttp version to 0.1.9 (7aeb4c8)
• ci: add timeout thresholds for CI jobs (d5cbcd0)
• ci: change upload type (d7e4405)
• ci: enable for pull requests (1ea6fbc)
• ci: fix installation instructions (6291f4a)
• ci: only run for pushes and fork pull requests (5d00f3e)
• ci: only use depot for staging repos (19ee773)
• ci: upgrade actions/github-script (bdad5ed)
• ci: upload sdks to package manager (598ec7e)
• client: minor internal fixes (1e29d3b)
• deps: mypy 1.18.1 has a regression, pin to 1.17 (fd940b6)
• do not install brew dependencies in ./scripts/bootstrap by default (67c48f0)
• docs: grammar improvements (540e711)
• docs: remove reference to rye shell (ec32daa)
• docs: update client docstring (#71) (b41543a)
• docs: use environment variables for authentication in code snippets (ff7f0ef)
• fix typos (#80) (c1576cc)
• format all api.md files (034e708)
• internal/tests: avoid race condition with implicit client cleanup (d3a5435)
• internal: add --fix argument to lint script (0b1e68e)
• internal: add missing files argument to base client (5547d1b)
• internal: add Sequence related utils (5f815ef)
• internal: avoid errors for isinstance checks on proxies (5dc0949)
• internal: base client updates (0ac179a)
• internal: bump dependencies (5c298f6)
• internal: bump pinned h11 dep (6cafe07)
• internal: bump pyright version (81c2baf)
• internal: bump rye to 0.44.0 (#76) (21a20b3)
• internal: change ci workflow machines (656643d)
• internal: codegen related update (0b4efb7)
• internal: codegen related update (2f8fbc4)
• internal: codegen related update (d6d5a1d)
• internal: codegen related update (a145cee)
• internal: codegen related update (#75) (db19786)
• internal: detect missing future annotations with ruff (23b94ed)
• internal: expand CI branch coverage (7fd1145)
• internal: fix devcontainers setup (#68) (97b7254)
• internal: fix lint error on Python 3.14 (1d9c80a)
• internal: fix list file params (1b5e333)
• internal: fix ruff target version (1437b86)
• internal: fix type traversing dictionary params (#64) (1322c80)
• internal: grammar fix (it's -> its) (8b1cdb7)
• internal: import reformatting (8a3f6f0)
• internal: minor type handling changes (#65) (7e69125)
• internal: move mypy configurations to pyproject.toml file (f87b268)
• internal: properly set pydantic_private (#69) (bc25b84)
• internal: reduce CI branch coverage (2492996)
• internal: refactor retries to not use recursion (055e329)
• internal: remove extra empty newlines (#74) (3d90dff)
• internal: remove trailing character (#81) (4cfa80b)
• internal: remove unused http client options forwarding (#72) (69a44e3)
• internal: slight transform perf improvement (#82) (5498eaf)
• internal: update actions/checkout version (54d6bd9)
• internal: update comment in script (103820e)
• internal: update conftest.py (83531b4)
• internal: update models test (421a2b5)
• internal: update pydantic dependency (5dd09a4)
• internal: update pyright exclude list (f306088)
• internal: update pyright settings (2d267e1)
• package: drop Python 3.8 support (95ca18d)
• package: mark python 3.13 as supported (06ad64f)
• project: add settings file for vscode (6754b39)
• readme: fix version rendering on pypi (b1e9e51)
• readme: update badges (f3f214f)
• speedup initial import (3b3f4e6)
• tests: add tests for httpx client instantiation & proxies (5e172cd)
• tests: run tests in parallel (497b381)
• tests: simplify get_platform test (ef07d85)
• tests: skip some failing tests on the latest python versions (39d037c)
• types: change optional parameter type from NotGiven to Omit (14cb9a9)
• update @stainless-api/prism-cli to v5.15.0 (d766a01)
• update github action (d0f9d9e)
• update lockfile (77726a0)

Documentation

• client: fix httpx.Timeout documentation reference (3341b85)
• update URLs from stainlessapi.com to stainless.com (#70) (08062c4)

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High Risk
Touches core request/response, retry, streaming, and serialization paths, so regressions could affect all API calls (timeouts, headers, body encoding, pagination, and resource loading). Tooling/CI/docs changes are low risk, but the client refactor and new HTTP backend increase overall risk.

Overview
Bumps the package to v4.1.0 and raises the minimum supported Python version to 3.9, adding aiohttp as an optional extra and updating lockfiles/tooling (Rye, ruff/pyright/mypy, parallel pytest).

Significantly refactors the core client layer (_base_client, _client, _models, _types, _utils) to add an aiohttp-backed async HTTP client (DefaultAioHttpClient), support raw/binary request bodies via content, add follow_redirects and X-Stainless-Read-Timeout handling, improve retry/idempotency behavior, close SSE streams reliably, broaden JSON content-type handling, and extend pagination to support JSON-body pagination.

CI/dev experience is updated with new build+artifact upload in GitHub Actions, job timeouts/branch filters, devcontainer Node feature, lint --fix, safer bootstrap prompts, and assorted documentation/API doc updates (including new aiohttp usage guidance).

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Ruff target-version inconsistent with minimum Python version

Low Severity

The ruff target-version was changed from "py37" to "py38", but the project's requires-python was updated to ">= 3.9" and pyright's pythonVersion is set to "3.9". The ruff target should be "py39" to match. This inconsistency means ruff applies formatting/linting rules for Python 3.8 compatibility even though the project no longer supports it — for example, the FA102 rule may unnecessarily flag missing from __future__ import annotations in files that only need 3.9+ support.

Additional Locations (2)

• pyproject.toml#L19-L20
• pyproject.toml#L145-L146

 

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Iterative retry loop breaks math.inf unlimited retries

Medium Severity

The refactored retry logic uses range(max_retries + 1) which crashes with TypeError when max_retries is math.inf, since range() requires integer arguments. The old recursive approach handled this correctly because it only compared remaining_retries > 0. The error message in __init__ still explicitly recommends math.inf for unlimited retries, making this a documented-but-broken feature.

Additional Locations (2)

• src/brainbase/_base_client.py#L393-L397
• src/brainbase/_base_client.py#L1567-L1568

 

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Custom JSON encoder handles datetime but not date

Low Severity

The new _CustomEncoder handles datetime serialization via isinstance(o, datetime) but does not handle date objects. Since datetime is a subclass of date (not the other way around), pure date values will fall through to super().default(o) and raise a TypeError. Given the stated goal of "extended type support," omitting date while including datetime appears to be an oversight. If any date objects survive the transform pipeline and reach openapi_dumps, serialization will fail.