v0.19.0

• Fixed an error that occurred when loading and dumping CloudPath objects using pickle multiple times. (Issue #450, PR #454, thanks to @kujenga)
• Fixed typo in FileCacheMode where values were being filled by environment variable CLOUPATHLIB_FILE_CACHE_MODE instead of CLOUDPATHLIB_FILE_CACHE_MODE. (PR #424, thanks to @mynameisfiber)
• Fixed CloudPath cleanup via CloudPath.__del__ when Client encounters an exception during initialization and does not create a file_cache_mode attribute. (Issue #372, thanks to @bryanwweber)
• Removed support for Python 3.7 and pinned minimal boto3 version to Python 3.8+ versions. (PR #407)
• Changed GSClient to use the native exists() method from the Google Cloud Storage SDK. (PR #420, thanks to @bachya)
• Changed default clients to be lazily instantiated (Issue #428, PR #432)
• Fixed download_to to check for the existence of the cloud file (Issue #430, PR #433)
• Added env vars CLOUDPATHLIB_FORCE_OVERWRITE_FROM_CLOUD and CLOUDPATHLIB_FORCE_OVERWRITE_TO_CLOUD. (Issue #393, PR #437)
• Fixed glob for cloudpathlib.local.LocalPath and subclass implementations to match behavior of cloud versions for parity in testing. (Issue #415, PR #436)
• Changed how cloudpathlib.local.LocalClient and subclass implementations track the default local storage directory (used to simulate the cloud) used when no local storage directory is explicitly provided. (PR #436, PR #462)
  • Changed LocalClient so that client instances using the default storage access the default local storage directory through the get_default_storage_dir rather than having an explicit reference to the path set at instantiation. This means that calling get_default_storage_dir will reset the local storage for all clients using the default local storage, whether the client has already been instantiated or is instantiated after resetting. This fixes unintuitive behavior where reset_local_storage did not reset local storage when using the default client. (Issue #414)
  • Added a new local_storage_dir property to LocalClient. This will return the current local storage directory used by that client instance.
    by reference through the `get_default_ rather than with an explicit.
• Refined the return type annotations for CloudPath.open() to match the behavior of pathlib.Path.open(). The method now returns specific types (TextIOWrapper, FileIO, BufferedRandom, BufferedWriter, BufferedReader, BinaryIO, IO[Any]) based on the provided mode, buffering, and encoding arguments. (Issue #465, PR #464)
• Added Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support (Issue #161, PR #450), thanks to @M0dEx for PR #447 and PR #449