new release when & ship with libvips?

[SteveHawk]

Hi, I'm just wondering, is there going to be a new release of pyvips soon?

libvips 8.15 introduces highway for simd which is exciting, however current pyvips v2.2.1 on PyPI only supports libvips up to 8.13. Master branch of pyvips does work with 8.15 in my setup, but it would be really nice to have a stable version to lock in.

Oh and, will it be possible for pyvips to ship with prebuilt libvips in the future? As my understanding, net-vips and sharp has been doing this for years, I tried the prebuilt package from kleisauke/libvips-packaging with pyvips and it works like a charm. Using pyvips without needing to install many dozens of system dependencies is a lifesaver in deployment.

Thanks!