chore: release v0.5.0 (#404)

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Author: cotbot[bot]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,37 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.5.0](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/compare/cot-v0.4.0...cot-v0.5.0) - 2026-01-21
+
+[View diff on diff.rs](https://diff.rs/cot/0.4.0/cot/0.5.0/Cargo.toml)
+
+### New features
+
+- [**breaking**] Cache support with pluggable backends ([#399](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/399)) (by [@ElijahAhianyo](https://github.com/ElijahAhianyo))
+- [**breaking**] Add Redis Cache store ([#410](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/410)) (by [@ElijahAhianyo](https://github.com/ElijahAhianyo))
+- [**breaking**] *(db)* Add `bulk_insert` ([#414](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/414)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+- [**breaking**] Email support using lettre ([#419](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/419)) (by [@ElijahAhianyo](https://github.com/ElijahAhianyo))
+- Add derive macro `SelectAsFormField` ([#397](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/397)) (by [@kumarUjjawal](https://github.com/kumarUjjawal))
+- Expose cache in request API ([#448](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/448)) (by [@ElijahAhianyo](https://github.com/ElijahAhianyo))
+- Add Redirect and deprecate new_redirect ([#451](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/451)) (by [@seqre](https://github.com/seqre))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Clippy errors ([#402](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/402)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+
+### Other
+
+- [**breaking**] Rename opt to opts ([#398](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/398)) (by [@seqre](https://github.com/seqre))
+- [**breaking**] Use `trait_upcasting`, bump MSRV to 1.86 ([#412](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/412)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+- [**breaking**] Bump deps, bump MSRV to 1.88 ([#431](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/431)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+- [**breaking**] Use `Arc` internally in `Database` ([#432](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/432)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+- [**breaking**] Fix includes for `#[derive(Template)]` ([#446](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/446)) (by [@Kijewski](https://github.com/Kijewski))
+- [**breaking**] Cleanup `RequestExt`; use extractors instead ([#449](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/449)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+- *(deps)* Bump the dependencies group with 22 updates ([#401](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/401)) (by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/dependabot[bot]))
+- Remove `#[cfg(doc_auto_cfg)]` ([#406](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/406)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+- Remove rust-lang/rust#145288 workaround ([#411](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/411)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+- `Cache` instead of `Arc<Cache>` in public APIs ([#433](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/433)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+
 ## [0.4.0](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/compare/cot-v0.3.1...cot-v0.4.0) - 2025-09-11
 
 [View diff on diff.rs](https://diff.rs/cot/0.3.1/cot/0.4.0/Cargo.toml)

Cargo.lock

@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ clap = { version = "4.5.53", features = ["deprecated"] }
 clap-verbosity-flag = { version = "3", default-features = false }
 clap_complete = "4"
 clap_mangen = "0.2.31"
-cot = { version = "0.4.0", path = "cot" }
-cot_codegen = { version = "0.4.0", path = "cot-codegen" }
-cot_macros = { version = "0.4.0", path = "cot-macros" }
+cot = { version = "0.5.0", path = "cot" }
+cot_codegen = { version = "0.5.0", path = "cot-codegen" }
+cot_macros = { version = "0.5.0", path = "cot-macros" }
 criterion = "0.8"
 darling = "0.23"
 deadpool-redis = { version = "0.22", default-features = false }

Cargo.toml

@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.5.0](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/compare/cot-cli-v0.4.0...cot-cli-v0.5.0) - 2026-01-21
+
+[View diff on diff.rs](https://diff.rs/cot-cli/0.4.0/cot-cli/0.5.0/Cargo.toml)
+
+### New features
+
+- [**breaking**] Email support using lettre ([#419](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/419)) (by [@ElijahAhianyo](https://github.com/ElijahAhianyo))
+
+### Other
+
+- [**breaking**] Bump deps, bump MSRV to 1.88 ([#431](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/431)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+- [**breaking**] Fix includes for `#[derive(Template)]` ([#446](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/446)) (by [@Kijewski](https://github.com/Kijewski))
+- *(deps)* Bump the dependencies group with 22 updates ([#401](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/401)) (by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/dependabot[bot]))
+- *(deps)* Bump the dependencies group with 11 updates ([#407](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/407)) (by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/dependabot[bot]))
+- Remove askama from the project template ([#452](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/pull/452)) (by [@m4tx](https://github.com/m4tx))
+
 ## [0.4.0](https://github.com/cot-rs/cot/compare/cot-cli-v0.3.1...cot-cli-v0.4.0) - 2025-09-11
 
 [View diff on diff.rs](https://diff.rs/cot-cli/0.3.1/cot-cli/0.4.0/Cargo.toml)

cot-cli/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "cot-cli"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 description = "The Rust web framework for lazy developers - CLI tool."
 categories = ["command-line-utilities", "web-programming"]
 edition.workspace = true

cot-cli/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "cot_codegen"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 description = "The Rust web framework for lazy developers - code generation utils."
 edition.workspace = true
 rust-version.workspace = true

cot-codegen/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "cot_macros"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 description = "The Rust web framework for lazy developers - macros."
 edition.workspace = true
 rust-version.workspace = true

cot-macros/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "cot"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 description = "The Rust web framework for lazy developers."
 categories = ["web-programming", "web-programming::http-server", "network-programming"]
 edition.workspace = true