can you release a version?

[AllenX2018]

Hello ~ community maintainer:
the community has not released a version for a long time, can you release a version?

[insomniacslk]

CC @pmazzini @hugelgupf @Natolumin . Anything missing before we cut a release? Even better if 1.x ?

[pmazzini]

Chris wanted to remove the async client before the 1.x release: #400 (comment)

His pinterest/bender PR was never merged though: pinterest/bender#39

I am ok with cutting a release. If we can remove the async client even better.

[Natolumin]

There isn't anything specifically missing for v1 that I can think of, but anyway if it's just adding missing things we can do it within a minor release

Releasing a v1 means we have to actually be careful about breaking api changes from now on (which I'm definitely happy about), so maybe we want to make a pass at unexporting things we don't want to guarantee stability on, or that aren't directly useful to clients ?
There are a couple APIs that have shown to cause issues (most notably ToBytes not being able to error out, but I'm sure there are others I forgot about); on that point I'd say releasing a v1 would be a positive so we can knowingly select things to break with an eventual v2 as well

[hugelgupf]

Let's get it out the door and remove / change things in v2... only have so much time rn

[s3rj1k]

Release never happened, maybe a 0.x release at least?