🚀 The Python SDK Has a New Release – Welcome v0.1.4

This extensive update represents a big leap forward, especially for smart contract functionality, and comes with a range of improvements that make building on Hedera with Python easier, clearer, and more powerful. A huge thank you to our talented contributors for making this release possible.

✨ What’s New in 0.1.4

Using the Hiero Python SDK, you can now interact with the Hedera network in more ways than ever before.

🚀 Work with Smart Contracts

Create and Update contracts with ContractCreateTransaction and ContractUpdateTransaction
Call and execute contract functions using ContractCallQuery and ContractExecuteTransaction.
Inspect deployed contracts with ContractInfoQuery and ContractBytecodeQuery.
Upload both .bin and .bin-runtime bytecode formats with improved utilities.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Manage Accounts and Tokens

Update account properties with AccountUpdateTransaction.
Cancel pending airdrops via TokenCancelAirdropTransaction.
Work with new airdrop classes: PendingAirdropId, PendingAirdropRecord.

📂 Handle Files on the Network

Update, delete, and query files with FileUpdateTransaction, FileDeleteTransaction, FileContentsQuery, and FileInfoQuery.
Append file contents using FileAppendTransaction.

🔐 Improved Key Support

Added legacy ECDSA DER parse support.
Clearer documentation for PrivateKey.from_string.
Fixes for missing ECDSA handling in certain transaction types.

📝 PEP8 Style & Code Quality

Migrated many naming conventions from camelCase → snake_case to align with PEP8 (old names will still work for now, but will be removed in the next release).
Linting and formatting improvements in the consensus module.

📚 Improved Developer Experience

With the surge of developer interest in the SDK, we’ve also invested in documentation:

Extended Contributing Guide: step-by-step instructions for contributing, writing blog posts, and getting support.
Upstream Sync Guide: documentation on how to sync with main.

⚡ Get Started

Upgrade to the latest release with:

pip install --upgrade hiero-sdk-python

Then try out contract creation, account updates, or file queries directly in your Python environment.

You can also check out our open issues (for both new starters and seasoned Python developers):
👉 GitHub Issues

And join our community meetings:

Office Hour: fortnightly drop-in help, next on 27th August
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Community Call: fortnightly community learning and discussion, next on 3rd September
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