Hiero Python SDK – Announcing Release v0.1.3

This July, our Python SDK is racing ahead, and we’re excited to share the latest in new transaction support and version milestones.

🚀 Latest Release: v0.1.3 (July 7, 2025)

In this release, we packed dozens of new transaction classes, queries, and utility improvements:

• Various new classes, including:
  • Duration
  • AccountInfoQuery
• Extensive token services, such as:
  • NFTTokenCreateTransaction for spinning up non‑fungible tokens
  • TokenUnfreezeTransaction to unfreeze tokens when needed
  • TokenWipeTransaction for wiping balances clean
  • TokenNFTInfoQuery to fetch NFT metadata
  • TokenRejectTransaction to manage association rejections
  • TokenUpdateNftsTransaction for batch NFT updates
• Abstractions & node implementation
  – Introduced an executable abstraction and node implementation to simplify the codebase and make it easier to scale
• Improved testing & logging
  – Individual unit and integration tests for each transaction type
  – Extensions to the logging module
• Pythonic type hinting
  – Added type annotations across several modules, with documentation on setting up Mypy

See the full changelog at Github

🗒️ Other Recent Releases

v0.1.2 (March 12, 2025)

• Added NFTId class for streamlined NFT identifier handling
• Switched to SEC1 ECPrivateKey format instead of PKCS#8

v0.1.1 (February 25, 2025)

• Introduced RELEASE.md & CONTRIBUTING.md; revamped README files for clarity
• Upgraded support from Python 3.9 to 3.10

v0.1.0 (February 19, 2025)

• Inaugural release: core SDK features, documentation, and example scripts

🔭 Smart Contracts on the Horizon

We’ve laid the groundwork in our token and file‑service layers—now we’re shifting gears into file service and smart contract logic, with upcoming support for:

• ContractCreateTransaction
• ContractExecuteTransaction
• …and beyond.

Get ready to deploy and interact with contracts entirely in Python!