Merge remote-tracking branch 'letscontrolit/mega' into bugfix/WiFi_state_machine

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ jobs:
           python-version: '3.x'
       - id: set-matrix
         run: |
-          pip install platformio
+          pip install uv
+          uv pip install --system platformio
           python tools/ci/generate-matrix.py
 
   build:
@@ -38,26 +39,11 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.x'
-      - uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: ~/.cache/pip
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('requirements.txt') }}
-      - uses: actions/cache@v4
-        if: ${{ contains(matrix.env, 'esp32') }}
-        with:
-          path: ~/.platformio
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-esp32-${{ hashFiles('platformio*.ini') }}
-      - uses: actions/cache@v4
-        if: ${{ contains(matrix.env, 'esp8266') }}
-        with:
-          path: ~/.platformio
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-esp8266-${{ hashFiles('platformio*.ini') }}
       - name: Dependencies
         run: |
           sudo apt install binutils build-essential libffi-dev libgit2-dev
-          pip install -r requirements.txt
+          pip install uv
+          uv pip install --system -r requirements.txt
           pio pkg update -e ${{ matrix.env }}
       - name: Build and archive
         id: build-and-archive
@@ -83,17 +69,12 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.x'
-      - uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: ~/.cache/pip
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-docs-${{ hashFiles('docs/requirements.txt') }}
       - name: Build documentation
         run: |
           cd docs
           sudo apt install imagemagick zip
-          pip install -r requirements.txt
+          pip install uv
+          uv pip install --system -r requirements.txt
           make html
           cd ..
           zip -r -qq ESPEasy_docs.zip docs/build/*