Version 1.12.1

The 1.12.1 release fixes a number of bugs related to async callback handling when using param.depends and .param.watch and a number of documentation and error messages. Many thanks to @hoxbro and the maintainers @jbednar, @jlstevens, @maximlt and @philippjfr for contributing to this release.

Error handling and documentation:

• Fixed description of shared_parameters (#568)
• Improve the error messages of Date and DateRange (#579)
• Clarified step error messages and other docs and links (#604)

Bug fixes:

• Make iscoroutinefunction more robust (#572)
• Fix for handling misspelled parameter (#575)
• Handle None serialization for Date, CalendarDate, Tuple, Array, and DataFrame (#582)
• Support async coroutines in param.depends (#591)
• Handle async functions in depends with watch=True (#611)
• Avoid equality check on Watcher (#612)

Documentation:

• Fix binder (#564)
• Fixed description of shared_parameters (#568)