The 1.13.0 is the last release of Param before the 2.0 release. However, Param 1.13 is meant to receive long-term support; security patches and fixes to critical bugs are planned to be backported to the 1.13.x series. This release includes a new Bytes Parameter and a few important bug fixes. This release is also marked by the adoption of a formal project governance, ensuring Param's future as a healthy open-source project. Many thanks to @ovidner and @droumis for their first contributions! And to @maximlt, @Hoxbro, @jlstevens, @philippjfr and @jbednar for their continuing support to fixing and improving Param. Bug fixes: Fix copying when having watchers on e.g. bounds on inherited Parameter types (#675) Allow JSON serialization to work with json.dumps (#655) ListSelector restricted to list type objects (#531) Fix depends async wrapper (#684) Allow named colors to be any case (#711) New features: Add Bytes parameter (#542) Documentation: Fix param module link (#682) Project governance: Create initial project governance docs (#674) Maintenance: Rename master branch to main (#672) Add more tests (#710) Various CI related fixes (#680, #683 and #709)