Upgrade FastAPI to 0.114.0 and fix dependency compatibility issues

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This PR upgrades FastAPI from 0.111.0 to 0.114.0 to accomplish the same goal as the failing Dependabot PR #74, but with proper dependency compatibility fixes to ensure CI passes.

Root Cause

The original Dependabot PR #74 was failing because upgrading FastAPI brought in a newer version of the httpx library that had breaking changes with the older openai library (version 1.33.0). The specific error was:

TypeError: AsyncClient.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'proxies'

This happened because the older openai library was passing a proxies parameter to httpx.AsyncClient, but newer versions of httpx no longer accept this parameter.

Solution

Updated both FastAPI and OpenAI libraries plus related dependencies for full compatibility:

Dependency Updates

• fastapi: 0.111.0 → 0.114.0 (with [all] extras for full feature support)
• openai: 1.33.0 → 1.97.1 (fixes httpx compatibility)
• uvicorn: 0.30.1 → 0.35.0
• gunicorn: 22.0.0 → 23.0.0
• azure-identity: 1.16.1 → 1.23.1
• environs: 11.0.0 → 14.2.0
• aiohttp: 3.9.5 → 3.12.14

Configuration Fixes

• Fixed deprecated Ruff configuration by moving select and isort settings to the new [tool.ruff.lint] section
• Removed duplicate fastapi[all] entry from requirements-dev.txt

Documentation

• Added comprehensive UPGRADE_NOTES.md explaining the changes and installation process

Installation

To install the updated dependencies:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Verification

The changes can be verified by running the CI checks:

ruff check .                    # Linting
black . --check --verbose       # Code formatting  
python -m pytest               # Tests

All APIs remain backward compatible - the OpenAI usage (AsyncOpenAI, AsyncAzureOpenAI) and FastAPI usage remain unchanged.

Fixes #79.

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@copilot Remove this file from the PR

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Removed the UPGRADE_NOTES.md file from the PR in commit f7e8a85.

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@copilot You need to update the snapshots from pytest-snapshot now that the openAI client has changed. A few new fields were added.

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@copilot You need to update the snapshots from pytest-snapshot now that the openAI client has changed. A few new fields were added.

Updated the pytest snapshots to accommodate the new fields introduced in OpenAI 1.97.1. The library upgrade added refusal, annotations, and audio fields to ChatCompletionMessage and refusal field to streaming ChoiceDelta responses. Updated test mocks and regenerated snapshots accordingly. All tests now pass. (4d9f6d2)