Release 2.5.0 (#444)

Release PR for 2.5.0

* changelog
* version bump

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <a href="https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/latest"><img src="https://github.com/sktime/skpro/blob/main/docs/source/images/skpro-banner.png" width="500" align="right" /></a>
 
-:rocket: **Version 2.4.2 out now!** [Read the release notes here.](https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html).
+:rocket: **Version 2.5.0 out now!** [Read the release notes here.](https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html).
 
 `skpro` is a library for supervised probabilistic prediction in python.
 It provides `scikit-learn`-like, `scikit-base` compatible interfaces to:

docs/source/_static/switcher.json

@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@
     "url": "https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
   },
   {
-    "name": "2.4.2 (stable)",
+    "name": "2.5.0 (stable)",
+    "version": "stable",
+    "url": "https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/v2.5.0/"
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "2.4.2",
     "version": "stable",
     "url": "https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/v2.4.2/"
   },

docs/source/changelog.rst

@@ -16,6 +16,66 @@ For planned changes and upcoming releases, see roadmap in the
 `issue tracker <https://github.com/sktime/skpro/issues>`_.
 
 
+[2.5.0] - 2024-08-02
+====================
+
+Maintenance release with scheduled deprecations and updates.
+
+Kindly also note the python 3.8 End-of-life warning below.
+
+Dependency changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* ``polars`` (data container soft dependency) bounds have been updated to ``<1.5.0``.
+
+Deprecations and removals
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Python 3.8 End-of-life
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+``skpro`` now requires Python version ``>=3.9``.
+No errors will be raised on Python 3.8, but test coverage and support for
+Python 3.8 has been dropped.
+
+Kindly note for context: python 3.8 will reach end of life
+in October 2024, and multiple ``skpro`` core dependencies,
+including ``scikit-learn``, have already dropped support for 3.8.
+
+Probability distributions
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* In QPD distributions, deprecated parameters ``dist_shape``, ``version``
+  have been removed entirely. Instead of ``version``, users should use
+  ``base_dist``. Instead of ``dist_shape``, users should pass an ``skpro``
+  distribution to ``base_dist``, with the desired shape parameters.
+
+Probabilistic regression
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* in probabilistic regressor tuners ``GridSearchCV``, ``RandomizedSearchCV``,
+  use of ``joblib`` backend specific parameters ``n_jobs``,
+  ``pre_dispatch`` have been removed.
+  Users should pass backend parameters via the ``backend_params`` parameter instead.
+* in ``GLMRegressor``, parameters have been reordered to be consistent with
+  the docstring, after a deprecation period.
+
+Contents
+~~~~~~~~
+
+* [MNT] python 3.8 end-of-life - remove 3.8 support and tags (:pr:`443`) :user:`fkiraly`
+* [MNT] 2.5.0 deprecations and change actions (:pr:`443`) :user:`fkiraly`
+* [MNT] ensure ``CyclicBoosting`` is consistent with deprecations in ``QPD_Johnson`` (:pr:`446`) :user:`fkiraly`
+* [MNT] [Dependabot](deps): Update ``polars`` requirement from ``<1.3.0`` to ``<1.5.0``(:pr:`442`) :user:`dependabot[bot]`
+* [MNT] release workflow: Upgrade deprecated pypa action parameter #6878 (:pr:`445`) :user:`szepeviktor`
+
+Contributors
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+:user:`fkiraly`,
+:user:`szepviktor`
+
+
 [2.4.2] - 2024-08-02
 ====================
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "skpro"
-version = "2.4.2"
+version = "2.5.0"
 description = "A unified framework for probability distributions and probabilistic supervised regression"
 authors = [
     {name = "skpro developers", email = "[email protected]"},

skpro/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """skpro."""
 
-__version__ = "2.4.2"
+__version__ = "2.5.0"
 
 __all__ = ["show_versions"]