What's Changed

• Support for python 3.14, end-of-life for python 3.8 and 3.9
• Support for pandas 3.0
• Reduction of dependency footprint. Former dependencies are still available as soft dependencies in the new all_extras depset.
• CLA speedup

Enhancements

• [ENH] pandas 3 compatibility by @ayushraj09, @fkiraly in #703
• [ENH] vectorize CLA _reduce_matrix using numpy advanced indexing by @philippdubach in #693

Maintenance

• [MNT] skip failing tests on main by @fkiraly in #643
• [MNT] fix all URLs and main branch references after move to new org by @fkiraly in #641
• [MNT] python 3.14 compatibility, python 3.9 end-of-life by @fkiraly in #646
• [MNT] remove dockerfile by @tschm in #648
• [MNT] CI: concurrency and no fail-fast by @fkiraly in #660
• [MNT] move packaging to pyproject.toml by @fkiraly in #659
• [MNT] move CI installs to uv by @fkiraly in #661
• [MNT] CI action for installing uv/uvx by @tschm in #654
• [MNT] raise plotly bound to plotly<7 to support plotly 6.X by @ms32035 in #632
• [MNT] test cookbook notebooks by @tschm in #665
• [MNT] moving linting to ruff, adding editorconfig by @tschm in #653
• [MNT] merge all PR CI jobs into one workflow by @fkiraly in #673
• [MNT] testing package without soft dependencies, isolate matplotlib by @fkiraly in #662
• [MNT] restore requirements.txt for downwards compatibility by @fkiraly in #675
• [MNT] Isolate scikit-learn dependency with checks by @fkiraly in #674
• [MNT] testing code in README for correctness by @tschm in #676
• [MNT] makefile for developers by @tschm in #655
• [MNT] release workflow by @fkiraly in #672
• [MNT] update GH CI action versions by @tschm in #684
• [MNT] enable dependabot by @fkiraly in #689
• [MNT] Dependabot: Bump actions/download-artifact from 6 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #705
• [MNT] Dependabot: Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #706
• [MNT] Dependabot: Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #707
• [MNT] ensure release workflow runs only after tag check by @fkiraly in #708

Documentation

• [DOC] Fix typos in efficient_frontier (#635) by @fkiraly in #681
• [DOC] Update GeneralEfficientFrontier.rst by @avances123 in #630
• [DOC] improvements to README.md by @tschm in #658
• [DOC] improved README - important links at the top by @fkiraly in #682
• [DOC] remove empty boxes in README by @fkiraly in #683

New Contributors

• @fkiraly made their first contribution in #643
• @avances123 made their first contribution in #630
• @ms32035 made their first contribution in #632
• @philippdubach made their first contribution in #693
• @aral190 made their first contribution in #699
• @ayushraj09 made their first contribution in #703

Full Changelog: v1.4.1...v1.6.0

Contributors

• @avances123
• @tschm
• @ms32035
• @fkiraly
• @dependabot
• @ayushraj09
• @philippdubach
• @aral190