v0.8.0

Highlights

• The Tornado visualization server is removed and replaced with SolaraViz, which also works within Jupyter notebooks (#212). This is in line with Mesa's recent changes to use Solara for visualization.
• The Introductory Tutorial has been fully rewritten for Mesa-Geo 0.8.0
• The 0.8.x series are the releases compatible with Mesa 2.3.x. The next major release will be compatible with Mesa 3.0+.

🎉 New features added

• Update mesa-geo to sync with mesa >=2.3.0 by @tpike3 in #212

🛠 Enhancements made

• Update tutorial and viz by @tpike3 in #217

📜 Documentation improvements

• fix links and installation instructions in README file by @wang-boyu in #213
• .readthedocs.yaml: Use latest Ubuntu and Python versions by @EwoutH in #221
• docs: update conf.py to be in sync with mesa by @wang-boyu in #223
• docs: remove api docs entry for removed visualization module by @wang-boyu in #224
• Fix kernel issue by @tpike3 in #229
• Remove cell output by @tpike3 in #231

🔧 Maintenance

• Update configuration, metadata and tests by @tpike3 in #208
• fix: Use correct package name for Pip by @rht in #214
• pyproject.toml: Always use latest ruff by @EwoutH in #219
• pyproject.toml: Use mesa version smaller than 3 for now by @EwoutH in #220
• CI: Add job to test with pre-release dependencies, including Mesa by @EwoutH in #218

Full Changelog: v0.7.1...v0.8.0