0.8.0rc0

First release candidate for 0.8. This is primarily a compatibility and modernization update, but there are a few bugfixes and optimization included since the 0.7 release.

What's Changed

• Add docs for alignment metrics by @f90 in #345
• Set precision for np.int and np.float by @carlthome in #353
• Add automated unit testing on pull requests with GitHub Actions by @carlthome in #356
• Link to GitHub Actions test workflow instead of Travis CI by @carlthome in #357
• Delete Travis CI workflow in favor of GitHub Actions workflows by @carlthome in #358
• Fix link by @carlthome in #360
• Drop Python 2 by @carlthome in #359
• Add release workflow for GitHub Actions based PyPI package releases by @carlthome in #361
• add interpolation method to docs for resample_multipitch by @Laubeee in #367
• Optimise & fix sonification by @leighsmith in #355
• Test and CI modernization by @bmcfee in #370
• Fix length error in sonify.time_frequency by @bmcfee in #374
• More efficient chord validation by @bmcfee in #378
• Pitch contour sonification supports nans by @bmcfee in #379
• [CR] matplotlib modernization by @bmcfee in #380
• Fix ImportError by @carlthome in #385
• Rename testing -> tests by @carlthome in #384
• deprecating separation module by @bmcfee in #382
• updated urls to point to new org by @bmcfee in #390
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4.1.7 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot in #388
• Minor Python 2 to Python 3 changes by @carlthome in #387
• Only "proper" chord types in mir_eval.chord.QUALITIES by @maximoskp in #397
• updating rtd config by @bmcfee in #399
• Updates to documentation, rtd configurations by @bmcfee in #400
• 0.8.0rc0 by @bmcfee in #401

New Contributors

• @Laubeee made their first contribution in #367
• @leighsmith made their first contribution in #355
• @dependabot made their first contribution in #388
• @maximoskp made their first contribution in #397

Full Changelog: 0.7...0.8.0rc0