v5.7.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Drop support for Python 3.8 by @ricardoV94 in #6832
• Bump PyTensor dependency by @ricardoV94 in #6830
  • PyTensor no longer allows runtime broadcasting. If you want a MutableData tensor to broadcast along an existing dimension, specify its static shape as (1,) along the relevant axis. Example: pm.MutableData("x", np.ones((1, 10)), shape=(1, None)).

New Features 🎉

• Add GP Wrapped Periodic Kernel by @jahall in #6742
• Logprob derivation for Max of continuous IID variables by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #6769

Bugfixes 🪲

• Fixes for the McBackend adapter by @michaelosthege in #6835

Documentation 📖

• Don't use size and simplify dims example in dimensionality notebook by @ricardoV94 in #6829

Maintenance 🔧

• GP Covariance Function Type Hints by @jahall in #6740
• Restrict domain on alpha in the CAR distribution by @daniel-saunders-phil in #6801

Full Changelog: v5.6.1...v5.7.0