Gpy

* update string checks in initialization method for latent variable and put `empirical_samples` init-method on a deprecation path

* update dependencies to `numpy>=1.7.0,<2.0.0`

* update import in `.plotting.matplot_dep.defaults` due to change in matplotlib

* Correct dl_dm term in student t inference 1065

* limit `scipy<1.12` as macos and linux jobs install some pre-release version of `scipy==1.12` which breaks tests

* update `paramz` depdency to `>=0.9.6`

* limit supported python versions to `">=3.9"` in accordance with numpy

* Change from `nosetest` to `pytest`

Fix

* Also run on 3.5. [mzwiessele]

Other

* Bump version: 1.9.7 → 1.9.8. [mzwiessele]

* Pkg: changelog. [mzwiessele]

Fix

* Version. [mzwiessele]

* Plotting. [mzwiessele]

* Matplotlib 2.0 mlba -> cbook: [mzwiessele]

Other

* Bump version: 1.9.6 → 1.9.7. [mzwiessele]

* Merge branch 'deploy' into devel. [mzwiessele]

* Merge pull request 703 from SheffieldML/devel. [Zhenwen Dai]

Deploy the version 1.9.6

* Merge pull request 709 from KOLANICH/ignoring_cython-generated_C_sources. [Zhenwen Dai]

Cython-generated files should be regenerated

* Cython-generated files should be regenerated. [KOLANICH]

* Merge pull request 758 from marpulli/py37_travis. [Zhenwen Dai]

Add travis build for 3.7, remove for 3.5, bump version to 1.9.7

* Bump version to 1.9.7. [Mark Pullin]

* Move python 3.5 build to 3.7. [Mark Pullin]

* Update README.md. [Mike Smith]

* I've added these steps to install necessary libraries. [Mike Smith]

Lots of people seem to have this problem with an "error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1" on installing.
E.g. this can be reproduced on a clean AWS Ubuntu install.

Feel free to revert, but this issue comes up regularly.

* Merge pull request 722 from jopago/devel. [Zhenwen Dai]

Add to_dict methods to White and Brownian kernels

* Update static.py. [Joan Gonzalvez]

* Update brownian.py. [Joan Gonzalvez]

added to_dict method

* Merge pull request 718 from KOLANICH/patch-1. [Zhenwen Dai]

Don't import `datasets` by default since it is almost never needed

* Don't import datasets by default since it is almost never needed. [KOLANICH]

* Merge pull request 708 from KOLANICH/cython_code_fix. [Zhenwen Dai]

Integer division is needed here.

* Integer division is needed here. [KOLANICH]

* Fix the bug due to changes in Numpy (744) [Zhenwen Dai]

* Merge pull request 719 from ajgpitch/install_fixes. [Max Zwiessele]

FIXES - for installing under Python 3.7

* Recythonised c files. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Merge branch 'fix-state_space_cython-misc' into install_fixes. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Type fixed - Q_square_root_dict. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Merge branch 'fix-state_space_cython-misc' into install_fixes. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Merge branch 'devel' into fix-state_space_cython-misc. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Merge branch 'build_ext-source_pyx' into install_fixes. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Merge branch 'devel' into build_ext-source_pyx. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Merge branch 'fix-cython-import_array' into install_fixes. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Merge branch 'devel' into fix-cython-import_array. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Fix the version number in appveyor.yml. [Zhenwen Dai]

* Fix the version number in setup.cfg. [Dai]

* Merge branch 'deploy' into devel. [Zhenwen Dai]

* Merge pull request 656 from SheffieldML/devel. [Max Zwiessele]

push PR to deploy

* Bump the version: 1.9.5 -> 1.9.6. [Zhenwen Dai]

* Merge pull request 691 from vlavorini/devel. [Zhenwen Dai]

Added missing columns (:), fixed indentation

* Added missing columns (:), fixed indentation. [Vincenzo Lavorini]

* Fix the bug in the prediction of full covariance matrix (702) [Zhenwen Dai]

* fix the bug in the prediction of full covariance matrix

* Fix the test cases.

* update the version requirement for matplotlib

* Merge branch 'build_ext-source_pyx' into install_fixes. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Ext sources changed to pyx. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Merge branch 'fix-cython-import_array' into install_fixes. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Np.import_array() added to files where cimport numpy used. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Add missing colons and fix indentation. [Alexander Pitchford]

* Pkg: changelog. [mzwiessele]

New

* Student-t processes 525. [mzwiessele]

Fix

* Merge 514. [mzwiessele]

* Merge. [mzwiessele]

Other

* Bump version: 1.9.4 → 1.9.5. [mzwiessele]

* SDE: removed some unnecessary comments. [Alex Grigorievskiy]

* SDE: Remove sde kernels from the _src folder. [Alex Grigorievskiy]

* STATE-SPACE: Recent modifications to state-space inference, including bug fixes in state-space kernels. [Alex Grigorievskiy]

* TEST: Correcting message for test skipping. This is normal that this test does not work and hence skipped. [Alex Grigorievskiy]

* Solved incorrect parameter assignments (causing test faillure) [Joachim van der Herten]

* Added some shifts to the degrees of freedom parameter. [Joachim van der Herten]

* Removal of print statements. [Joachim van der Herten]

* Implementation of student-t processes. [Joachim van der Herten]

* Pkg: changelog. [mzwiessele]