New features and enhancements
- Introduce a [`ui.slide_item`](https://nicegui.io/documentation/slide_item) element (#4282, 4358 by void-gfly, thetableman, falkoschindler)
- Introduce a [`ui.rating`](https://nicegui.io/documentation/rating) element (#4347 by thetableman, falkoschindler)
- Derive [`ui.drawer`, `ui.left_drawer` and `ui.right_drawer`](https://nicegui.io/documentation/page_layout) from `ValueElement` (#4320, 4334 by xaptronic, codingpaula, falkoschindler)
- Allow to ignore non-existing files when using [`app.add_static_file`](https://nicegui.io/documentation/section_pages_routing) and [`app.add_media_file`](https://nicegui.io/documentation/section_pages_routing#add_directory_of_media_files) (4406, 4411 by ed2050, rodja)
- Add support for WMS layers in [`ui.leaflet`](https://nicegui.io/documentation/leaflet) (#4360 by platinops, falkoschindler)
- Add translations for the connectivity popup (4324 by Yuerchu, falkoschindler)
- Allow copying objects with bindable properties and preserve bindability (3995, 4251 by balex89, falkoschindler)
- Define autopep8 rules in pyproject.toml (4368 by EmberLightVFX, codingpaula, falkoschindler)
Bugfixes
- Wait for [`ui.leaflet`](https://nicegui.io/documentation/leaflet) to load before loading plugins (#4395, 4401 by anthony-arnold)
- Improve update of notifications (4373, 4379 by pedropg898, falkoschindler)
- Await the `delete` method when working with a [Redis storage](https://nicegui.io/documentation/storage#redis_storage) (4339 by enigmanoid, rodja)
- Explicitly use UTF-8 encoding where possible (4364 by masushin, falkoschindler)
- Fix initialization of [`app.storage.general`](https://nicegui.io/documentation/storage) (#4352, 4355, 4374 by SHDocter, zobac, rod7760, rodja)
Documentation
- Use a query parameter for the redirect path in the ["Authentication" example](https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/tree/main/examples/authentication/) (#4388 by tonyallan, falkoschindler)
- Explain why the [global scope refreshable demo](https://nicegui.io/documentation/refreshable#global_scope) doesn't work on nicegui.io (4338 by me21, falkoschindler)
Dependencies
- Bump [nicegui-highcharts](https://nicegui.io/documentation/highchart) from 2.0.2 to 2.1.0 (#4362 by dependabot)
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