Pylife

Improvements

* Massive performance improvement when reading element connectivity by
`odbclient.` Note that also `odbserver` needs to be updated in its
environment. (121)

* Fix some warnings on import

New features

* New method `LoadCollective.histogram()` (107)

Improvements

* Sanitize checks for Wöhler analysis (108)
* Error messages when odbclient gets unsupported element types (64)
* Improved documentation

Bugfixes

* `MeshSignal` now allows for additional indeces (111)

Breaking changes

* Change fracture load levels used for slope `k_1` and scatter `T_N`
estimation. Now only fractures in the `finite_zone` are used for estimation
and not all fractures (in `finite_zone` and `infinite_zone`). Change based on
findings in DIN50100:2022-12. (80, 101)

(see [this discussion](https://github.com/boschresearch/pylife/discussions/104))

* Rename `FatigueData.fatigue_limit` to `finite_infinite_transition`

* The Bayesian Wöhler analyzer has been shutdown (74) (see [this
discussion](https://github.com/boschresearch/pylife/discussions/104))


New features

* Add option to manually set `fatigue_limit` (now renamed) for Woehler curve
estimation. (73)


Improvements / bug fixes

* Rainflow counters work with `pd.Series` of all index type (69)
* Improved documentation
* Fixed confusing load matrix after mean stress transformation (105)
* Massive performance improvements of three point and four point rainflow
counters.
* The Wöhler analyzer now ignores irrelevant pure runout levels (100)
* Support numpy>=2.0.0

New features

* History output for `odbclient`

* Introduce `WoehlerCurve.miner_original()`

Breaking changes

* Non-destructive miner modifiers of `WoehlerCurve`

The methods `WoehlerCurve.miner_elementary()` and
`WoehlerCurve.miner_haibach()` now return modified copies of the original
WoehlerCurve object, rather than modifying the original.

Minor bugfix release

* switch to vtk > 9
* fix two index bugs in gradient.py and hotspot.py
* support for python 3.11
* pandas-2.0 compliant

A minor release, mostly dependency related updates and documentation
improvements.