Added
- A new Escher binding independent of the original one [Escher-custom]
- A new Visualization option that displays cobra Objects as a Force Directed Graph
- Introduced [Galata](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/tree/main/galata) as a new test suite
- Galata automates testing of visualisation as it can compare reference images with outpus created in Jupyter Notebooks
Changed
- Type checks
- Reintroduced MyPy as Ruff does not check types according to [ruff's FAQ](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/faq/#how-does-ruff-compare-to-mypy-or-pyright-or-pyre)
- GitHub Actions
- GitHub Actions now run tests on Windows and macOS once again
- New workflow for the creation of Galata reference images
- GitHub Action has been divided into smaller sections to provide a better overview of failed steps
- Documentation
- Now uses [Furo](https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo?tab=readme-ov-file) as a theme
- Provides additional live examples of the new visualization options
- Tests
- Tests no longer check for specific database versions, this is only done in a controlled manner for the db_version module
- Tests for visualization using Escher now use Escher-Custom
- Several visualization tests were replaced by an equivalent test using Galata
- environment.yml
- Some dependencies now use their conda-forge package to reduce build time
- 'sphinx-autoapi' was set to a dev version to be able to create the documentation using python 3.12
- Maintenance
- Several adjustments due to announced deprecations