Litdata

What's Changed
* Bump mosaicml-streaming from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1 by dependabot in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/346
* Adds check for existence of dataset path before loading index file by bhimrazy in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/350
* Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/352
* Bump coverage from 7.5.3 to 7.6.1 by dependabot in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/345
* bump/ci: update to `0.11.7` by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/355
* Update README.md by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/356
* tchaton patch 1 by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/357
* Update README.md by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/358
* Update README.md by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/359
* Fix: Prevent multiple processes from copying the same file when using… by dallmann-uniwue in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/353
* LitData release 0.2.26 by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/360

New Contributors
* dallmann-uniwue made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/353

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.25...v0.2.26

What's Changed
* ci: drop dependabot by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/361
* azure storage options by mohanreddypmr in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/365
* switch `lightning-cloud` to lightning SDK by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/369
* remove not violated bandit rules from ignore by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/372
* fixing typos in errors & docs by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/371
* reduce unnecessary `pass` by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/373
* fixing docstrings by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/374
* improve hint readability by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/376
* Bump version to 0.26.dev by rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/378


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.26...v0.2.26.dev

What's Changed
* fix(ci): prune duplicated tests/checks by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/333
* fix(lint): prune invalid configurations by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/334
* ci: enable testing `py3.10` & prune unused workflows by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/335
* bump: use the latest/fixed version of `RequirementCache` by Borda in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/336
* Fix: Ensure Compression Algorithm is Installed Before Reading Compressed Data by bhimrazy in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/342
* Bump: release version 0.2.25 by bhimrazy in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/343


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.24...v0.2.25

What's Changed
* Update README.md by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/319
* Revert "Feat: Add support for reading LitData dataset published to HF" by bhimrazy in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/320
* Expose max download param by animan42 in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/323
* Dummy unit test max download by animan42 in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/325
* Nitpick: random state best practice by deependujha in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/326
* Ref/minor fixes by bhimrazy in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/329
* Bugfix: inconsistent streaming dataloader state (specific to StreamingDataset) by bhimrazy in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/318
* Bump: release version 0.2.24 by bhimrazy in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/332

New Contributors
* animan42 made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/323

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.23...v0.2.24

What's Changed
* Update README.md by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/303
* Fix StreamingDataset.get_len(num_workers=0) by senarvi in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/311
* Feat: Add support for storing and reading dataset from HF by bhimrazy in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/304
* Speed up the search for chunks to skip deletion for by awaelchli in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/312
* Feat: Clear cache if optimized dataset changes by deependujha in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/308
* Added a test for the bug with data loader length with num_workers=0 by senarvi in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/314
* Bump: release version 0.2.23 by deependujha in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/315


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.22...v0.2.23

What's Changed
* Add support for passing the start_method to optimize by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/298
* Add compression example in the readme by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/300
* Enforce passing item_loader when customizing underlying storage format by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/296
* Optimization when there is no data to download by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/301
* Pre release 0.2.22 by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/302


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.21...v0.2.22