Release v12.3.0

[ravi-kumar-pilla]

Description

Resolves #2552

Development notes

Release 12.3.0

Major features and improvements

• Support for node previews (mermaid, text and image). (Support for node previews (mermaid, text and image) #2554)

QA notes

• All tests should pass
• Test for ESM bundle by using NotebookVisualizer, cd demo-project -> kedro jupyter notebook -> Create a new notebook and try:

from kedro_viz.integrations.notebook import NotebookVisualizer
NotebookVisualizer(pipelines['__default__'], js_url="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kedro-org/kedro-viz@release/12.3.0/esm/kedro-viz.mjs", 
                   css_url="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kedro-org/kedro-viz@release/12.3.0/esm/kedro-viz.css").show()

Checklist

• Read the contributing guidelines
• Opened this PR as a 'Draft Pull Request' if it is work-in-progress
• Updated the documentation to reflect the code changes
• Added new entries to the RELEASE.md file
• Added tests to cover my changes

[ElenaKhaustova]

🙌

[rashidakanchwala]

Hi, could we pls add these 2 to the release notes

• Fixed an internal compatibility fallback for importlib_metadata imports.
• Removed a duplicate changed() implementation and cleaned up unused code.

[ravi-kumar-pilla]

• Fixed an internal compatibility fallback for importlib_metadata imports.
• Removed a duplicate changed() implementation and cleaned up unused code.

I saw these but since its internal, I did not include.

[rashidakanchwala]

So we include them for our tracking purpose, maybe just this one then.

Fix compatibility fallback for importlib_metadata imports.