v0.26.0

This is a maintainance release that adds support for Python 3.14 and updates the minimum supported version of dependencies:

Package	Minimum Version
Python	3.11
pandas	2.0.0
osqp	1.0.2

Enhancements

• Port from numpy’s legacy numpy.random.RandomState to numpy.random.Generator (#554).
• Add object dtype support to sksurv.preprocessing.OneHotEncoder (#556).
• Add support for pandas string dtype (#558).
• Add support for osqp 1.0.0 (#562).
• Upgrade Eigen to 3.4.1.
• Add support for copy-on-write for pandas 2.3.0 and later (#556).

Documentation

• Corrected typo – changed non-singular to singular – in penalized Cox models user guide (#552).

Backwards incompatible changes

• Require at least for Python 3.11.
• Require at least pandas 2.0.0.
• Require at least osqp 1.0.

New Contributors

• @jc271828 made their first contribution in #552

Full Changelog: v0.25.0...v0.26.0