Release 5.0.0.dev5

Author: LarsAsplund

docs/news.d/1078.misc.rst

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+Bug Fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
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+- Added workarounds for Visualizer restart and stability issues. (:vunit_issue:`899`)
+- Fixed array_axis_vcs example. (:vunit_issue:`1082`)
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+
+Deprecations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Dropped support for Python 3.7 which reached end-of-life mid 2023. (:vunit_issue:`1091`)
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+
+Features
+~~~~~~~~
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+- Provided a unique base seed to every simulation. From that base seed any number of unique seed can derived
+  to initialize the random number generators in the testbench. Unique seeds increase the test coverage for
+  randomized tests over time as they are executed repeatedly by the user and the CI. The seed can be overrideen
+  from the command line with the --seed option in order to reproduce failing tests. (:vunit_issue:`1089`)
+
+
+Miscellaneous
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Added shebang to setup.py. (:vunit_issue:`1078`)
+- Updated the setup GHDL action used in the GitHub CI. (:vunit_issue:`1092`)