v.2.4.0

Improvements

• Replace random forest from pyrfr with random forest from sklearn (#1246)
• Submit trials to runners in SMBO instead of running configs directly (#937)
• target_function becomes optional in Facade when using ask and tell exclusively (#946)
• Added adaptive capping for algorithm configuration with runtime as target (#1247)
• Readded UCB as an acquisition function (#1255)

Documentation

• Ask and tell without initial design and warmstarting
• Random forest replacement (sklearn instead of pyrfr)
• Deterministic configuration of SMAC
• Add a description of parallelization in the documentation (#1226)

Examples

• Add target function with additional arguments (#1134)
• Adapt parallelization example (#1214)

Bugfixes

• Ask and tell without initial design may no longer return a config from the initial design - if it is not "removed".
• Addressing situations where the acquisition function suggests configurations that have already been sampled in prior iterations (#1216)

Misc

• Rename retries to max_new_config_tries in ConfigSelector (#1207)