Release v1.4.3

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: katosh

README.md

@@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ ____
 Release Notes
 -------------
 
- ### Next Release
+ ### Version 1.4.3
  * Avoid warning about coloring in `plot_trajectories`
  * Fix: forward `eigvec_key` to fallback method in `early_cell()`
- * Performance optimizations (PR #176):
+ * Performance optimizations (thanks to [@svdrecbd](https://github.com/svdrecbd) for PR #176):
    - Faster max-min waypoint sampling: O(N·K²) → O(N·K)
    - PCA slicing optimization to avoid redundant recomputation
    - Sparse LU solver for absorption probabilities

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "palantir"
-version = "1.4.2"
+version = "1.4.3"
 description = "Palantir for modeling continuous cell state and cell fate choices in single cell data"
 authors = [
     {name = "Palantir development team", email = "manu.talanki@gmail.com"}

src/palantir/version.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     __version__ = importlib.metadata.version("palantir")
 except importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
     # Package is not installed, fall back to hardcoded version
-    __version__ = "1.4.2"  # Should match pyproject.toml
+    __version__ = "1.4.3"  # Should match pyproject.toml
 
 __author__ = "Palantir development team"
 __author_email__ = "manu.talanki@gmail.com"