v24.10

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New features:

• Sounddevice inputs now allow for user-settable sample rates and precision types
• Block-wise frequency domain processing
  • Introduces new acoular.base module with abstract base classes:
    ~acoular.base.Generator, ~acoular.base.SpectraGenerator, ~acoular.base.InOut,
    ~acoular.base.TimeOut, ~acoular.base.SpectraOut
  • Introduces new module acoular.fprocess including new frequency domain processing
    classes: ~acoular.fprocess.RFFT, ~acoular.fprocess.IRFFT,
    ~acoular.fprocess.AutoPowerSpectra, ~acoular.fprocess.CrossPowerSpectra
  • Introduces new module acoular.process including general purpose (domain invariant)
    processing classes: ~acoular.process.Cache, ~acoular.process.Average,
    ~acoular.process.SampleSplitter
  • Rename ~acoular.tprocess.MaskedTimeInOut to ~acoular.tprocess.MaskedTimeOut
  • Deprecates: ~acoular.base.TimeInOut, ~acoular.fprocess.FFTSpectra,
    ~acoular.process.TimeAverage, ~acoular.tprocess.MaskedTimeInOut,
    ~acoular.process.TimeCache
  • Adds unittests: test_process.py, test_fprocess.py
  • Adds documentation example: example_fft.py
    • Allows more platforms to build the docs files including Linux, macOS, and Windows

Bugfixes

• Flush file in ~acoular.tprocess.TimeCache to prevent data loss/corruption
• Fixes use of already deprecated traits
• Fixes import order to avoid deactivation of parallelization in numba
• Fixes numpy.matlib deprecation warning

Documentation

• Updates literature and adds sphinxcontrib-bibtex extension to support BibTeX citation
• Cleans up and structures the conf.py file and fixes missing Acoular logo in documentation
• Fixes missing and incorrect docstrings for result methods in ~acoular.tbeamform
• Improves explanation of installation dependencies
• Adds explanation on how to test specific Python versions
• Tests documentation build on all latest platforms

Internal

• Refactoring of classes in ~acoular.tbeamform (moves buffer logic away from Beamformer classes)
  • Adds new ~acoular.tools.utils.SamplesBuffer class located in ~acoular.tools.utils
• Replaces markdown-link-check with lychee:
  • Faster CI (written in RUST)
  • Allows more files to be checked, including .rst files in documentation
  • Adds a cron job that runs daily
• Sets final version for several deprecated traits (to be removed in version 25.01)
• Uses scipy.linalg consistently over numpy.linalg
• Drops support for Python 3.8 and 3.9
• Enables Numpy version > 2.0
• Runs unittests on the latest macOS

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