Prepare release 2.7.0

Author: PaulWestenthanner

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-unreleased
+v.2.7.0
 ==========
 
 * Refactor: Use poetry as packaging tool
 * Refactor: Add more typing
+* Refactor: Add format checks
 * Change `feature_names_in_` and `feature_names_out_` to `np.ndarray` instead of lists.
-* Breaking: Do not allow scalar values as target variable (of length 1) anymore
-* Breaking: Force dataframe column names to be strings.
+* Fixed: Support python 3.11, 3.12, 3.13.
+* Breaking: Drop support for python 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9
+* Breaking: No longer add intercept in contrast coding schemes.
 
 v2.6.4
 ======

category_encoders/__init__.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 from category_encoders.target_encoder import TargetEncoder
 from category_encoders.woe import WOEEncoder
 
-__version__ = '2.6.4'
+__version__ = '2.7.0'
 
 __author__ = 'willmcginnis', 'cmougan', 'paulwestenthanner'
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "category_encoders"
-version = "2.6.4"
+version = "2.7.0"
 description = "A package for encoding categorical variables for machine learning"
 authors = ["PaulWestenthanner <paul@westenthanner.dev>"]
 license = "BSD-3"