explosion/spaCy v3.7.3

v3.7.3: new textcat layers and fo/nn language extensions

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✨ New features and improvements

• Improve NumPy 2.0 compatibility (#13103).
• Added language extensions for Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk (#13116).
• Add new TextCatReduce.v1 layer for text classification (#13181).
• Add new TextCatParametricAttention.v1 layer for text classification (#13201).
• Use build module for creating model packages by default (#13109).
• Add support for code loading to the benchmark speed command (#13247).
• Extend lexical attributes for English with more numericals (#13106).
• Warn about reloading dependencies after downloading models (#13081).

🔴 Bug fixes

• #13259, #13304: Correctness fixes for multiprocessing support in Language.pipe.
• #13187: Typing and documentation fixes for Doc.
• #13086: Update Tokenizer.explain for special cases with whitespace.
• #13068: Fix displaCy span stacking.
• #13149: Add spacy.TextCatBOW.v3 to use the fixed SparseLinear layer.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Many improvements and updates to the LLM documentation.
• Update trf_data examples and the transformer pipeline design section.

👥 Contributors

@adrianeboyd, @danieldk, @evornov, @honnibal, @ines, @lise-brinck, @ridge-kimani, @rmitsch, @shadeMe, @svlandeg