Release 0.8.0 (#1062)

* set the new variables and matching as the default
* adapt tests
* update all build actions
* temporarily remove matlab tests on windows
* Skip free-threaded builds

Author: lfarv

.github/workflows/build-python-wheels.yml

@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-13, macos-latest]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-15-intel, macos-latest]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           # Necessary to fetch tags and allow setuptools_scm
           # see: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/issues/480
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ jobs:
           python-version: 3.12
 
       - name: Build wheels
-        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v3.2
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v3.4
 
       - name: Upload wheels
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: wheels-${{ matrix.os }}
           path: ./wheelhouse/*.whl
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           # Necessary to fetch tags and allow setuptools_scm
           # see: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/issues/480
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
         run: python -m build --sdist
 
       - name: Upload sdist
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: tar.gz
           path: ./dist/*.tar.gz

.github/workflows/documentation.yml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           # Necessary to fetch tags and allow setuptools_scm
           # see: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/issues/480

.github/workflows/matlab-tests.yml

@@ -20,11 +20,13 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
+#       remove windows tests until it is corrected
+#       os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
 
     steps:
 
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
     - name: Set up python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v6

.github/workflows/python-tests.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
 
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       uses: actions/setup-python@v6