v0.12.0

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ASPIRE v0.12.0 is minor release, adding new scientific features, components, and several improvements.

This release provides the following features:

• MicrographSimulation component
• MicrographSources with CoordinateSource integration
• Data Downloader utility (via pooch)
• WeightedVolumesEstimator for heterogeneous 3D reconstruction
• TIFF Image loading support
• Common Lines method for C2 symmetry
• DiagMatrix operator

Bug fixes:

• clean_image caching
• Apple unit test patch (following numpy updates)
• Rename PolarBasis2D to PolarFT and consistently use compact (real symmetric) representation

Systems/CI Updates:

• Add Python 3.11, drop Python 3.7
• Modernize Python packaging via pyproject.toml
• Warnings cleanup
• Migrate several tests towards pytest.fixture
• Modular and pytest.fixture based tests for Common Lines methods
• Reduce APPLE unit test time
• Apple M1/M2 arm-64 install documentation
• cufinufft v1.3 final adoption
• GRPC dependency updates

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This discussion was created from the release v0.12.0.