Release 0.5.0

Features Added

• Added clone method to simplify making copies of objects (#469).

Performance Improvement

• Fixed cyclic memory reference that lead to memory leak in copy.deepcopy (#514).
• Fixed O(N²) operation in how append works for object collections like Cells (#556).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug with parsing an EO input (#551).
• Fixed a bug raised in an edge case when editing cell geometry, by making the error clearer (#558).
• Fixed bug with having a shortcut in a cell fill (#552).
• Fixed bug where file streams couldn't actually be read (#553).

Support

• Added support for Python 3.13, and removed support for Python 3.8, and officially added support NumPy 1 & 2 (#548).