✨ New features and improvements

• Allow Pydantic v2 using transitional v1 support (#12888).
• Add find-function CLI for finding locations of registered functions (#12757).
• Add extra spacy[cuda12x] for cupy-cuda12x (#12890).
• Extend tests for init config and train CLI (#12173).
• Switch from distutils to setuptools/sysconfig (#12853).

🔴 Bug fixes

• 12817: Escape annotated HTML tags in displaCy span renderer.

• 12857: Display model's full base version string in incompatibility warning.

• 12882: Update <br> tags in displaCy.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Various documentation corrections and updates.
• New additions to spaCy Universe:
  • OdyCy
  • SaysWho

👥 Contributors

@adrianeboyd, @afriedman412, @arplusman, @bdura, @connorbrinton, @honnibal, @ines, @it176131, @pmbaumgartner, @rmitsch, @shadeMe, @svlandeg, @thomashacker, @victorialslocum, @x-tabdeveloping