v0.7.0
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This minor release updates the mimumum supported python to ``python = "^3.8"``,
addresses dependency vulnerabilities, and updates typing to conform with current
mypy and pytest standards.

Updates / New Features
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Build

* New minimum supported python changed to ``python = "^3.8"``.

CI

* Updated codecov action version to 3.

* Added explicit use of codecov token to facilitate successful coverage
  submission.

* Updated publish/release CI workflow.

Dependencies

* Updated ``notebook`` dependency due to a vulnerability alert.

* Periodic update of locked dep versions within abstract version constraints.

* Updated sphinx versions to fix local documentation building issue.

* Updated python minimum requirement to 3.8 (up from 3.6). This involved a
  number of updates and bifurcations of abstract requirements, an update to
  pinned versions for development/CI, and expansion of CI to cover python
  versions 3.10 and 3.11 (latest current release).

Fixes
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Docs

* Added missing step to the release process about creating the release on
  GitHub's Releases section.

Examples

* Added a note to each example about restarting the runtime for compatibility
  with Colab, as well as a step to create a data directory if necessary.