Version 0.16.0a2

What's Changed

• Bump CodSpeedHQ/action from 4.18.1 to 4.18.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #488
• Bump actions/checkout from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #487
• Bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #486
• Fix backward_forward silently swallowing nan values instead of raising an error by @alihamdan in #490
• Add a weighted merit function to the newton_goldstein solver by @alihamdan in #489
• Version 0.16.0a2 by @alihamdan in #491

Full Changelog: v0.16.0a1...v0.16.0a2