BREOS 0.4.2

Purpose

This is a minor patch, removing dependencies and improving onboarding. I tried dependabot but realised it is a bit too much for now. Moved it to security-only!

What's Changed

• Sync 0.4.1 release back to develop by @Str4vinci in #80
• Improve 0.4.2 onboarding and repository health by @Str4vinci in #78
• Bump the python-minor-and-patch group with 12 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #84
• Bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #83
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #81
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #82
• Remove Dependabot version-update config (security-only) by @Str4vinci in #89
• Drop unused Excel and Arrow dependencies by @Str4vinci in #88
• Make BLAST parity fixtures reproducible by @Str4vinci in #86
• Add internal degradation lifecycle protocol by @Str4vinci in #87
• Prepare 0.4.2 release by @Str4vinci in #90

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #84

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.4.2