Release v1.12.0

• Added: support for Python 3.14
• Added: support for pandas>=3.0
• Added: support for the Artifactory backend on Python 3.13
• Added: num_workers argument to audb.available().
  This decreases lookup time on MinIO/S3 backends
  proportional to the number of workers
• Added: extra animation to the database name
  when loading or publishing data
  with verbose=True
• Changed: depend on audformat>=1.4.2
• Changed: depend on audbackend[all]>=2.4.0
• Changed: speed up looking for missing files
  in audb.load_media()
• Changed: speed up lookups of multiple files
  in the dependency table
• Changed: speed up import audb
  by using lazy imports
• Changed: speed up audb.versions()
  and audb.latest_version()
  on MinIO/S3 backends
• Changed: only acquire lock for cache folder
  if the stored database is not complete
• Changed: exclude tests/ and docs/ folders from the Python package
• Removed: Python 3.9 support
• Fixed: error message for missing files in audb.publish().
  It does now state clearly
  that files are missing and not tables
• Fixed: ensure we start with a clean temporary folder
  when downloading files
• Fixed: only scan for missing files
  when we already have some files in the cache