v0.24.0

0.24.0 (2026-10-23)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Custom performance contracts must use schema 3. Replace maximum_ratio with dense_minimum_sources, dense_maximum_ratio and sparse_maximum_ratio.

🚀 Features

• measure source-finder scaling across sparse and dense sectors (#196) (bee8d4d)

⚡ Performance

• hold less memory for the local noise of large images (#193) (4e82ce0)
• keep every Dask worker busy on sectors up to 5,000 pixels (#200) (71f6234)

📚 Documentation

• record the 0.23.0 release (#195) (fe1e782)
• record the cluster's nodes for the scaling model (#201) (4fbe855)
• record the dense sector's full protocol and stage profiles (#199) (a735049)
• record the source-count ladder's matched ratios (#198) (dcc10bb)