Release 0.29.0 (#6358)

Release PR for 0.29.0

* version number bump
* changelog

README.md

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 > A unified interface for machine learning with time series
 
-:rocket: **Version 0.28.1 out now!** [Check out the release notes here](https://www.sktime.net/en/latest/changelog.html).
+:rocket: **Version 0.29.0 out now!** [Check out the release notes here](https://www.sktime.net/en/latest/changelog.html).
 
 sktime is a library for time series analysis in Python. It provides a unified interface for multiple time series learning tasks. Currently, this includes time series classification, regression, clustering, annotation, and forecasting. It comes with [time series algorithms](https://www.sktime.net/en/stable/estimator_overview.html) and [scikit-learn] compatible tools to build, tune and validate time series models.
 

docs/source/changelog.rst

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 For upcoming changes and next releases, see our `milestones <https://github.com/sktime/sktime/milestones?direction=asc&sort=due_date&state=open>`_.
 For our long-term plan, see our :ref:`roadmap`.
 
+
+Version 0.29.0 - 2024-04-28
+---------------------------
+
+Maintenance release:
+
+* scheduled deprecations and change actions
+* optimization of test collection speed
+
+For last non-maintenance content updates, see 0.28.1.
+
+Dependency changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* ``sktime`` now requires ``scikit-base>=0.6.1`` (core dependency), this has changed
+  from previously no lower bound.
+
+Deprecations and removals
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Forecasting
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+``cINNForecaster`` has been renamed to ``CINNForecaster``.
+The estimator is available under its past name at its
+current location until 0.30.0, when the old name will be removed.
+To prepare for the name change,
+replace any imports of ``cINNForecaster`` with imports of ``CINNForecaster``.
+
+Transformations
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* The ``n_jobs`` parameter in the ``Catch22`` transformer has been removed.
+  Users should pass parallelization backend parameters via ``set_config`` instead.
+  To specify ``n_jobs``, use any of the backends supporting it in the
+  ``backend:parallel`` configuration, such as ``"loky"`` or ``"multithreading"``.
+  The ``n_jobs`` parameter should be passed via the
+  ``backend:parallel:params`` configuration.
+  To retain previous behaviour, with a specific setting of ``n_jobs=x``,
+  use ``set_config(**{"backend:parallel": "loky", "backend:parallel:params": {"n_jobs": x}})``.
+
+Contents
+~~~~~~~~
+
+* [MNT] change cycle (0.29.0) for renaming ``cINNForecaster`` to ``CINNForecaster`` (:pr:`6238`) :user:`geetu040`
+* [MNT] speed up test collection - cache differential testing switch utilities (:pr:`6357`) :user:`fkiraly`, :user:`yarnabrina`
+* [MNT] temporary skip of estimators involved in timeouts #6344 (:pr:`6361`) :user:`fkiraly`
+* [MNT] 0.29.0 deprecations and change actions (:pr:`6350`) :user:`fkiraly`
+
+Contributors
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+:user:`fkiraly`,
+:user:`geetu040`,
+:user:`yarnabrina`
+
+
 Version 0.28.1 - 2024-04-25
 ---------------------------
 

pyproject.toml

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 [project]
 name = "sktime"
-version = "0.28.1"
+version = "0.29.0"
 description = "A unified framework for machine learning with time series"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = [

sktime/__init__.py

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 """sktime."""
 
-__version__ = "0.28.1"
+__version__ = "0.29.0"
 
 __all__ = ["show_versions"]