* origin/main:
  [MNT] skpro as a soft dependency (sktime#5273)
  [DOC] Correct code block formatting for pre-commit install command (sktime#5377)
  [ENH] parallelization backend calls in utility module - part 2, backend parameter passing (sktime#5311)
  [MNT] [Dependabot](deps): Bump stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action from 4 to 5 (sktime#5373)
  [MNT] python 3.12 compatibility - replace `distutils` calls with equivalent functionality (sktime#5376)
  [DOC] `sktime` intro notebook (sktime#3793)
  [ENH] Skip unnecessary fit in `ForecastX` if inner `forecaster_y` ignores `X` (sktime#5353)
  [ENH] refactor parallelization backend calls in utility module (sktime#5268)
  [ENH] ARCH model (arch package) Issue sktime#2173 (sktime#5326)
  [ENH] add error message return to `deep_equals` assert in `test_reconstruct_identical`  (sktime#4927)
  [DOC] Added all feature names to docstring for DateTimeFeatures class (sktime#5283)
  [BUG] fix `STLForecaster` tag `ignores-exogenous-X` to be correctly set for composites (sktime#5365)
  [BUG] Fix inconsistent date/time index in `plot_windows` sktime#4919 (sktime#5321)

* origin/main:
  [MNT] [Dependabot](deps-dev): Update arch requirement from <6.2.0,>=5.6.0 to >=5.6.0,<6.3.0 (sktime#5392)
  [BUG] `statsforecast 1.6.0` compatibility - fix argument differences between `sktime` and `statsforecast` (sktime#5393)
  [BUG] `statsforecast 1.6.0` compatibility - in `statsforecast` adapter, fixing `RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration` (sktime#5317)
  [DOC] fix typo in classification notebook (sktime#5390)
  [DOC] fix broken docstring example of `AlignerDtwNumba` (sktime#5374)
  [ENH] incremental testing to also test if any parent class in sktime has changed (sktime#5379)
  [ENH] simplified delegator interface to `dtw-python` based dynamic time warping distances (sktime#5348)
  [ENH] `YfromX` - probabilistic forecasts (sktime#5271)
  [ENH] removed py37.dockerfile and update doc entry for CI (sktime#5356)
  [ENH] lucky dynamic time warping distance and aligner (sktime#5341)
  [ENH] sensible default `_get_distance_matrix` for time series aligners (sktime#5347)
  [ENH] delegator for pairwise time series distances and kernels (sktime#5340)

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* origin/auto-format-pyproject: (27 commits)
  added new hook
  format using new hook
  added new hook
  [DOC] fixing docstring example for `FhPlexForecaster` (sktime#4931)
  Revert "[MNT] instant release action" (sktime#5421)
  [MNT] instant release action (sktime#5419)
  Release 0.24.0 (sktime#5403)
  🚀 python 3.12 🚀  (sktime#5345)
  Revert "[MNT] instant release action" (sktime#5415)
  [MNT] 0.24.0 deprecations and change actions (sktime#5404)
  [MNT] [Dependabot](deps-dev): Update holidays requirement from <0.34,>=0.29 to >=0.29,<0.35 (sktime#5342)
  [MNT] Migrate from `pykalman` to `pykalman-bardo` (sktime#5277)
  [MNT] [Dependabot](deps-dev): Update skpro requirement from <2.1.0,>=2.0.0 to >=2.0.0,<2.2.0 (sktime#5396)
  [MNT] [Dependabot](deps-dev): Update numba requirement from <0.58,>=0.53 to >=0.53,<0.59 (sktime#5319)
  [MNT] update numba requirement from <0.58,>=0.53 to >=0.53,<0.59"" (sktime#5299)
  [MNT] instant release action (sktime#5265)
  Release 0.23.1 - omitted changelog commit (sktime#5413)
  Release 0.23.1 (sktime#5402)
  [ENH] Refactor of `DateTimeFeatures` tests to `pytest` fixtures (sktime#5397)
  [ENH] remove legacy except in `TestAllEstimators` for `predict_proba` (sktime#5386)
  ...

This reverts commit 7fb8b5d.

This reverts commit b06fc6f.

* origin/main:
  [MNT] Auto format pyproject (sktime#5425)