release-0.8.38

The major change here is the addition of Jelmer Bot's branch detection which allows long flares/branches to be separated into distinct clusters. This is a fairly major advance and should be useful for a number of important use cases.

What's Changed

• MAINT: Support NumPy 2 and build Python 3.12 wheels by @seberg in #644
• Remove cython from install requires by @trxcllnt in #624
• Modify description of min_samples by @chenxinye in #620
• Add branch detection functionality by @JelmerBot in #648
• Update _hdbscan_tree.pyx by @lmcinnes in #649

New Contributors

• @seberg made their first contribution in #644
• @trxcllnt made their first contribution in #624
• @JelmerBot made their first contribution in #648

Full Changelog: release-0.8.37...release-0.8.38