v23.5rc0

Bug fixes

• Realign 'count' increment in CasadiSolver._integrate() (#2986)

Features

• Enable multithreading in IDAKLU solver (#2947)
• If a solution contains cycles and steps, the cycle number and step number are now saved when solution.save_data() is called (#2931)
• Experiments can now be given a start_time to define when each step should be triggered (#2616)

Optimizations

• Test JaxSolver's compatibility with Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11 (#2958)
• Update Jax (0.4.8) and JaxLib (0.4.7) compatibility (#2927)
• Removed importlib_metadata as a required dependency for user installations (#3050)

Bug fixes

• Fix pybamm_install_odes and update the required SUNDIALS version (#2958)
• Fixed a bug where all data included in a BPX was incorrectly assumed to be given as a function of time.(#2957)
• Remove brew install for Mac from the recommended developer installation options for SUNDIALS (#2925)
• Fix bpx.py to correctly generate parameters for "lumped" thermal model (#2860)

Breaking changes

• Deprecate functionality to load parameter set from a csv file. Parameter sets must now be provided as python dictionaries (#2959)