Release v0.7.6 · scikit-hep/pyhf

This is a patch release from v0.7.5 → v0.7.6.

Fixes

For the JAX backend access jax.config from the jax top level API to avoid support issues with jax and jaxlib v0.4.20+. (PR #2376)
Add information in the warnings for pyhf.infer.test_statistics.qmu and pyhf.infer.test_statistics.qmu_tilde that provides users with the higher level pyhf.infer APIs kwarg to set the correct test statistic. (PR #2390)
Correct the variable assignment for the one-sigma and two-sigma limit band
artists in pyhf.contrib.viz.brazil.plot_brazil_band to match the stated return structure. (PR #2411)
In the pyhf.infer module, correct the fixed_params type in the docs to be to tuple or list. (PR #2420)

v0.7.6 benefited from contributions from:

ci(backport): Update GitHub Actions by @matthewfeickert in #2421
ci: Use --find-links to install jax and jaxlib on Python 3.7 by @matthewfeickert in #2422
fix(backport): Access jax.config from jax by @matthewfeickert in #2423
chore(backport): Update pre-commit hooks by @matthewfeickert in #2424
docs(backport): Update citations and README by @matthewfeickert in #2425
feat(backport): Improve warnings for qmu and qmu_tilde for the set POI bounds by @matthewfeickert in #2426
fix(backport): Correct variable assignment for limit band artists by @matthewfeickert in #2427
docs(backport): Correct fixed_params type to tuple or list by @matthewfeickert in #2428
docs: Add v0.7.6 release notes by @matthewfeickert in #2430

Full Changelog: v0.7.5...v0.7.6