v7.9.4

What's Changed

Other changes

• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 #2424
• Bump actions/stale from 8 to 9 #2425
• Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 2 to 3 #2428
• Bump actions/deploy-pages from 2 to 4 #2427
• Improve component settings serialization #2421
• update install instructions #2419
• make main cross section name parametrizable #2417
• expose mirror_straight in spiral_external_io #2416
• 2414 underplotoverplot dataprep #2415
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #2413
• fix get_route_from_steps cross_section #2412
• convert notebooks from python to jupyter #2411
• run stale workflow once a month instead of daily #2410
• use cross_section factories instead of copy #2409
• better error messages for modifying CrossSections #2408

Full Changelog: v7.9.3...v7.9.4