v0.17.4

Highlights:

• Add .delete_topics by @shuanglovesdata in #2322
• Allow execution without plotly by @luismavs in #2401
• Add tqdm to _litellm.py @NFrnk in #2408
• Drop support for python 3.9 by @afuetterer in #2419
• Make UMAP's init default to random on visualize_topics for reproducible visualization by @makramab in #2412

cuML:

Preparing for MEGA!-scale BERTopic with Multi-GPU UMAP and the following necessary updates:

• Update installation instructions for cuML with BERTopic by @csadorf in #2446
• Speed up ._create_topic_vectors by replacing DataFrame .loc with NumPy masking @jinsolp in #2406
• Modify _reduce_dimensionality to use fit_transform by @betatim in #2416

Fixes:

• Fix incorrect label in zero-shot svg in documentation by @huisman in #2448
• Enable ruff rule RUF by @afuetterer in #2457
• CI: bump github actions versions by @afuetterer in #2427
• CI: prefer action-pre-commit-uv for lint job by @afuetterer in #2434
• CI: switch to uv based project installation by @afuetterer in #2445
• Chore: update pre-commit hooks by @afuetterer in #2414 and #2443
• Chore: remove obsolete version_info check by @afuetterer in #2444