v4.1.0

MixedModels v4.1.0

NEWS file.
Diff since v4.0.0

NB: Closed issues and pull requests are sorted temporally and so may
include backports to other versions or work in the development branch for
an upcoming breaking release. Please see the NEWS file
for changes sorted by release.
Closed issues:

• Speeding things up (#234)
• Julia 1.6 and LTS Release Plans (#477)
• Incorrect fact in description of Normalized Gauss-Hermite quadrature (#525)
• Adjustments for julia-v1.7.0 (#532)
• Add JuliaFormatter to CI (#542)
• _zerocorr! methods in src/linearmixedmodel.jl seem vestigial (#546)
• Add fitlog kwarg for logging the parameter vector during optimization (#549)
• Identifiablity compared to lmer (#550)

Merged pull requests:

• Fix support table column (#543) (@palday)
• Added opt. fname argument to sparseL and condVar (#545) (@dmbates)
• compat fixes for Julia 1.7 (#547) (@palday)
• Fix ReMat's docstring + contravariance issue (#548) (@palday)
• Allow specifying sigma in LinearMixedModel (#551) (@palday)
• add fitlog (#552) (@palday)
• Faster leverage function (#553) (@dmbates)
• NEWS update for 545 (#556) (@palday)