Devops/relax scipy cap (#2853)

* relax scipy upper cap

* update changelog

Author: dennisbader

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ but cannot always guarantee backwards compatibility. Changes that may **break co
 
 **Dependencies**
 
+- Removed the upper version cap on `scipy<1.16.0` since `statsmodels` added support in version `0.14.5`. [#2853](https://github.com/unit8co/darts/pull/2853) by [Dennis Bader](https://github.com/dennisbader).
+
 ### For developers of the library:
 
 - Renamed `RegressionModelWithCategoricalCovariates` to `RegressionModelWithCategoricalFeatures` which now also supports categorical target features. [#2765](https://github.com/unit8co/darts/pull/2765) by [Jonas Blanc](https://github.com/jonasblanc)

darts/tests/models/forecasting/test_classifier_model.py

@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
 from sklearn.utils import Tags
 
 from darts.logging import get_logger
-from darts.models.forecasting.catboost_model import CatBoostClassifierModel
-from darts.models.forecasting.lgbm import LightGBMClassifierModel
-from darts.models.forecasting.sklearn_model import (
+from darts.models import (
+    CatBoostClassifierModel,
+    LightGBMClassifierModel,
     SKLearnClassifierModel,
-    SKLearnModelWithCategoricalFeatures,
+    XGBClassifierModel,
 )
-from darts.models.forecasting.xgboost import XGBClassifierModel
+from darts.models.forecasting.sklearn_model import SKLearnModelWithCategoricalFeatures
 from darts.timeseries import TimeSeries
 from darts.utils import timeseries_generation as tg
 from darts.utils.likelihood_models.base import LikelihoodType

requirements/core.txt

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pandas>=1.0.5
 pyod>=0.9.5
 requests>=2.22.0
 scikit-learn>=1.6.0
-scipy>=1.3.2,<1.16.0
+scipy>=1.3.2
 shap>=0.40.0
 statsforecast>=1.4
 statsmodels>=0.14.0