- MUMPS, OpenBLAS and Python have been updated
- The versions of the Python packages have been updated to their latest
  revision, with the exception of NumPy, which has been set to version
  1.26.4
- Some compilation flags have been added for GCC 14.2.

- Add the option of specifying the externals path
- Add V8P5 support
- Python launcher is no longer required, batch files wrapping Python scripts are used instead
- As such, Python is no longer required: the embeddable version is downloaded and used instead
- pysource batch files are now generated on the fly
- Add PyQt5 as a backend for Matplotlib