chore: release 1.4.5

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1.4.5 (2026-10-14)

Bug Fixes

• add the payload to the end-effector link instead of overwriting it (#699) (79b169c)
• dhrobot: format prismatic joint limits in string output (#718) (71d07a7)
• docs: drop the obsolete cross-repo spatialgeometry wheel fetch (#703) (477b6e3)
• dynamics: support arbitrary joint counts in paycap (#731) (6a45f73)
• ekf: plot_error in SLAM, against time, honouring bgcolor, with correct bounds (#749) (0119d66)
• ik: IKSolution is a sequence of the rows of q, true if successful (#717) (be4ad92)
• ik: Robot.ikine_* accept an (N, 4, 4) array of poses (#714) (385747b)
• ik: trajectory residual is the maximum, and document trajectory behaviour (#712) (aee6fb2)
• mobile: remove debug output from RRT query (#751) (c7c9b58)
• particlefilter: do not pause between steps unless animating (#748) (ea7b4d6)
• particlefilter: get_xyt returns (x, y, theta) as documented (#752) (14775a7)
• populate mstraj velocity and acceleration (#706) (8007e33)
• posegraph: ignore blank lines in g2o and toro files (#745) (c66d855)
• prm: honour explicit constructor distance threshold (#754) (788eaf3)
• prm: query before plan raises RuntimeError rather than AttributeError (#744) (e094f89)
• puma: self-contained ikine_a with trajectory and failure handling; deprecate ikine_6s (#715) (1a609c3)
• robot: jtraj takes joint coordinates only, SE3 arguments raise (#716) (68185fc)
• tests: expect forward-slash filename from spatialgeometry >= 1.4.1 (#702) (c070066)
• trajectory: honour non-zero time origins in scalar profiles (#698) (06b8716)
• urdf: report stage, element and line when a URDF/xacro fails to load (848114b)
• urdf: report stage, element and line when URDF/xacro loading fails (#701) (848114b)
• urdf: rotate inertia tensors from the inertial frame into the link frame (#707) (566cf70)

Documentation

• add Codacy grade badge to README (0372615)
• agents: say where the array type aliases are (#757) (5c7d3d4)
• mobile: correct docstrings for the estimators, sensor, drivers and animations (#750) (b6e86e8)
• update copyright information in LICENSE file (#710) (fc969a3)

Build System

• deps: bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 (968ed04)
• deps: bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 (acc6842)

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