Release 2.4.2

[Argmaster]

• Relaxed pyparsing dependency requirements to allow for use of 3.2 and above for supported Python versions.
• Relaxed numpy dependency requirements to allow for use of 2.x and above for supported Python versions.
• Relaxed pydantic dependency requirements to allow for use of 2.x and above for supported Python versions.
• Relaxed pillow dependency requirements to allow for use of 8.x and above for supported Python versions.
• Relaxed click dependency requirements to allow for use of 8.x and above for supported Python versions.
• Relaxed Python version requirement to allow for use of 3.8 and above.
• Changed documentation deployment flow to include latest, stable and dev links.

[Argmaster]

Backport for #322