chore(develop): release 17.0.0-SLFork

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🤖 Gather changes for upcoming release

17.0.0-SLFork (2024-12-23)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• camera control: Enhance two step digital zoom to a free and more finely adjustable zoom (#189)
• config-handling: Complete rework of internal config parameter and sequence data handling (#165)
• GPIO: Complete rework of GPIO handler & Add additional features for GPIOs (#154)
• mqtt: Complete rework of MQTT API & Add new content (#151)
• REST API: Complete rework of REST API & WebUI 'info' page (#85)

Features

• camera control: Enhance two step digital zoom to a free and more finely adjustable zoom (#189) (7038293)
• device provisioning: Implement Improv Wi-Fi protocol using serial interface (Wi-Fi config via web installer) (#183) (c1fa372)
• GPIO: Complete rework of GPIO handler & Add additional features for GPIOs (#154) (026c650)
• gpio: Support pin logic invertion (active high / low) for selected pin modes (#193) (932ae19)
• hardware: Add support for board Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense (#155) (922ba2f)
• hardware: Support camera model OV5640 (#189) (7038293)
• home assistant discovery: Add discovery topics for GPIO pins (#192) (996f67c)
• mqtt: Complete rework of MQTT API & Add new content (#151) (48ce862)
• publish service: Implement push-based publish service to a webhook (#181) (ea52a5c)
• rest api: Add basic HTTP authentication for REST API endpoints (#197) (232509d)
• REST API: Complete rework of REST API & WebUI 'info' page (#85) (93353bb)
• rest api: Prometheus (OpenMetrics) exporter (/metrics) (#163) (7f14d89)
• webui overview: Show timestamp of fallback value (tooltip) (#191) (8625463)
• webui: Add basic HTTP authentication for WebUI (#197) (232509d)
• webui: Implement WLAN network scan functionality (#194) (53fd0f5)
• webui: WLAN configuration via web interface (cfc53b0)
• wlan: Implement additional wlan operation modes (access point, disabled) (#186) (498d10a)

Bug Fixes

• home assistant discovery: Set correct device class for 'rate_per_time_unit' (#182) (1f68acb)
• load fallbackvalue: Avoid conversion exception if string is invalid (#169) (7a3219c)
• wlan: Fix IP config output (DHCP) + Enable connection retry (#156) (869013d)

Refactoring / Style Changes

• camera: Refactor camera control and take image class (#189) (7038293)
• config-handling: Complete rework of internal config parameter and sequence data handling (#165) (cfc53b0)
• setup wizard: Streamline setup wizard (#179) (6f7bcfd)
• source code: Refactor complete source code using clang-format (#196) (ab3ddc6)
• source code: Remove trailing whitespaces (#158) (32608ac)
• timesync: Process start only when time is synced (implement new process state, interlock configurable) (cfc53b0)
• webui: Merge Digit ROI and Analog ROI page to one page -> Number Sequences (#172) (d4ff5c1)

Other Changes

• build: Implement ESP web tools for initial device setup (#178) (dfb0b7c)
• build: Only one firmware package is generated which can be used to handle inital, remote and OTA update (cfc53b0)
• build: Update release-please-action (#161) (3dd78b8)
• config file: Add config file version tag (#153) (33258c5)
• debug: Implement core dump handling (#168) (5b5077c)
• documentation: Fix REST API / parameter description (#162) (49f1397)
• framework: Upgrade platformio to 6.7.0 (ESP-IDF 5.2.1) (#160) (49e123e)
• influxdb tls + mqtt tls: Use built-in certification bundle for server verification (#180) (cdf84c1)
• source code: Add automatic source code formatting ruleset (clang-format) (#196) (ab3ddc6)
• submodule: Update esp-tflite-micro to 07c014e + esp-nn to v1.1.0 (9195e96) (#175) (7b6083f)
• submodule: Update esp32-camera to v2.0.13 (0054ab7) (#166) (2501d3b)
• submodule: Update smartleds to v3.1.3 (#167) (27c1094)
• tflite: Updated digit/analog models (#177) (aceb18a)
• wlan: Force full RF calibration at every boot (#170) (70cee70)

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