Reduce default LM retries to 3

Improve handling of literals and optionals (stanfordnlp#8143)

Make Adapters' parse_value and Cache's request_cache more permissive (s…

…tanfordnlp#8132)

Add `dspy.Tool.from_mcp_tool` (stanfordnlp#8130)

* Add util for using mcp tools as DSPy tools

Co-authored-by: ThanabordeeN <[email protected]>

* rename

* update dependency

* add from_mcp_tool

* fix circular import

* test fix

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Co-authored-by: ThanabordeeN <[email protected]>

Dspy fanout cache (stanfordnlp#8062)

* init

* increment

* add test

* remove old cache code

* rename fanout_cache to disk_cache

* add testing

* fix tests

* add cache for colbert

* fix tests

* increase timeout to 10s

* change default value

* cache embedding

* fallback to litellm cache for embedding call

* fix test

Fixing SIMBA max recursion depth error

Co-authored-by: Krista Opsahl-Ong <[email protected]>

Remove stray print from JSONAdapter

Add usage tracking (stanfordnlp#8014)

* init

* increment

* add test

* rename to lm_usage

* fix tests

* fix edge case

* add tutorial and fix some errors

* improve writing

* only deepcopy the usage tracker

* fix copy

feat: `ProgramOfThought` supports multiple output fields and more (st…

…anfordnlp#8004)

* feat: ProgramOfThought supports multiple return and more

* chore: prompt fixes

* chore: add missing codes

* chore: comment wording fixes

Upgrade build_and_release.yml workflow to 3.11