[Diff since v6.177.1](v6.177.1...v6.177.2)

**Merged pull requests:**
- Mooncake overlay for erroring out before Mooncake.DerivedRule construction (#1169) (@AstitvaAggarwal)

[Diff since v6.177.0](v6.177.0...v6.177.1)

**Merged pull requests:**
- Make sure to set MooncakeOriginator (#1168) (@ChrisRackauckas)

[Diff since v6.176.0](v6.176.0...v6.177.0)

**Merged pull requests:**
- Fix tests (#1166) (@ChrisRackauckas)
- fix MooncakeOriginator (#1167) (@AstitvaAggarwal)

[Diff since v6.175.0](v6.175.0...v6.176.0)

**Merged pull requests:**
- Allow fit_parameters keyword (#1160) (@ErikQQY)
- fix: improve hack for null solution initialization (#1161) (@AayushSabharwal)
- Ensure internal ITP bounds are in proper order (#1162) (@dcourteville)
- feat: implement some of the integrator interface for `NullODEIntegrator` (#1163) (@AayushSabharwal)
- build: bump minor version (#1165) (@AayushSabharwal)

[Diff since v6.174.0](v6.174.0...v6.175.0)

**Merged pull requests:**
- Simplify tests for pre (#1157) (@ChrisRackauckas)
- Setup Mooncake rrule (#1158) (@ChrisRackauckas)

[Diff since v6.173.1](v6.173.1...v6.174.0)

**Merged pull requests:**
- CompatHelper: bump compat for SciMLOperators to 1, (keep existing compat) (#1156) (@github-actions[bot])

[Diff since v6.173.0](v6.173.0...v6.173.1)

**Merged pull requests:**
- Mark null ODE solutions as dense (#1155) (@ChrisRackauckas)

[Diff since v6.172.0](v6.172.0...v6.173.0)

**Merged pull requests:**
- CompatHelper: bump compat for SciMLOperators to 0.4, (keep existing compat) (#1151) (@github-actions[bot])
- Add static allocation checks and fix ComponentArrays allocs (#1153) (@ChrisRackauckas)

**Closed issues:**
- ComponentArrays cause allocations in error estimation (#1152)

[Diff since v6.171.0](v6.171.0...v6.172.0)

**Merged pull requests:**
- feat: pass `resid_prototype` as `u` to null oop `NonlinearLeastSquaresProblem` (#1149) (@AayushSabharwal)

[Diff since v6.170.1](v6.170.1...v6.171.0)

**Merged pull requests:**
- Improve Downstream testing (#1147) (@ChrisRackauckas)
- fix: fix method ambiguity in `promote_u0` in MonteCarloExt (#1148) (@AayushSabharwal)