v1.16.0

Tools
- Add Bing search engine to WebSearchTool by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1313
Local Python executor improvements
- Support passing custom functions to local Python executor by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1302
- Support executor_kwargs in LocalPythonExecutor for initialization customization by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1314
- Add timeout mechanism for code execution by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1318
CLI improvements
Enable local web agents via api_base and api_key by @zbloss in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1333

Default provider for InferenceClientModel is now "auto" The default value of the provider argument in InferenceClientModel has changed from "hf-inference" to "auto". With "auto", the client will automatically select the first available provider for the model, following the user's configured priority at https://hf.co/settings/inference-providers
- Pin minimum version of huggingface-hub to use InferenceClient auto provider by @julien-c in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1322

Streaming GradioUI fixes
- Fix thought yield in GradioUI for streaming and non-streaming by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1311
- Fix duplicate error message in GradioUI, test, and refactor by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1312
- Fix duplicate plan display in GradioUI when streaming by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1317

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