v0.5.1

BFloat16s v0.5.1

Diff since v0.5.0

Merged pull requests:

• BFloat16(::BigFloat) and BigFloat(::BFloat16) (#63) (@milankl)
• Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 (#65) (@dependabot[bot])
• Update CI.yml (#66) (@ViralBShah)
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 (#67) (@dependabot[bot])
• Remove Test dependency (#69) (@christiangnrd)
• Bump julia-actions/setup-julia from 1 to 2 (#70) (@dependabot[bot])
• rand BFloat16 sampling without conversion (#73) (@milankl)
• Update CI.yml (#74) (@ViralBShah)
• Update README.md (#75) (@ViralBShah)
• Update README.md (#76) (@ViralBShah)
• Enable AArch64 arithmetic on LLVM 19. (#77) (@maleadt)
• Update CI.yml to test on pre-releases (#80) (@ViralBShah)
• rand via scaled random integers (#82) (@milankl)
• CI: Test on more systems (#83) (@eschnett)
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 4 to 5 (#87) (@dependabot[bot])
• Silence warning in 1.12+ (#91) (@christiangnrd)
• Improve test coverage (#92) (@christiangnrd)
• Remove redundant operator definitions (#93) (@christiangnrd)
• Add definitions for 128-bit unsafe_trunc when llvm_arithmetic == true (#94) (@christiangnrd)
• Add BFloat(Irrational) constructor (#99) (@kengruven)
• Define Base.issubnormal(x::BFloat16) (take 2) (#100) (@christiangnrd)

Closed issues:

• Support new Float8 and NormedFloat4 formats? (#47)
• Segfault using Julia 1.11-alpha2 on AMD EPYC 9554 (#68)
• rand(BFloat16, n) appears shifted from [0, 1) into (0, 1] (#71)
• Improve precision of rand sampling without conversion (#79)
• Base.issubnormal(::BFloat16) is missing (#86)
• Creating sysimage fails on Windows (#88)
• Segmentation fault when converting BFloat16 to Float32 (#89)
• Irrationals (#97)