v7.4.0

Other Changes

• Rewrite AI-writing tropes in README and docs (f958561)
• Restore claims changed by the tropes rewrite (0d7f3a1)
• Fold short verdict sentences into their neighbours (765371d)
• Restore wording the tropes rewrite changed without a trope (3a93077)
• State the section's finding in vague headings (fc9c317)
• Trim README wordiness, defer detail to docs/ (8b9171a)
• Restore words dropped from the breakends sentence (caeae6a)
• Trim docs: point optimizations.md at api.md instead of restating it (8d47923)
• Restore the api.md sentence naming the column fields (3c739ba)
• Fix the reserved INFO types for CIGAR and MQ (3e5b012)
• Skip empty INFO pairs instead of reporting an empty key (5e2bf7e)
• Honour quoted escapes and quoted brackets in header meta values (cb2243f)
• Drop malformed LAA entries whole in both readers (86c26b1)
• Share the FORMAT column lookup between the two genotype scanners (e693f11)
• Fold the duplicated local-allele property descriptor into a helper (27d6026)
• Deep-copy the reserved header fields per parser (7e92d36)
• Drop spec comments that sat above the wrong reserved field (82f7fe8)
• Treat only " and \ as escapes in quoted header values (fa3d8f2)
• Update two comments the scanner refactor left stale (e92f287)
• Make reserved INFO MQ a Float and write Number=. as '.' (347549f)
• Build the reserved header fields with a factory, not structuredClone (21ec8f3)
• Read an empty list item as missing rather than zero (2fd8832)
• Keep a malformed LAA entry's slot instead of dropping it (c8bd7e3)
• Fall back to literal backslashes when escapes leave a quote open (06cb7da)
• Keep cross-module calls and per-call allocations out of the scanners (bc00167)
• Track readLocalAlleles' entry state in one variable (ccfd81c)
• Benchmark every per-line and per-sample path between two refs (6d4adc7)

Full changelog: v7.3.0...v7.4.0