v0.5.5

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241
• perf(cera): persistent affinity-pinned threadpool; decode on all P-cores by @iamstuffed in #243
• feat(cera): benchmark-parity API for external harnesses by @iamstuffed in #242
• chore: release 0.3.0 (breaking: GenerateOpts/ModelMetadata public-field additions) by @iamstuffed in #244
• chore: bump to latest nightly (drop stabilized dotprod gate) + README cleanup by @iamstuffed in #245
• feat(cera): Q5_K quantization support by @iamstuffed in #246
• perf(cera): wire gemv_q6_k into wgpu GEMV dispatch (Q6K stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #247
• feat(cera): native wgpu Q5_K GEMV kernel by @iamstuffed in #248
• perf(cera): native Q4_K wgpu GEMV + GEMM (Q4KM stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #249
• fix(cera): gemv_q6_k robustness — odd-m OOB guard + get_wid for large m by @iamstuffed in #250
• perf(cera): store the wgpu LM head as f16 (B3) + complete get_wid sweep by @iamstuffed in #251
• feat(cera): native wgpu flash-attention decode kernel by @iamstuffed in #252
• refactor(cera): delete classic wgpu decode-attention kernel (superseded by flash) by @iamstuffed in #253
• feat(cera): NEON int8-dotprod GEMV for Q4_K on CPU by @iamstuffed in #254
• feat(cera): GPU I/O counters + Android bench/profile harness + baseline (T0) by @iamstuffed in #255
• fix(metal): bind freq_factors + the full params struct in the audio decoder by @iamstuffed in #256
• perf(gpu): register-tiled K-quant GEMM — 2.9x prefill on Q4_K_M by @iamstuffed in #257
• perf(gpu): register-tiled Q8_0 GEMM; drop the dead wgpu gemm_* kernels by @iamstuffed in #258
• docs(gpu): measure decode — T6 closed WONTFIX, T5b attributes the GPU time by @iamstuffed in #259
• perf(cpu): batched Q4_K + Q6_K int8 GEMM for prefill (~2.5x) by @iamstuffed in #260
• perf(wgpu): vectorize Q4_K/Q5_K GEMV weight loads (T11) by @iamstuffed in #261
• perf(metal): batched Q6_K GEMM for prefill (~2.3x on Q4_K_M) by @iamstuffed in #262
• perf(metal): Q4_K GEMM isolation microbench + ceiling analysis by @iamstuffed in #263
• perf(cera): disable zero-init of workgroup memory in compute pipelines by @iamstuffed in #264
• refactor(metal): centralize kernel param mirrors + guard shader/Rust parity by @iamstuffed in #265
• perf(gpu): 8×4 reg-tile prefill GEMM — 2.3x on Pixel/PowerVR by @iamstuffed in #267
• refactor(metal): migrate ViT vision encoder onto typed kernel params by @iamstuffed in #268
• Improve wgpu context binding by @iamstuffed in #269
• fix(wgpu): tile prefill attention over queries to fit the storage-binding limit by @iamstuffed in #270
• docs(wgpu): correct attention_prefill scores_buf sizing comments for query tiling by @iamstuffed in #271
• perf(wgpu): online-softmax flash prefill attention — drop scores materialization by @iamstuffed in #272
• perf(cpu): ARM SMMLA i8mm Q4_0 prefill GEMM + CI CPU benchmarks by @iamstuffed in #273
• perf(cpu): parallelize the x86 Q4_0 GEMV across rows by @iamstuffed in #274
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI int8 activation path for x86 GEMV by @iamstuffed in #275
• perf(cpu): batched int8 prefill GEMM for x86 by @iamstuffed in #276
• perf(cpu): reduce once per row in the AVX-512 f32 GEMV kernels by @iamstuffed in #277
• chore(scripts): add host CPU profiling script by @iamstuffed in #278
• ci: run batched-prefill parity on small GGUF fixtures by @iamstuffed in #279
• feat(quant): Q4_1 support on the CPU path, and reject unsupported dtypes by @iamstuffed in #280
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI Q4_K/Q6_K int8 GEMV + batched prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #281
• perf(cpu): admit K-quants on the dense-transformer batched prefill path by @iamstuffed in #282
• perf(cpu): halve the acc dependency chain in the AVX-512 row kernels by @iamstuffed in #283
• docs: record why DECODE_MAX_AUTO is 12; add a dispatch-cost microbench by @iamstuffed in #284
• perf(cpu): widen TILE_N to 8, and fix the benchmark that hid it by @iamstuffed in #285
• perf(cpu): row-tile the Q4_0/Q8_0 prefill GEMM (+19%) by @iamstuffed in #286
• chore: release 0.3.1 by @iamstuffed in #287
• perf(cpu): run the x86 int8 GEMM/GEMV from the AVX2 tier up, not VNNI only by @iamstuffed in #288
• perf(cpu): SIMD flash attention + wider prefill parallelism on x86 by @iamstuffed in #289
• perf(cpu): defer the K-quant GEMM reduction into a per-column accumulator by @iamstuffed in #290
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_0 weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #291
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_K weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #292
• perf(cpu): route K-quant decode through the narrow decode pool by @iamstuffed in #293
• ci(bench): add a best-effort llama.cpp head-to-head to the benchmark job by @iamstuffed in #294
• perf(cpu): multi-accumulator Q4_K/Q6_K decode dot (+10% decode) by @iamstuffed in #295
• perf(cpu,metal): batch Q4_1 tensors in prefill instead of whole-model fallback by @iamstuffed in #296
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q4_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #297
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q6_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #298
• perf(cpu): run the x86 prefill GEMM on the pinned RowPool, not rayon by @iamstuffed in #299
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for decode-at-depth by @iamstuffed in #300
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for LFM2 decode + prefill by @iamstuffed in #301
• perf(cpu): run prefill attention on the pinned RowPool + widen LFM2 to query heads by @iamstuffed in #302
• perf(cpu): activ...

v0.5.4

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241
• perf(cera): persistent affinity-pinned threadpool; decode on all P-cores by @iamstuffed in #243
• feat(cera): benchmark-parity API for external harnesses by @iamstuffed in #242
• chore: release 0.3.0 (breaking: GenerateOpts/ModelMetadata public-field additions) by @iamstuffed in #244
• chore: bump to latest nightly (drop stabilized dotprod gate) + README cleanup by @iamstuffed in #245
• feat(cera): Q5_K quantization support by @iamstuffed in #246
• perf(cera): wire gemv_q6_k into wgpu GEMV dispatch (Q6K stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #247
• feat(cera): native wgpu Q5_K GEMV kernel by @iamstuffed in #248
• perf(cera): native Q4_K wgpu GEMV + GEMM (Q4KM stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #249
• fix(cera): gemv_q6_k robustness — odd-m OOB guard + get_wid for large m by @iamstuffed in #250
• perf(cera): store the wgpu LM head as f16 (B3) + complete get_wid sweep by @iamstuffed in #251
• feat(cera): native wgpu flash-attention decode kernel by @iamstuffed in #252
• refactor(cera): delete classic wgpu decode-attention kernel (superseded by flash) by @iamstuffed in #253
• feat(cera): NEON int8-dotprod GEMV for Q4_K on CPU by @iamstuffed in #254
• feat(cera): GPU I/O counters + Android bench/profile harness + baseline (T0) by @iamstuffed in #255
• fix(metal): bind freq_factors + the full params struct in the audio decoder by @iamstuffed in #256
• perf(gpu): register-tiled K-quant GEMM — 2.9x prefill on Q4_K_M by @iamstuffed in #257
• perf(gpu): register-tiled Q8_0 GEMM; drop the dead wgpu gemm_* kernels by @iamstuffed in #258
• docs(gpu): measure decode — T6 closed WONTFIX, T5b attributes the GPU time by @iamstuffed in #259
• perf(cpu): batched Q4_K + Q6_K int8 GEMM for prefill (~2.5x) by @iamstuffed in #260
• perf(wgpu): vectorize Q4_K/Q5_K GEMV weight loads (T11) by @iamstuffed in #261
• perf(metal): batched Q6_K GEMM for prefill (~2.3x on Q4_K_M) by @iamstuffed in #262
• perf(metal): Q4_K GEMM isolation microbench + ceiling analysis by @iamstuffed in #263
• perf(cera): disable zero-init of workgroup memory in compute pipelines by @iamstuffed in #264
• refactor(metal): centralize kernel param mirrors + guard shader/Rust parity by @iamstuffed in #265
• perf(gpu): 8×4 reg-tile prefill GEMM — 2.3x on Pixel/PowerVR by @iamstuffed in #267
• refactor(metal): migrate ViT vision encoder onto typed kernel params by @iamstuffed in #268
• Improve wgpu context binding by @iamstuffed in #269
• fix(wgpu): tile prefill attention over queries to fit the storage-binding limit by @iamstuffed in #270
• docs(wgpu): correct attention_prefill scores_buf sizing comments for query tiling by @iamstuffed in #271
• perf(wgpu): online-softmax flash prefill attention — drop scores materialization by @iamstuffed in #272
• perf(cpu): ARM SMMLA i8mm Q4_0 prefill GEMM + CI CPU benchmarks by @iamstuffed in #273
• perf(cpu): parallelize the x86 Q4_0 GEMV across rows by @iamstuffed in #274
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI int8 activation path for x86 GEMV by @iamstuffed in #275
• perf(cpu): batched int8 prefill GEMM for x86 by @iamstuffed in #276
• perf(cpu): reduce once per row in the AVX-512 f32 GEMV kernels by @iamstuffed in #277
• chore(scripts): add host CPU profiling script by @iamstuffed in #278
• ci: run batched-prefill parity on small GGUF fixtures by @iamstuffed in #279
• feat(quant): Q4_1 support on the CPU path, and reject unsupported dtypes by @iamstuffed in #280
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI Q4_K/Q6_K int8 GEMV + batched prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #281
• perf(cpu): admit K-quants on the dense-transformer batched prefill path by @iamstuffed in #282
• perf(cpu): halve the acc dependency chain in the AVX-512 row kernels by @iamstuffed in #283
• docs: record why DECODE_MAX_AUTO is 12; add a dispatch-cost microbench by @iamstuffed in #284
• perf(cpu): widen TILE_N to 8, and fix the benchmark that hid it by @iamstuffed in #285
• perf(cpu): row-tile the Q4_0/Q8_0 prefill GEMM (+19%) by @iamstuffed in #286
• chore: release 0.3.1 by @iamstuffed in #287
• perf(cpu): run the x86 int8 GEMM/GEMV from the AVX2 tier up, not VNNI only by @iamstuffed in #288
• perf(cpu): SIMD flash attention + wider prefill parallelism on x86 by @iamstuffed in #289
• perf(cpu): defer the K-quant GEMM reduction into a per-column accumulator by @iamstuffed in #290
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_0 weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #291
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_K weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #292
• perf(cpu): route K-quant decode through the narrow decode pool by @iamstuffed in #293
• ci(bench): add a best-effort llama.cpp head-to-head to the benchmark job by @iamstuffed in #294
• perf(cpu): multi-accumulator Q4_K/Q6_K decode dot (+10% decode) by @iamstuffed in #295
• perf(cpu,metal): batch Q4_1 tensors in prefill instead of whole-model fallback by @iamstuffed in #296
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q4_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #297
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q6_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #298
• perf(cpu): run the x86 prefill GEMM on the pinned RowPool, not rayon by @iamstuffed in #299
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for decode-at-depth by @iamstuffed in #300
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for LFM2 decode + prefill by @iamstuffed in #301
• perf(cpu): run prefill attention on the pinned RowPool + widen LFM2 to query heads by @iamstuffed in #302
• perf(cpu): activ...

v0.5.2

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241
• perf(cera): persistent affinity-pinned threadpool; decode on all P-cores by @iamstuffed in #243
• feat(cera): benchmark-parity API for external harnesses by @iamstuffed in #242
• chore: release 0.3.0 (breaking: GenerateOpts/ModelMetadata public-field additions) by @iamstuffed in #244
• chore: bump to latest nightly (drop stabilized dotprod gate) + README cleanup by @iamstuffed in #245
• feat(cera): Q5_K quantization support by @iamstuffed in #246
• perf(cera): wire gemv_q6_k into wgpu GEMV dispatch (Q6K stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #247
• feat(cera): native wgpu Q5_K GEMV kernel by @iamstuffed in #248
• perf(cera): native Q4_K wgpu GEMV + GEMM (Q4KM stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #249
• fix(cera): gemv_q6_k robustness — odd-m OOB guard + get_wid for large m by @iamstuffed in #250
• perf(cera): store the wgpu LM head as f16 (B3) + complete get_wid sweep by @iamstuffed in #251
• feat(cera): native wgpu flash-attention decode kernel by @iamstuffed in #252
• refactor(cera): delete classic wgpu decode-attention kernel (superseded by flash) by @iamstuffed in #253
• feat(cera): NEON int8-dotprod GEMV for Q4_K on CPU by @iamstuffed in #254
• feat(cera): GPU I/O counters + Android bench/profile harness + baseline (T0) by @iamstuffed in #255
• fix(metal): bind freq_factors + the full params struct in the audio decoder by @iamstuffed in #256
• perf(gpu): register-tiled K-quant GEMM — 2.9x prefill on Q4_K_M by @iamstuffed in #257
• perf(gpu): register-tiled Q8_0 GEMM; drop the dead wgpu gemm_* kernels by @iamstuffed in #258
• docs(gpu): measure decode — T6 closed WONTFIX, T5b attributes the GPU time by @iamstuffed in #259
• perf(cpu): batched Q4_K + Q6_K int8 GEMM for prefill (~2.5x) by @iamstuffed in #260
• perf(wgpu): vectorize Q4_K/Q5_K GEMV weight loads (T11) by @iamstuffed in #261
• perf(metal): batched Q6_K GEMM for prefill (~2.3x on Q4_K_M) by @iamstuffed in #262
• perf(metal): Q4_K GEMM isolation microbench + ceiling analysis by @iamstuffed in #263
• perf(cera): disable zero-init of workgroup memory in compute pipelines by @iamstuffed in #264
• refactor(metal): centralize kernel param mirrors + guard shader/Rust parity by @iamstuffed in #265
• perf(gpu): 8×4 reg-tile prefill GEMM — 2.3x on Pixel/PowerVR by @iamstuffed in #267
• refactor(metal): migrate ViT vision encoder onto typed kernel params by @iamstuffed in #268
• Improve wgpu context binding by @iamstuffed in #269
• fix(wgpu): tile prefill attention over queries to fit the storage-binding limit by @iamstuffed in #270
• docs(wgpu): correct attention_prefill scores_buf sizing comments for query tiling by @iamstuffed in #271
• perf(wgpu): online-softmax flash prefill attention — drop scores materialization by @iamstuffed in #272
• perf(cpu): ARM SMMLA i8mm Q4_0 prefill GEMM + CI CPU benchmarks by @iamstuffed in #273
• perf(cpu): parallelize the x86 Q4_0 GEMV across rows by @iamstuffed in #274
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI int8 activation path for x86 GEMV by @iamstuffed in #275
• perf(cpu): batched int8 prefill GEMM for x86 by @iamstuffed in #276
• perf(cpu): reduce once per row in the AVX-512 f32 GEMV kernels by @iamstuffed in #277
• chore(scripts): add host CPU profiling script by @iamstuffed in #278
• ci: run batched-prefill parity on small GGUF fixtures by @iamstuffed in #279
• feat(quant): Q4_1 support on the CPU path, and reject unsupported dtypes by @iamstuffed in #280
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI Q4_K/Q6_K int8 GEMV + batched prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #281
• perf(cpu): admit K-quants on the dense-transformer batched prefill path by @iamstuffed in #282
• perf(cpu): halve the acc dependency chain in the AVX-512 row kernels by @iamstuffed in #283
• docs: record why DECODE_MAX_AUTO is 12; add a dispatch-cost microbench by @iamstuffed in #284
• perf(cpu): widen TILE_N to 8, and fix the benchmark that hid it by @iamstuffed in #285
• perf(cpu): row-tile the Q4_0/Q8_0 prefill GEMM (+19%) by @iamstuffed in #286
• chore: release 0.3.1 by @iamstuffed in #287
• perf(cpu): run the x86 int8 GEMM/GEMV from the AVX2 tier up, not VNNI only by @iamstuffed in #288
• perf(cpu): SIMD flash attention + wider prefill parallelism on x86 by @iamstuffed in #289
• perf(cpu): defer the K-quant GEMM reduction into a per-column accumulator by @iamstuffed in #290
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_0 weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #291
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_K weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #292
• perf(cpu): route K-quant decode through the narrow decode pool by @iamstuffed in #293
• ci(bench): add a best-effort llama.cpp head-to-head to the benchmark job by @iamstuffed in #294
• perf(cpu): multi-accumulator Q4_K/Q6_K decode dot (+10% decode) by @iamstuffed in #295
• perf(cpu,metal): batch Q4_1 tensors in prefill instead of whole-model fallback by @iamstuffed in #296
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q4_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #297
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q6_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #298
• perf(cpu): run the x86 prefill GEMM on the pinned RowPool, not rayon by @iamstuffed in #299
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for decode-at-depth by @iamstuffed in #300
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for LFM2 decode + prefill by @iamstuffed in #301
• perf(cpu): run prefill attention on the pinned RowPool + widen LFM2 to query heads by @iamstuffed in #302
• perf(cpu): activ...

v0.5.1

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241
• perf(cera): persistent affinity-pinned threadpool; decode on all P-cores by @iamstuffed in #243
• feat(cera): benchmark-parity API for external harnesses by @iamstuffed in #242
• chore: release 0.3.0 (breaking: GenerateOpts/ModelMetadata public-field additions) by @iamstuffed in #244
• chore: bump to latest nightly (drop stabilized dotprod gate) + README cleanup by @iamstuffed in #245
• feat(cera): Q5_K quantization support by @iamstuffed in #246
• perf(cera): wire gemv_q6_k into wgpu GEMV dispatch (Q6K stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #247
• feat(cera): native wgpu Q5_K GEMV kernel by @iamstuffed in #248
• perf(cera): native Q4_K wgpu GEMV + GEMM (Q4KM stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #249
• fix(cera): gemv_q6_k robustness — odd-m OOB guard + get_wid for large m by @iamstuffed in #250
• perf(cera): store the wgpu LM head as f16 (B3) + complete get_wid sweep by @iamstuffed in #251
• feat(cera): native wgpu flash-attention decode kernel by @iamstuffed in #252
• refactor(cera): delete classic wgpu decode-attention kernel (superseded by flash) by @iamstuffed in #253
• feat(cera): NEON int8-dotprod GEMV for Q4_K on CPU by @iamstuffed in #254
• feat(cera): GPU I/O counters + Android bench/profile harness + baseline (T0) by @iamstuffed in #255
• fix(metal): bind freq_factors + the full params struct in the audio decoder by @iamstuffed in #256
• perf(gpu): register-tiled K-quant GEMM — 2.9x prefill on Q4_K_M by @iamstuffed in #257
• perf(gpu): register-tiled Q8_0 GEMM; drop the dead wgpu gemm_* kernels by @iamstuffed in #258
• docs(gpu): measure decode — T6 closed WONTFIX, T5b attributes the GPU time by @iamstuffed in #259
• perf(cpu): batched Q4_K + Q6_K int8 GEMM for prefill (~2.5x) by @iamstuffed in #260
• perf(wgpu): vectorize Q4_K/Q5_K GEMV weight loads (T11) by @iamstuffed in #261
• perf(metal): batched Q6_K GEMM for prefill (~2.3x on Q4_K_M) by @iamstuffed in #262
• perf(metal): Q4_K GEMM isolation microbench + ceiling analysis by @iamstuffed in #263
• perf(cera): disable zero-init of workgroup memory in compute pipelines by @iamstuffed in #264
• refactor(metal): centralize kernel param mirrors + guard shader/Rust parity by @iamstuffed in #265
• perf(gpu): 8×4 reg-tile prefill GEMM — 2.3x on Pixel/PowerVR by @iamstuffed in #267
• refactor(metal): migrate ViT vision encoder onto typed kernel params by @iamstuffed in #268
• Improve wgpu context binding by @iamstuffed in #269
• fix(wgpu): tile prefill attention over queries to fit the storage-binding limit by @iamstuffed in #270
• docs(wgpu): correct attention_prefill scores_buf sizing comments for query tiling by @iamstuffed in #271
• perf(wgpu): online-softmax flash prefill attention — drop scores materialization by @iamstuffed in #272
• perf(cpu): ARM SMMLA i8mm Q4_0 prefill GEMM + CI CPU benchmarks by @iamstuffed in #273
• perf(cpu): parallelize the x86 Q4_0 GEMV across rows by @iamstuffed in #274
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI int8 activation path for x86 GEMV by @iamstuffed in #275
• perf(cpu): batched int8 prefill GEMM for x86 by @iamstuffed in #276
• perf(cpu): reduce once per row in the AVX-512 f32 GEMV kernels by @iamstuffed in #277
• chore(scripts): add host CPU profiling script by @iamstuffed in #278
• ci: run batched-prefill parity on small GGUF fixtures by @iamstuffed in #279
• feat(quant): Q4_1 support on the CPU path, and reject unsupported dtypes by @iamstuffed in #280
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI Q4_K/Q6_K int8 GEMV + batched prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #281
• perf(cpu): admit K-quants on the dense-transformer batched prefill path by @iamstuffed in #282
• perf(cpu): halve the acc dependency chain in the AVX-512 row kernels by @iamstuffed in #283
• docs: record why DECODE_MAX_AUTO is 12; add a dispatch-cost microbench by @iamstuffed in #284
• perf(cpu): widen TILE_N to 8, and fix the benchmark that hid it by @iamstuffed in #285
• perf(cpu): row-tile the Q4_0/Q8_0 prefill GEMM (+19%) by @iamstuffed in #286
• chore: release 0.3.1 by @iamstuffed in #287
• perf(cpu): run the x86 int8 GEMM/GEMV from the AVX2 tier up, not VNNI only by @iamstuffed in #288
• perf(cpu): SIMD flash attention + wider prefill parallelism on x86 by @iamstuffed in #289
• perf(cpu): defer the K-quant GEMM reduction into a per-column accumulator by @iamstuffed in #290
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_0 weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #291
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_K weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #292
• perf(cpu): route K-quant decode through the narrow decode pool by @iamstuffed in #293
• ci(bench): add a best-effort llama.cpp head-to-head to the benchmark job by @iamstuffed in #294
• perf(cpu): multi-accumulator Q4_K/Q6_K decode dot (+10% decode) by @iamstuffed in #295
• perf(cpu,metal): batch Q4_1 tensors in prefill instead of whole-model fallback by @iamstuffed in #296
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q4_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #297
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q6_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #298
• perf(cpu): run the x86 prefill GEMM on the pinned RowPool, not rayon by @iamstuffed in #299
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for decode-at-depth by @iamstuffed in #300
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for LFM2 decode + prefill by @iamstuffed in #301
• perf(cpu): run prefill attention on the pinned RowPool + widen LFM2 to query heads by @iamstuffed in #302
• perf(cpu): activ...

v0.5.0

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241
• perf(cera): persistent affinity-pinned threadpool; decode on all P-cores by @iamstuffed in #243
• feat(cera): benchmark-parity API for external harnesses by @iamstuffed in #242
• chore: release 0.3.0 (breaking: GenerateOpts/ModelMetadata public-field additions) by @iamstuffed in #244
• chore: bump to latest nightly (drop stabilized dotprod gate) + README cleanup by @iamstuffed in #245
• feat(cera): Q5_K quantization support by @iamstuffed in #246
• perf(cera): wire gemv_q6_k into wgpu GEMV dispatch (Q6K stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #247
• feat(cera): native wgpu Q5_K GEMV kernel by @iamstuffed in #248
• perf(cera): native Q4_K wgpu GEMV + GEMM (Q4KM stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #249
• fix(cera): gemv_q6_k robustness — odd-m OOB guard + get_wid for large m by @iamstuffed in #250
• perf(cera): store the wgpu LM head as f16 (B3) + complete get_wid sweep by @iamstuffed in #251
• feat(cera): native wgpu flash-attention decode kernel by @iamstuffed in #252
• refactor(cera): delete classic wgpu decode-attention kernel (superseded by flash) by @iamstuffed in #253
• feat(cera): NEON int8-dotprod GEMV for Q4_K on CPU by @iamstuffed in #254
• feat(cera): GPU I/O counters + Android bench/profile harness + baseline (T0) by @iamstuffed in #255
• fix(metal): bind freq_factors + the full params struct in the audio decoder by @iamstuffed in #256
• perf(gpu): register-tiled K-quant GEMM — 2.9x prefill on Q4_K_M by @iamstuffed in #257
• perf(gpu): register-tiled Q8_0 GEMM; drop the dead wgpu gemm_* kernels by @iamstuffed in #258
• docs(gpu): measure decode — T6 closed WONTFIX, T5b attributes the GPU time by @iamstuffed in #259
• perf(cpu): batched Q4_K + Q6_K int8 GEMM for prefill (~2.5x) by @iamstuffed in #260
• perf(wgpu): vectorize Q4_K/Q5_K GEMV weight loads (T11) by @iamstuffed in #261
• perf(metal): batched Q6_K GEMM for prefill (~2.3x on Q4_K_M) by @iamstuffed in #262
• perf(metal): Q4_K GEMM isolation microbench + ceiling analysis by @iamstuffed in #263
• perf(cera): disable zero-init of workgroup memory in compute pipelines by @iamstuffed in #264
• refactor(metal): centralize kernel param mirrors + guard shader/Rust parity by @iamstuffed in #265
• perf(gpu): 8×4 reg-tile prefill GEMM — 2.3x on Pixel/PowerVR by @iamstuffed in #267
• refactor(metal): migrate ViT vision encoder onto typed kernel params by @iamstuffed in #268
• Improve wgpu context binding by @iamstuffed in #269
• fix(wgpu): tile prefill attention over queries to fit the storage-binding limit by @iamstuffed in #270
• docs(wgpu): correct attention_prefill scores_buf sizing comments for query tiling by @iamstuffed in #271
• perf(wgpu): online-softmax flash prefill attention — drop scores materialization by @iamstuffed in #272
• perf(cpu): ARM SMMLA i8mm Q4_0 prefill GEMM + CI CPU benchmarks by @iamstuffed in #273
• perf(cpu): parallelize the x86 Q4_0 GEMV across rows by @iamstuffed in #274
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI int8 activation path for x86 GEMV by @iamstuffed in #275
• perf(cpu): batched int8 prefill GEMM for x86 by @iamstuffed in #276
• perf(cpu): reduce once per row in the AVX-512 f32 GEMV kernels by @iamstuffed in #277
• chore(scripts): add host CPU profiling script by @iamstuffed in #278
• ci: run batched-prefill parity on small GGUF fixtures by @iamstuffed in #279
• feat(quant): Q4_1 support on the CPU path, and reject unsupported dtypes by @iamstuffed in #280
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI Q4_K/Q6_K int8 GEMV + batched prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #281
• perf(cpu): admit K-quants on the dense-transformer batched prefill path by @iamstuffed in #282
• perf(cpu): halve the acc dependency chain in the AVX-512 row kernels by @iamstuffed in #283
• docs: record why DECODE_MAX_AUTO is 12; add a dispatch-cost microbench by @iamstuffed in #284
• perf(cpu): widen TILE_N to 8, and fix the benchmark that hid it by @iamstuffed in #285
• perf(cpu): row-tile the Q4_0/Q8_0 prefill GEMM (+19%) by @iamstuffed in #286
• chore: release 0.3.1 by @iamstuffed in #287
• perf(cpu): run the x86 int8 GEMM/GEMV from the AVX2 tier up, not VNNI only by @iamstuffed in #288
• perf(cpu): SIMD flash attention + wider prefill parallelism on x86 by @iamstuffed in #289
• perf(cpu): defer the K-quant GEMM reduction into a per-column accumulator by @iamstuffed in #290
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_0 weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #291
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_K weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #292
• perf(cpu): route K-quant decode through the narrow decode pool by @iamstuffed in #293
• ci(bench): add a best-effort llama.cpp head-to-head to the benchmark job by @iamstuffed in #294
• perf(cpu): multi-accumulator Q4_K/Q6_K decode dot (+10% decode) by @iamstuffed in #295
• perf(cpu,metal): batch Q4_1 tensors in prefill instead of whole-model fallback by @iamstuffed in #296
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q4_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #297
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q6_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #298
• perf(cpu): run the x86 prefill GEMM on the pinned RowPool, not rayon by @iamstuffed in #299
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for decode-at-depth by @iamstuffed in #300
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for LFM2 decode + prefill by @iamstuffed in #301
• perf(cpu): run prefill attention on the pinned RowPool + widen LFM2 to query heads by @iamstuffed in #302
• perf(cpu): activ...

v0.4.0

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241
• perf(cera): persistent affinity-pinned threadpool; decode on all P-cores by @iamstuffed in #243
• feat(cera): benchmark-parity API for external harnesses by @iamstuffed in #242
• chore: release 0.3.0 (breaking: GenerateOpts/ModelMetadata public-field additions) by @iamstuffed in #244
• chore: bump to latest nightly (drop stabilized dotprod gate) + README cleanup by @iamstuffed in #245
• feat(cera): Q5_K quantization support by @iamstuffed in #246
• perf(cera): wire gemv_q6_k into wgpu GEMV dispatch (Q6K stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #247
• feat(cera): native wgpu Q5_K GEMV kernel by @iamstuffed in #248
• perf(cera): native Q4_K wgpu GEMV + GEMM (Q4KM stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #249
• fix(cera): gemv_q6_k robustness — odd-m OOB guard + get_wid for large m by @iamstuffed in #250
• perf(cera): store the wgpu LM head as f16 (B3) + complete get_wid sweep by @iamstuffed in #251
• feat(cera): native wgpu flash-attention decode kernel by @iamstuffed in #252
• refactor(cera): delete classic wgpu decode-attention kernel (superseded by flash) by @iamstuffed in #253
• feat(cera): NEON int8-dotprod GEMV for Q4_K on CPU by @iamstuffed in #254
• feat(cera): GPU I/O counters + Android bench/profile harness + baseline (T0) by @iamstuffed in #255
• fix(metal): bind freq_factors + the full params struct in the audio decoder by @iamstuffed in #256
• perf(gpu): register-tiled K-quant GEMM — 2.9x prefill on Q4_K_M by @iamstuffed in #257
• perf(gpu): register-tiled Q8_0 GEMM; drop the dead wgpu gemm_* kernels by @iamstuffed in #258
• docs(gpu): measure decode — T6 closed WONTFIX, T5b attributes the GPU time by @iamstuffed in #259
• perf(cpu): batched Q4_K + Q6_K int8 GEMM for prefill (~2.5x) by @iamstuffed in #260
• perf(wgpu): vectorize Q4_K/Q5_K GEMV weight loads (T11) by @iamstuffed in #261
• perf(metal): batched Q6_K GEMM for prefill (~2.3x on Q4_K_M) by @iamstuffed in #262
• perf(metal): Q4_K GEMM isolation microbench + ceiling analysis by @iamstuffed in #263
• perf(cera): disable zero-init of workgroup memory in compute pipelines by @iamstuffed in #264
• refactor(metal): centralize kernel param mirrors + guard shader/Rust parity by @iamstuffed in #265
• perf(gpu): 8×4 reg-tile prefill GEMM — 2.3x on Pixel/PowerVR by @iamstuffed in #267
• refactor(metal): migrate ViT vision encoder onto typed kernel params by @iamstuffed in #268
• Improve wgpu context binding by @iamstuffed in #269
• fix(wgpu): tile prefill attention over queries to fit the storage-binding limit by @iamstuffed in #270
• docs(wgpu): correct attention_prefill scores_buf sizing comments for query tiling by @iamstuffed in #271
• perf(wgpu): online-softmax flash prefill attention — drop scores materialization by @iamstuffed in #272
• perf(cpu): ARM SMMLA i8mm Q4_0 prefill GEMM + CI CPU benchmarks by @iamstuffed in #273
• perf(cpu): parallelize the x86 Q4_0 GEMV across rows by @iamstuffed in #274
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI int8 activation path for x86 GEMV by @iamstuffed in #275
• perf(cpu): batched int8 prefill GEMM for x86 by @iamstuffed in #276
• perf(cpu): reduce once per row in the AVX-512 f32 GEMV kernels by @iamstuffed in #277
• chore(scripts): add host CPU profiling script by @iamstuffed in #278
• ci: run batched-prefill parity on small GGUF fixtures by @iamstuffed in #279
• feat(quant): Q4_1 support on the CPU path, and reject unsupported dtypes by @iamstuffed in #280
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI Q4_K/Q6_K int8 GEMV + batched prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #281
• perf(cpu): admit K-quants on the dense-transformer batched prefill path by @iamstuffed in #282
• perf(cpu): halve the acc dependency chain in the AVX-512 row kernels by @iamstuffed in #283
• docs: record why DECODE_MAX_AUTO is 12; add a dispatch-cost microbench by @iamstuffed in #284
• perf(cpu): widen TILE_N to 8, and fix the benchmark that hid it by @iamstuffed in #285
• perf(cpu): row-tile the Q4_0/Q8_0 prefill GEMM (+19%) by @iamstuffed in #286
• chore: release 0.3.1 by @iamstuffed in #287
• perf(cpu): run the x86 int8 GEMM/GEMV from the AVX2 tier up, not VNNI only by @iamstuffed in #288
• perf(cpu): SIMD flash attention + wider prefill parallelism on x86 by @iamstuffed in #289
• perf(cpu): defer the K-quant GEMM reduction into a per-column accumulator by @iamstuffed in #290
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_0 weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #291
• perf(cpu): repack Q4_K weights into an 8-row interleave for prefill by @iamstuffed in #292
• perf(cpu): route K-quant decode through the narrow decode pool by @iamstuffed in #293
• ci(bench): add a best-effort llama.cpp head-to-head to the benchmark job by @iamstuffed in #294
• perf(cpu): multi-accumulator Q4_K/Q6_K decode dot (+10% decode) by @iamstuffed in #295
• perf(cpu,metal): batch Q4_1 tensors in prefill instead of whole-model fallback by @iamstuffed in #296
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q4_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #297
• perf(cpu): ARM i8mm/SMMLA Q6_K prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #298
• perf(cpu): run the x86 prefill GEMM on the pinned RowPool, not rayon by @iamstuffed in #299
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for decode-at-depth by @iamstuffed in #300
• perf(cpu): f16 KV cache for LFM2 decode + prefill by @iamstuffed in #301
• perf(cpu): run prefill attention on the pinned RowPool + widen LFM2 to query heads by @iamstuffed in #302
• perf(cpu): activ...

v0.3.1

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241
• perf(cera): persistent affinity-pinned threadpool; decode on all P-cores by @iamstuffed in #243
• feat(cera): benchmark-parity API for external harnesses by @iamstuffed in #242
• chore: release 0.3.0 (breaking: GenerateOpts/ModelMetadata public-field additions) by @iamstuffed in #244
• chore: bump to latest nightly (drop stabilized dotprod gate) + README cleanup by @iamstuffed in #245
• feat(cera): Q5_K quantization support by @iamstuffed in #246
• perf(cera): wire gemv_q6_k into wgpu GEMV dispatch (Q6K stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #247
• feat(cera): native wgpu Q5_K GEMV kernel by @iamstuffed in #248
• perf(cera): native Q4_K wgpu GEMV + GEMM (Q4KM stays quantized) by @iamstuffed in #249
• fix(cera): gemv_q6_k robustness — odd-m OOB guard + get_wid for large m by @iamstuffed in #250
• perf(cera): store the wgpu LM head as f16 (B3) + complete get_wid sweep by @iamstuffed in #251
• feat(cera): native wgpu flash-attention decode kernel by @iamstuffed in #252
• refactor(cera): delete classic wgpu decode-attention kernel (superseded by flash) by @iamstuffed in #253
• feat(cera): NEON int8-dotprod GEMV for Q4_K on CPU by @iamstuffed in #254
• feat(cera): GPU I/O counters + Android bench/profile harness + baseline (T0) by @iamstuffed in #255
• fix(metal): bind freq_factors + the full params struct in the audio decoder by @iamstuffed in #256
• perf(gpu): register-tiled K-quant GEMM — 2.9x prefill on Q4_K_M by @iamstuffed in #257
• perf(gpu): register-tiled Q8_0 GEMM; drop the dead wgpu gemm_* kernels by @iamstuffed in #258
• docs(gpu): measure decode — T6 closed WONTFIX, T5b attributes the GPU time by @iamstuffed in #259
• perf(cpu): batched Q4_K + Q6_K int8 GEMM for prefill (~2.5x) by @iamstuffed in #260
• perf(wgpu): vectorize Q4_K/Q5_K GEMV weight loads (T11) by @iamstuffed in #261
• perf(metal): batched Q6_K GEMM for prefill (~2.3x on Q4_K_M) by @iamstuffed in #262
• perf(metal): Q4_K GEMM isolation microbench + ceiling analysis by @iamstuffed in #263
• perf(cera): disable zero-init of workgroup memory in compute pipelines by @iamstuffed in #264
• refactor(metal): centralize kernel param mirrors + guard shader/Rust parity by @iamstuffed in #265
• perf(gpu): 8×4 reg-tile prefill GEMM — 2.3x on Pixel/PowerVR by @iamstuffed in #267
• refactor(metal): migrate ViT vision encoder onto typed kernel params by @iamstuffed in #268
• Improve wgpu context binding by @iamstuffed in #269
• fix(wgpu): tile prefill attention over queries to fit the storage-binding limit by @iamstuffed in #270
• docs(wgpu): correct attention_prefill scores_buf sizing comments for query tiling by @iamstuffed in #271
• perf(wgpu): online-softmax flash prefill attention — drop scores materialization by @iamstuffed in #272
• perf(cpu): ARM SMMLA i8mm Q4_0 prefill GEMM + CI CPU benchmarks by @iamstuffed in #273
• perf(cpu): parallelize the x86 Q4_0 GEMV across rows by @iamstuffed in #274
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI int8 activation path for x86 GEMV by @iamstuffed in #275
• perf(cpu): batched int8 prefill GEMM for x86 by @iamstuffed in #276
• perf(cpu): reduce once per row in the AVX-512 f32 GEMV kernels by @iamstuffed in #277
• chore(scripts): add host CPU profiling script by @iamstuffed in #278
• ci: run batched-prefill parity on small GGUF fixtures by @iamstuffed in #279
• feat(quant): Q4_1 support on the CPU path, and reject unsupported dtypes by @iamstuffed in #280
• perf(cpu): AVX-512 VNNI Q4_K/Q6_K int8 GEMV + batched prefill GEMM by @iamstuffed in #281
• perf(cpu): admit K-quants on the dense-transformer batched prefill path by @iamstuffed in #282
• perf(cpu): halve the acc dependency chain in the AVX-512 row kernels by @iamstuffed in #283
• docs: record why DECODE_MAX_AUTO is 12; add a dispatch-cost microbench by @iamstuffed in #284
• perf(cpu): widen TILE_N to 8, and fix the benchmark that hid it by @iamstuffed in #285
• perf(cpu): row-tile the Q4_0/Q8_0 prefill GEMM (+19%) by @iamstuffed in #286
• chore: release 0.3.1 by @iamstuffed in #287

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.3.1

v0.3.0

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241
• perf(cera): persistent affinity-pinned threadpool; decode on all P-cores by @iamstuffed in #243
• feat(cera): benchmark-parity API for external harnesses by @iamstuffed in #242
• chore: release 0.3.0 (breaking: GenerateOpts/ModelMetadata public-field additions) by @iamstuffed in #244

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.3.0

v0.2.7

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238
• feat: tool calling (function calling) across core, CLI, FFI, WASM by @iamstuffed in #239
• chore: bump to 0.2.7 + document tool calling across READMEs by @iamstuffed in #240
• fix(cera-ffi): real record defaults so GenerateOpts()/SessionConfig() construct by @iamstuffed in #241

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.7

v0.2.6

What's Changed

• feat(spm): CPU-only iOS/macOS SwiftPM package (0.2.3) by @iamstuffed in #224
• fix(spm): release survivor-check false-positived on doc comment by @iamstuffed in #225
• feat(metal): Metal GPU backend on iOS (Phase 2) by @iamstuffed in #226
• chore: bump to 0.2.4 (Metal-enabled iOS SwiftPM) by @iamstuffed in #227
• feat(ios): CeraChat example app (Phase 4 — final iOS phase) by @iamstuffed in #228
• feat(lora): apply LoRA to LFM2 shortconv projections across all backends by @iamstuffed in #229
• feat(metal): native Q4_K GEMV kernel + Q6_K layer weights (enable Q4_K_M on Metal) by @iamstuffed in #230
• chore(docs): fix rustdoc intra-doc links + add CI doc-lint gate by @iamstuffed in #231
• ci: drop broken Microsoft apt sources before apt-get update by @iamstuffed in #233
• ci: match Microsoft apt sources by content, not hardcoded filenames by @iamstuffed in #234
• chore: bump to 0.2.5 by @iamstuffed in #232
• feat(cera): benchmark-client primitives (CPU descriptor, provenance, memory pre-flight) by @iamstuffed in #235
• perf(metal): larger prefill query-block (QPT=32) for hd=64 attention by @iamstuffed in #237
• feat(cera)!: fallible KV allocation — OutOfMemory instead of abort by @iamstuffed in #236
• chore: bump to 0.2.6 and reconcile crate READMEs with current API by @iamstuffed in #238

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.6