HCP-DP v0.1.0-alpha.1

First alpha binary release for hcp-align.

Included

Exact score or distance plus exact reconstructed traceback for global linear alignment, global affine alignment, Smith-Waterman local alignment, edit distance, and semi-global linear alignment.
Multi-record FASTA/FASTQ pairwise batch input.
Text, JSON, JSONL, TSV, and CIGAR-oriented output.
Independent path scoring for every run, plus bounded full-table verification with --verify.
Release report artifact with correctness and performance probes, plus external validation against Parasail and Edlib where available.

Download the artifact for your platform, verify the SHA-256 checksum, extract it, and run:

hcp-align --help

This is a GitHub alpha release only; the crate is not published to crates.io yet.
Performance claims remain conservative and should be read alongside the attached report artifact.
Batch mode is pairwise zip only.
Protein substitution matrices, SAM/BAM/PAF output, and wrapped FASTQ are not supported yet.