Version 0.5.2

What's Changed

API / Output Format Changes

• Search JSON: kmer_coords and kmer_abundances as strings by @karasikov in #629
• Map coords to headers in align with CoordToHeader by @karasikov in #609
• Updated workflows: add count/coord modes, improved UX by @karasikov in #630
• Compact RLE encoding for k-mer presence bitmasks (signature mode) by @karasikov in #627

Query & Runtime Optimizations

• Various query optimizations and parallel queries in one RD traversal by @karasikov in #559
• Optimizations for annotations with dense matches by @karasikov in #606
• MADV_RANDOM for graphs loaded with mmap by @karasikov in #607
• Parallel BRWT query in one traversal by @karasikov in #605
• Async loaders for graph + annotation by @karasikov in #621
• Support serving in multi-graph regime without mmap (in RAM) by @karasikov in #615
• Deduplicate graphs before loading in the multi-graph server by @karasikov in #617
• Refactoring in query.hpp and other improvements by @karasikov in #625

Graph/Annotation Loading & Storage Improvements

• Support loading RowDisk annotations without mmap by @karasikov in #618
• Build succinct graphs in place by default; --in-ram for building in RAM by @karasikov in #620
• SSHash: RowDiffChar annotation format with sparse successor storage by @adamant-pwn in #604
• Added support for conversion row_diff_brwt -> row_diff_disk by @karasikov in #612

Build / CI / Tooling

• fixes for Clang 21 by @karasikov in #614
• run unit tests in parallel by @karasikov in #613
• Switch CI to Ubuntu 24.04 by @karasikov in #624
• Bump pytest from 3.4.1 to 9.0.3 in /metagraph/api/python by @dependabot[bot] in #610

Validation / Error Handling

• Specify the cause of error when can't load a file (e.g., permission issues) by @karasikov in #611
• Validate diff-assembly JSON has 'groups' array by @karasikov in #619

Documentation

• Added docs for the CoordToHeader functionality by @karasikov in #616

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.5.2