v8.0.0

What's Changed

• feat(neural-web): browser pair-prior wiring — loader pairIndexURLs + country gate (#1278 phase 1) by @GirlBossRush in #1300
• chore(docs): de-dup the demo asset-loader + parse cascade, add NZ preset by @GirlBossRush in #1302
• feat(neural-web): browser locale-gate + per-parse pair-index selection (#1278 phase 2) by @GirlBossRush in #1301
• fix(corpus-python): stale test hygiene + config strict mode (#1247, #1248) by @GirlBossRush in #1303
• fix: eval-gate tarball specs + street/photon decoration trio (#1056, #1058, #1041) by @GirlBossRush in #1304
• feat(demo): wire the placetype-pair prior into the browser demo (#1278 phase 3) by @GirlBossRush in #1309
• fix(neural): strip a trailing postcode from parent segment keys — postcode-in-town-field pairs fire (#1308) by @GirlBossRush in #1310
• docs(plan): country-evidence-layer onboarding runbook (v8 Track B gate) by @GirlBossRush in #1311
• docs(AGENTS): reconcile the stale #875 known-gaps note (public sweep already landed) by @GirlBossRush in #1312
• fix(#1108): make the silent weights-fallback loud — warn-and-continue, npx demos still work by @GirlBossRush in #1313
• feat(neural): street-context gate for the FST gazetteer prior (#1142) by @GirlBossRush in #1315
• feat(neural): trailing-locality prior — opt-in comma-free 'street + trailing city' mechanism (fork B) by @GirlBossRush in #1317
• feat(neural): distribute the per-locale FST gazetteer in the weights packages — default-on by @GirlBossRush in #1318
• Wrap handoff + Tasks 1/2/4 (release-staging, retirement tracking, roadmap) by @GirlBossRush in #1319
• docs: v8 drive handoff — DeepSeek takes the cut by @GirlBossRush in #1321
• feat!: v8 breaking batch — remove #1108 fallback + deprecated options + dead subpaths by @GirlBossRush in #1322
• feat!: formalize the shared Latin-script base model (neural-weights-base-latn) — #1177 Phase A by @GirlBossRush in #1323
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1324
• chore(deps): bump find-my-way from 9.6.0 to 9.7.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1305
• chore(deps): bump postcss from 8.5.15 to 8.5.23 by @dependabot[bot] in #1306
• chore(deps): bump tar from 7.5.19 to 7.5.22 by @dependabot[bot] in #1307
• chore(deps): bump the python-dependencies group in /corpus-python with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1325
• chore(deps): bump the npm-dependencies group with 17 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1326
• chore(deps): bump release-it from 19.2.4 to 21.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1327
• fix(release): unblock the v8 cut — proven packaging + release-it pin + FST CI-publish wiring by @GirlBossRush in #1328
• release: v8.0.0 by @GirlBossRush in #1330

Full Changelog: v7.8.1...v8.0.0