Universal v4.8.0

[4.8.0] - 2026-08-13

Added

• takum: Add takum_log, the logarithmic takum, on the shared codec (#1304) by @Ravenwater
• takum: Add the takum_log elementary function library (#1305) by @Ravenwater

Build System

• deps: Bump the docs-site-minor-patch group (#1290) by @dependabot[bot]
• deps: Bump js-yaml from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 in /docs-site (#1294) by @dependabot[bot]
• deps: Bump postcss from 8.5.19 to 8.5.26 in /docs-site (#1295) by @dependabot[bot]
• deps: Bump the docs-site-minor-patch group (#1296) by @dependabot[bot]

CI/CD

• deps: Bump GitHub Actions to Node 24 runtimes (#1289) by @Ravenwater

Changed

• takum: Extract the shared field codec into takum_codec.hpp (#1299) by @Ravenwater

Documentation

• takum: Assess linear vs logarithmic takum, fix arXiv citation (#1298) by @Ravenwater

Fixed

• elreal: Stop streaming addition from emitting subnormal ZBCL blocks (#1292) by @loren-osborn
• posit: Encoding() calls blockbinary::to_ull(), not to_ullong() (#1293) by @Ravenwater
• Resolve Apple Clang warnings without reducing test coverage (#1301) by @loren-osborn