Changelog¶

Astral is pre-1.0. Entries remain under Unreleased until the first tagged release.

Unreleased¶

C++17 native runtime with a sized C ABI, static and shared library builds, mock and llama.cpp CPU providers, and optional CUDA offload.
Streaming generation, continuous batching, embeddings, prompt caches, LoRA adapters, structured output, model presets, native agents, and vector search.
Unity 6000.0 and Unreal Engine 5.4+ packages with maintained samples and native artifact layouts.
Release checks for ABI layout, exported symbols, dependency pins, SBOMs, checksums, documentation links, engine package layout, and hot-path allocation and syscall contracts.

Consolidated initialization under AstralInit and astral_init before the first public ABI release.
Moved continuous-batching conversation lifetime protection from per-object executor reference traffic to epoch reclamation.
Added runtime AVX2 and F16C feature checks before selecting E5M2 conversion kernels.
Set Unity 6000.0 as the minimum supported Unity editor version.
Restricted automated repository jobs to trusted Linux self-hosted runners.
Licensed the project under Apache License 2.0.

Hardened conversation stream ownership, cancellation, reset, and token spill behavior.
Corrected compact-vector conversion behavior for non-finite E5M2 encodings.
Added bounds and failure handling to concurrency, virtual-memory, and public ABI boundaries.