Bump VERSION_NAME to 0.19.0 in the root gradle.properties, expand the CHANGELOG [0.19.0] - 2026-04-20 section to cover the full 130 commits since 0.18.0 — not just the tokenizer work but the StableHLO → IREE lowering pipeline (softmax/layerNorm/rmsnorm real lowerings, gather/ embedding/concat/slice/cast converters, ConstantMaterializationPolicy, dense<v> splat folding, SSA type tracking), the new skainet-io-iree- params IrpaWriter, skainet-backend-api module, Antora docs migration with Diátaxis layout, Java API polish (#400), androidNativeArm32 target, and the graph/DSL shape-inference fixes (#535, #536, #537, #538) that unblock non-MNIST CNN architectures and Whisper-encoder HLO compilation. Refresh the README install snippet and "What's New" section to reflect the 0.19.0 highlights, and note the tokenizer milestone on the Q2 2026 roadmap line. Ops docs regenerated so the stamped version matches the new VERSION_NAME. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Commits on Apr 21, 2026

Release 0.19.0