Bump version 0.37.0 -> 0.38.0 (gradle.properties, docs/antora.yml, README quickstart). Promote CHANGELOG [Unreleased] to [0.38.0]. The [Unreleased] section only carried the dynamic-dimension work (#891), so this also writes up the narrow-float line that merged without changelog entries: the shared BF16/FP16 codec and KEEP_NATIVE loading (#886), the zero-copy transpose for input-major narrow weights (#888/#895), the native FFM FP16 kernel and the missing matmulFp16 accessor behind it (#887/#896), and read-once weight tiling in both native narrow kernels (#897). Records the measured result -- both narrow formats now beat the FP32 SGEMM, where FP16 used to be 2-18x slower -- and the finding that these kernels are compute-bound on the FMA chain at batch 16 rather than bandwidth-bound, so the next win is not more layout work. Two behaviour notes worth a reader's attention are called out rather than buried: Fp16Codec.decode now quiets NaN, which changes exactly the 1022 signaling patterns and nothing else, and a row-major narrow buffer still takes the generic transpose path on purpose. Refresh README "What's New" around the two headline features and add a Contributors (0.38.0) section. No tag yet.

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Commits on Jul 30, 2026

release: prepare 0.38.0