* docs: the v2026.43 candidate section and the README status table (#525 follow-up)
Data for the owner's release today, no prose for its own sake:
- `docs/releases.md` gains a **v2026.43 (candidate, 23 Oct)** section: the release sha and every pin,
the four artifacts and the six checks as tables (marked *pending* until the release box's
`RELEASE-CANDIDATE.md` exists), and a grouped changelog of everything merged since the 18 Oct
rehearsal - HRX speed (verify kernels +31-39 % on 27B MTP, split-K decode 23.7 -> 47.1 on
Qwen3.5-4B 32K, Flash-Next MoE 5.1 -> 26 tok/s, prompt FA +45 % on Qwen3-4B, warm-up TTFT
2.64 -> 0.80 s), the batched N=8 cells (50.7 / 138.1 / 194.3 aggregate tok/s), correctness
(strict placement by default, 43/43 census, #315 resolved on a 37-arm soak, #433 closed on 120
loads), the sealed NPU packaging, the Lemonade one-hop + catalog proofs (22 HRX entries), the OS
image's signed UKI, and the tooling (gpu-hold queue, census, kernel runbook).
- `README.md` gets the same status as a table under the opening paragraph, with each number's
standard (lemonade bench standard or ours) and the power state where it matters.
Every line names its PR; every number comes from the auto-opt database rows, the catalog proofs or a
closed issue, and carries the standard it was measured under. Nothing is claimed as shipped: the
candidate's artifacts and checks stay *pending* until the release run writes them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: v2026.43 pins after #526, and no internal file references
Two review fixes on the candidate section:
- `gpu-kernels` pin `abaa6bc484d5` -> `744bd713d968` (#526, the top-1 batched window from 5
tokens), with the batched cells noted as measured one pin earlier, and the engine row now names
`7871c71d` — main when the last release-blocking PR merged. Adds the `npu-runtime` pin
(`ce9fa59adf95`) so every row the release run records has a row here.
- the candidate paragraph pointed at a file that only exists on the release box; public docs name
files in this repository only, so it says "the release run" and what that run records.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: bong-water-water-bong <bong-water-water-bong@1bit.gg>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Moves config/gpu-kernels.config from
abaa6bc484d5to744bd713d968.gpu-kernels #26: top-1 MoE models (ZAYA1-8B) use the batched MoE decode kernels only on 5..8-token steps; 2..4-token top-1 steps return to the previous path. ZAYA1-8B aggregate decode (strixhalo, 90 W cap, PCM pad): N=8 152.8 -> 209.7 tok/s (+37%), N=2 136.5 -> 135.6 (-0.7%), N=4 unchanged, N=1 unchanged; Coder-30B / 27B / 4B untouched (never route_count 1). test-backend-ops MUL_MAT_ID 132/132 vs CPU.
Merge by hand after hw_gate passes (auto-merge off).
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