musa: enable fp16 mma (all) and cublas on qy2 (llama/13842)

ggml-cpu: enable IBM NNPA Vector Intrinsics (llama/14317)

ggml : do not output unprintable characters on GGUF load failure (llama/14381)

sycl: GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_OPT on by default for all Intel Devices (llama/13973)

opencl: ref count `ggml_backend_opencl_context` and refactor profiling (llama/14254)

CUDA/HIP: optimize mmv paths taken for HIP devices (llama/14324)

CUDA: mul_mat_v support for batch sizes > 1 (llama/14262)

HIP: enable vec fattn on RDNA4 (llama/14323)

CUDA: add mean operation (llama/14313)

Add support for VK_EXT_debug_utils to add labels to Vulkan objects. (llama/13792)

metal : fix thread-safety (llama/14300)

ggml-cpu : "align corners" for bilinear upscale/downscale (ggml/1285)

ggml-quants : rename best_mad to best_error (ggml/1283)

ci : use selective copy for musa image (#3296)

ci: set fail-fast to false in docker.yml (#3294)

ruby : add Whisper::VERSION (#3292)

whisper : add version function (#3289)

ci : add should_release variable (#3288)

docs : add cmake "-j" flag in README.md (#3284)

ci : add support for tag-based releases (#3287)

release : v1.7.6

bench : update benches

bench : print system info before ctx check

stream : add nullptr check of whisper_context (#3283)

ci : enable main-cuda build (#3282)

bindings.java : update java example (#3281)

coreml : backport CoreML features to macos < 14 (#3255)

ci : reduce musa image size (#3277)

whisper : add .gitignore entries for OpenVINO support (#3276)

command: output commands to text file (#3273)

ci : add apt-get clean to musa Dockerfile (#3275)

ruby : specify Apple frameworks explicitly on build (#3270)

talk-llama : sync llama.cpp

sync : ggml

CUDA: add conv_2d_transpose (llama/14287)

sycl: add usage of enqueue_functions extension (llama/14244)

Implement GGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS for PowerPC (llama/14286)

cuda : synchronize graph capture and cublas handle destruction (llama/14288)

ggml : fix repack work size for mul_mat_id (llama/14292)

ggml: Update KleidiAI to v1.9.0 (llama/14277)

CUDA: add conv_2d_dw (llama/14265)

ggml-cpu : remove unnecesary arm feature detection (llama/14281)

build : suppress gcc15 compile warnings (llama/14261)

sycl: Cleanup codepaths in Get Rows in sycl backend (llama/14215)

llamafile : support s390x SIMD instruction set (llama/14273)

Vulkan: Set device max size for host memory to avoid OOM warning and fallback to CPU buffer (llama/14249)

metal : add mean kernel (llama/14267)

ggml-cpu: reduce asm calls for hsum (llama/14037)

ggml-cpu: fix uncaught underscore terminators (llama/14023)

ggml: Add Apple support for GGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS (llama/14258)