Merge pull request #421 from SKaiNET-developers/release/0.16.0

Release/0.16.0

Author: michalharakal

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.16.0] - 2026-03-08
+
+### Added
+- **Deduplicated LLM infrastructure**: unified `KvCache`, `softmax`, `RoPE`, and `sampling` logic across modules for improved maintainability.
+- **Updated skainet-bom**: Refactored the Bill of Materials (BOM) to use local `project()` references for better build consistency.
+
+### Changed
+- **LLM Module Extraction**: Extracted and moved core LLM modules to the standalone [SKaiNET-LLM](https://github.com/SKaiNET-developers/SKaiNET-LLM) repository to reduce core codebase footprint.
+- **Transformer Code Cleanup**: Removed redundant code that has been moved to the [SKaiNET-transformers](https://github.com/SKaiNET-developers/SKaiNET-transformers) repository.
+
+### Fixed
+- **Dependency Graph**: Resolved inverted dependency issues in the LLM infrastructure.
+
 ## [0.15.3] - 2026-03-07
 
 ### Added

README.md

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ Add the core dependencies (Gradle Kotlin DSL):
 
 ```kotlin
 dependencies {
-    implementation("sk.ainet.core:SKaiNET-lang-core:0.15.3")
-    implementation("sk.ainet.core:SKaiNET-backend-cpu:0.15.3")
+    implementation("sk.ainet.core:SKaiNET-lang-core:0.16.0")
+    implementation("sk.ainet.core:SKaiNET-backend-cpu:0.16.0")
 }
 ```
 
@@ -128,12 +128,11 @@ runtime.generate(tokenizer.encode("Once upon a time"), steps = 64) { token ->
 
 ---
 
-## What's New in 0.15.3
+## What's New in 0.16.0
 
-- **System prompt support (Java)** — added `systemPrompt` support to `KLlamaJava` and `KLlamaSession` for easier customization of agent behavior
-- **Model extraction** — model-specific code is now isolated in dedicated `skainet-models` modules
-- **Whisper HLO generation** — fixed StableHLO MLIR output for Whisper audio models
-- **Smoke test improvements** — faster and more robust LLM loading verification with multi-runner support
+- **Unified LLM core** — deduplicated and optimized implementation of `KvCache`, `softmax`, `RoPE`, and `sampling`
+- **Infrastructure cleanup** — extracted core LLM and transformer code to standalone repositories `SKaiNET-transformers`) to streamline the core project
+- **Consistent BOM** — refactored `skainet-bom` to use local `project()` references for reliable builds
 
 
 See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for the full release history.

gradle.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 GROUP=sk.ainet.core
-VERSION_NAME=0.15.3
+VERSION_NAME=0.16.0
 
 POM_DESCRIPTION=SKaiNET