Release 0.37.0

[michalharakal]

Release preparation for 0.37.0. No functional changes — version bump, changelog, and docs only.

Version bumps

• gradle.properties — VERSION_NAME=0.37.0
• docs/antora.yml — skainet_version: 0.37.0 (all .adoc dependency snippets resolve this attribute, so they follow automatically)
• README.md — quickstart BOM coordinate

Verified no stale 0.36.0 references remain outside intentional history sections.

CHANGELOG

[Unreleased] promoted to [0.37.0], covering everything since the 0.36.0 prep commit:

Added — Lstm layer with LstmState/step() (#824), LR schedules and mutable optimizer lr (#866), optional bias in Linear (#870), open Linear for adapters (#875), androidNative IO targets (#836, #842, #845), OpenSSF Scorecard workflow (#814)

Changed — Dropout now performs real inverted dropout (#867), toolchain bumps (Kotlin 2.4.10, AGP 9.3.1, and others), commit-hash pinning across all workflows plus a reproducible docs Docker image, allTests split into parallel per-target jobs (#854)

Fixed — SDPA default scale (#860), three autograd bugs (#862, #863, #864), argMax DAG output spec (#876), legacy tokenizer BPE inference (#858), N-D gather (#859)

Reviewer notes

Two changes are behaviorally breaking and worth a second look:

• Linear @JvmOverloads set (feat(nn): optional bias in Linear #870) — marked BREAKING in the changelog. The 4-arg (in, out, weights, bias) overload is replaced by (in, out, weights), so Java callers binding the 4-arg form break at both source and binary level. Kotlin callers are unaffected.
• Dropout (feat(nn): implement stochastic masking in Dropout #867) — previously an identity no-op in both phases. Models that relied on that will now see different (correct) training-time activations.

Release process

CI does not run on release/* branches, so this PR is the only validation signal before publishing. Once it is green:

1. Push the annotated tag 0.37.0 on the release-branch tip — this triggers publish.yml and deploys to Maven Central. Not reversible; a botched release needs 0.37.1.
2. Merge this PR.
3. Create the GitHub Release from the tag, which triggers the documentation deploy.

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