Release prep for 0.36.1, following the same shape as #224 (0.36.0): release chores only, no feature code.

Why 0.36.1 and not 0.37.0

The CHANGELOG's stated rule is that the version line tracks the engine — a transformers X.Y.Z ships against engine X.Y.Z. The engine is still at 0.36.0 (gradle/libs.versions.toml unchanged), so there is no 0.37.0 to ship against. This follows the 0.34.1 precedent: a patch on the same engine line.

What's in it

Everything merged to develop since 0.36.0:

• BGE embedding models on the BERT DSL path (Embedding coverage Phase 1: BGE (CLS pooling, retrieval prefixes) #229) — BertPooling { MEAN, CLS } auto-detected from 1_Pooling/config.json, embedQuery/embedDocument retrieval prefixes via PrefixedEmbeddingModel, and FloatSafeTensorsLoader skipping BGE's I64 position_ids buffer (interim, pending SKaiNET#822).
• Beam search for the T5 decoder and vec2text (vec2text: add beam search (token-level + sequence-level) #228) — token-level T5Runtime.generateBeam(...) and sequence-level Vec2TextInverter.invert(..., sequenceBeamWidth, tokenBeams). Off by default; width 1 keeps greedy behaviour. Improves cosine 0.765 → 0.818 on the round-trip test's example.

Changes

• gradle.properties — VERSION_NAME → 0.36.1
• CHANGELOG.md — cut [0.36.1] from Unreleased, folding in the BGE entry that was already sitting there
• README.md — current-release notes, BOM snippet, BERT + T5/GTR architecture rows
• docs/specs/embedding-model-coverage.md — the plan targeted 0.37.0 for the BGE phase; retargeted to 0.36.1, with Phase 2 rows saying "next release" rather than naming a version the engine line hasn't reached
• docs/.../dsl-vs-handcoded.adoc — T5 row notes greedy + beam decode

Verification

• ./gradlew assemble — green
• ./gradlew allTests — green (17m41s, no failures)
• ./gradlew publishToMavenLocal — 0.36.1 artifacts resolve (signing disabled locally; CI signs on tag)

Not tagged — publish.yml triggers on tags, so nothing reaches Maven Central until a tag is pushed deliberately.

Housekeeping alongside this release

• Deleted perf/llama-packed-load-memory (content already upstream as b5dbb47/7c8e4c8; verified byte-identical) and feature/cleaning (69 days stale; would have deleted t5/vec2text/moonshine).
• Filed feat/gemma-token-embd-rowdequant needs redesign against transformer-core #234 (gemma row-dequant needs redesign against transformer-core) and feature/qwen35 (DeltaNet) rehab checklist before it can merge #235 (qwen35 rehab checklist) rather than rushing either into this release.

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