Changelog

[0.96] - 2026-07-31

the docker image runs as any user now. It only started as root before, because Inline needs a writable cache directory and the image has no compiler left to build the XS part elsewhere. Deployments that run it as a specific user, e.g. because the models come from an NFS export with root_squash, should point pid_file at an absolute path outside the working directory
fixed the docker image build, which failed since alpine moved to a gcc that defaults to C23, in which the bundled isaac code of Session::Token does not compile anymore
CI: the docker slimming uses mintoolkit, the successor of slimtoolkit, whose invocation had changed; the image tarball carries the version in its name
.dockerignore did not exclude .gitlab-ci-local, so local image builds packed the whole CI scratch directory, including job logs, into the image

requires collocatordb >= 1.5.0, which fixes the leaks in the collocator lookup, 3.6 kB per uncached collocator request, and builds against the rocksdb of the distribution
CI and docker image install the rocksdb package instead of building rocksdb 5.11 from source
Devel::CheckLib, which Makefile.PL needs to find libcollocatordb before it can report the dependencies, is bundled in inc/ now, so that a checkout configures without installing it first

fixed a crash on out of range word ranks: a single request with a w parameter beyond the vocabulary size, or a getVecsByRanks request with such a rank, killed the worker process
fixed w2v.merge, which died at startup with "Undefined subroutine &main::mergeVectors", and the lookup of count based collocators and precomputed profiles for merged models, which used unshifted ranks
fixed getVecsByRanks, which answered every request with "Undefined subroutine &main::getVecs", so the collocator SOM never got its vectors, and which was only reachable below the /derekovecs prefix
fixed memory leaks in the request path: per request the server leaked the target sum array, the thread handles, the target word list and the collocator results of all window threads, plus every string and array returned from C to perl (Inline::C copies those but never frees them)
the result caches are size limited now and configurable via the new cache configuration section; the neighbourhood cache never hit before because lookup and store used different keys
added w2v.compare_to configuration option to configure a derekovecs instance to compare results to (currently only count-based LogDice-delta supported)