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This release updates the OpenVINO backend to version 2026.3.1, adds support for Whisper.cpp and Qwen3.5 on NPU, and introduces new operations. It also includes significant improvements to static shape handling, token-count independence, and chunked prefill for better performance and accuracy.

Introduces the initial ET backend for ggml, significantly expanding the supported operations and optimizations. This release includes numerous bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new features for various kernels and backends.