Changes in version 0.99.15                       

  - Initial Bioconductor development release.
  - Provides FAISS-backed nearest-neighbour search, graph construction,
    graph clustering, k-nearest-neighbour prediction, and k-means
    helpers.
  - Adds optional CUDA, FAISS GPU, RAPIDS cuVS, and RAPIDS libcugraph
    routes where the corresponding system libraries are available.
  - Supports shape-aware automatic tuning policies for Euclidean,
    cosine, correlation, and inner-product nearest-neighbour searches.
  - Clarifies Bioconductor/r-universe system requirements: FAISS is the
    mandatory compiled dependency for all builds, while CUDA/RAPIDS
    libraries are optional and requested only for explicit GPU builds.
  - Adds a repository-only r-universe .prepare hook to install the
    mandatory Debian/Ubuntu FAISS development package while the upstream
    sysreq database learns the FAISS rule, and detects /usr multiarch
    FAISS installs during configuration.
  - Allows ordinary macOS GitHub Actions builders to install the
    mandatory Homebrew faiss and libomp dependencies during configure,
    while keeping ordinary interactive installs explicit or opt-in.
  - Handles r-universe/WebAssembly cross-builds without leaking host
    Linux headers into the Emscripten sysroot. WebAssembly builds
    install diagnostic stubs because native FAISS/CUDA/cuVS libraries
    are not available in webR; supported native Linux/macOS builds still
    require FAISS.
  - Detects already-active conda/mamba environments through CONDA_PREFIX
    as a passive macOS FAISS/libomp fallback without installing conda
    from configure.
  - Marks automated Bioconductor macOS binary builds as unsupported for
    real FAISS execution until the Bioconductor/r-universe macOS
    system-library bundle provides FAISS. Because r-universe currently
    still launches the macOS binary job, that exact worker receives
    diagnostic stubs when FAISS is absent; user macOS source installs
    remain supported with Homebrew or an active conda/mamba environment
    and still require real FAISS.
  - Keeps FAISS k-means compilation compatible with distro FAISS headers
    that do not expose newer clustering fields, and links macOS OpenMP
    through the exact detected libomp library path to avoid duplicate
    OpenMP runtimes when Homebrew FAISS is loaded.