Release v0.4.4 - Dependency Updates

Updated to Rust 1.91.1 with latest ecosystem dependencies:
- lz4_flex 0.11.5 → 0.12.0
- cudarc 0.17.8 → 0.18.1
- clap 4.5.51 → 4.5.52
- metal 0.29.0 → 0.32.0
- glam 0.29.3 → 0.30.9
- pollster 0.3.0 → 0.4.0
- crossterm 0.28.1 → 0.29.0
- zerocopy 0.7.35 → 0.8.27

Fixed clippy lints for Rust 1.91.1 compatibility.
Resolved advisory for unmaintained paste crate dependency.
Fixed CUDA backend for cudarc API changes.

All 109 tests passing. No breaking API changes.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

Author: FunKite

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.4.4] - 2025-11-18
+
 ### Changed
 - Updated Rust toolchain from 1.82.0 to 1.91.1
 - Updated `lz4_flex` from 0.11.5 to 0.12.0
@@ -83,7 +85,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Morton decode optimization (37% speedup)
 - Parallel overhead fix (86% speedup for 10K batches)
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/FunKite/OctaIndex3D/compare/v0.4.3...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/FunKite/OctaIndex3D/compare/v0.4.4...HEAD
+[0.4.4]: https://github.com/FunKite/OctaIndex3D/releases/tag/v0.4.4
 [0.4.3]: https://github.com/FunKite/OctaIndex3D/releases/tag/v0.4.3
 [0.4.2]: https://github.com/FunKite/OctaIndex3D/releases/tag/v0.4.2
 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/FunKite/OctaIndex3D/releases/tag/v0.4.0

Cargo.lock

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "octaindex3d"
-version = "0.4.3"
+version = "0.4.4"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.77"
 authors = ["Michael A. McLarney"]

Cargo.toml

@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@
 
 ## What's New
 
-### Version 0.4.3 (Latest)
+### Version 0.4.4 (Latest)
 
-- **Interactive 3D Octahedral Maze Game**: Play procedurally-generated mazes with BCC lattice pathfinding
-- **BCC-14 Prim's Algorithm Demo**: Spanning tree generation on 549K nodes with A* pathfinding
-- **GitHub Community Standards**: Full CONTRIBUTING.md, issue templates, security policies
-- **Enhanced Security**: CodeQL analysis and automated security scanning
-- **CLI Utilities**: Encode/decode coordinates, calculate distances, explore neighbors
+- **Dependency Updates**: Updated to Rust 1.91.1 and latest ecosystem dependencies
+- **Enhanced Compatibility**: Updated 8 major dependencies (lz4_flex, cudarc, clap, metal, glam, pollster, crossterm, zerocopy)
+- **Improved Code Quality**: Fixed clippy lints for Rust 1.91.1
+- **CUDA Support**: Fixed CUDA backend for cudarc API changes
+- **Maintenance**: Resolved advisory for unmaintained `paste` crate dependency
 
 See the full [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) for detailed release history.
 

README.md

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn test_version() {
-        assert_eq!(VERSION, "0.4.3");
+        assert_eq!(VERSION, "0.4.4");
     }
 
     #[test]