rpc : code cleanup (llama/11107)

SYCL: Use get_multi_ptr instead of deprecated get_pointer in wkv6 (llama/11087)

CUDA: add BF16 support (llama/11093)

Vulkan: Add device-specific blacklist for coopmat for the AMD proprietary driver (llama/11074)

Support for models with non-512-aligned tensors over RPC. (llama/11047)

fix: Vulkan shader gen binary path (llama/11037)

ggml : allow loading backend with env variable (ggml/1059)

scripts : sync opencl, gguf

whisper : fix gpu device selection (#2728)

server : fix build (#2718)

talk-llama : sync llama.cpp (#2709)

server : generate unique tmp filenames (#2718)

whisper : add whisper_full_get_segment_no_speech_prob_from_state (#2716)

readme : add docker instructions (#2711)

docs: Fix main -> whisper-cli in download scripts (#2707)

release : v1.7.4

ci : cont

ci : fix ubuntu runner names

cli : fix segfault on missing argument (#2700)

ci : fix arm builds

sync : ggml

ggml : do not install metal source when embed library (ggml/1054)

metal : avoid uint (llama/11019)

ggml : fixes for AVXVNNI instruction set with MSVC and Clang (llama/11027)

vulkan: optimize mul_mat for small values of N (llama/10991)

vulkan: im2col and matmul optimizations for stable diffusion (llama/10942)

vulkan: Use push constant offset to handle misaligned descriptors (llama/10987)

vulkan: multi-row k quants (llama/10846)

examples, ggml : fix GCC compiler warnings (llama/10983)

ggml : more perfo with llamafile tinyblas on x86_64 (llama/10714)

ggml : use wstring for backend search paths (llama/10960)

ggml : fix arm enabled features check (llama/10961)

ggml : fix const usage in SSE path (llama/10962)

ggml : fix run-time on FreeBSD in get_executable_path() (llama/10948)

vulkan: build fixes for 32b (llama/10927)

vulkan: optimize coopmat2 dequant functions (llama/10855)

ggml-cpu: replace NEON asm with intrinsics in ggml_gemv_q4_0_4x8_q8_0() (llama/10874)

SYCL: Migrate away from deprecated ggml_tensor->backend (llama/10840)

ggml : add test for SVE and disable when it fails (llama/10906)

ggml: fix arm build with gcc (llama/10895)

ggml : fix arm build (llama/10890)

tts : add OuteTTS support (llama/10784)

tests: add tests for GGUF (llama/10830)

ggml : improve inputs log sched_print_assignments (ggml/1053)

readme : fix real-time audio input example build instructions (#2692)

objc : rename ggml-cpu-aarch64.c to .cpp (#2687)

docs : replace Core ML with OpenVINO (#2686)

make : fix "main" -> "whisper-cli"

ci : re-enable Windows cublas build (#2676)

ruby : Fix of C++ header guard name, model URI support, type signature and more (#2683)