• Build system cleanup
– Eliminated duplicate Makefile targets; split big Makefile into make.mk and boot-loader Makefile.
– Fixed relative-path errors so old releases can be built from any sub-folder.
– New “help” target gives a one-liner of available ‘make’ actions.
• Installation speed-ups & platform support
– Bring-up now calls pip with --upgrade-deps (requires Python ≥ 3.9).
– Consequently, official support for Python 3.8 has been dropped.
– Conda spelling fixed and activation instructions added.
• Compiler / code hygiene
– Removed implicit ‘using std’ and silenced mixed C / C++ warnings when building with clang++.
– Fixed stray escape sequence that raised a SyntaxWarning.
• OpenAI integration improvements
– Added logic to detect and report silent quota/limit errors from the OpenAI API.
These changes introduce three breaking changes (Python 3.8, build.py and --makemake no longer supported) and several new features and bug fixes.