Prepare v0.0.2 release candidate

[zatevakhin]

Changes

• set both Rust crates to 0.0.2 with an exact lockstep dependency
• update API, compatibility, support, and example documentation
• add the 0.0.2 changelog and release candidate procedure

Testing

• env -u VLLM_CPP_TEST_MODEL nix develop -c just ci
• nix develop .#msrv -c just msrv
• two fresh offline package and publish dry runs

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added documentation for token completion, transcription, embeddings, video generation, chat, streaming, and request APIs.
  • Added guidance for device selection, model defaults, callbacks, resource ownership, and scheduler priorities.
  • Expanded examples, including pre-tokenized completion and video-related usage.

• Documentation

  • Updated compatibility guidance for ABI 17 and version 0.0.2.
  • Clarified supported runtime coverage: Linux x86_64 CPU.
  • Documented experimental backend limitations, validation requirements, packaging procedures, and known runtime constraints.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The update moves the workspace to vllm.cpp 0.0.2 and ABI 17, documents expanded APIs and supported runtime boundaries, updates examples, and formalizes release validation, packaging, publication, and recovery procedures.

Changes

ABI and release documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
0.0.2 and ABI 17 baseline Cargo.toml, CHANGELOG.md, README.md	The workspace and native dependency use version 0.0.2. Project documentation identifies ABI 17, 35 stable C functions, and Linux x86_64 CPU support.
API and runtime documentation README.md, vllm-cpp/README.md, vllm-cpp/Cargo.toml, vllm-cpp/src/request.rs, vllm-cpp/examples/README.md	Documentation covers token completion, task-specific engines, video, device and ownership rules, callback behavior, backend constraints, Triton fallback, and example boundaries.
Release validation and publication RELEASING.md	Release steps now define identity checks, mandatory validation, isolated offline packaging tests, sys-first publication, registry verification, and recovery rules.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f742e

The release candidate procedure can validate the wrong commit, run checks with an unintended toolchain, and retry publication without confirming identical package bytes. These bounded release-integrity risks should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 1 files. (7 skipped: 7 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: preparing the v0.0.2 release candidate.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 1 files. (7 skipped: 7 unsupported.)

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✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1

📝 Generate docstrings 💡

• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch stack/v0.0.2-07-release

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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Inline comments:
In `@RELEASING.md`:
- Around line 7-16: Update the release verification step to compare git
rev-parse HEAD against the expected commit recorded for the release before
running candidate gates. Preserve the existing root worktree and native
submodule cleanliness checks, and fail verification when the checked-out commit
differs.
- Around line 35-43: Update the release gate commands so the standalone cargo
check and cargo doc invocations run inside the pinned nix develop shell,
matching the existing nix develop -c usage while preserving all existing flags
and environment settings.
- Around line 67-69: Update the safe-publish retry procedure to require both
confirmed registry state and an identical archive hash before retrying unchanged
bytes. If either check fails, require a new coordinated version instead of
reusing the candidate version, while preserving the existing manifest and
inventory comparisons.

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📥 Commits

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⛔ Files ignored due to path filters (1)

• Cargo.lock is excluded by !**/*.lock

📒 Files selected for processing (8)

• CHANGELOG.md
• Cargo.toml
• README.md
• RELEASING.md
• vllm-cpp/Cargo.toml
• vllm-cpp/README.md
• vllm-cpp/examples/README.md
• vllm-cpp/src/request.rs

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