v2026.5.8.2

⚠️ v2026.5.8.2 is a no-op re-release of v2026.5.8.1 — same code, second release dispatched the same day to validate updated release-pipeline gates. The full set of changes shipped on 2026-05-08 follows.

PyAutoFit v2026.5.8.2

What's New

Breaking Changes

• feat: add BlackJAXNUTS first-class non-linear search (#1256)
• Visualizer.visualize_combined: accept quick_update kwarg (#1254)
  • Tiny additive signature change on a single method. Visualizer.visualize_combined now declares quick_update: bool = False so callers may pass it (the factor-graph dispatch always does). Default no-op behaviour is preserved; subclasses that already override the method without **kwargs get unblocked. See full details below.
• Fix AnalysisFactor.visualize_combined dispatch in FactorGraph (#1253)
• Support fixed Array elements through the EP fitting pipeline (#1250)
• Add EPAnalysisFactor for cavity-message injection (#1248)
  • Added af.EPAnalysisFactor — an AnalysisFactor subclass with a set_cavity_dist(cavity_dist) hook that the EP optimiser invokes before every fit, attaching the cavity MeanField to analysis._cavity_mean_field so the user's log_likelihood_function can read per-variable cavity messages (.mean, .sigma) at evaluation time. No symbols removed, renamed, or behaviour-changed for existing factors. See full details below.

Bug Fixes

• fix: populate NUTS samples_info keys under test-mode bypass (#1260)

Internal

• fix: stop passing dataset=None to fit_cls when sensitivity Job is complete (#1259)
• refactor: replace os.path with pathlib (#1258)
• Refresh cached SearchUpdater when AbstractSearch.paths is reassigned (#1252)
• docs: update workspace prose refs from README.rst to README.md (#1251)
• docs: convert remaining prose .rst to MyST .md (pass 2) (#1249)
• test: delete jax-using unit tests (moved to autofit_workspace_test) (#1247)
• docs: convert prose .rst files to MyST .md (#1246)

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Full changelog: 2026.5.1.4...2026.5.8.2