docs: give 0.5.0 a Breaking changes section and announce gamma_drift

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Changelog-and-docs only, but it should land before the v0.5.0 tag: PyPI publication is irreversible and the changelog is users' only account of what changed.

Four gaps in the 0.5.0 section

1. No #### Breaking changes heading, though 0.4.0 has one and 0.5.0 contains real breaks. Fail closed for unqualified bounded group defaults #1301's fail-closed ValueError is described inside item 12's prose, where a migrating user will not find it. Now a numbered subsection with the migration options spelled out.

   The important part: this hits every approx_differentiable model, including existing ones. I verified at runtime that angle — shipped in 0.4.0 — raises identically to the two models new in this release on v ~ 0 + (1|subject). A user who upgrades and hits this while fitting angle_extended would reasonably misattribute it to the new model. The entry says so explicitly.

2. gamma_drift was never announced (Add gamma_drift as a built-in approx_differentiable model #1248, merged 2026-08-29). It is absent from SupportedModels at v0.4.0 and present on main — genuinely new in this release. Worse, item 9 introduced gamma_drift_angle as "gamma_drift with a collapsing bound", using an unannounced model as a known baseline. Three models shipped; two were listed.

3. ddm_sdv's sv bound silently widened (0.0, 1.0) → (0.0, 2.5) (ddm_sdv: declare the sv bound the network was actually trained on #1230). This is an existing model users are already fitting, and the bound feeds default priors and initial values.

4. No #### Dependency changes heading for the ssm-simulators>=0.14.0 floor — 0.4.0 had one; the fact was buried in prose.

Also: a tutorial that documents pre-#1301 behavior as universal

centered_vs_noncentered_basic_logic (added by #1275, merged four minutes after #1301) states that "HSSM's generated safe priors use this centered fallback automatically". True for exact/blackbox HDDM likelihoods; for LAN models that path now fails closed. Scoped the claim and pointed at the new section, in both the .py and the .ipynb.

Not changed, deliberately

gamma_drift_angle_config.py and angle_extended_config.py need no default_priors, and neither published HuggingFace model card needs an edit — both cards' usage examples are non-hierarchical and were run verbatim against main. The guard is model-agnostic; these two configs match the shipped pattern for every LAN model.

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• New Features

  • Added the built-in gamma_drift model in version 0.5.0.

• Breaking Changes

  • Explicit group-specific priors now raise an error instead of displaying a warning.
  • Some identity-linked group-only intercept configurations now require an explicit modeling decision.
  • The allowed ddm_sdv sv range has been widened.
  • hssm.load_data() now requires the dataset argument.

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  • Updated tutorials and the changelog with guidance on centered and non-centered group effects and safe-prior behavior.

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The 0.5.0 changelog documents a new model, migration requirements, dependency changes, and updated numbering. Two tutorials clarify safe-prior behavior for exact, blackbox HDDM, and LAN likelihoods.

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0.5.0 changelog updates docs/changelog.md	The changelog adds gamma_drift, breaking changes, updated item numbering, corrected cross-references, and an ssm-simulators version floor.
Safe-prior tutorial clarification docs/tutorials/centered_vs_noncentered_basic_logic.ipynb, docs/tutorials/centered_vs_noncentered_basic_logic.py	The tutorials describe centered fallback for exact and blackbox HDDM likelihoods and fail-closed safe-prior generation for LAN models.

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