deps: bump github.com/expr-lang/expr from 1.16.9 to 1.17.8

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Bumps github.com/expr-lang/expr from 1.16.9 to 1.17.8.

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v1.17.8

Expr is an expression language designed to deliver dynamic configurations with unparalleled accuracy, safety, and speed.

program, err := expr.Compile(`let foo = bar(); baz(foo, foo)`)

In this release:

• New feature: added bytes literal syntax (#894)
• Improved performance: count comparisons to any (#897)
• Improved performance: added sum range optimization (#896)
• Improved performance: added count threshold comparisons (#898)
• Improved performance: optimize loop iteration with scope pool (#908)
• Improved performance: added fast paths for min, max, mean, and median (#909)
• Fixed: ctx into nested custom funcs and Env (#883)
• Fixed: disable check for missing predicate during parseing (#924)
• Fixed: detect $env() calls at compile time (#923)
• Fixed: bounds check to get() (#918)
• Fixed: validate sortBy order argument type (#912)
• Fixed: reduce empty array without init val (#911)
• Fixed: validate arg count before OpCall (#904)
• Fixed: correct variadic method arg type (#889)

v1.17.7

Expr is a Go-centric expression language designed to deliver dynamic configurations with unparalleled accuracy, safety, and speed.

program, err := expr.Compile(`let foo = bar(); baz(foo, foo)`)

This release brings new language features, performance improvements across runtime and compiler, better error handling, and many important bug fixes.

New Features

Support for else if expressions

• You can now chain conditional branches using else if! (#879)

Unicode escapes in the \u{XXXXXX} format

• String literals now support Unicode code point escapes such as \u{1F600}. (#882)

Byte slice support in the matches operator

The matches operator now works with []byte, improving interoperability with binary data. (#876)

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Commits

• 21f4f05 Fix impossible unsigned integer comparisons in Abs() function (#919)
• 3461fbb perf(vm): optimize loop iteration with scope pool (#908)
• 94ec86d fix(patcher): ctx into nested custom funcs and Env (#883)
• 40bda0b Disable check for missing predicate during parseing
• 552eb1b Disable check for missing predicate during parseing
• 75a31bc fix(fuzz): skip json unsupported type errors (#928)
• 391930f chore(ci): add Go 1.26 to test matrix (#929)
• f0176e7 Update README.md: Added GlassFlow.dev in the list of companies using expr (#927)
• 2aaa9aa fix(checker): detect $env() calls at compile time (#923)
• 0785f19 fix(fuzz): skip reflect err for variadic calls (#921)
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