Bytestring-0.11.5.0 and bytestring-0.12.0.0

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(crossposted from [ANN] bytestring-0.11.5.0 and bytestring-0.12.0.0)

On behalf of the maintainers team I’m happy to announce that two new bytestring versions have been released:

  • bytestring-0.11.5.0 is expected to be the last release in the bytestring-0.11 series.
  • bytestring-0.12.0.0 bundles all of the planned breaking changes that have been in the pipeline for the last few years.

Highlights from the changelog:

  • Some recently-discovered bugs in the SIMD implementations of isValidUtf8 have been fixed.
  • With bytestring-0.12.0.0, ShortByteString can now be safely coerced to or from the ByteArray type.
  • Many functions returning StrictByteString can now return their results unboxed.

Many people contributed their time and effort to make this release happen. Thanks to all of them! Just to name a few, in no particular order:

  • Viktor Dukhovni
  • Vaibhav Sagar
  • Simon Jakobi
  • Matthew Craven
  • Andrew Lelechenko
  • Sergey Vinokurov
  • Koz Ross
  • Every contributor to past bytestring releases

Happy Haskelling!
~-Matthew Craven

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