v0.8.4

[0.8.4] - 2023-10-30

Features

• [breaking] Refactor the Input implementors with automatic padding (#276).
  • Padding and alignment is now handled automatically by the input types,
    allowing them to work safely without copying the entire input. The overhead is now
    limited to the padding, which is at most 256 bytes in total.
  • BorrowedBytes is now safe to construct.
  • OwnedBytes no longer copies
    the entire source on construction.

Bug Fixes

• Atomic values getting invalid spans (#327). (#327)
  • Fixed an issue where atomic values would be matched with all
    trailing characters up until the next closing.

Performance

• Improve SIMD codegen.
  • Improved the way we dispatch to SIMD-intensive functions.
    This results in slightly larger binaries, but massive speedups –
    throughput increase of 5, 10, 20, or in case of google_map::travel_modes/rsonpath_direct_count
    59 (fifty-nine) percent.

Reliability

• Harden GitHub Actions.
  • We now use the StepSecurity harden-runner in audit mode
    to test a more secure approach to GitHub CI.
• End to end test refactor.
  • tests are now generated into many separate files instead of one gigantic file.
    This improves compilation times, responsiveness of rust-analyzer,
    and in general makes the tooling happier.

Dependencies

• Bump arbitrary from 1.3.0 to 1.3.2.
• Bump clap from 4.4.6 to 4.4.7.
• Bump thiserror from 1.0.49 to 1.0.50.