Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.4.5] - 2019-01-25

Platforms

• Fuchsia: Replaced fuchsia-zircon with fuchsia-cprng

[0.4.4] - 2019-01-06

Added

• SGX support

[0.4.3] - 2018-08-16

Fixed

• Use correct syscall number for PowerPC (#589)

[0.4.2] - 2018-01-05

Changed

• Use winapi on Windows
• Update for Fuchsia OS
• Remove dev-dependency on log

[0.4.1] - 2017-12-17

Added

• no_std support

[0.4.0-pre.0] - 2017-12-11

Added

• JitterRng added as a high-quality alternative entropy source using the system timer
• new seq module with sample_iter, sample_slice, etc.
• WASM support via dummy implementations (fail at run-time)
• Additional benchmarks, covering generators and new seq code

Changed

• thread_rng uses JitterRng if seeding from system time fails (slower but more secure than previous method)

Deprecated

• sample function deprecated (replaced by sample_iter)

[0.3.18] - 2017-11-06

Changed

• thread_rng is seeded from the system time if OsRng fails
• weak_rng now uses thread_rng internally

[0.3.17] - 2017-10-07

Changed

• Fuchsia: Magenta was renamed Zircon

[0.3.16] - 2017-07-27

Added

• Implement Debug for mote non-public types
• implement Rand for (i|u)i128
• Support for Fuchsia

Changed

• Add inline attribute to SampleRange::construct_range. This improves the benchmark for sample in 11% and for shuffle in 16%.
• Use RtlGenRandom instead of CryptGenRandom

[0.3.15] - 2016-11-26

Added

• Add Rng trait method choose_mut
• Redox support

Changed

• Use arc4rand for OsRng on FreeBSD.
• Use arc4random(3) for OsRng on OpenBSD.

Fixed

• Fix filling buffers 4 GiB or larger with OsRng::fill_bytes on Windows

[0.3.14] - 2016-02-13

Fixed

• Inline definitions from winapi/advapi32, wich decreases build times

[0.3.13] - 2016-01-09

Fixed

• Compatible with Rust 1.7.0-nightly (needed some extra type annotations)

[0.3.12] - 2015-11-09

Changed

• Replaced the methods in next_f32 and next_f64 with the technique described Saito & Matsumoto at MCQMC'08. The new method should exhibit a slightly more uniform distribution.
• Depend on libc 0.2

Fixed

• Fix iterator protocol issue in rand::sample

[0.3.11] - 2015-08-31

Added

• Implement Rand for arrays with n <= 32

[0.3.10] - 2015-08-17

Added

• Support for NaCl platforms

Changed

• Allow Rng to be ?Sized, impl for &mut R and Box<R> where R: ?Sized + Rng

[0.3.9] - 2015-06-18

Changed

• Use winapi for Windows API things

Fixed

• Fixed test on stable/nightly
• Fix getrandom syscall number for aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

[0.3.8] - 2015-04-23

Changed

• log is a dev dependency

Fixed

• Fix race condition of atomics in is_getrandom_available

[0.3.7] - 2015-04-03

Fixed

• Derive Copy/Clone changes

[0.3.6] - 2015-04-02

Changed

• Move to stable Rust!

[0.3.5] - 2015-04-01

Fixed

• Compatible with Rust master

[0.3.4] - 2015-03-31

Added

• Implement Clone for Weighted

Fixed

• Compatible with Rust master

[0.3.3] - 2015-03-26

Fixed

• Fix compile on Windows

[0.3.2] - 2015-03-26

[0.3.1] - 2015-03-26

Fixed

• Fix compile on Windows

[0.3.0] - 2015-03-25

Changed

• Update to use log version 0.3.x

[0.2.1] - 2015-03-22

Fixed

• Compatible with Rust master
• Fixed iOS compilation

[0.2.0] - 2015-03-06

Fixed

• Compatible with Rust master (move from old_io to std::io)

[0.1.4] - 2015-03-04

Fixed

• Compatible with Rust master (use wrapping ops)

[0.1.3] - 2015-02-20

Fixed

• Compatible with Rust master

Removed

• Removed Copy inplementaions from RNGs

[0.1.2] - 2015-02-03

Added

• Imported functionality from std::rand, including:
  • StdRng, SeedableRng, TreadRng, weak_rng()
  • ReaderRng: A wrapper around any Reader to treat it as an RNG.
• Imported documentation from std::rand
• Imported tests from std::rand

[0.1.1] - 2015-02-03

Added

• Migrate to a cargo-compatible directory structure.

Fixed

• Do not use entropy during gen_weighted_bool(1)

[Rust 0.12.0] - 2014-10-09

Added

• Impl Rand for tuples of arity 11 and 12
• Include ChaCha pseudorandom generator
• Add next_f64 and next_f32 to Rng
• Implement Clone for PRNGs

Changed

• Rename TaskRng to ThreadRng and task_rng to thread_rng (since a runtime is removed from Rust).

Fixed

• Improved performance of ISAAC and ISAAC64 by 30% and 12 % respectively, by informing the optimiser that indexing is never out-of-bounds.

Removed

• Removed the Deprecated choose_option

[Rust 0.11.0] - 2014-07-02

Added

• document when to use OSRng in cryptographic context, and explain why we use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random
• Rng::gen_iter() which will return an infinite stream of random values
• Rng::gen_ascii_chars() which will return an infinite stream of random ascii characters

Changed

• Now only depends on libcore! 2adf5363f88ffe06f6d2ea5c338d1b186d47f4a1
• Remove Rng.choose(), rename Rng.choose_option() to .choose()
• Rename OSRng to OsRng
• The WeightedChoice structure is no longer built with a Vec<Weighted<T>>, but rather a &mut [Weighted<T>]. This means that the WeightedChoice structure now has a lifetime associated with it.
• The sample method on Rng has been moved to a top-level function in the rand module due to its dependence on Vec.

Removed

• Rng::gen_vec() was removed. Previous behavior can be regained with rng.gen_iter().take(n).collect()
• Rng::gen_ascii_str() was removed. Previous behavior can be regained with rng.gen_ascii_chars().take(n).collect()
• {IsaacRng, Isaac64Rng, XorShiftRng}::new() have all been removed. These all relied on being able to use an OSRng for seeding, but this is no longer available in librand (where these types are defined). To retain the same functionality, these types now implement the Rand trait so they can be generated with a random seed from another random number generator. This allows the stdlib to use an OSRng to create seeded instances of these RNGs.
• Rand implementations for Box<T> and @T were removed. These seemed to be pretty rare in the codebase, and it allows for librand to not depend on liballoc. Additionally, other pointer types like Rc and Arc were not supported.
• Remove a slew of old deprecated functions

[Rust 0.10] - 2014-04-03

Changed

• replace Rng.shuffle's functionality with .shuffle_mut
• bubble up IO errors when creating an OSRng

Fixed

• Use fill() instead of read()
• Rewrite OsRng in Rust for windows

[0.10-pre] - 2014-03-02

Added

• Seperate rand out of the standard library