update dependencies and bump MSRV

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
  toolchain: nightly
  - os: ubuntu-latest
  target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
- toolchain: 1.36.0 # MSRV
+ toolchain: 1.51.0 # MSRV
  - os: ubuntu-latest
  deps: sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt install gcc-multilib
  target: i686-unknown-linux-gnu

Cargo.toml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ num-traits = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
 float-ord = "0.3"
 easy-cast = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, optional = true }
 serde_derive = { version = "1", optional = true }
-serde-big-array = { version = "0.3.0", optional = true }
+serde-big-array = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 rayon = { version = "1.3", optional = true }
 
 [dependencies.serde]
@@ -54,12 +54,7 @@ rand_distr = "0.4"
 serde_json = "1"
 streaming-stats = "0.2"
 quantiles = "0.7"
-# Proptest 1.0 has a higher MSRV than we do
-proptest = "0.10"
-# The following are not direct dependencies, but the recent versions have a too
-# high MSRV:
-byteorder = "=1.3"
-bitflags = "=1.2"
+proptest = "1"
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 # Enable certain features when building docs for docs.rs

README.md

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The following features are available:
 
 ## Rust version requirements
 
-Rustc version 1.36 or greater is supported.
+Rustc version 1.51 or greater is supported.
 
 
 ## Related Projects