CHANGELOG.md

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.

A separate changelog is kept for rand_core.

You may also find the Update Guide useful.

[0.5.4] - 2018-07-11

Platform support

• Make OsRng work via WASM/stdweb for WebWorkers

[0.5.3] - 2018-06-26

Platform support

• OpenBSD, Bitrig: fix compilation (broken in 0.5.1) (#530)

[0.5.2] - 2018-06-18

Platform support

• Hide OsRng and JitterRng on unsupported platforms (#512; fixes #503).

[0.5.1] - 2018-06-08

New distributions

• Added Cauchy distribution. (#474, #486)
• Added Pareto distribution. (#495)

Platform support and OsRng

• Remove blanket Unix implementation. (#484)
• Remove Wasm unimplemented stub. (#484)
• Dragonfly BSD: read from /dev/random. (#484)
• Bitrig: use getentropy like OpenBSD. (#484)
• Solaris: (untested) use getrandom if available, otherwise /dev/random. (#484)
• Emscripten, stdweb: split the read up in chunks. (#484)
• Emscripten, Haiku: don't do an extra blocking read from /dev/random. (#484)
• Linux, NetBSD, Solaris: read in blocking mode on first use in fill_bytes. (#484)
• Fuchsia, CloudABI: fix compilation (broken in Rand 0.5). (#484)

[0.5.0] - 2018-05-21

Crate features and organisation

• Minimum Rust version update: 1.22.0. (#239)
• Create a separate rand_core crate. (#288)
• Deprecate rand_derive. (#256)
• Add prelude (and module reorganisation). (#435)
• Add log feature. Logging is now available in JitterRng, OsRng, EntropyRng and ReseedingRng. (#246)
• Add serde1 feature for some PRNGs. (#189)
• stdweb feature for OsRng support on WASM via stdweb. (#272, #336)

Rng trait

• Split Rng in RngCore and Rng extension trait. next_u32, next_u64 and fill_bytes are now part of RngCore. (#265)
• Add Rng::sample. (#256)
• Deprecate Rng::gen_weighted_bool. (#308)
• Add Rng::gen_bool. (#308)
• Remove Rng::next_f32 and Rng::next_f64. (#273)
• Add optimized Rng::fill and Rng::try_fill methods. (#247)
• Deprecate Rng::gen_iter. (#286)
• Deprecate Rng::gen_ascii_chars. (#279)

rand_core crate

• rand now depends on new rand_core crate (#288)
• RngCore and SeedableRng are now part of rand_core. (#288)
• Add modules to help implementing RNGs impl and le. (#209, #228)
• Add Error and ErrorKind. (#225)
• Add CryptoRng marker trait. (#273)
• Add BlockRngCore trait. (#281)
• Add BlockRng and BlockRng64 wrappers to help implementations. (#281, #325)
• Revise the SeedableRng trait. (#233)
• Remove default implementations for RngCore::next_u64 and RngCore::fill_bytes. (#288)
• Add RngCore::try_fill_bytes. (#225)

Other traits and types

• Add FromEntropy trait. (#233, #375)
• Add SmallRng wrapper. (#296)
• Rewrite ReseedingRng to only work with BlockRngCore (substantial performance improvement). (#281)
• Deprecate weak_rng. Use SmallRng instead. (#296)
• Deprecate AsciiGenerator. (#279)

Random number generators

• Switch StdRng and thread_rng to HC-128. (#277)
• StdRng must now be created with from_entropy instead of new
• Change thread_rng reseeding threshold to 32 MiB. (#277)
• PRNGs no longer implement Copy. (#209)
• Debug implementations no longer show internals. (#209)
• Implement Clone for ReseedingRng, JitterRng, OsRng`. (#383, #384)
• Implement serialization for XorShiftRng, IsaacRng and Isaac64Rng under the serde1 feature. (#189)
• Implement BlockRngCore for ChaChaCore and Hc128Core. (#281)
• All PRNGs are now portable across big- and little-endian architectures. (#209)
• Isaac64Rng::next_u32 no longer throws away half the results. (#209)
• Add IsaacRng::new_from_u64 and Isaac64Rng::new_from_u64. (#209)
• Add the HC-128 CSPRNG Hc128Rng. (#210)
• Change ChaCha20 to have 64-bit counter and 64-bit stream. (#349)
• Changes to JitterRng to get its size down from 2112 to 24 bytes. (#251)
• Various performance improvements to all PRNGs.

Platform support and OsRng

• Add support for CloudABI. (#224)
• Remove support for NaCl. (#225)
• WASM support for OsRng via stdweb, behind the stdweb feature. (#272, #336)
• Use getrandom on more platforms for Linux, and on Android. (#338)
• Use the SecRandomCopyBytes interface on macOS. (#322)
• On systems that do not have a syscall interface, only keep a single file descriptor open for OsRng. (#239)
• On Unix, first try a single read from /dev/random, then /dev/urandom. (#338)
• Better error handling and reporting in OsRng (using new error type). (#225)
• OsRng now uses non-blocking when available. (#225)
• Add EntropyRng, which provides OsRng, but has JitterRng as a fallback. (#235)

Distributions

• New Distribution trait. (#256)
• Add Distribution::sample_iter and Rng::::sample_iter. (#361)
• Deprecate Rand, Sample and IndependentSample traits. (#256)
• Add a Standard distribution (replaces most Rand implementations). (#256)
• Add Binomial and Poisson distributions. (#96)
• Add Bernoulli dsitribution. (#411)
• Add Alphanumeric distribution. (#279)
• Remove Closed01 distribution, add OpenClosed01. (#274, #420)
• Rework Range type, making it possible to implement it for user types. (#274)
• Rename Range to Uniform. (#395)
• Add Uniform::new_inclusive for inclusive ranges. (#274)
• Use widening multiply method for much faster integer range reduction. (#274)
• Standard distribution for char uses Uniform internally. (#274)
• Standard distribution for bool uses sign test. (#274)
• Implement Standard distribution for Wrapping<T>. (#436)
• Implement Uniform distribution for Duration. (#427)

[0.4.2] - 2018-01-06

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)

[0.3.20] - 2018-01-06

Changed

• Remove dev-dependency on log
• Update fuchsia-zircon dependency to 0.3.2

[0.3.19] - 2017-12-27

Changed

• Require log <= 0.3.8 for dev builds
• Update fuchsia-zircon dependency to 0.3
• Fix broken links in docs (to unblock compiler docs testing CI)

[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 implementations 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!
• 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