List of breaking changes for v0.7 release

[tarcieri]

Now that v0.6.0 is out, we can collect and discuss potential breaking changes for a (not currently scheduled) v0.7 release:

• 2024 edition upgrade (requires Rust 1.85, to be released 2025-02-20)
• rand_core v0.9 support #759
• der v0.8 (not yet released)
• Adopt core naming conventions for bigint methods #693

[nbdd0121]

rand_core v0.9 is now released.

[fjarri]

That actually concerns me too. Feels like we should do a quick bump to 0.7 with rand_core=0.9 before v0.6 is widely adopted.

[tarcieri]

Yeah, alas, not great timing. I can yank the v0.6.0 release and retroactively upgrade it.

[dignifiedquire]

Yeah, alas, not great timing. I can yank the v0.6.0 release and retroactively upgrade it.

I think it is good to have 0.6 out with rand 0.8, at least for rsa I want to make a release with rand 0.8 and the bug fix soon.

[tarcieri]

Another thing I could do which is a little annoying is start a new development branch and upgrade there, and cut a v0.7.0 prerelease

[fjarri]

I think it is good to have 0.6 out with rand 0.8, at least for rsa I want to make a release with rand 0.8 and the bug fix soon.

If that's the plan, I'm going to make a crypto-primes release as well.