Version 0.4.1

A minor release, but with some nice goodies.

We now support building C-compatible dynamic libraries with cargo c. The readme of the libz-rs-sys-cdylib crate has all the details.

Additionally, performance has improved drastically. We fixed an incorrect loop bound and started using the enable-dfa-jump-thread llvm flag in our benchmarks, which give inflate performance that is consistently better than zlib-ng. Meanwhile @brian-pane has been making some smaller improvements to deflate performance, where we already beat zlib-ng in some, but not yet in all cases.

What's Changed

• run the flate2 test suite on CI by @folkertdev in #250
• Add a release checklist by @rnijveld in #251
• Revert "load the inflate reader and writer to the stack" by @folkertdev in #252
• Add the metadata needed by cargo-c by @lu-zero in #176
• rust 1.83.0 clippy fixes by @folkertdev in #254
• Avoid an out-of-bounds panic in deflate_stored by @bjorn3 in #255
• cdylib cleanup by @folkertdev in #256
• inflate: make use of enable-dfa-jump-thread by @folkertdev in #257
• Parallelize the checking of the first two bytes of a potential match. by @brian-pane in #259
• Fix inflate_fast_help loop bound by @folkertdev in #260
• Small additional speedup for deflate_quick by @brian-pane in #262
• Inline the fast path of BitWriter::send_bits by @brian-pane in #258
• release version 0.4.1 by @folkertdev in #265

New Contributors

• @lu-zero made their first contribution in #176
• @brian-pane made their first contribution in #259

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.4.1