The Great Refactor Update

We have a transition guide for moving from uuid 0.6.x to uuid 0.7.x.

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• Minimum rustc version bumped to 1.22 (#254)

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Added

• Nil variant to uuid::Version (#181)
• Add uuid::Version to prelude (#188)
• Allow v3 & v5 Uuids to be constructed from bytes (#270)
• BytesError for general Uuid use when byte slices are involved (#284)

Changes

• Move namespace Uuid constants under uuid::Uuid (#187)
• Use uuid::UuidBytes` instead of [u8;16] (#263)
• uuid::Uuid::from_bytes() renamed to uuid::Uuid::from_slice(), uuid::Uuid::from_uuid_bytes() renamed to uuid::Uuid::from_bytes() (#299)
• Uuid prefix removed from structs, enums and functions (#294)

Removed

• uuid::Uuid::new() method (#214)
• Remove deprecated use-std feature (#280)

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Dependencies

• Rand to 0.5 (#262)

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2018 edition is available. To enable it, use the 2018 branch.

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Since 0.7.0-beta

• fix const_fn marked functions not being const for adapters (#310)
• Optimize formatting by 80-90% by avoiding write!. (#303)