Rust version 1.56.0 introduced edition 2021. Shortly afterwards, on
October 21 2021 Rust version 1.56.1 was released.
Debian stable is currently shipping `rustc 1.63.0`.
Our stated MSRV policy is: In Debian stable and at least 2 years old.
Therefore our MSRV policy is met by Rust version 1.56.1 and we can strat
to bump our MSRV org wide.
Start by bumping the `rust-bitcoin` and `hashes` MSRV to Rust 1.56.1,
includes:
- Update docs.
- Update CI and remove pinning.
- Update the build files and remove now stale cfg attributes rust_v_1_x
for values less than the new MSRV.
- Use new `IntoIterator` for arrays so we no longer need to allocate a
vector to iterate.
Links:
- https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/11/01/Rust-1.56.1.html
- https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/10/21/Rust-1.56.0.html
- https://packages.debian.org/stable/rust/rustc
Previously, each unique compiler cfg attribute that appeared in the
codebase was hard coded and emitted to stdout at compile time. This
meant keeping the file up to date as different compiler cfg attributes
changed. It's inconsequential to emit a compiler version that's not
used, so this change just emits all possibilities to reduce the
maintenance burden of the build script.
The rust version is supposed to be set by the build script so that users
automagically get features matching the toolchain in use. Currently we
have a feature in the manifest for `rustv_1_53` instead setting a
compiler conditional configuration option in the build script. This
causes `cargo +1.41.1 --all-features check` to fail.
In some protocols it is preferred to serialize consensus-encodable types
using consensus encoding. E.g. serialize `Transaction` as hex-encoded
string in Json in Bitcoin Core RPC protocol. This change provides
adapter to make this easier.
The adapter allows providing custom byte-to-string encoder for more
exotic cases and provides a hex implementation which should be useful in
majority of the cases.
Should help with #765
Tobin C. Harding
yancy
Salvatore Ingala
Martin Habovstiak