Changelog

All notable changes to neptune will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

10.0.0

• fix: PoseidonConstants serde Implementation (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/184)
• chore: make version part of the release commit (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/185)

9.0.0

• refactor: Bump ff & group to 0.13, adjust dependent crates (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/179)
• ci: Add licenses audits with 'cargo-deny' (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/181)
• doc: covering PoseidonConstants and Poseidon abstractions with proper docs (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/178)

8.1.1

• chore: update ec-gpu, update const fns (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/175)
• chore: minor upgrade (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/173)
• fix: simplify the implementation of arity (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/172)
• fix: Ensure preimage buffer is padded with newly variables that are actually constrained to be equal to zero (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/169)

8.1.0

• Implement serde for PoseidonConstants (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/165)

8.0.0

• fix: update to newer ec-gpu version (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/164)
• chore: fix CI MacOS build (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/161)

7.2.0 - 2022-8-9

• Change write_rate_element to add_rate_element to agree with spec.

7.1.0 - 2022-8-8

• Add Sponge API to README. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/158)
• IO pattern (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/157)
• Sponge absorb add (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/156)
• Add sponge circuit synthesis test and remove make_elt method. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/154)

7.0.0 - 2022-7-21

• Implement sponge construction. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/151)
• feat: support other fields (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/135)
• feat: update dependencies to the latest (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/150)

6.2.0 - 2022-6-10

• Reduce constraints (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/148)

6.1.1 - 2022-5-26

• Implement Arity for U1 (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/145)

6.1.0 - 2022-4-22

• Wasm support (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/139)

6.0.0 - 2022-3-22

• Use bellperson v0.19.0. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/141)
• refactor: use field name as part of the function names (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/136)
• chore: update to Rust 1.56.0 (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/138)
• chore: use Rust 1.51.0 (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/134)
• Remove neptune-triton (Futhark) support. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/132)
• feat: add vanilla Poseidon benchmarks for Pasta scalar field (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/124)
• Update README. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/129)
• fix: fix warning when compiling with OpenCL (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/123)
• Fixes gaussian elimination for matrices with 0 entries (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/122)

5.1.0 - 2021-10-21

• Cleanup domain tags (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/121)
• Fix, test, and enable custom domain tags. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/116)
• Update bellperson to v0.18.0 (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/115)
• Fix spec's sparse factorization w vector (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/114)

5.0.0 - 2021-9-30

• Remove pairing requirement for circuits (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/111)
• Add support for CUDA (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/109)
• Use correct global work size (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/108)
• Properly call ec_gpu_gen::common() (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/110)
• Use upstream group, ff and pairing dependencies (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/103)
• Remove unnecessary to_vec (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/107)
• Pass GPU data from a pre-populated vector (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/106)

4.0.0 - 2021-8-2

• Upgrade to latest rust-gpu-tools (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/91)
• Rename GPU feature to Futhark (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/100)
• Improve Clippy on CI (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/92)
• Fix Clippy warnings (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/98)
• Remove BatcherType (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/97)
• Remove GPUSelector (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/96)

3.0.0 - 2021-6-1

• Breaking update of bellperson to 0.14 and associated dependency upgrades.

2.7 - 2021-3-9

• Use bellperson 0.13.

2.6 - 2021-1-21

• Pure OpenCL implementation of batch hashing. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/78)

2.5 [release commited but never published to crates.io, due to authentication glitch]

2.4.0 - 2020-11-17

• Customize batch-sizes of gbench through cli args. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/50)
• Remove [most] macos conditional code. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/72)
• Refactor, moving device selection to rust-gpu-tools. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/70)
• Only clear cache when no hashers are active for futhark context. (https://github.com/argumentcomputer/neptune/pull/68)

2.2.0 - 2020-11-01

• Update bellperson to 0.12.0 67

2.1.1 - 2020-10-30

• Fix GPUBatchHasher not clearing GPU caches 66

2.1.0 - 2020-10-29

• Enable blst backend. 63
• Explicitly reuse FutharkContext in related Batchers. 62
• Make GPUSelector accessible from gbench. 59
• Create SECURITY.MD. 57
• Avoid compiling any OpenCL on macos. 56
• Use latest neptune-triton. 55

2.0.0 - 2020-08-4

• Add support for domain separation tags. In addition to support for new hash functions built on the Poseidon permutation, this introduces a breaking change to the DST used for Strengthened Poseidon. 43.