1.8.0

Preparation for v2

The release contains bugfixes and a few improvements which pave the way for upcoming v2.0.

• Modules are now available with .js extension
  • Old: @noble/hashes/sha2
  • New: @noble/hashes/sha2.js
  • Old path is still available
  • This simplifies working in browsers natively without transpilers
• Refactor core functionality, remove duplicate code
• Decrease package size

Deprecations

In v2, some modules will be removed. For example, sha256 will become sha2. In v1.8, the old names still exist, but are marked as deprecated, to simplify upgrade path.

One of the reasons for moving those was the fact sha384 resided in sha512, sha224 in sha256 - which was confusing. New naming scheme simplifies reasoning and decreases amount of modules.

• sha256 became sha2 (which already existed for several releases)
• sha512 became sha2
• _assert became utils
• blake2b became blake2
• blake2s became blake2
• ripemd160 became legacy (to signify its low security level 2^80)
• sha1 became legacy

Full Changelog: 1.7.2...1.8.0

1.7.2

• legacy: new module, with md5 hash
• sha1: move to legacy, keep old alias until major release
• utils: randomBytes should ensure Uint8Array output for old node.js versions
• utils: use built-in Uint8Array toHex / fromHex when available. Gives 13x speed-up on 256b arrays, 20x speed-up on 32kb arrays
• Typescript source can now be used without compilation in node.js v24, due to erasableSyntaxOnly

Full Changelog: 1.7.1...1.7.2

1.7.1

• Implement blake1 (sha3 proposal)
• Use typescript verbatimModuleSyntax to support future node.js type stripping
• Improve documentation

Full Changelog: 1.7.0...1.7.1

1.7.0

• The package is now available on JSR.
• Use isolatedDeclarations typescript option, which massively simplifies documentation auto-gen, and more
  • Check out JSR page for one example
• Add tons of comments everywhere to improve autocompletion, LLM code gen, and basic code understanding.
• Remove some exports from internal _assert

New Contributors

• @quentinadam made their first contribution in #103

Full Changelog: 1.6.1...1.7.0

1.6.1

• Fix argon2 initialization
• pkg.json: include d.ts.map

Full Changelog: 1.6.0...1.6.1

1.6.0

• Add support for 4GB+ arrays on supported platforms
• argon2: Harden, make it stable
• utils: Improve isBytes speed
• Improve compatibility with parsers & minifiers

New Contributors

• @mahnunchik made their first contribution in #102

Full Changelog: 1.5.0...1.6.0

1.5.0

• Scrypt: relax params check to allow r: 1, p: 8
• Export additional typescript types
• Add support for node.js v14.21.3 in addition to v16+
• Export sha224, sha384, sha512_224, sha512_256 in single-file build

New Contributors

• @quixoten made their first contribution in #89
• @legobeat made their first contribution in #94
• @iAchilles made their first contribution in #92
• @sreyemnayr made their first contribution in #99

Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.5.0

1.4.0

• Add support for big endian platforms by @jonathan-albrecht-ibm in #81
• Use XOF constructor wrapper for cShake by @stknob in #82
• Rename _sha2 to _md
• utils, _assert: reduce code duplication
• tsconfig: change module to Node16

Full Changelog: 1.3.3...1.4.0

1.3.3

• Add module sha2, an alias to already-existing sha256 and sha512
• sha3-addons: Implement TurboSHAKE (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/342)
• utils improvements
  • hexToBytes: speed-up 6x, improve error formatting
  • isBytes: improve reliability in bad environments such as jsdom
  • concatBytes: improve safety by early-checking the type
• Bump typescript version used to build the package to 5.3.2

Full Changelog: 1.3.2...1.3.3

1.3.2

• Tree shaking improvements:
  • annotate top-level incovations as pure
  • use const enums
  • decrease wildcard imports of _assert and _u64
  • declare package side-effects free
• argon2: fix checks for parallelism and iterations parameters
• utils: fix isPlainObject in serverless environments, used in scrypt and pbkdf2
• typescript: Disable moduleResolution config setting, since it is viral

New Contributors

• @jeetiss made their first contribution in #65
• @Systemcluster made their first contribution in #69

Full Changelog: 1.3.1...1.3.2