New crate versions?

[randombit]

There have been a couple of pre-releases now, I was wondering what the plan is for a "final" 0.14 of the various crates (mostly concerned with k256 and p256 personally). Is there anything I can do to help move things towards a new version? Testing/etc?

[tarcieri]

We've been working on another set of releases across the whole @RustCrypto ecosystem. The elliptic-curve crates sit fairly high atop our stack, and will be some of the last to get releases.

Here's a tracking issue for the dependencies: RustCrypto/traits#1571

[tarcieri]

Also if there are specific non-breaking changes you want, we can potentially backport them to the stable release series

[randombit]

Main thing that's pressing for us is #1041, which should be pretty easy to backport. I wasn't aware this was an option. Would the idea be to create a new branch off of e158ce5, make the change on top of that and publish 0.13.4 from there?

[tarcieri]

I think I'd like to make an overall stable branch from where we initially switched to prerelease versions and keep changes there (also incorporating previous backports).

It's something we probably should've been doing every time we switch master to development.

[randombit]

#1072 has a backport of #1041 onto the k256 0.13.3 commit

[ycscaly]

Is 0.14 planned soon?

[tarcieri]

Yes, though as noted earlier there are several prerequisites to release first: RustCrypto/traits#1571

[tarcieri]

Coming from RustCrypto/traits#1571 I will try to cut the remaining crates today or tomorrow except for ed448-goldilocks.

Regarding ed448-goldilocks, it still needs a lot of work. Unlike other crates where we decided not to let perfect be the enemy of done, it really does need a lot of work before I would consider it in a releasable state.

There are already dozens of PRs to do much of the work already open (please do not try to help by vibe coding), I need to go through them though and figure out which ones are showstoppers for the next release, and then do the work to get them merged.

I can make a separate tracking ticket for its release.