Release: v4.5.0 [skip ci]

### Minor

- Add: Case-folding for Swift (f621419)
- Add: Case-folding for GoLang (2e310d6)
- Add: Case-folding for JavaScript (93bc9c4)
- Add: Reusable case-insensitive needles with metadata for Rust & C++ (45e3c92)
- Add: Reusable case-insensitive finder for Rust (0c8626d)
- Add: Vietnamese fast path (8ec7de7)
- Add: Armenian & Greek paths (984ace2)
- Add: Central European block (f087711)
- Add: New Cyrillic search kernels (b8e106f)
- Add: Serial verification for Ice Lake search (0cfd2fd)
- Add: Seeding & iterations multipliers for fuzzing (d96cee7)
- Add: `sz_utf8_case_agnostic` API (a0507ee)
- Add: Fast-path Ice Lake case-insensitive substring search for needles <= 16 bytes (b836970)
- Add: ASCII fast paths for small inputs (8b136f3)
- Add: Hash-free search kernel for small needles (e5c477d)
- Add: Latin-1 case-folded search (c1c0305)
- Add: Branchless `.empty()` for small strings (ea258c1)
- Add: Draft TR29 Unicode word-bound iterators (3ca6695)
- Add: Draft case-insensitive search on Ice Lake (4d30daa)

### Patch

- Fix: Pointer cast in GoLang (fb20b6c)
- Docs: Badges, CLI, & inconsistencies (b9aa985)
- Docs: UTF-8 Fold & Search with PErf numbers (b69c49d)
- Improve: Prefetch on massive inputs (48a8ccb)
- Fix: Missing `span::operator==0` for new NVCC benchamrks (9b6911a)
- Fix: Shaddowing template param on NVCC (908d7f9)
- Fix: Rust UTF-8 iterator doctest (7fff78b)
- Make: Install `curl` on Alpine for Rust kit (85af5b5)
- Docs: Arm NEON case-folding plans (8a3f25d)
- Improve: Generalize case-invariant logic (1239bea)
- Improve: Faster ASCII kernels for ≤ 3 probes (e6626a8)
- Improve: Deduplicate benchmark input tokens (68287fc)
- Improve: Western European register pressure (fe94e1c)
- Improve: Greek alarm with less register pressure (22dc88c)
- Improve: Separate "alarm" functions for danger zones (936fc22)
- Make: Install `bash` on Alpine for Rust toolchain (999ec64)
- Improve: Flatten danger zone checks (a8e3f66)
- Improve: VPSHUFB & VPTERNLOG for search (a315ee8)
- Make: Bump Rust & Go CI (7847671)
- Improve: Higher-efficiency Ice Lake kernels (dce1773)
- Fix: Generalize static asserts to 32-bit archs (bde1fad)
- Fix: `NULL` missing - use `SZ_NULL` (7e3dd35)
- Fix: Handle failed downloads of UCD specs (13bc864)
- Fix: Micro case-fold in Georgian path (09ca314)
- Fix: Missing `sized_match_t` constructor (916b23e)
- Improve: Test more problematic chars (46b7135)
- Fix: Shrink step proportional to danger zones (e67f3f7)
- Fix: Outdated case-insensitive metadata in Rust (45e81f7)
- Fix: Missing danger marker in Western kernel (cbcd685)
- Fix: Mid-rune serial matches (be360c7)
- Fix: Vietnamese old-even fold in ZMM (409a44d)
- Fix: Modifiers exclusion from case-less chars (5948374)
- Fix: Danger zone length (be52b86)
- Improve: Reproduce Ice Lake bugs (ac31704)
- Fix: Eastern European case folding (900033e)
- Fix: Dispatch Central European path (2a8a9b6)
- Fix: Ban "ss" prefix/suffix for Western European path (66cade8)
- Improve: Tighten safety profiles (6eee0a9)
- Fix: Serial match verification mid-character (d927ea7)
- Improve: New regression tests for ligatures (29e9cd2)
- Fix: Compile-time Ice-Lake dispatch (7dd6209)
- Docs: Describe problematic chars (368bf5d)
- Improve: New probe refinement & tail verification (d9ceb8c)
- Improve: Detect more danger zones (d327cf8)
- Improve: Better fuzzing for substring search (9ad155e)
- Improve: Case folding variables naming (4ee616c)
- Fix: Case-folding around Glagolitic E2 ranges (68cd557)
- Improve: Fuzzing case-folding equivalene (4dcbe62)
- Fix: Check for incomplete set of 3-byte chars in case_fold_ice (ad036ef)
- Fix: Match new reusable needle ABI in Rust & Python (fa30741)
- Fix: Folding Greek final sigma in AVX-512 (bda1321)
- Fix: Handling Micro sign and Armenian ligatures (39516b3)
- Improve: Deduplicate body/tail kernel logic (d9e2409)
- Fix: Pass stress-tests under 10x multiple (1e050ad)
- Improve: Share abstractions for match validation (55c7c92)
- Fix: Cleaner script-specific window tracking (5a1ba33)
- Improve: Case-insensitive test coverage (8b2385d)
- Improve: Propagate metadata between queries (e3a6bb6)
- Fix: Detecting bicameral chars on Ice Lake (65c6c98)
- Improve: Faster test suite (74060ed)
- Fix: Classifying Armenian as bicameral (0ab964e)
- Improve: Test case-insensitive search against fold+find (aabb45e)
- Fix: 's' removed from the ASCII path (524ec7b)
- Docs: Policy for historical S sign 'ſ' (U+017F) (2226e25)
- Improve: Test coverage for case-insensitive search (a9a7d85)
- Fix: Mostlly passing tests (24e43aa)
- Improve: Simpler design for Ice-Lake case-insensitive search (9ce5a6f)
- Fix: Match new rune safety profiles (b313a8c)
- Fix: 'k' and C6 policy for Vietnamese (8974271)
- Improve: New safety profiles (afa24f7)
- Fix: Steping logic for safe slices under 16 bytes (b66ebd4)
- Improve: Default safe-window selection (1588a2d)
- Fix: Multiplication/division signs on Vietnamese path (5e0de6c)
- Fix: Special Cyrillic folding cases (fb09351)
- Improve: Print env settings at start (b4e269e)
- Fix: Serial fallback for archaic Polytonic Greek chars (659c2c7)
- Fix: Remove Ligature detection from the hot path (351236c)
- Fix: Mask offsets and Latin-A/B extensions (6aa2893)
- Fix: Using enum masks for character safety profiles (f30fb20)
- Improve: Uniform function naming (e751fbc)
- Improve: Uniform logic for case-insensitive search (a534597)
- Improve: Check "safe windows" even for small needles (b56ee54)
- Improve: New safety profiles for Unicode scripts (a6d75b9)
- Fix: Stale folded rune state (32b3df4)
- Improve: Cleaner Ice Lake kernels (4c6cf68)
- Fix: Stale `pending_idx` in fast ASCII iterator (8614658)
- Fix: Missing `Strs.tape` accessors (718f9c1)
- Fix: Named args in `hmac_sha256` (29c5732)
- Docs: Missing API coverage (217055e)
- Improve: Log running tests (473d9db)
- Docs: Explore more scripts with examples (01f493b)
- Improve: 40% smalles fast-path selector state (3d6b244)
- Improve: Reuse needle anomalies logic (094eba8)
- Improve: Test more scripts (917bc03)
- Fix: Passing case-insensitive tests (9d5b9e3)
- Improve: Cleaner case-insensitive fuzzing (ddc8b7a)
- Improve: Unnecassary checks in ci-find (c19f11c)
- Fix: Case-insensitive search passes test (726bbbd)
- Improve: Case-insensitive search for Ry, Vi, El, Hy (Am) (fd89a88)
- Improve: Vietnamese fastt case-folding path (025b36d)
- Improve: Self-equality & overflow protection (b325b1c)
- Docs: Small-string safety comments (83ca417)
- Improve: Length-returning small-string API (be9e2d7)
- Improve: Avoid modulo division (024f677)
- Improve: Use ring-buffers for O(1) prefix hashes (2db5e54)
- Docs: Missing table info (c8b6ae1)
- Improve: Cleaner Raita kernels - unstable (f642fa9)
- Improve: Faster LUT on Ice Lake and Zen4+ (b13aef4)
- Improve: Avoid UTF-8 checks in case-fold (d8aac4a)
- Improve: Faster serial baselines for ASCII needles (e5227ad)
- Improve: Optional `start`/`end` for folded find (62ad6f7)
- Improve: Faster optional UTF-8 validation (7edba6f)
- Fix: Folding "中ABC" on Ice Lake (20dbef3)
- Improve: Boundary condition fold tests (bbea84f)
- Docs: Exaplain convoluted control-flow (44b6279)
- Fix: Gracefully handle Unicode spec download issues (44412bf)
- Fix: Require continuous substitution matrices (20ac49a)
- Make: Ignore UV lock (2c3d35d)
- Docs: Inconsistent UTF-8 fold explanations (c7a3012)

Author: TinySemVer

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14 FATAL_ERROR)
 project(
     stringzilla
-    VERSION 4.4.2
+    VERSION 4.5.0
     LANGUAGES C CXX ASM
     DESCRIPTION "Search, hash, sort, fingerprint, and fuzzy-match strings faster via SWAR, SIMD, and GPGPU"
     HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/ashvardanian/stringzilla"

Cargo.lock

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "stringzilla"
-version = "4.4.2"
+version = "4.5.0"
 authors = ["Ash Vardanian <1983160+ashvardanian@users.noreply.github.com>"]
 description = "Search, hash, sort, fingerprint, and fuzzy-match strings faster via SWAR, SIMD, and GPGPU"
 edition = "2021"

Cargo.toml

@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.4.2
+4.5.0

VERSION

@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
 #define STRINGZILLA_H_
 
 #define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_MAJOR 4
-#define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_MINOR 4
-#define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_PATCH 2
+#define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_MINOR 5
+#define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_PATCH 0
 
 #include "types.h"        // `sz_size_t`, `sz_bool_t`, `sz_ordering_t`
 #include "compare.h"      // `sz_equal`, `sz_order`

include/stringzilla/stringzilla.h

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "stringzilla",
-  "version": "4.4.2",
+  "version": "4.5.0",
   "description": "Search, hash, sort, fingerprint, and fuzzy-match strings faster via SWAR, SIMD, and GPGPU",
   "author": "Ash Vardanian",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",