Release: v4.3.0 [skip ci]

### Minor

- Add: UTF-8 case-folding placeholders (15bcc43)
- Add: UTF-8 serial case-folding (65b652f)
- Add: SVE2 kernels for UTF-8 (d4504be)
- Add: Skip-ahead UTF-8 iterator interface (958be10)
- Add: NEON UTF-8 tokenization kernels (0259f58)
- Add: `try_replace_all` for Rust (35ed227)
- Add: NEON UTF-8 placeholders (f1fcdc5)
- Add: Lazy UTF-8 views for Rust (c08dc0c)
- Add: `sz_utf8_unpack_upto64` for iterators (3ea1857)
- Add: UTF-8 length counting 15x faster (49d9da0)
- Add: `utf8.h` for new `valid` and `find_nth` interfaces (e0465d5)
- Add: UTF-8 bound checks for Rust (e7b4b9e)
- Add: UTF-8 boundary detection (f1e5318)

### Patch

- Make: `SZ_ENFORCE_SVE_OVER_NEON=0` by default (da5687d)
- Improve: Fewer loads in SVE2 and no fast paths (a06583a)
- Make: Bump macOS-13 → 15 in CI (98b8802)
- Improve: Fewer registers for `e280xx` masks in SVE2 (5434ebf)
- Improve: Faster SVE2 & Neon logic (bd9ddf5)
- Fix: NEON whitespace & newline equivalence (016c44a)
- Improve: UTF-8 equivalence checks (786a322)
- Fix: Missing `i8` greater-than in AVX2 (dd4c4b0)
- Fix: MSVC-compatible `uint8x16_t` init (97cf851)
- Improve: Consistent var. names in UTF-8 tokenizers (5c6a32a)
- Fix: Aligned state compilation in NEON (31e4c8b)
- Fix: Missing `svcompact_u8` in SVE2 (302af92)
- Improve: Include SVE2 benchmarks (4f558e1)
- Fix: Incorrect literal bound for test input (5e0f3ea)
- Improve: `skip_empty` arg for Python compatibility (0279383)
- Improve: Consistent split-iterator across languages (07c4d1c)
- Improve: Case-folding bump from Unicode 16 to 17 (9daa2a7)
- Fix: UBSAN issues in `hash.h` (36fa527)
- Docs: On complexity of case-insensitive substring search (ac5cb2f)
- Make: Bump Rust deps & drop ICU (ebc4296)
- Improve: New case-folding ABI (82528a7)
- Make: Separate file for UTF-8 unpacking (567cf17)
- Improve: Check UTF-8 case-folding (bf0ff0d)
- Make: Deprecate current UTF-32 unpacking code (b2b96f4)
- Fix: Misplaced UTF-8 skip in StringZilla (b838127)
- Fix: `svmatch`-ing zero characters in SVE2 kernels (6f045aa)
- Improve: Use fewer registers in SVE2 code (e52f4a1)
- Fix: `short` implicit casts (00bacfc)
- Improve: Test CLRF corner cases (0edc81f)
- Improve: Faster `utf8_count_neon` w/out u64 unpacking in loop (b583fa8)
- Improve: Fast path for 1-byte whitespace in NEON (73da441)
- Fix: Compile-time AES/SHA dispatch for Apple (8c34baf)
- Improve: More UTF-8 whitespace tokenization tests (8bb0324)
- Fix: `no_std` builds and doctests (bb699e9)
- Improve: Test UTF-8 decoding ops (849bff2)
- Fix: Out of bounds access in `sz_sha256_*_ice` (2bceb8d)
- Make: Correct `env` fields for `.vscode/tasks.json` (dda7704)
- Improve: Unlimited chunk size for UTF-8 iterators (aad09a4)
- Make: Tune Rust analyzer to use less RAM (ced9636)
- Fix: Skip U+001C, U+001D, U+001E (aca0473)
- Improve: Avoid optimization in more benchmarks (f979ed9)
- Improve: Fast path for UTF-8 whitespaces (a3c407f)
- Make: Build just 1 target for VS Code debug (26b0074)
- Fix: Signed comparisons for UTF-8 boundaries (f532ea2)
- Make: Redefining `SZ_DEBUG=0` in CMake (febbdac)

Author: TinySemVer

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14 FATAL_ERROR)
 project(
     stringzilla
-    VERSION 4.2.3
+    VERSION 4.3.0
     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 = "4.2.3"
+version = "4.3.0"
 authors = ["Ash Vardanian <[email protected]>"]
 description = "Search, hash, sort, fingerprint, and fuzzy-match strings faster via SWAR, SIMD, and GPGPU"
 edition = "2021"

Cargo.toml

@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.2.3
+4.3.0

VERSION

@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
 #define STRINGZILLA_H_
 
 #define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_MAJOR 4
-#define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_MINOR 2
-#define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_PATCH 3
+#define STRINGZILLA_H_VERSION_MINOR 3
+#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": "4.2.3",
+  "version": "4.3.0",
   "description": "Search, hash, sort, fingerprint, and fuzzy-match strings faster via SWAR, SIMD, and GPGPU",
   "author": "Ash Vardanian",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",