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Changes for version 3.001

  • Production release 1 of protocol version 3
  • Zlib support
  • CANONICAL_UNDEF,
  • new magic header to make it easier to detect UTF8 encoded data.
  • Minor changes to how scalar values are serialized to favour more compact representations.

Changes for version 3.000_003

  • Fixes to Decoder test counts when encoder not installed

Changes for version 3.000_002

  • Fixes to Decoder looks_like_sereal and minor protocol rules tweaks.

Changes for version 3.000_001

  • Upgrade to version 3 of the protocol
    • Add Zlib compression support to the protocol
    • Add Zlib support to Encoder/Decoder
    • Add CANONICAL_UNDEF tag to represent PL_sv_undef
    • Change magic header so it is trivial to detect and reject utf8 encoded Sereal packets.

Modules

Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization