Release v2.8.1

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Installation

dotnet add package HeroParser --version 2.8.1

Package Details

• NuGet: HeroParser v2.8.1
• Frameworks: net8.0;net9.0;net10.0
• Dependencies: System.IO.Pipelines for PipeReader APIs; no third-party parser dependencies
• License: MIT

Security

• Allocation-conscious parsing with fixed-size span-read allocations
• Bounds checking on column access
• Clean Native AOT compilation with no warnings
• No unsafe code

SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials)

Per-framework SBOMs included in this release:

• SPDX 2.2 format (net8.0;net9.0;net10.0)
• SPDX 3.0 format (net8.0;net9.0;net10.0)

Documentation

• README
• Workflows Guide
• License

Performance

• High-performance SIMD optimizations (AVX-512, AVX2, NEON)
• RFC 4180 quote handling with minimal overhead
• Lazy column evaluation for efficient filtering

What's Changed

• perf(csv): reduce PipeReader column decoding allocations by @ldsenow in #127
• bench(csv): add checked end-to-end paired PipeReader measurements by @ldsenow in #128
• fix(csv): decode logical values in generated record binding by @ldsenow in #129
• bench(csv): retain failed controls and native CPU evidence by @ldsenow in #130
• fix(ci): fetch exact frozen CSV history source by @ldsenow in #131
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-dotnet from 5.2.0 to 6.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #132
• build(deps): bump the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #133
• ci: finish setup-dotnet v6 adoption and fix npm audit failures by @ldsenow in #134
• perf(csv-pipe): local variance study and a predeclared manual CI experiment by @ldsenow in #137
• Bump Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.CodeCoverage from 18.11.2 to 18.12.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #135
• Bump Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.TrxReport from 2.4.1 to 2.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #136
• Prepare v2.8.1 release by @ldsenow in #138

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.8.1