2.5.0

Changed

• Updated optional dependencies to latest major versions:
  • zercopy 0.6 -> 0.8
  • rand 0.8 -> 0.9
  • rand_distr 0.4 -> 0.5
  • rkyv 0.7 -> 0.8
  • (dev) criterion 0.4 -> 0.5
• Minimum supported Rust version has been changed to 1.81 due to above dependency updates.
• Minor restructuring of included license file locations to be more consistent with crates ecosystem.

Added

• Added support for arbitrary crate. Fixes #110. By @FL33TW00D.
• New num-traits implementations: FromBytes and ToBytes for f16 and bf16. By @kpreid.

Fixed

• Suppressed unexpected_cfg lint warnings on newer versions of stable Rust.
• Resolved ambiguous rustdoc warnings due to new unstable f16 primitive in compiler.