2.2.0

• April 2026 self-audit (all files): no major issues found
  • Audited for spec compliance and security
• Fix all Byte Array types, to ensure proper work in both TypeScript 5.6 & TypeScript 5.9+
  • TS 5.6 has Uint8Array, while TS 5.9+ made it generic Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer>
  • This creates incompatibility of code between versions
  • Previously, it was hard to use and constantly emitted errors similar to TS2345
  • See typescript#62240 for more context
• Fix compilation issues on TypeScript v6
• Improve tree-shaking, reduce bundle sizes
• utf8: make decoder strict, use isWellFormed (polyfilled in some envs)
• Add strict ascii decoder (char range 0..127)
• Bech32 examples in the docs by @davay42 in #44
• Add overload to Bech32.decode to handle arbitrary string input by @webmaster128 in #45
• perf: trust Uint8Array.fromBase64 to check non-whitespace chars by @ChALkeR in #47

New Contributors

• @davay42 made their first contribution in #44
• @webmaster128 made their first contribution in #45
• @ChALkeR made their first contribution in #47

(We're skipping v2.1, to align with other noble / scure packages)

Full Changelog: 2.0.0...2.2.0