Bump version to 0.14.0

[popzxc]

Current version of rust-bitcoin has some new features (Regtest network, consensus parameters, corrected multiplication).

Would it make sense to bump the version of crate?

[apoelstra]

Yes. I will do that in a PR right before release.

We haven't really figured out a good process for this. I guess when we bump to 0.14, we should add an additional commit that bumps to "0.15-pre" or something, and then bump to 0.15 before publishing?

I agree that the current situation, where the git repo says 0.13 but we have breaking changes since the published 0.13, seems wrong.

[popzxc]

Well, in exonum we have a CHANGELOG.md file which is updated in every PR. So, at the every point we have an actual list of changes for the current commit. Before release they are stored in [Unreleased] and on release it's just renamed to the appropriate version.

So, when user wants to check if he is able to use this version or not, he can just look at [Unreleased] section of changelog.

I guess some similar process will be enough here too.

[apoelstra]

Sure, I like that. Alongside 0.14.0 I'll create such a file and require updates in any PRs that change semantics.

[popzxc]

I'd suggest to create a CONTRIBUTING.md file with information for external contributors, so such a requirements won't be a surprice for them.

[popzxc]

I don't want to be intrusive, but @apoelstra could you please tell me when approximately version will be bumped? We need a release to use some of new features.

[apoelstra]

Today or tomorrow I should have time to go through everything outstanding in rust-bitcoin and rust-secp.

I want to release a new version of rust-secp soon that will overhaul the API, and to update rust-bitcoin to use this also in 0.14.

[apoelstra]

Once we have #125 (serde 1.0) and #113 (secp256k1 0.10) I'll release 0.14.

I'd prefer not to release without secp 0.10, since it would make the latest versions of rust-bitcoin and rust-secp incompatible, and merging secp 0.10 (which is ready) without serde 1.0 (which is not) would cause grief for serde users.

[ariard]

Really cool, waiting Regtest support to play with it on rust-lightning-bitcoinrpc :)