Hashavatar 0.8.0

[eldryoth]

hashavatar 0.8.0

hashavatar 0.8.0 prepares the crate for future core-boundary work without
adding new runtime dependencies or promising no_std support yet.

Highlights

• Bumped the crate to 0.8.0.
• Added an internal render plan used by raster, SVG, and encode paths.
• Changed public enum ALL lists from manually sized arrays to slices.
• Added from_byte helpers for deterministic enum selection:
  • AvatarHashAlgorithm::from_byte
  • AvatarKind::from_byte
  • AvatarBackground::from_byte
  • AvatarOutputFormat::from_byte
• Added tests that protect public enum parser/display behavior.
• Documented which dependencies belong outside a future no_std + alloc core.
• Added raw RGBA buffer budget constants and AvatarSpec helpers for callers
  that need service-level memory/concurrency controls.
• Hardened internal antialiasing channel blending against invalid weights.
• Zeroized temporary owned raster buffers after encode APIs finish encoding.
• Added a fixed-minimum-latency API wrapper example for callers that need to
  reduce render-time side-channel observability.

Compatibility

• Avatar rendering output is intended to stay stable from 0.7.0.
• Public enum ALL associated constants now have slice type
  &'static [Self] instead of fixed-size array types.
• Existing render, SVG, and encode entry points keep the same behavior.
• no_std is still only a future direction, not a supported public contract.

Security And Quality

• The dependency graph remains no larger than 0.7.0.
• Enum byte derivation uses ALL.len() rather than duplicated modulo counts.
• Tests cover parser/display round trips, documented enum label order, and
  byte-to-enum derivation.
• The internal render plan keeps deterministic avatar decisions separate from
  output encoding concerns.
• Rendering remains variable-time by design and should not be used as a
  secret-preserving timing boundary.
• Returned encoded bytes and images returned by render APIs are caller-owned;
  high-assurance callers should clear those buffers after use.
• Floating-point geometry remains a known future hardening target before the
  project claims formal bit-identical raster output across all platforms.

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This discussion was created from the release Hashavatar 0.8.0.