0.8.1 - 2026-02-02

Release Notes

Note

The aarch64-pc-windows-msvc artifact failed to build with 0.8.0. These release notes include the 0.8.0 changes.

Changed

• Breaking: Bump MSRV to 1.91
• Switch to mimalloc as the global allocator
• Bump zarrs to 0.23.0-beta.6
• Reduce monomorphisation
• Bump sysinfo to 0.37.2

Fixed

• switch to windows-11-arm runner for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc builds

Install zarrs_tools 0.8.1

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/zarrs/zarrs_tools/releases/download/v0.8.1/zarrs_tools-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/zarrs/zarrs_tools/releases/download/v0.8.1/zarrs_tools-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download zarrs_tools 0.8.1

File	Platform	Checksum
zarrs_tools-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
zarrs_tools-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
zarrs_tools-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	ARM64 Windows	checksum
zarrs_tools-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
zarrs_tools-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
zarrs_tools-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum