v2.0.0-beta.4

Almost 5 months after the previous v2.0.0-beta.3 release, this beta version contains a lot of bug fixes, effectively closing all the known issues on v2 so far. It creates a solid foundation on the way to the stable release. Thank you to everybody involved!

What's Changed

What's new

• Provide own implementation of Local* by @pelletier in #558
• Decode: convert ints if target type is compatible by @pelletier in #594
• Decode: support lowercase 'T' and 'Z' in date-time parsing by @moorereason in #601
• Decode: preserve nanosecond precision when decoding time by @moorereason in #626

Performance

• Optimize hexadecimal decoding by @kkHAIKE in #568

Fixed bugs

• Decode: don't panic on recursive structs by @pelletier in #557
• Decode: handle LocalTime to interface{} unmarshal by @kkHAIKE in #567
• Decode: make copy of non addressable values by @pelletier in #576
• Decode: don't crash on unterminated table key by @pelletier in #580
• Decode: fix non-terminated array error by @pelletier in #584
• Decode: don't crash on unterminated inline table by @pelletier in #587
• Decode: fix error reporting for last comments by @pelletier in #591
• Decode: don't overflow when parsing bad times by @pelletier in #593
• Decode: don't panic when date time is missing timezone by @RiyaJohn in #614
• Decode: fail when array is missing separator by @jidicula in #616
• Encode: make floats always contain a decimal point by @zostay in #615
• Decode: validate UTF-8 by @pelletier in #629
• Decode: validate dates by @jidicula in #622
• Encode: Follow RFC3339 spec for LocalTime by @jidicula in #632
• Decode: handle more cases when during float validation by @pelletier in #636
• Decode: Floats and integers parsing fixes by @pelletier in #638
• Decode: check for explicit tables on dotted keys by @pelletier in #639
• Decode: empty document should result in a map by @pelletier in #640
• Decode: don't panic when storing table in slice by @pelletier in #641
• Decode: use UnmarshalText for any type not just structs by @pelletier in #642
• Decode: properly handle multiline strings termination by @pelletier in #643

Documentation

• Add installation instructions by @pelletier in #572
• Update benchmarks results by @pelletier in #630

Other changes

• Go 1.17 release by @pelletier in #574

New Contributors

• @mmorel-35 made their first contribution in #570
• @kkHAIKE made their first contribution in #568
• @zostay made their first contribution in #615

Full Changelog: v2.0.0-beta.3...v2.0.0-beta.4