All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

• Finally retired the use of the failure crate
• Various internal cleanups

• Improved documentation of serde support (thanks @casey)

• Fix lifetime on Deserializer implementation for Value (thanks @euclio)
• Many documentation fixes (thanks @casey)

• Bugfix release allowing generic values to be contained within lists or maps

• Added serde support
• Added generic value type that can represent any Bencode value

• Make the no_std api match the std api a little bit more closely.

• Add missing FromBencode implementation for BTreeMap.
• Introduce std as default enabled feature.
  • Disabling this feature makes bendy no_std compatible.
  • This currently requires that the target provides allocator support and also supports atomic_cas as bendy contains a default ToBencode implementation for Arc<T: ToBencode>.
• Update minimal required rustc version to v1.36 (to use extern crate alloc inside tests and examples).

• Add new try_into_* utility methods on Object.
• Introduce ...
  • FromBencode trait for simpler decoding.
  • a high level encoding Error type.
  • a high level decoding Error type.
  • ResultExt decoding trait to improve error handling.
• Subscribed into edition 2018 and latest rustfmt version.

Breaking Changes

• Remove Error from the public API.
• Move Token from decoder into state_tracker submodule.
• Rename ...
  • encoder submodule into encoding.
  • decoder submodule into decoding.
  • Encodable trait into ToBencode.
• Changed signatures of all _or_err methods on Object .
• Replaced all occurrences of Error inside the API with the new high level decoding Error and encoding Error.

• Add AsRef<[u8]> and From<&[u8]> for AsString if the content supports them.

• Add missing trait derives for the AsString encoding wrapper.

Initial release