v5.1.0

What's Changed

Added

• Improve the performance of hash128(), hash64(), and hash_bytes() by using METH_FASTCALL, reducing the overhead of function calls (#116).
• Add the software paper for this library (doi:10.21105/joss.06124), following its publication in the Journal of Open Source Software (#118).

Removed

• Drop support for Python 3.8, as it has reached the end of life on 2024-10-07 (#117).

New Contributors

• @drvinceknight made their first contribution in #113
• @danielskatz made their first contribution in #114

Full Changelog: v5.0.1...v5.1.0