1# CHANGELOG
 2
 3## Pending
 4
 5### Breaking changes
 6
 7### Features
 8
 9- [\#156](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/156) Add the bw6-767 curve.
10
11### Improvements
12
13- [\#156](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/156) The hard part of the final exponentiation for bw6-761 relocated from arkworks/algebra.
14- [\#158](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/158) Enabled GLV as the default scalar multiplication for BLS12-377, BLS12-381 and BN254.
15
16### Bugfixes
17
18- [\#176](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/176) Non-canonical infinity point and bad flags in BLS12-381 serialization should fail.
19
20## v0.4.0
21- [\#76](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/76) twisted Edwards parameters for bls12-377
22- Fixed curve benches
23
24### Breaking changes
25
26- [\#104](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/104) Remove `QUADRATIC_NONRESIDUE` parameter from implementors of `Fp2Config`.
27- [\#129](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/129) Implement custom serialization for BLS12-381 for compatibility with the [Zcash lib](https://github.com/zkcrypto/bls12_381).
28 
29### Features
30
31- [\#121](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/121) Add the ed25519 curve.
32- [\#122](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/122) Add the secp256k1 and secq256k1 curves.
33- [\#124](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/124) Add the curve25519 curve.
34
35### Improvements
36
37- [\#70](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/70) Add prepared G2 pairing consistency test. 
38- [\#74](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/74) Use Scott's subgroup membership tests for `G1` and `G2` of BLS12-381.
39- [\#103](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/103) Faster cofactor clearing for BLS12-381.
40- [\#107](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/107/) Use 2-NAF of `ATE_LOOP_COUNT` to speed up the Miller loop in MNT curves.
41- [\#141](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/103) Faster cofactor clearing for BLS12-377.
42- [\#138](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/138) Implement WB Hash-to-Curve for bls12-381 and bls12-377
43
44### Bug fixes
45
46## v0.3.0 
47
48### Breaking changes
49
50- [\#60](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/60) Change the scalar group generator of `Fr` of `bls12_377` Fr from `11` to `22`.
51- [\#61](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/61) Remove `ATE_LOOP_COUNT_IS_NEGATIVE` from BN254 curve parameter.
52
53### Features
54
55- [\#64](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/64) Implement the Bandersnatch curve, another twisted Edwards curve for BLS12-381.
56
57### Improvements
58
59### Bug fixes
60
61## v0.2.0
62
63### Breaking changes
64
65- Requires all crates from `arkworks-rs/algebra` to have version `v0.2.0` or greater.
66
67### Features
68
69- [\#3](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/3) Add constraints for
70        `ark-bls12-377`,
71        `ark-ed-on-bls12-377`,
72        `ark-ed-on-bls12-381`,
73        `ark-ed-on-bn254`,
74        `ark-ed-on-cp6-782`,
75        `ark-ed-on-bw6-761`,
76        `ark-ed-on-mnt4-298`,
77        `ark-ed-on-mnt4-753`,
78        `ark-mnt4-298`,
79        `ark-mnt6-298`,
80        `ark-mnt4-753`,
81        `ark-mnt6-753`.
82- [\#7](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/7) Add benchmarks for Edwards curves.
83- [\#19](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/19) Change field constants to be provided as normal strings, instead of in Montgomery form.
84- [\#53](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/53) Add benchmarks for Pallas and Vesta curves.
85
86### Improvements
87
88- [\#42](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/42) Remove the dependency of `rand_xorshift`.
89
90### Bug fixes
91
92- [\#28](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/28), [\#49](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/49) Fix broken documentation links.
93- [\#38](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/38) Compile with `panic='abort'` in release mode, for safety of the library across FFI boundaries.
94- [\#45](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/curves/pull/45) Fix `ark-ed-on-mnt4-753`.
95
96## v0.1.0
97
98Initial Release