# Release Notes

## HexBytes v0.3.0 (2022-08-17)

### Miscellaneous changes

- #28

### Breaking changes

- Drop support for Python 3.6, update Sphinx doc dependency requirement (#27)

## HexBytes v0.2.3 (2022-08-11)

### Features

- Type signature now accepts memoryview when creating HexBytes. It converts to a bytes internally, so not any performance benefit. But at least it’s possible now, and mypy stops complaining. (#22)

### Performance improvements

- Improve speed of the check for 0x at the beginning of the hex string. Similar to changes in eth-utils. (Technically merged by #22, but first posted in #21) (#21)

### Internal Changes - for hexbytes Contributors

- Merged in latest changes from project template (#24)

### Miscellaneous changes

- #25, #26

## HexBytes v0.2.2 (2021-08-25)

### Miscellaneous changes

- Pass mypy tests with –no-implicit-reexport (#15)

### Internal Changes - for hexbytes Contributors

- Merge in template changes from the last year. Pass pydocstyle tests at the new major version. (#16)

## HexBytes v0.2.1 (2020-06-02)

### Features

- Officially support bytearray, int, and bool as inputs to `HexBytes`. Drop the dependency on eth-utils, for a much smaller & faster install. (#12)

## v0.2.0

Released June 3, 2019

- Breaking Changes

  - Dropped Python3.5 support (only in name at this release, but py3.6 features will be used soon #10

- Features

  - A slice of HexBytes will now produce another HexBytes object #9

- Maintenance

  - Added type hints #7

## v0.1.0

Released Mar 1, 2018

- Marked stable

- eth-utils v1.0.1 support

## v0.1.0-beta.1

Released Feb 21, 2018

- pypy3 support

- eth-utils v1-beta.2 support

- Some generic template updates

## v0.1.0-beta.0

Released Jan 30, 2018

- Tested a basic integration with eth-rlp

- Given the simplicity of the project and the longer usage history in web3.py, it is reasonable to bump to beta immediately.

## v0.1.0-alpha.2

Released Jan 30, 2018

- Added hypothesis tests

- Added some docs

- Update eth-utils to get all required functionality

- Passes all tests

## v0.1.0-alpha.1

- Launched repository, claimed names for pip, RTD, github, etc