Release: v1.8.1 [skip ci]

TinySemVer · TinySemVer · commit 3d60b4d87f98 · 2026-01-18T16:24:01.000Z
### Patch - Fix: Missing Pola.rs features (3ceadb5) - Improve: Criterion's new `ElementsAndBytes` (dd56e11) - Make: Group by workload (c9eef42)
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "stringwars"
-version = "1.8.0"
+version = "1.8.1"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Ash Vardanian <1983160+ashvardanian@users.noreply.github.com>"]
 description = "Comparing performance-oriented string-processing libraries for substring search, multi-pattern matching, hashing, edit-distances, sketching, and sorting across CPUs and GPUs in Rust 🦀"
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.8.0
+1.8.1
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "stringwars"
-version = "1.8.0"
+version = "1.8.1"
 description = "Comparing performance-oriented string-processing libraries for substring search, multi-pattern matching, hashing, edit-distances, sketching, and sorting across CPUs and GPUs in Python 🐍"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
