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rand_xorshift

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Xorshift random number generator

Last release 8 months ago
02 Feb 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 3 months to 4.1 years
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 6 of 6 stable releases
1 version withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
8 years old
8 releases · first in 2018

Release timeline

8 releases since 2018

20182020202220242026

Releases

0.5.02 Feb 2026
Use Edition 2024 and MSRV 1.85 ([#73])
Changes

Use Edition 2024 and MSRV 1.85 (#73)

Update to rand_core v0.10 (#82)
Open source →
0.5.0-rc.010 Nov 2025pre-release
Nothing published for this version
0.4.027 Jan 2025
Update to rand_core v0.9.0 ([#58])
Bump the MSRV to 1.63 (#58)

Update to rand_core v0.9.0 (#58)

Rename feature serde1 to serde (#58)

Document how zero seeds are handled

Correctly document MSRV as 1.36

Speed up from_seed implementation for 128-bit seeds

Add examples for initializing the RNGs

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20182026

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Open source →

▸▾0.3.018 Dec 2020

Bump rand_core version to 0.6 ([#17])

Bump rand_core version to 0.6 (#17)
Derive PartialEq+Eq for XorShiftRng (#6)
Bump serde to 1.0.118 so that serde1 feature can also be no-std (#12)

Open source →

▸▾0.2.012 Jun 2019Breaking

Bump minor crate version since rand_core bump is a breaking change

Bump minor crate version since rand_core bump is a breaking change
Switch to Edition 2018

Open source →

▸▾0.1.26 Jun 2019withdrawn

Make XorShiftRng::from_rng portable by enforcing Endianness ([rand#815])

Bump rand_core version
Make XorShiftRng::from_rng portable by enforcing Endianness (rand#815)

Open source →

▸▾0.1.14 Jan 2019

Reorganise code and tests; tweak doc

Reorganise code and tests; tweak doc

Open source →

▸▾0.1.04 Oct 2018

- Pulled out of the Rand crate

Pulled out of the Rand crate

Open source →

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