From c720ba2f1402d238f18c5133ad17d2b47e61e129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Duncan <chris@zoso.dev>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:18:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] v0.4.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md      | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 package-lock.json |  4 ++--
 package.json      |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7339cff..775ae96 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,36 @@ SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Chris Duncan <chris@zoso.dev>
 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 -->
 
+## v0.4.0
+
+### Notable Changes
+
+#### Vault abandons async-await
+
+Bundlers try to optimize code based on features supported by the target browser
+environment as well as work around shortcomings or bugs. Sometimes this results
+in mangling code that would otherwise be acceptable. Private class fields and
+async-await are two such features that bundlers are eager to refactor. This is
+particularly problematic for the Vault worker in `libnemo` due to how it loads
+as a stringified data blog. To avoid this situation, async-await statements have
+been replaced by traditional promise chaining in Vault-related classes, and
+private members that were being hoisted outside the class scope (and thus being
+lost when loading the worker) are now initialized in a static method so that
+they keep their place in the class as designed.
+
+#### BLAKE2b outputs bytes only
+
+This change is intended purely to simplify the structure of the BLAKE2b hashing
+implementation. The `digest()` method no longer accepts any parameters and will
+always output bytes; hex string is no longer an output option, and the bytes
+should be converted if necessary.
+
+### Other Changes
+
+Fixed some erroneous JSdoc comment documentation.
+
+
+
 ## v0.3.1
 
 ### Notable Changes
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index c9d84eb..f4b6a87 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
 	"name": "libnemo",
-	"version": "0.3.1",
+	"version": "0.4.0",
 	"lockfileVersion": 3,
 	"requires": true,
 	"packages": {
 		"": {
 			"name": "libnemo",
-			"version": "0.3.1",
+			"version": "0.4.0",
 			"license": "(GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT AND ISC)",
 			"dependencies": {
 				"nano-pow": "^5.1.4"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 60e593f..bd54195 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "libnemo",
-	"version": "0.3.1",
+	"version": "0.4.0",
 	"description": "Asynchronous, non-blocking Nano cryptocurrency integration toolkit.",
 	"keywords": [
 		"nemo",
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