cereal

A binary serialization library

Version on this page:	0.5.4.0
LTS Haskell 23.24:	0.5.8.3
Stackage Nightly 2025-05-28:	0.5.8.3
Latest on Hackage:	0.5.8.3

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Lennart Kolmodin, Galois Inc., Lemmih, Bas van Dijk

Maintained by Trevor Elliott

This version can be pinned in stack with:cereal-0.5.4.0@sha256:8695c775923e3a185c20e574e4b8202752f7274d94df9b291340d976ea09a742,2767

Module documentation for 0.5.4.0

Data
- Data.Serialize

Depends on 5 packages(full list with versions):

array, base, bytestring, containers, ghc-prim

Used by 50 packages in lts-8.14(full list with versions):

A binary serialization library, similar to binary, that introduces an isolate primitive for parser isolation, and labeled blocks for better error messages.

Changes

0.5.2.0

Implement the AMP recommended refactoring for the Functor/Applicative/Monad hierarchy for Get and PutM (thanks to Herbert Valerio Riedel!)
Unconditionally support GHC generics (thanks to Eric Mertens!)
Split the GSerialize class in two, to deal with a GHC bug (thanks Austin Seipp!)
No longer use Enum in the Serialize instance for Bool (thanks Francesco Mazzoli!)

0.5.1.0

Re-enable GHC.Generics support which was accidentally removed in 0.5.0.0

0.5.0.0

Switch to using the builder provided by the ByteString package
Change the encoding of Float and Double with the Serialize class to use the Data.Serialize.IEEE754 module
Add support for encoding and decoding ShortByteString
New and improved test suite thanks to Kei Hibino
Fix two bugs involving the lookAhead combinator and partial chunks.