Informational 15 Bitcoin Committed Aug 5, 2026 · 05:45 UTC

Merge rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin#6657: Release tracking PR: `base58ck 0.5.0`

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Authored by Andrew Poelstra

91/100 · Strong

Merge rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin#6657: Release tracking PR: `base58ck 0.5.0`

8479b56e9a33e203aac4ff6d59db435b7eedc5b4 base58ck: Bump version to 0.5.0 (Tobin C. Harding)

Pull request description:

In preparation for release add a changelog entry, bump the version, and update the lock files.

ACKs for top commit:
apoelstra:
ACK 8479b56e9a33e203aac4ff6d59db435b7eedc5b4; successfully ran local tests

Tree-SHA512: 2ae59a797a808979409caada39d0c58e32364601d59ad258cd8dfba1f128b567afd6d5e5ab95ab10b6baf76dba38614da96d78bea54c5824d148db535bcaac6c

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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine version bump for the base58ck crate from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0. It only updates version numbers in package manifests, lock files, and adds a changelog entry. There are no code changes and no security relevance.

Recommended action

No security action needed. Treat as normal release housekeeping.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Technical analysis

Evidence from the diff

The merge commit updates base58ck dependency references from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0 across Cargo.toml files and lock files, and adds a CHANGELOG.md entry describing API changes (Base58CkString and stable bitcoin_hashes dependency). No source code modifications are present in the diff.

Changed components

base58ck crate version metadatarust-bitcoin workspace dependency manifests

Inspect captured patch +22 / −16

### Cargo-minimal.lock
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "base58ck"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 dependencies = [
  "bitcoin-internals 0.6.0",
  "bitcoin_hashes 1.2.0",
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ name = "bitcoin"
 version = "0.33.0-beta"
 dependencies = [
  "arbitrary",
- "base58ck 0.4.0",
+ "base58ck 0.5.0",
  "base64",
  "bech32",
  "bincode",
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "bitcoin-addresses"
 version = "0.0.0"
 dependencies = [
- "base58ck 0.4.0",
+ "base58ck 0.5.0",
  "bech32",
  "bitcoin-crypto",
  "bitcoin-internals 0.6.0",
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ name = "bitcoin-crypto"
 version = "0.2.0"
 dependencies = [
  "arbitrary",
- "base58ck 0.4.0",
+ "base58ck 0.5.0",
  "bitcoin-internals 0.6.0",
  "bitcoin-network-kind",
  "bitcoin-primitives",
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ name = "bitcoin-key-expression"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "arbitrary",
- "base58ck 0.4.0",
+ "base58ck 0.5.0",
  "bincode",
  "bitcoin-crypto",
  "bitcoin-internals 0.6.0",

### Cargo-recent.lock
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "base58ck"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 dependencies = [
  "bitcoin-internals 0.6.0",
  "bitcoin_hashes 1.2.0",
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ name = "bitcoin"
 version = "0.33.0-beta"
 dependencies = [
  "arbitrary",
- "base58ck 0.4.0",
+ "base58ck 0.5.0",
  "base64",
  "bech32",
  "bincode",
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "bitcoin-addresses"
 version = "0.0.0"
 dependencies = [
- "base58ck 0.4.0",
+ "base58ck 0.5.0",
  "bech32",
  "bitcoin-crypto",
  "bitcoin-internals 0.6.0",
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ name = "bitcoin-crypto"
 version = "0.2.0"
 dependencies = [
  "arbitrary",
- "base58ck 0.4.0",
+ "base58ck 0.5.0",
  "bitcoin-internals 0.6.0",
  "bitcoin-network-kind",
  "bitcoin-primitives",
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ name = "bitcoin-key-expression"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "arbitrary",
- "base58ck 0.4.0",
+ "base58ck 0.5.0",
  "bincode",
  "bitcoin-crypto",
  "bitcoin-internals 0.6.0",

### addresses/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ std = ["alloc", "base58/std", "bech32/std", "crypto/std", "hashes/std", "interna
 alloc = ["base58/alloc", "bech32/alloc", "crypto/alloc", "hashes/alloc", "internals/alloc", "network/alloc", "primitives/alloc", "serde/alloc", "taproot_primitives/alloc"]
 
 [dependencies]
-base58 = { package = "base58ck", path = "../base58", version = "0.4.0", default-features = false, features = [] }
+base58 = { package = "base58ck", path = "../base58", version = "0.5.0", default-features = false, features = [] }
 bech32 = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, features = [] }
 crypto = { package = "bitcoin-crypto", path = "../crypto", version = "0.2.0", default-features = false, features = ["hex"] }
 hashes = { package = "bitcoin_hashes", path = "../hashes", version = "1.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["hex"] }

### base58/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.5.0] - 2026-08-03
+
+- Replace encoding functions with optional-alloc `Base58CkString` [6505](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/6505)
+- Upgrade to stable `bitcoin_hashes` dependency
+
 ## [0.4.0] - 2025-01-08
 
 - Update to latest `hashes 0.20.0`
@@ -40,7 +45,8 @@
 Initial release of the `base58ck` crate. This crate was cut out of
 `rust-bitcoin` and cleaned up for release as a separate crate.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/compare/base58ck-0.4.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/compare/base58ck-0.5.0...HEAD
+[0.5.0]: https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/compare/base58ck-0.4.0...base58ck-0.5.0
 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/compare/base58ck-0.3.0...base58ck-0.4.0
 [0.3.0]: https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/compare/base58ck-0.2.0...base58ck-0.3.0
 [0.2.0]: https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/compare/base58ck-0.1.100...base58ck-0.2.0

### base58/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "base58ck"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 authors = ["Andrew Poelstra <apoelstra@wpsoftware.net>"]
 license = "CC0-1.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/"

### bitcoin/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ arbitrary = ["crypto/arbitrary", "dep:arbitrary", "units/arbitrary", "primitives
 
 [dependencies]
 addresses = { package = "bitcoin-addresses", path = "../addresses", version = "0.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
-base58 = { package = "base58ck", path = "../base58", version = "0.4.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
+base58 = { package = "base58ck", path = "../base58", version = "0.5.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
 bech32 = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
 crypto = { package = "bitcoin-crypto", path = "../crypto", version = "0.2.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc", "hex"] }
 hashes = { package = "bitcoin_hashes", path = "../hashes", version = "1.1.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc", "hex"] }

### crypto/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ arbitrary = ["dep:arbitrary", "secp256k1/arbitrary"]
 hex = ["dep:hex", "hashes/hex", "primitives/hex"]
 
 [dependencies]
-base58 = { package = "base58ck", path = "../base58", version = "0.4.0", default-features = false }
+base58 = { package = "base58ck", path = "../base58", version = "0.5.0", default-features = false }
 hashes = { package = "bitcoin_hashes", path = "../hashes", version = "1.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["hex"] }
 internals = { package = "bitcoin-internals", path = "../internals", version = "0.6.0" }
 network = { package = "bitcoin-network-kind", path = "../network", version = "1.0.0", default-features = false }

### key_expression/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ serde = ["dep:serde", "hashes/serde", "internals/serde", "secp256k1/serde"]
 arbitrary = ["crypto/arbitrary", "dep:arbitrary", "hashes/arbitrary", "secp256k1/arbitrary", "network/arbitrary"]
 
 [dependencies]
-base58 = { package = "base58ck", path = "../base58", version = "0.4.0", default-features = false }
+base58 = { package = "base58ck", path = "../base58", version = "0.5.0", default-features = false }
 crypto = { package = "bitcoin-crypto", path = "../crypto", version = "0.2.0", default-features = false }
 hashes = { package = "bitcoin_hashes", path = "../hashes", version = "1.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["hex"] }
 hex = { package = "hex-conservative", version = "1.1.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

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Potential impact 0/30

Exploitability 0/25

Stealth signal 0/15

Affected reach 0/15

Confidence 10/10

Evidence quality 5/5

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