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Change hex re-export in bitcoin to stable hex

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Mitchell Bagot

68/100 · Adequate
Change hex re-export in bitcoin to stable hex

As per the repo policy, all exports from bitcoin must be a superset of
those from primitives. This includes crate re-exports. In bitcoin, the
hex re-export exports the unstable v0.3.0 crate, whilst primitives
exports the stable 1.0 crate. Since bitcoin makes extensive use of
unstable hex features, the export should be updated, but both included
as dependencies, like with primitives.

Introduce both hex unstable and hex stable as dependencies for bitcoin
and change re-export to stable hex to match primitives.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine internal dependency cleanup. The project had been re-exporting an unstable version of a hex-encoding helper crate, but its policy says the main crate must only re-export stable versions. The change swaps the public re-export to the stable version while keeping the unstable version as a private internal dependency for code that still needs it. There is no security bug being fixed here.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal maintenance. Downstream users relying on `bitcoin::hex` being exactly `hex-conservative` 0.3.0 should note the re-export now points to 1.0.0.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 18/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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