This is a production release of go-codec.

The main benefits are streamlined go modules support, re-factoring and performance improvements:

• removed some code cruft
• moved codec/bench into its own module, so it's requirements do not pollute the core library dependencies
• implement reading the next value in the stream natively, provided by each format's handle
• remove mode of reading the next value in the stream by decoding into a throwaway value and tracking bytes read
• clean up code to enable better inlining for better performance
• fix and expand tests to get richer code coverage; go test -cover reports > 90%
• and many general performance improvements ...

The main goal has always been to provide the most feature-rich and performant package for encoding and decoding of multiple popular binary and text formats in a consistent way.

We believe we continue to achieve that!