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    - Reworked some factoring code.

    - Remove ISAAC (Perl and C) since we use ChaCha.

    - Each thread allocs a new const array again instead of sharing.


0.68 2017-10-19

    [API Changes]

    - forcomb with one argument iterates over the power set, so k=0..n
      instead of k=n.  The previous behavior was undocumented.  The new
      behavior matches Pari/GP (forsubset) and Perl6 (combinations).

    [ADDED]

    - factorialmod(n,m)               n! mod m calculated efficiently
    - is_fundamental(d)               true if d a fundamental discriminant

    [FUNCTIONALITY AND PERFORMANCE]

    - Unknown bigint classes no longer return two values after objectify.
      Thanks to Daniel Șuteu for finding this.

    - Using lastfor inside a formultiperm works correctly now.

    - randperm a little faster for k < n cases, and can handle big n
      values without running out of memory as long as k << n.
      E.g. 5000 random native ints without dups:  @r = randperm(~0,5000);

    - forpart with primes pulls min/max values in for a small speedup.

    - forderange 10-20% faster.

    - hammingweight for bigints 3-8x faster.

    - Add Math::GMPq and Math::AnyNum as possible bigint classes.  Inputs
      of these types will be relied on to stringify correctly, and if this
      results in an integer string, to intify correctly.  This should give
      a large speedup for these types.

    - Factoring native integers is 1.2x - 2x faster.  This is due to a
      number of changes.

    - Add Lehman factoring core.  Since this is not exported or used by
      default, the API for factor_lehman may change.

    - All new Montgomery math.  Uses mulredc asm from Ben Buhrow.
      Faster and smaller.  Most primality and factoring code 10% faster.

    - Speedup for factoring by running more Pollard-Rho-Brent, revising
      SQUFOF, updating HOLF, updating recipe.


0.67 2017-09-23

    [ADDED]

    - lastfor                         stops forprimes (etc.) iterations
    - is_square(n)                    returns 1 if n is a perfect square
    - is_polygonal(n,k)               returns 1 if n is a k-gonal number

    [FUNCTIONALITY AND PERFORMANCE]

    - shuffle prototype is @ instead of ;@, so matches List::Util.

    - On Perl 5.8 and earlier we will call PP instead of trying
      direct-to-GMP.  Works around a bug in XS trying to turn the
      result into an object where 5.8.7 and earlier gets lost.

    - We create more const integers, which speeds up common uses of
      permutations.

    - CSPRNG now stores context per-thread rather than using a single
      mutex-protected context.  This speeds up anything using random
      numbers a fair amount, especially with threaded Perls.

    - With the above two optimizations, randperm(144) is 2.5x faster.

    - threading test has threaded srand/irand test added back in, showing
      context is per-thread.  Each thread gets its own sequence and calls
      to srand/csrand and using randomness doesn't impact other threads.


0.66 2017-09-12

    [ADDED]

    - random_semiprime                random n-bit semiprime (even split)
    - random_unrestricted_semiprime   random n-bit semiprime
    - forderange { ... } n            derangements iterator
    - numtoperm(n,k)                  returns kth permutation of n elems
    - permtonum([...])                returns rank of permutation array ref
    - randperm(n[,k])                 random permutation of n elements
    - shuffle(...)                    random permutation of an array

    [FUNCTIONALITY AND PERFORMANCE]

    - Rewrite sieve marking based on Kim Walisch's new simple mod-30 sieve.
      Similar in many ways to my old code, but this is simpler and faster.

    - is_pseudoprime, is_euler_pseudoprime, is_strong_pseudoprime changed to
      better handle the unusual case of base >= n.

    - Speedup for is_carmichael.

    - is_frobenius_underwood_pseudoprime checks for jacobi == 0.  Faster.

    - Updated Montgomery inverse from Robert Gerbicz.

    - Tighter nth prime bounds for large inputs from Axler 2017-06.
      Redo Ramanujan bounds since they're based on nth prime bounds.

    - chinese objectifies result (i.e. big results are bigints).

    - Internal support for Baillie-Wagstaff (pg 1402) extra Lucas tests.

    - More standardized Lucas parameter selection.  Like other tests and the
      1980 paper, checks jacobi(D) in the loop, not gcd(D).