Some remaining items for fxamacker/cbor v2.9.0 this weekend (July 12-13 Central Time):

• code freeze except for relevant bug fixes, docs, & ci
• review and merge pending fix to a very useful new feature (TextUnmarshaler) added for v2.9.0:
  • merged PR Use TextUnmarshaler on byte strings with ByteStringToStringAllowed. #682
• finish fuzzing
  • fuzz tests started running on July 4 holiday weekend (~2 billion execs as of July 12)
  • update fuzz tests to include the combination of 2 opt-in settings enabled at the same time: DecOptions.TextUnmarshaler and DecOptions.ByteStringToStringAllowed
  • run updated fuzzer on everything (out of abundance of caution) but other parts of the codec already fuzzed ~2 billion execs are not affected by PR 682.
    • in progress since late Saturday night, July 12
• update README
  • summarize new release
  • remove some users/companies from top section of README to avoid confusion (some repos using cbor are now private, deleted, transferred to another org, etc.)
  • add Red Hat 🎉 as a user to top section of README given some of these files use fxamacker/cbor.

v2.9.0 will be a small release that will be useful for projects that need interoperability/transcoding between CBOR and JSON.

There wasn't time to fit in other features, optimizations, etc. (already in progress) that I wanted to include in v2.9.0, so those are postponed until v2.10.