What's Changed

• fix: accept Unicode minus in NewFromString by @Archiit19 in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/428
• chore: turn off the strings.ReplaceAll lint check, it needs Go 1.12 by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/458
• feat: BSON Decimal128 support for the MongoDB Go driver v2 by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/460
• feat: implement fmt.Formatter by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/463
• feat: add Normalize method by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/464
• feat: add Sqrt and SqrtRound by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/465
• docs: warn that global settings aren't goroutine-safe, list them in the README by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/466
• perf: use Sign() instead of Cmp(zeroInt) in IsInteger and Ceil by @cdpzyafk in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/299
• test: fix benchmarks that measured setup or the wrong function by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/467
• docs: fix doc examples that were wrong or didn't compile by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/468
• feat: Scan accepts Decimal, big.Int and all integer sizes by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/469
• fix: ExpHullAbrham drops significant figures for results below 1 by @binggao1230 in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/429
• fix: ExpHullAbrham returns the requested number of significant figures for large inputs by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/470
• perf: NewFromFloat uses strconv, drop the vendored strconv copy by @omegaatt36 in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/431
• feat: add NewFromBigFloat constructor by @AdamMagued in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/457
• fix: Ln rounds correctly, computed with error bounds like Pow by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/471
• feat: add Root and RootRound by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/473
• README: Fix URLs of the official Go org pages by @sryoya in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/264
• fix: clearer error when scanning NULL into a Decimal by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/474
• docs: show how to control the JSON format of one field by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/475
• docs: add udecimal to the alternative libraries by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/476
• fix: reject overflowing division precision by @yuefdev in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/472
• docs: changelog for v1.6.0 by @mwoss in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/477

New Contributors

• @Archiit19 made their first contribution in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/428
• @cdpzyafk made their first contribution in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/299
• @binggao1230 made their first contribution in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/429
• @omegaatt36 made their first contribution in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/431
• @AdamMagued made their first contribution in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/457
• @sryoya made their first contribution in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/264
• @yuefdev made their first contribution in https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/pull/472

Full Changelog: https://github.com/shopspring/decimal/compare/v1.5.0...v1.6.0