News and compat annotation for #28761 (uuid5).

JuliaLang · Dec 4, 2018 · 1262da5 · 1262da5
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@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ New library functions
   * `isnothing(::Any)` function, to check whether something is a `Nothing`, returns a `Bool` ([#29679]).
   * `getpid(::Process)` method ([#24064]).
   * `fieldtypes(T::Type)` which return the declared types of the field in type T ([#29600]).
+  * `uuid5` has been added to the `UUIDs` standard library ([#28761]).
 
 Standard library changes
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diff --git a/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl b/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ end
 Generates a version 5 (namespace and domain-based) universally unique identifier (UUID),
 as specified by RFC 4122.
 
+!!! compat "Julia 1.1"
+    This function requires at least Julia 1.1.
+
 # Examples
 ```jldoctest
 julia> rng = MersenneTwister(1234);