0.8 - Drachma

Changelog

Features and improvements

• Refactor the MiMC round constant generation scripts and support constants for
  up to 93 rounds

  • PRs: #376

• Add zeth-tool for advanced operations (manipulating objects, serializing,
  verifying proofs etc)

  • PRs: #377, #378, #385

• Improved genericity of the client to allow for different JSIN/JSOUT values

  • PRs: #378

• Add prover profiling operations

  • PRs: #382

• Clean up client dependencies and bump major for web3.py

  • PRs: #384, #389, #403

• Rely exclusively on estimateGas in the client

  • Issues: #295, #281
  • PRs: #390

Optimizations

• Migrate serialization functions to libff and pull libff optimizations
  • PRs: #382

Tooling

• Add scripts for generating large circuits and build on EC2 instances

  • PRs: #385

• Upgrade to actions/checkout to the v2 in all CI scripts

  • PRs: #397

• Extend Doxygen configuration and add CI for docs generation

  • PRs: #393, #402

Code quality

• Rename bits<numBits>::fill_variable_array to bits<numBits>::fill_pb_variable_array for consistency

  • PRs: #396

• Rename inconsistent commands (CLIs, executable scripts etc) to stick to kebab-case

  • PRs: #392

Fixes

• Fix interface of sha256 gadget to remove the need for the ZERO pb_variable

  • Issues: #387
  • PRs: #391

• Fix access specifiers in gadget inheritance tree

  • PRs: #395