Release v3.1.0

[ascjones]

Notable changes:

• Verifiable builds inside a docker container - #1148
• Extrinsics extracted to separate crate - #1181
• Fix building contracts with Rust >= 1.70: enable sign_ext Wasm opcode - #1189

Added

• Standardised verifiable builds - #1148
• Enable Wasm sign_ext #1189
• Expose extrinsics operations as a library - #1181
• Suggest valid message or constructor name, when misspelled - #1162
• Add flag -y as a shortcut for --skip-confirm - #1127
• Add command line argument --max-memory-pages - #1128
• Show Gas consumption by default for dry-runs - #1121

Changed

• Dry-run result output improvements - 1123
• Display build progress with --output-json, print to stderr - 1211
• Update subxt to 0.30.1 with new subxt-signer crate - #1236
• Upgrade wasm-opt to 0.113 - #1188
• Update substrate dependencies - #1149
• Make output format of cargo contract info consistent with other subcommands - #1120

Fixed

• Configure tty output correctly - #1209
• Set lto = "thin" for metadata build to fix linkme on macOS - #1200
• fix(build): An error when running with --lint - #1174
• Dry-run result output improvements - #1123
• feat: use CARGO_ENCODED_RUSTFLAGS instead of RUSTFLAGS - #1124

[cmichi]

Quite a lot of stuff! 🎉

[SkymanOne]

Let's go!

[ascjones]

https://crates.io/crates/cargo-contract/3.1.0

[SkymanOne]

https://hub.docker.com/layers/paritytech/contracts-verifiable/3.1.0/images/sha256-0306abdb0fd8cb066d60d6e84e8ec40d53ad5ec97dd4fa8cf1eeec8726ff91ec?context=explore