0.8.0 (2023-12-11)

Bug Fixes

• .github/workflows: update node.js version (#3637) (619be1b)
• babe: Add support for versioned NextConfigData decoding (#3239) (5ee3a64)
• blockstate: if blocktree fails to search a hash in memory, load it from disk (#3059) (6442544)
• cache slot to header data while checking BABE equivocation (#3364) (dcfa4a4)
• chain: Fix chain=westend option (#3123) (64dbba6)
• ci: cancel previous workflow runs (#3140) (a322a19)
• ci: fix all Deepsource issues (#3046) (4ea0a70)
• ci: fix broken docker build (#3231) (f796430)
• ci: Fix staging metrics collection (#3138) (05a5c4c)
• cli: parse module log-levels (#3285) (86c7577)
• cmd/gossamer: embed default toml config files (#3091) (af38364)
• cmd/gossamer: update error message (#3301) (960a9d4)
• dot/babe: use bs.latestFinalised instead of using round/set id (#3167) (46c0ef7)
• dot/digest: create BlockImportHandler and remove channel (#3312) (a179855)
• dot/network: findPeers returns on timeout if a peer is found (#3001) (2a05ce7)
• dot/network: remove maxReads limitation to read stream (#3287) (483b23f)
• dot/state: clean up scheduled changes once a forced change is applied (#3219) (5ebec46)
• dot/state: fix a bug in IsDescendantOf (#3125) (4fd4a89)
• dot/state: store raw authority keys and decode when verifying block signature (#3627) (58f741d)
• dot/sync: fix Timestamp slot must match 'CurrentSlot' while using westend spec file (#3040) (e6da01b)
• dot/sync: Revert verify justification before importing blocks (#3615) (11b96dc)
• dot/sync: rework on bootstrap/tip sync (#3227) (ab6650a)
• dot/sync: use Range instead of SubChain at handleDescedingRequest (#3006) (a83c1a3)
• dot/sync: verify justification before importing blocks (#3576) (2954fc0)
• dot/sync: wrong error message at checkOrGetDescendantHash (#2971) (b1c6bf1)
• dot: use tempDir in tests as base path to avoid creating dot/~ (#3363) (04514d5)
• go.mod: Replace centrifuge/go-substrate-rpc-client dependency to timwu20/go-substrate-rpc-client temporarily to fix build (#3572) (ea49251)
• lib/babe: Add context and additional assertion to TestBuildBlock_ok (#3101) (a9a89ed)
• lib/babe: rewrite TestBuildBlock_failing (#3089) (28a3d0b)
• lib/babe: use current system time to yield a new slot (#3133) (9cd6f25)
• lib/grandpa: on verifying block justification, compare given block hash with finalised hash (#3081) (fc91843)
• lib/grandpa: ensure finalisationEngine exits when stop channel is triggered (#3141) (d7f7c06)
• lib/runtime: ext_default_child_storage_next_key_version_1 return None correctly (#3473) (c7d574b)
• lib/runtime: Fix wasm error: out of bounds memory access at [#9412261](https://github.com/ChainSafe/gossamer/issues/9412261) (#3588) (ecb1ad9)
• lib/runtime: prevents polkadot zero-address bug using sr25519_verify version 1 (#3494) (8b93d5e)
• lib/runtime: return correct encoded value for None (#3451) (3e11bc2)
• lib/runtime: update MaxPossibleAllocation to 2^25 (#3393) (91eabdc)
• lib/runtime: use westend-dev spec file in TestNodeRuntime_ValidateTransaction (#3047) (043f5eb)
• lib/trie: ClearFromChild should update parent trie (#3482) (70e2d2b)
• lib/trie: create an empty child trie if not found (#3459) (5d68447)
• lib/trie: record deleted Merkle values fixed (#2873) (61f0216)
• peerset: check for incoming slot error (#2952) (a1602bc)
• rpc-tests: Fix node port to execute tests on macOS (#3223) (f758575)
• rpc/modules: use westend-local in TestAuthorModule_SubmitExtrinsic_invalid test (#3051) (b6429b7)
• runtime: initialize TransactionState when creating runtime instance (#3188) (29fe7a0)
• scale: Use *int for scale index (#3274) (9b04d30)
• staging: fixes the staging deployment issues caused by the new cli (#3266) (1f4e786)
• state: clarify node hashes vs merkle values (#2915) (e4033e8)
• test/rpc: use westend-local in TestStateRPCAPI (#3049) (c57ade6)
• tests/polkadot_js: Use westend-local to run polkadot js test suite (#3052) (2d5ead1)
• tests/rpc: ensure new blocks are created before assert (#3042) (a116d58)
• tests/rpc: flaky test TestChainSubscriptionRPC/chain_subscribeNewHeads (#3092) (5b56238)
• tests/rpc: place GreaterOrEqual arguments in the correct order at chain_subscribeNewHeads test (#3137) (33bdf28)
• tests: Export unimplemented runtime fuctions (#3461) (3e4546c)
• trie: do not create buffer for nil child (#2928) (d70af4f)
• wasmer: ext_storage_exists_version_1 for empty values (#2973) (059268e)

Features

• chain: Add Westend network as command line chain option (#3103) (d9cdd45)
• chain: remove unneeded spec files (#3086) (c76387d)
• cli: use a single flag for log level in the CLI (#3303) (caf3ea4)
• dot/network: introduce libp2p resource manager + prometheus metrics (#3333) (f166746)
• dot/rpc: export block trie state entries for a block hash (#3607) (43828fe)
• dot/rpc: implement RPC method state_queryStorageAt (#3191) (3bbdfe0)
• dot/state: create Range to traverse the blocktree and the blocks in the disk (#2990) (4442eee)
• dot/state: keep latest state trie in memory (#3386) (421d087)
• dot/sync: include block origin and skip extra validation on initialSync (#3392) (8e1650e)
• dot/sync: Remove the EndBlockHash from BlockRequestMessage (#2977) (b25e0b4)
• internal/database: replace chaindb/badgerdb with pebbledb (#3434) (344461d)
• introduces SaturatingAdd and SaturatingSub (#3519) (daa9e25)
• lib/allocator: Refactor FreeingBumpHeapAllocator (#3570) (39ca47f)
• lib/babe: Submit BABE equivocation report (#2947) (55de62e), closes #2853
• lib/blocktree: reduce the entries in the runtimes mapping (#3151) (1a34972)
• lib/grandpa: include t.Parallel() to all lib/grandpa tests (#2840) (5c93488)
• lib/runtime/wasmer: report grandpa equivocations (#3007) (e63aeea)
• lib/runtime: wazero implementation of runtime.Instance (#3279) (115d6f5)
• lib/runtime: add extra required runtime imports for parachain validation (#3254) (dc1a521)
• lib/runtime: Update default runtime.Instance to wazero (#3352) (308b10a)
• pkg/scale: VaryingDataType String method (#2970) (841636e)
• pkg/scale: Add Marshaler and Unmarshaler interfaces and functionality (#3617) (4888ce4)
• pkg/scale: Use New() receiver function for construction of custom VaryingDataType (#3315) (9688f6c)
• runtime/wasmer: create wrapper around wasmer.Memory (#3160) (fc1055d)
• runtime/wasmer: write wasmer using latest wasmer version (#3168) (32f1aa8)
• scale: add MustMarshal function (#2991) (32a80aa)
• sync: Validate bad blocks (#3220) (0d0354b)
• telemetry: Add scheduled and force changes telemetry metrics (#3226) (c53b1cd)
• trie: Add trie v1 new headers support (#3295) (c30f463)
• zombienet: Add javascript tests to zombienet testing (#3200) (aca9a5b)
• zombienet: add zombienet testing to github workflow (#3192) (d788bd6)

Reverts

• lib/runtime: rollback wasmer update PR[#3168](https://github.com/ChainSafe/gossamer/issues/3168) (#3264) (e7ff0cf)