Hardhat Files

This release includes new features and multiple optimizations that give a general performance improvement.

The new features include:

• Execution tracing support has been added for JS/TS integration tests, previously this was only available for Solidity tests. Tracing support is available through the --verbosity option and its -v shorthands. For more details see the execution traces docs.
• Inline configuration per test is now available in Solidity tests (see our inline config docs)

Changes

• #7983 8e194d0 Thanks @ChristopherDedominici! - Added --verbosity (and -v, -vv, and the other shorthands) to all tasks, including TypeScript tests (7983), (7963).

• #8073 dfe4ffe Thanks @schaable! - Add support for per-test inline configuration in solidity tests.

• #8008 6fb3c27 Thanks @marianfe! - Introduce multi-compiler abstraction that allows plugins to define new Solidity compiler types (#8008).

• #8008 57d1075 Thanks @marianfe! - Introduce the ConfigHooks#validateResolvedConfig hook and the HardhatConfigValidationError type to be able to run global validations on the resolved config (#8008).

• #8009 83b412e Thanks @marianfe! - Add SolidityHooks#downloadCompilers and SolidityHooks#getCompiler hooks for extensible custom compiler support (#8009)

• #8077 4581395 Thanks @alcuadrado! - Fix a bug where network.connect() re-resolved the config when not needed.

• #8077 4581395 Thanks @alcuadrado! - Optimize the initialization of EDR Network Connections by caching their genesis state.

• #8088 23c0d36 Thanks @alcuadrado! - Optimize imports.

• #8074 8984862 Thanks @alcuadrado! - Optimize the initialization of EDR Network Connections by only processing the build outputs once.

• #8079 759983b Thanks @alcuadrado! - Optimize the network connections to prevent memory leaks.

• #8091 c89cb91 Thanks @kanej! - Improved performance of the network stack by removing a clone of the http request (#8046)

• #8082 72a033d Thanks @popescuoctavian! - Bumped EDR version to 0.12.0-next.29

• Updated dependencies:

• @nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@4.0.2
• @nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@3.0.10

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