Namada 0.44.0

Namada 0.44.0 is a minor release containing various fixes for shielded tokens, shielded sync, IBC and its interaction with shielded tokens and various other improvements.

BUG FIXES

• Support only a transparent address as a refund target of IBC shielding
  transfer (#3620)
• Make transfers with same source and destion a no-op.
  (#3675)
• Fix path to compiled WASMs that's validated during join-network.
  (#3694)
• Now we propagate the error coming from
  is_proposal_accepted instead of falling back on a default.
  (#3700)
• Handle errors when loading wallet file and only create a new one if not found.
  (#2151)
• Fixed the SDK to generate MASP transactions with the correct expiration (if
  provided). (#3724)
• Enable the signing logic to fall back to the hardware wallet
  if a secret key is not found in software wallet store.
  (#3730)
• The multitoken vp now checks that the involved parties
  validate the transaction. Improved tests and transfer code.
  (#3804)
• The masp ref events are now published in a single collection
  enforcing a correct ordering. Fixed the shielded sync command
  to account for multiple masp transactions in a single tx.
  (#3821)

IMPROVEMENTS

• Add optional height parameter to get_token_balance
  (#3530)

• Improved the consistency and safety of MASP events construction in protocol.
  (#3669)

• Reorganized some types and modules and refactored crates re-
  exports, error handling features and removed unused depdendencies.
  (#3670)

• Removed the dev dependencies of wasm-for-tests.
  (#3676)

• Improved the user experience of the secret key decryption process.
  (#3681)

• Addresses the remaining points of Issue #3307

  • Implements the OfferSnapshot ABCI call
  • Implements the ApplySnapshotChunk ABCI call
  • Adds integration tests

  (#3687)

• Improved some governance messages and cli commands arguments.
  (#3689)

• Updated toolchain to Rust 1.81.0.
  (#3690)

• Include some CLI commands for querying the total supply of any token
  and the effective total circulating supply of the native token.
  (#3691)

• Only re-exporting tendermint-rs v0.37 modules.
  (#3697)

• Made the disposable-gas-payer cli arg specific to some transactions.
  (#3699)

• Optimize the format of snapshots taken for state syncing purposes.
  Snapshots are taken over the entire RocksDB database, packaged into
  a zstd compressed tar archive, and split into 10 MB chunks.
  (#3701)

• Implement serde::Serialize for GovernanceParameters, PosParams, OwnedPosParams
  (#3702)

• Change the quorum for voting on a default governance proposal from 2/3 to 40%.
  (#3703)

• Improve the format of dumped txs. Added command to
  generate signature without requiring a network connection.
  (#3715)

• Moved governance shell sub-module into governance crate using dependency-
  injection. (#3718)

• If an additional reveal_pk transaction is required, the client now groups
  it with the actual transaction into a single batch instead of submitting it
  separately. (#3720)

• Improve the proposal result query to be more descriptive and detail
  the validator voting period. Fix some other small logging bugs.
  (#3728)

• Switched to use typed ChainId instead of a string in all fn get_chain_id.
  (#3733)

• Add an RPC endpoint for the consensus validator set in the SDK.
  (#3734)

• Update tendermint-rs, ibc-rs and tower-abci
  (#3735)

• Refactored token transfer functions and fixed checks for no-op conditions.
  (#3736)

• Support dynamically joining ledger managed tasks. With this change, adding
  or removing managed tasks from the ledger should be a far easier process to
  contend with. (#3741)

• Factored most of the masp code out of the sdk and into shielded token crate. These
  required the creation of two futher crates: "namada_io" and "namada_wallet". (#3744)

• Increased the gas cost for storage consumption and improved gas tracking for
  masp fee payments. (#3746)

• Upgrade CometBFT to v0.37.11.
  (#3751)

• Remove namada-relayer from the build.
  (#3752)

• Improve error and help messages to clarify that a .tx
  file is expected as input to --tx-path for a custom tx.
  (#3757)

• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes to the dry run command.
  (#3758)

• Check the string length of the validator name in provided metadata.
  (#3779)

• Improve the CLI query-protocol-parameters.
  (#3788)

• Improved the invariants and the usage of the Gas type.
  (#3792)

• Propagate "std" feature from SDK to wallet crate.
  (#3795)

• Improve the logging options for querying MASP conversions.
  (#3805)

• When calling init chain, we now verify that the native token alias has masp
  parameters set. (#3806)

• Refactored most native VPs to be agnostic to VP environment (WASM or native).
  (#3807)

• Adds an SDK and CLI tool to estimate the latest annual staking rewards rate.
  (#3816)

• Reduced the number of a tx event's masp attributes to a single one.
  (#3826)

• Remove relayer help messages from namada binary.
  (#3830)

• Let user customize the pre-genesis chain-id via environment variable
  (#3833)

• Validate a chain ID of genesis on ABCI InitChain request
  prior to applying it to ensure it's not been tampered with.
  (#3843)

TESTING

• Clean IBC E2E tests and refine IBC client upgrade test with Gaia
  (#3601)
• Updated the gaia e2e tests to use the MASP internal address instead of
  the payment address as the receiver of an IBC shielding transaction.
  (#3626)
• Augment the functionality of gen_localnet.py with the ability
  to generate full node base directories. Moreover, add a new script
  to boot up a localnet with two genesis validators or a full node.
  (#3680)