Sync halo2 lib 0.4.0

[zhenfeizhang]

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Issue Link

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Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

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