0.4.0 - 2024-12-09

• #1946: Deposit contract upgradeable via EIP 1967
• #1942: Don't execute transactions unless they will definitely fit in a block
• #1945: Batch transaction inserts when building a block
• #1934: Implement eth_getBlockReceipts API
• #1933: Add exemption for scilla_call precompile gas charges
• #1923: Add getFutureTotalStake() to deposit contract
• #1922: Increase SQLite in-memory cache size from 2MB to 256MB.
• #1909: Return error if CreateTransaction request is invalid
• #1898: Batch SQL inserts for transactions
• #1872: Add metric to report P2P message processing time
• #1848: Implement GetStateProof API
• #1858: Implement GetPrevDifficulty and GetPrevDSDifficulty APIs
• #1856: Deduct genesis deposits and accounts from zero address
• #1726: Improve Scilla gas charging
• #1847: Implement GetSoftConfirmedTransaction API
• #1825: Re-request likely missing blocks after restart
• #1845: Implement GetMinerInfo API
• #1846: Implement GetShardingStructure API
• #1826: Implement GetNodeType API
• #1813: Add cache for state trie keys
• #1795: Resend NewView messages after consensus_timeout seconds
• #1812: Return an API error if eth_call reverts
• #1773: Preserve ZQ1 block hashes for historical blocks
• #1792: Speed up handling of votes
• #1747: Add getter and setter functions to deposit contract
• #1751: Implement GetSmartContractSubState API
• #1724: Implement GetTransactionStatus API
• #1731: Implement eth_syncing API
• #1710: Persist node's current view in the database
• #1679: Apply consensus committee changes at epoch boundaries
• #1725: Fix aggregate QC ordering
• #1681: Fast forward self-proposals that we've already executed
• #1684: Implement admin_generateCheckpoint API
• #1680: Rework block downloading algorithm when syncing
• #1663: Implement GetTotalCoinSupply and GetTotalCoinSupplyAsInt APIs
• #1634: Implement GetNumTxnsTxEpoch and GetNumTxnsDSEpoch APIs
• #1439: Support importing and calling external libraries in Scilla calls
• #1629: Implement GetNumTransactions API
• #1475: Read from init_data or contract state in scilla_read precompile
• #1527: Store state trie in SQLite
• #1623: Improve feedback for transaction submissions
• #1559: Implement the EVM block and transaction properties.
• #1613: Fix argument type for DSBlockListing
• #1617: Implement GetTxnBodiesForTxBlock API
• #1612: Apply rewards after executing transactions with committee from previous block
• #1608: Mark blocks as canonical when we execute them
• #1573: Avoid immediately proposing a block upon receiving a transaction
• #1572: Add GetRecentTransactions API.
• #1532: Return 0x from eth_getCode for EOAs
• #1563: Reduce time taken to collect transactions when building a block
• #1567: Add GetNumDSBlocks API
• #1557: Implement GetTxnBodiesForTxBlockEx API
• #1534: Accept input or data for transaction request payloads
• #1530: Change checkpoint format to contain current block data as well as parent
• #1449: Store a block's canonicality directly in the blocks table
• #1501: Add zero account as source/sink of rewards/gas respectively
• #1464: Stop cloning the transaction pool
• #1492: Do not blindly unwrap processing of network messages
• #1472: Add GetTransactionsForTxBlockEx API
• #1446: Fix naming in message failure handler log
• #1476: Fix topic in EVM-encoded Scilla events
• #1474: Fix reading Scilla maps with ByStr20 keys
• #1469: Move state root hash check for blocks earlier
• #1463: Fix default state_rpc_limit
• #1452: Add command in z2 to run rpc calls over a network nodes

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.4.0