2023-04-05 - 2023-04-19

High level summary

• Introduce new governance commands create, answer and verify. This allows us to have onchain polls.
• Begin making changes in cardano-api to accomodate for CIP-1694
• Rename TestEnableDevelopmentHardForkEras to ExperimentalHardForksEnabled and TestEnableDevelopmentNetworkProtocols to ExperimentalProtocolsEnabled
• Various bug fixes and improvements

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CI & project maintenance

Developer experience

cardano-cli

• Add new interim governance commands: {create, answer, verify}-poll
• Remove --stake-address option from stake-address build
• Frozen callstack for checkTextEnvelopeFormat function
• #5052 Remove reading protocol parameters from Shelley genesis file
• Move parsers to reusable location
• New --socket-path cli option

cardano-api

• CIP-1694 make space for DRep certificates
• File type to track the content and direction of files
• Fix import warning
• Expose UsingRawBytes et al types
• Expose SerialiseAsRawBytesError in Cardano.Api
• Introduce new AnyShelleyBasedEra type and simplify CDDL tests.
• New genCardanoKeyWitness function
• Replace roundtripCBOR with trippingCbor
• Remove non-round-trippable value TxInsReferenceNone for babbage onwards in generator
• Improve roundtrip functions to report annotations on callsite
• Define Functor instance for FileError
• Split serialisation from IO

cardano-node

• Master build failure fixes
• Allow renamed fields to exist if values the same
• workbench: updates
• Delete duplicate packages sort packages and imports
• Rename TestEnableDevelopmentHardForkEras and TestEnableDevelopmentNetworkProtocols

cardano-testnet

• Additional check for not-leader slots in LeadershipSchedule tests
• Fix epochLength and securityParam to conform to the formula 10 * k / f
• Ergonomic directory creation code in tests
• Default Cardano.Testnet to NodeLoggingFormatAsJson
• Integrate latest ledger dependencies