2023-06-21 - 2023-07-04

High level summary

• Started integration of conway era into the cardano-api,
• Pre-release of cardano-cli 8.2.1 which enables creating goveranance "Update constitution" governance actionsas well as voting. Both only as SPO. DREP and CC will come in future releases.
• Cardano-cli is moving to a top-level era command structure (i.e. cardano-cli conway, cardano-cli babbage, etc to accomodate for different fucntionalities available in diferent eras. In particular between Babbage and Conway governance-related functionalities.
• Continue refactoring cardano-testnet
• CI and docs house keeping on the new cardnao-cli and cardano-api repositories

cardano-cli

• Update to cardano-api-8.7.0.0
• Release 8.2.1
• Use new function-based API instead of using query data types directly

cardano-api

• Release cardano-api 8.7
• New version cardano-api-8.6.0.0
• New version cardano-api-8.2.0.0.1.0.0
• Backport: Add era phantom type parameter to Certificate
• Parameterise Certificate type with phantom era type argument
• Voting procedure and proposal procedure updates
• Parameterise Certificate with era
• Parameterise Certificate type with phantom era type argument
• Add contributing guide
• Unified ShelleyBasedEra constraint summoning
• Update CHaP index
• CIP-1694 API - Part 1

cardano-node

• cardano-node top level error handler
• Turn on some traces by default

cardano-testnet

• Report payment address and UTxOs in testnets
• New Conway stake-snapshot tests

docs

• Add contributing guide
• Release workflow description
• Turn on some traces by default

CI & project maintenance

• Add PR changelog check
• Fix stylish haskell in github action workflow
• Enable CI on PRs from forks
• Remove merge_group trigger from changelog check CI
• Add PR changelog check. Add core-tech group to GHA description codeowners.
• Fix stylish haskell in github action workflow
• Enable CI in PRs from forks
• Add contributing guide