2024-09-04 - 2024-09-18

High level summary

In line with our ongoing refactoring work, we began propagating the experimental api in cardano-cli. This will continue for several sprints as we remove eras prior to mainnet in order to reduce the unnecessary complexity of cardano-api's and cardano-cli's codebases. Other work:

• New functionality has been added to cardano-cli and cardano-ping
• Collateral balancing bug has been fixed in cardano-cli
• optparse-applicative-fork dependency has been removed
• Various refactors and improvements to cardano-testnet

cardano-cli

• Add support for fetching tip through cardano-ping
• add support for script based drep on update certificate
• cardano-ping: report user friendly error on misconfiguration
• Move parsing helpers from API
• Options: avoid code duplication
• Propagate experimental api
• Release cardano-cli-9.4.0.0
• Release cardano-cli-9.4.1.0
• Remove deprecation message when invoking a command in deprecated era

cardano-api

• Add fromLedgerUTxO export
• Add new types to CDDL list and test forward compatibility of deserialiseTxLedgerCddl
• Bump CHaP
• Experimental API: remove redundant type families and functions
• Fix collateral balancing when building transaction
• Release cardano-api-9.3.0.0 cardano-api-gen-9.0.0.0
• Remove optparse-applicative-fork dependency, and functions depending on it

cardano-node

• Add more context to invalid snapshot events
• Names of metrics in the new tracing system
• Update dependencies

cardano-testnet

• Add test for query spo-stake-distribution
• cardano-testnet | Add plutus V3 cost model, set minFeeRefScriptCostPerByte=15 in Conway genesis
• cardano-testnet-test: small improvements
• cardano-testnet: make call to query stake-address-info a golden test
• cardano-testnet: separate in types the options encoded in genesis files, from other options
• cardano-testnet: test value delegated to dreps in test of drep-stake-distribution

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