This release's main highlight is the addition of a new format for private transactions basing on a pre-compiled smart contract. This new approach allows extending obfuscated fields of a private transaction

This feature addition is not a breaking change and won’t impact normal (standard & enhanced) private transaction processing

Enhancements

• 🎉 [Privacy Precompile]: enables private transactions with extended obfuscated fields #1234
• Amend IntrinsicGas calculation for Privacy Marker Transaction to use actual payload hash, instead of hardcoded value #1236

Fixes

• fix: null pointer when error occurs #1239

Other

• Extend acceptance tests executed, and also on the master branch #1230