3.0.0-next.7

This Hardhat 3 Alpha release is a small bug fix and improvement release. Note there is a breaking change to the signature of hre.network.connect().

Changes

• 51a6d55: Update network.connect to take a params object (#6672)
• 4ce9fe9: Fix to allow undefined params in JSON RPC handler (#6532)
• 726fe76: Port transaction hash bug fix to v3 (#6429)
• 6103a9e: Fix to allow user's to configure their own solc output selection in Hardhat config (#6551)
• 0119377: Default to production builds for ignition deploy (#6313)
• ce8493c: Improve the error message produced by hardhat node test reporter for failing regex match assertions (#6658)
• c934f8f: Support options using the equals sign (e.g. --option=123) at the Hardhat command line (#6671)
• bb48c11: Fix for init task where Hardhat project folder will be created if it does not exist (#6545)
• bd1bf8f: Allow undefined for default values in global options and other argument types (#6596
• 9506fb4: Rename chains config in network config to chainDescriptors and add extra information including name and blocker explorer (#6612)

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