Gaia v8.0.0-rc Release Notes

This release candidate is in preparation for the Rho upgrade. Please see the forum post for more details. This release candidate is to be used as part of a simulated upgrade testnet. For more information see https://github.com/cosmos/testnets.

This release contains the following changes:

• (gaia) bump cosmos-sdk to v0.46.4. See CHANGELOG.md for details. Notably, Gov module has major changes while remaining backwards compatible.
• (gaia) #1573, #1576 update cosmos ledger version to v.0.9.3.
• (gaia) bump Liquidity module to v2.0.1.
• (gaia) bump ibc-go module to v5.0.1. See CHANGELOG.md for details.
• (gaia) bump packet-forwarding-middleware to depend on ibc-go v5.
• (feat) add Groups module.
• (feat) add icamauch (Interchain Account Message Authorization) module.
• (feat) add globalfee module.
• (feat) replace MempoolFeeDecorator with FeeDecorator in order to bypass min fee of messages whitelisted by node operators in app.toml.
• (tests) add E2E tests The tests cover transactions/queries tests of different modules, including Bank,
  Distribution, Encode, Evidence, FeeGrant, Global Fee, Legacy Gov, New Gov, Groups,
  IBC, ICA, packet forwarding middleware, Slashing, Staking, and Vesting module.
• (tests) use gaiad to swap out Ignite in liveness tests.
• (gaia) #1845 Add bech32-convert command to gaiad

App: gaiad
Version: v8.0.0-rc
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