Release Notes

Features

• Refactor the FeeResult object to be encapsulated semantic #22964 by @joshmarinacci
• add HOOK_SLOT_UPDATE extra #22969 by @joshmarinacci
• 23009 Use PBJ format for SigSet on reconnect #23021 by @imalygin
• Simple fees for contract service queries #22872 by @ibankov
• 22922 Store SigSet in PBJ format #22971 by @imalygin
• Add production configs for high volume throttles #22891 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• Use hashing prefixes in all block merkle tree operations #22783 by @mhess-swl
• Simple fees for Smart Contracts Service #22319 by @ibankov
• Initialize Block producing benchmarks
• New Metrics Framework supporting labels #22719 by @akugal
• Address book service Simple Fees #22644 by @ibankov
• Add simple fee calculators for Util, Network Admin, and File services #22788 by @aderevets
• Serialize and de-serialize high_volume field correctly #22881 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• Add protobufs for high volume entity creation hip #22851 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• 22756 Additional State API methods required for BlockNode #22782 by @imalygin
• 22653 hts system contract transfer functions update with transfer event emission logic #22750 by @gkozyryatskyy
• Implement a support for the new BN response BehindPublisher #22540 by @petreze
• Delete old FeeModel and registry, along with related unit tests #22692 by @joshmarinacci
• more Token Transaction Simple Fees #22584 by @joshmarinacci

Bug Fixes

• (0.71) Ensure HTS transfer gas cost reflects HBAR auto-creations #23181 by @tinker-michaelj
• Consensus optimization #23132 by @poulok
• Increase gradle JVM memory settings #22963 by @poulok
• Resolve compilation warnings related to Javadoc formatting and comment placement #21900 by @rbair23
• fix the double run of gradle determinism #22984 by @andrewb1269
• Fix token associate fee for multiple tokens #22952 by @ibankov
• point to explicit proto pkg version #22935 by @venilinvasilev
• Update dev genesis network json #22932 by @derektriley
• updated BlockStreamManagerWrapper #22937 by @AlexKehayov
• fix message in the BN communication test #22934 by @petreze
• Resolved compiler warnings in VirtualMapStateTest #22903 by @imalygin
• Use unique account names in SteadyStateThrottlingTest #22858 by @tinker-michaelj
• Fix flaky Hapi Test in RecordCreationSuite #22896 by @ibankov
• 22863 Fix migration testing exception #22870 by @imalygin
• extend Schedule Delete admin key check to also keep track of delegatable contract ids #22834 by @stoyanov-st
• 22388: Reconnect: custom reconnect roots are no longer needed #22440 by @artemananiev

Other Changes

Build System

• publish the swirlds-cli Jar because other modules depend on it #23040 by @jjohannes
• remove yahCliJar from assemble #22902 by @jjohannes

Chores

• Cherry-Pick (0.71): Use incremental streaming hashers for all subroots #23143 by @mhess-swl
• remove teams from CODEOWNERS for gradle #23053 by @anthony-swirldslabs
• 22984 Cleanup usages of SelfSerializable #23033 by @imalygin
• move fallen behind monitor #23041 by @netopyr
• Add extra validations for queries #22982 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• Add BYTES to nodeFee #22920 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• 22972: 1B: IndexOutOfBoundsException when resizing HDHM #22976 by @artemananiev
• 22991 Remove MerkleData*Stream classes #22994 by @imalygin
• Removed empty time-consuming task from CI
• Enable hooks #23004 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• Fix simple fees json #23003 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• Cleanup PeerInfo related classes #22970 by @poulok
• Cleanup GitHub workflows #22967 by @poulok
• Cleanup redundent BN XTS HAPI Tests #22950 by @derektriley
• Update BN Streaming Metrics md with alerting #22958 by @derektriley
• add private repo checks to skip certain ci steps #22861 by @andrewb1269
• Refactor Platform CLI infrastructure #22720 by @mxtartaglia-sl
• Cleanup event-intake dependencies #22821 by @netopyr
• 19654 Removed com.swirlds.common.merkle.crypto package #22910 by @imalygin
• 22448 Removed old serialization mechanism for VM #22895 by @imalygin
• Fix CryptoTransfer fee calculations for SimpleFees #22928 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• move orphan buffer #22899 by @netopyr
• remove dependency on com.hedera.cryptography.rpm #22912 by @anthony-swirldslabs
• Remove AddressBook #22593 by @timo0
• removing StateTest #22626 by @mxtartaglia-sl
• Publish LedgerId #22865 by @tinker-michaelj
• 22879 Removed swirlds-merkle module #22880 by @imalygin
• Minor Version Roll to 0.71.0-SNAPSHOT
• Switch add-on tracer type to ActionSidecarContentTracer #22869 by @tinker-michaelj
• Disable event hash validators #22772 by @mhess-swl
• bump org.hiero.gradle.build from 0.6.2 to 0.6.4 #22780 by @dependabot[bot]
• Expose EvmFrameState in RootProxyWorldUpdater
• Simplify interaction between consensus layer and execution layer #22836 by @netopyr
• Move unit tests of consensus metrics to new module #22825 by @netopyr
• Move EventSignatureValidor into event-intake module #22706 by @netopyr
• Reenable backpressure BN communication tests #22857 by @petreze
• 22864: Make use of hash code checks in bucket mutations #22866 by @artemananiev
• Capture PCES files in failure artifacts #22774 by @mhess-swl
• Remove PlatformContext from DefaultConsensusEngine #22796 by @poulok
• increase cert ttl on teleport auth steps #22893 by @andrewb1269

Continuous Integration

• Update runners & Improve XTS Dry Run Capabilities #23172 #23217 by @rbarker-dev
• Update build-release-artifact and associated workflows #23206 by @andrewb1269
• rename zxf to flow on MATS and XTS dry run workflows #23191 by @andrewb1269
• cherry-pick update hiero-observability group #23179 by @andrewb1269
• Update checkout refs to fix gradle determinism checks #22957 by @rbarker-dev
• run checkVersionConsistency on PRs #22917 by @jjohannes
• add dry run flag to version roll workflow #22378 by @andrewb1269

Documentation Updates

• Add clarifying javadocs to SequenceMap #22875 by @poulok

Refactoring

• 22804 Additional constructor for WritableKVStateBase #23036 by @imalygin
• 21284 Use MerkleNodeState in BlockStreamManager #22884 by @imalygin
• Move LinkedEvent to consensus-model #22826 by @poulok
• Move RandomAccessDeque and SequentialRingBuffer out of swirlds-common #22748 by @poulok

Tests

• Add more tests #23055 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• #23028 to fix decimal parsing in bash, #23034 to use solo deployment diagnostics #23035 by @alex-kuzmin-hg
• Fix failing XTS tests #23032 by @Neeharika-Sompalli
• senders/receivers sorting and additional ERC transfer events test #22978 by @gkozyryatskyy
• Implement Simple Fees - Crypto Transfer hapi tests #22859 by @Evdokia-Georgieva
• NLG_0.11.1 fixed SmartContract startup #22868 #22871 by @alex-kuzmin-hg
• Refactor SimpleFeesSuite negative tests and Implement Topic Create with Simple Fees tests coverage #22460 by @Evdokia-Georgieva
• Added a chaos test which tries to break rpc sync mechansm explicitly #22558 by @abies
• 22753 NLG with latency metrics #22768 by @alex-kuzmin-hg