Protocol
IOTA Protocol Version in this release: 11
#8103: Properly update a validator commission rate when set_candidate_validator_commission_rate is called.
Nodes (Validators and Full nodes)
#8070: - Add a compaction filter for pruning the objects table.
#8128: Added congestion tracker that is run by full nodes and processes shared-object transactions' effects each checkpoint.
#8086: Improvements in the scoring function
JSON-RPC
#8128: Added a new field to DryRunTransactionBlockResponse, namely suggested_gas_price: Option<u64>.
CLI
#8187: Accept --json without (true/false) for iota validator display-metadata
Change iota validator display-metadata output for --json to be a single object and for the human readable output to not contain long byte arrays
Add --json option to iota validator list command
#8197: Fix a bug where implicit dependencies are not included when dumping move bytecode with the build command.