onflow/cadence v1.8.0

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What's Changed

⭐ Features

• [Compiler] Attachments #1/3 by @RZhang05 in #4052
• [Compiler] Attachments #2/3 by @RZhang05 in #4087
• [Compiler] Attachments #3/3 by @RZhang05 in #4111
• Add support for comparing two map data slabs to slab decoding tool by @turbolent in #4234
• Add support for collecting computation usage profiles by @turbolent in #4266
• [Compiler] Attachments by @RZhang05 in #4204

🛠 Improvements

• refactor: use slices.Contains to simplify code by @keeghcet in #4206
• Improve tracing by @turbolent in #4217
• Improve tracing by @turbolent in #4218
• [Compiler] Improve globals. by @RZhang05 in #4211
• [Compiler] Simplify imported globals linking by @SupunS in #4220
• [Compiler] Improve enum case value global initialization by @turbolent in #4221
• [Compiler] Initialize all variables of a dynamically linked program by @SupunS in #4223
• [Compiler] Reuse elaboration for imports when possible. by @RZhang05 in #4215
• [Compiler] Refactor dynamic method invocation by @SupunS in #4226
• [Compiler] Improve transaction program init function by @turbolent in #4229
• [Compiler] Avoid creating an array for resource default-destroy events by @SupunS in #4230
• [Compiler] Trace event emission by @turbolent in #4231
• [Compiler] Skip encoding-decoding of constants by @SupunS in #4214
• Improve tracing and CI by @turbolent in #4246
• [Compiler] Always transfer on move operator. Remove redundent transfers by @SupunS in #4208
• [Compiler] Generate opcode.isControlFlow from instructions.yml. by @RZhang05 in #4238
• Unify move-operator interpretation to match the VM by @SupunS in #4245
• [Compiler] Improve error position/location info by @turbolent in #4247
• [Compiler] Create unified interface for native/host functions by @RZhang05 in #4232
• Remove per-context coverage report, use runtime config's by @turbolent in #4255
• [Compiler] Unify natives. by @RZhang05 in #4248
• [Compiler] Fix performance regression by @turbolent in #4258
• Remove wabt by @turbolent in #4260
• Rename unified to native, clean up native functions. by @RZhang05 in #4259
• Unify natives in the compiler/vm and interpreter. by @RZhang05 in #4264
• Set error location range in interpreter like in VM by @turbolent in #4249
• Remove location range passing code – Part 1/2 by @turbolent in #4250
• Remove location range passing code – Part 2/2 by @turbolent in #4251
• Remove unused location range parameter from native functions by @turbolent in #4268
• Replace variadic arguments parameters with slices by @turbolent in #4269
• Fix naming of "type parameters" which are actually type arguments by @turbolent in #4270
• Avoid unnecessary allocation of type arguments iterators by @turbolent in #4271
• Remove vm.NativeFunctionVM and adaption to interpreter.NativeFunction by @turbolent in #4272
• Address reviews on compilation for attachments. by @RZhang05 in #4275
• Improve type conversion error by @turbolent in #4181
• Replace for-delete loops with clear by @turbolent in #4277
• Improve computation profiling by @turbolent in #4276

🐞 Bug Fixes

• [Compiler] Initialize all variable of all imports by @SupunS in #4222
• Fix tracing of function invocations by @turbolent in #4224
• [Compiler] Fix invokeMethodDynamic by @turbolent in #4225
• [Compiler] Use global's index instead of array index during linking by @SupunS in #4227
• [Compiler] Fix result variable transfer by @turbolent in #4236
• [Compiler] Fix Account.contracts.borrow by @turbolent in #4241
• [Compiler] Fix function types for capability value methods by @turbolent in #4243
• [Compiler] Ensure program is initialized whenever type-info is requested by @SupunS in #4242
• Fix 128-bit fixed-point code by @turbolent in #4252
• [Compiler] Fix and improve compiler/VM benchmarks and tests, fix CI by @turbolent in #4257

🧪 Testing

• [Compiler] Add control flow basic block visualization to program printer. by @RZhang05 in #4197
• [Compiler] Add tests for importing same program from multiple paths by @SupunS in #4228

Other Changes

• Merge master into feature/compile-attachments. by @RZhang05 in #4162
• Merge release/v1.7.0 to master by @github-actions[bot] in #4207
• Merge master into feature/attachments by @RZhang05 in #4233
• Speed up benchmarks by @turbolent in #4261
• Merge master into unify natives. by @RZhang05 in #4265
• Update to Go 1.24 by @turbolent in #4267
• Merge master into Attachment compilation feature branch by @turbolent in #4274

New Contributors

• @keeghcet made their first contribution in #4206

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0