solana-foundation/solana-go v1.17.0

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What's Changed

Performance

• 16x faster base58 encoding/decoding — migrated to fd_base58 algorithm (ported from Firedancer) with hand-written ARM64/AMD64 assembly. PublicKey.String() drops from 937ns to 57ns. by @sonicfromnewyoke in #379

Bug Fixes

• Fix SOL/WSOL address mismatch — SolMint and WrappedSol were incorrectly pointing to the same address by @sonicfromnewyoke in #378
• Fix message version detection and add transaction validation (Sanitize, HasDuplicates, VerifyWithResults) to match Rust SDK by @sonicfromnewyoke in #381
• Fix WebSocket client goroutine/channel leaks, race conditions, and premature Close() returns — now passes -race flag by @sonicfromnewyoke in #383
• Actualize SimulateTransaction to match official Solana RPC spec — added InnerInstructions, MinContextSlot, ReturnData, and more by @sonicfromnewyoke in #382

New Features

• Add SetLoadedAccountsDataSizeLimit instruction to compute budget program by @0xvbetsun in #310
• Add UpgradeNonceAccount instruction to system program by @datmedevil17 in #355
• Add token-program-aware ATA helpers for Token-2022 support by @lgalabru in #375
• Implement GetStakeMinimumDelegation RPC method by @sonicfromnewyoke in #372

Maintenance

• Replace deprecated Go patterns (ioutil → io, interface{} → any, sort.Slice → slices.SortFunc) by @sonicfromnewyoke in #373
• Actualize documentation — streamlined README from ~3,000 to ~865 lines, extracted 63 examples into testable functions by @sonicfromnewyoke in #372

Issues Closed

#311, #327, #334, #270, #350

New Contributors

• @0xvbetsun made their first contribution in #310
• @datmedevil17 made their first contribution in #355
• @lgalabru made their first contribution in #375

Full Changelog: v1.16.0...v1.17.0