Release 2.4.0-rc1 · Chia-Network/chia-blockchain

First release candidate for 2.4.0

What's Changed

use rust types for RecentChainData, ProofBlockHeader and WeightProof by @arvidn in #17738
Remove unused files by @Quexington in #17807
Remove tx_records from dl_update_multiple RPC (breaking change) by @Quexington in #17846
Make a couple of DAOWallet methods return lists of transaction records by @Quexington in #17853
simplify MerkleSet by making it immutable by @arvidn in #17861
bump chia_rs to 0.7.0 by @arvidn in #17909
Use Rust version of MerkleSet by @matt-o-how in #17908
add ability to profile the farmer process by @arvidn in #17953
remove unused current_inner from PoolState by @arvidn in #17965
optimize launcher_id_to_p2_puzzle_hash() by @arvidn in #17961
bump farmer fill rate to 70% by @arvidn in #17954
Add genesis challenge to get_network_info rpcs by @cmmarslender in #18000
Puzzle hash optimizations by @arvidn in #17995
optimize key derivation in the wallet by @arvidn in #17991
[CHIA-387] DL batch upsert optimization. by @fchirica in #17999
CHIA-595: bump chia_rs to 0.8.0 and update G1Element handling by @arvidn in #18037
update chia_rs dependency to 0.9.0 by @arvidn in #18076
Add optional trusted CIDR list by @cmmarslender in #18094
CHIA-595: Soft fork 5 by @arvidn in #18072
[CHIA-615] make BLSCache a proper class by @arvidn in #18053
CHIA-623: Split capabilities for each service by @Rigidity in #18096
CHIA-582 Use kv compressed in DL batch update by @fchirica in #18032
updated gui to a963572cad5ca5f0265a163d834e534e903bdd9c by @wjblanke in #18129

add bytes type to DerivationRecord.pubkey by @geoffwalmsley in #17433
Do not return unexpected coins from get_coin_state by @Quexington in #17850
Fix memo plotid by @pmaslana in #17856
Filter out duplicate coins returned by RequestPuzzleState by @Rigidity in #17941
fix confusion between prompt and don't prompt in the plotnft CLI by @arvidn in #17951
drop deprecated authentication_public_key from pool config by @arvidn in #17959
chore: fix two typos by @wersfeds in #17860
Make sure to use no more than 61 cpus on windows by @emlowe in #17958
[CHIA-302] Handle reorgs in data layer wallet by @Quexington in #17992
[CHIA-292] Modify VerifiedCredential.launch to handle multiple source coins by @Quexington in #17982
[CHIA-508] Add tx_config and extra_conditions to DID creation endpoint by @Quexington in #18024
[CHIA-365] Return exception and error from get_kv_diff when either of the hashes has no data by @emlowe in #18039
[CHIA-589] Link trade cancellations with announcements by @Quexington in #18046
Revert final_pubkey: G1Element from main by @Quexington in #18063
CHIA-437: Add coin id index to coin state batching by @Rigidity in #18052
CHIA-685 Remove homebrew rpaths from _ssl.cpython.so on macOS during build by @haorldbchi in #18101

Full Changelog: 2.3.1...2.4.0-rc1