Release chain-0.22.0

Summary

This release of bdk_chain v0.22.0 includes a better syncing experience for electrum and esplora, relevant transactions that are missing can now be evicted with the help of SyncRequestBuilder. CanonicalizationParams can be used to modify the behavior of CanonicalIter for a given query. Updated dependency on miniscript to 12.3.1 along with various fixes and improvements.

Other notable releases:

• bdk_core 0.5.0
• bdk_electrum 0.22.0
• bdk_esplora 0.21.0
• bdk_bitcoind_rpc 0.19.0
• bdk_file_store 0.20.0
• bdk_testenv 0.12.0

Note

The blockchain client crates all depend on the latest version of bdk_core. If your project uses a version of bdk_core earlier than v0.5.0, you should not attempt to upgrade to the latest chain source crates until you've upgraded to the latest version of bdk_core.

What's Changed

• test(core): add unit tests for merge trait by @pluveto in #1738
• bdk_electrum: Handle negative heights properly by @evanlinjin in #1837
• Make full-scan/sync flow easier to reason about. by @evanlinjin in #1838
• docs: update CONTRIBUTING.md with section for new contributors by @notmandatory in #1871
• doc: remove 1.0 roadmap stuff and fix broken links from README by @luisschwab in #1882
• doc: remove persist crate from README by @luisschwab in #1884
• Introduce evicted-at/last-evicted timestamps by @evanlinjin in #1839
• example_cli: add feerate option to psbt new cmd by @ValuedMammal in #1840
• deps: bump miniscript to 12.3.1 by @LagginTimes in #1924
• chore: remove bdk_wallet and update readme and ci workflow by @notmandatory in #1928
• feat(chain): Add method for constructing TxGraph from a ChangeSet by @uvuvuwu in #1930
• fix: Canonicalization should handle transactions that spend from two conflicting transactions by @evanlinjin in #1917
• Introduce canonicalization parameters by @evanlinjin in #1808
• feat(rpc)!: Update Emitter::mempool to support evicted_at by @LagginTimes in #1857

New Contributors

• @pluveto made their first contribution in #1738
• @Musab1258 made their first contribution in #1895
• @uvuvuwu made their first contribution in #1930

Full Changelog: chain-0.21.1...chain-0.22.0