Release 0.24.0

Summary

This release contains important dependency updates for rust-bitcoin to 0.29 and rust-miniscript to 8.0, plus related crates that also depend on the latest version of rust-bitcoin. The release also includes a breaking change to the BDK signer which now produces low-R signatures by default, saving one byte. A bug was found in the get_checksum and get_checksum_bytes functions, which are now deprecated in favor of fixed versions called calc_checksum and calc_checksum_bytes. And finally a new hardware-signer features was added that re-exports the hwi crate, along with a new hardware_signers.rs example file.

Changelog

Changed

• Updated dependency versions for rust-bitcoin to 0.29 and rust-miniscript to 8.0, plus all related crates. @afilini #770
• BDK Signer now produces low-R signatures by default, saving one byte. If you want to preserve the original behavior, set allow_grinding in the SignOptions to false. @vladimirfomene #779
• Deprecated get_checksumand get_checksum_bytes due to bug where they calculates the checksum of a descriptor that already has a checksum. Use calc_checksum and calc_checksum_bytes instead. @evanlinjin #765
• Remove deprecated "address validators". @afilini #770

Added

• New calc_checksum and calc_checksum_bytes, replace deprecated get_checksum and get_checksum_bytes. @evanlinjin #765
• Re-export the hwi crate when the feature hardware-signer is on. @danielabrozzoni #758
• New examples/hardware_signer.rs. @danielabrozzoni #758
• Make psbt module public to expose PsbtUtils trait to downstream projects. @notmandatory #782

What's Changed

• Bump version to 0.23.0 by @afilini in #768
• Add enhancement request github issue template by @notmandatory in #772
• Update psbt_signer example to use descriptor! macro by @notmandatory in #780
• Add signature grinding for ECDSA signatures by @vladimirfomene in #779
• Make psbt mod public and add required docs by @notmandatory in #782
• Add HWI example in docs by @danielabrozzoni in #758
• Upgrade to rust-bitcoin 0.29 by @afilini in #770
• Fix how descriptor checksums are calculated by @evanlinjin in #765
• Bump version to 0.24.0 by @notmandatory in #788

Full Changelog: v0.23.0...v0.24.0