Release 0.27.0

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Create a new minor release

Summary

A maintenance release with a bump in project MSRV to 1.57.0, updated dependence and a few developer oriented improvements. Improvements include better error formatting, don't default to async/await for wasm32 and adding derived PartialEq and Eq on SyncTime.

Commit

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Changelog

Changed

• Improve display error formatting Improve display error formatting #814
• Don't default to use async/await on wasm32 Don't default to use async/await on wasm32 #831
• Project MSRV changed from 1.56.1 to 1.57.0 Bump project MSRV to 1.57.0 #842
• Update rust-miniscript dependency to latest bug fix release 9.0 Update rust-miniscript to 9.0 #844

Added

• Derive PartialEq, Eq on SyncTime Derive PartialEq, Eq on SyncTime #837

Checklist

Release numbering must follow Semantic Versioning. These steps assume the current master
branch development version is 0.26.0.

On the day of the feature freeze

Change the master branch to the next MINOR+1 version:

• Switch to the master branch.
• Create a new PR branch called bump_dev_0_27.
• Bump the bump_dev_0_27 branch to the next development MINOR+1 version.
  • Change the Cargo.toml version value to 0.27.0.
  • Update the CHANGELOG.md file.
  • The commit message should be "Bump version to 0.27.0".
• Create PR and merge the bump_dev_0_27 branch to master.
  • Title PR "Bump version to 0.27.0".

Create a new release branch and release candidate tag:

• Double check that your local master is up-to-date with the upstream repo.
• Create a new branch called release/0.27 from master.
• Bump the release/0.27 branch to 0.27.0-rc.1 version.
  • Change the Cargo.toml version value to 0.27.0-rc.1.
  • The commit message should be "Bump version to 0.27.0-rc.1".
• Add a tag to the HEAD commit in the release/0.27 branch.
  • The tag name should be v0.27.0-rc.1
  • Use message "Release 0.27.0 rc.1".
  • Make sure the tag is signed, for extra safety use the explicit --sign flag.
• Push the release/MAJOR.MINOR branch and new tag to the bitcoindevkit/bdk repo.
  • Use git push --tags option to push the new v0.27.0-rc.1 tag.

If any issues need to be fixed before the 0.27.0 version is released:

• Merge fix PRs to the master branch.
• Git cherry-pick fix commits to the release/0.27 branch.
• Verify fixes in release/0.27 branch.
• Bump the release/0.27 branch to 0.27.0-rc.x+1 version.
  • Change the Cargo.toml version value to 0.27.0-rc.x+1.
  • The commit message should be "Bump version to 0.27.0-rc.x+1".
• Add a tag to the HEAD commit in the release/0.27 branch.
  • The tag name should be v0.27.0-rc.x+1, where x is the current release candidate number.
  • Use tag message "Release 0.27.0 rc.x+1".
  • Make sure the tag is signed, for extra safety use the explicit --sign flag.
• Push the new tag to the bitcoindevkit/bdk repo.
  • Use git push --tags option to push the new v0.27.0-rc.x+1 tag.

On the day of the release

Tag and publish new release:

• Bump the release/0.27 branch to 0.27.0 version.
  • Change the Cargo.toml version value to 0.27.0.
  • The commit message should be "Bump version to 0.270".
• Add a tag to the HEAD commit in the release/0.27 branch.
  • The tag name should be v0.27.0
  • The first line of the tag message should be "Release 0.27.0".
  • In the body of the tag message put a copy of the Summary and Changelog for the release.
  • Make sure the tag is signed, for extra safety use the explicit --sign flag.
• Wait for the CI to finish one last time.
• Push the new tag to the bitcoindevkit/bdk repo.
• Publish all the updated crates to crates.io.
• Create the release on GitHub.
  • Go to "tags", click on the dots on the right and select "Create Release".
  • Set the title to Release 0.27.0.
  • In the release notes body put the Summary and Changelog.
  • Use the "+ Auto-generate release notes" button to add details from included PRs.
  • Until we reach a 1.0.0 release check the "Pre-release" box.
• Make sure the new release shows up on crates.io and that the docs are built correctly on docs.rs.
• Announce the release, using the Summary, on Discord, Twitter and Mastodon.
• Celebrate 🎉

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Required downstream project updates:

• bdk-reserves Bump bdk-reserves version to 0.27.0 and bdk version to 0.27 bdk-reserves#20
• bdk-cli Bump bdk to v0.27.0 bdk-cli#143
• bdk-ffi Bump bdk version to 0.27 and bdk-ffi to 0.27.0 bdk-ffi#308
• wasm for playground in bitcoindevkit.org Update the playground to bdk-cli 0.27.0 bitcoindevkit.org#138

[thunderbiscuit]

The ffi has bumped to the official release and all tests have passed.