Zebra 1.0.0-beta.8

Zebra's latest beta completes our work on the NU5 consensus rules. It continues our work on lightwalletd RPC methods, and contains some internal CI improvements.

Added

RPCs

• Implement a retry queue for transactions sent via RPCs (#4015)
• Partially implement the getaddresstxids RPC method (#4062)

State

• Add a transparent address balance index (#3963)
• Add a transparent address UTXO index (#3999)
• Add a transparent address transaction index (#4038)
• Add transparent address indexes to the non-finalized state (#4022)
• Add a query function for transparent address balances (#4097)

CI

• Create cached state disk image after a successful full sync test (#3986)

Changed

NU5

• Update to new zcash_script V5 API (#3799)
• Update network protocol versions for the second NU5 activation on testnet (#3799)
• Update the consensus branch ID and the second NU5 testnet activation height (#3799)
• Bump database version to trigger testnet rollback (#3799)

State

• Store transactions in a separate database index, to improve query speed (#3934)
• Store UTXOs by transaction location rather than transaction hash (#3978)
• Stop storing redundant transparent output fields in the database (#3992)
• Use LZ4 compression for RocksDB (#4027)
• Use Ribbon filters for database index lookups (#4040)
• Tune state database file compaction configuration (#4045)

CI

• Put the state version in cached state disk names (#4073)
• Improve mergify merge throughput (#4094, #4120)
• Run cached state rebuilds in main branch (#4107)
• Use GitHub Branch Protection checks instead of Mergify (#4103, #4105)
• Lint and standardize the actions structure (#3940)

Rust Dependencies

• Update shared Zcash dependencies for the second NU5 activation on testnet (#3799)
• Disable unused rocksdb compression features (#4082)
• Bump rlimit from 0.7.0 to 0.8.3 (#4051)

CI Dependencies

• Bump docker/metadata-action from 3.6.2 to 3.7.0 (#4049)
• Bump google-github-actions/auth from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0 (#4050)
• Bump tj-actions/changed-files from 18.6 to 18.7 (#4065)
• Bump reviewdog/action-actionlint from 1.21.0 to 1.23.0 (#4099, #4125)
• Bump actions/checkout from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 (#4126)

Fixed

CI

• Validate tests exit code after reading the container logs (#3968, #4069)
• Give enough time to zebra before reading logs (#4123)

Rust Clippy

• Ignore clippy drop warnings in tests (#4081)