v0.61.0

What's Changed

• Unify arguments before desugaring contract call by @xunilrj in #6053
• chore: fund test suite's account by default in local-test node by @kayagokalp in #5935
• chore: fix some comments by @cuishuang in #5989
• Show forc plugin path warning only in verbose mode by @sdankel in #6004
• fix: fund default signer account in ci by @kayagokalp in #6055
• Add examples on how to import storage types to the book by @bitzoic in #6051
• Implement EqWithEngines and PartialEqWithEngines for parsed declarations by @tritao in #6054
• Rename module terminology to program by @JoshuaBatty in #6056
• chore: Improve the error message for unresolved manifest reference by @sdankel in #6061
• Add generated bytecode size to verbose test output by @ironcev in #6063
• feat: Add primitive types to forc-doc by @sdankel in #6032
• Tuning the optimizer pipeline by @vaivaswatha in #6072
• feat: Updating all templates to rust v0.62.0 by @calldelegation in #6067
• Bash script to help benchmark the compiler by @xunilrj in #6076
• Add EnumVariant parsed decl and minor refactors to namespace-related code by @tritao in #6062
• Set code owners by @IGI-111 in #6078
• Unify parsed and typed symbols namespace maps. by @tritao in #6070
• Fix code owner precedence by @IGI-111 in #6082
• Refactor trait handling when doing namespace item imports. by @tritao in #6080
• Do not panic when there is auto impl type check by @xunilrj in #6094
• chore: bump fuel-core to v0.27.0 by @kayagokalp in #6090
• fix: remove Forc.lock files from template projects by @sdankel in #6101
• chore: add issue templates by @sdankel in #6097
• Update codeowners application-dev to swayex by @bitzoic in #6095
• Automatically import contract return type by @xunilrj in #6089
• Add primitive conversions submodules to the prelude by @bitzoic in #6105
• Increase test coverage on std-lib by @bitzoic in #6087
• Faster access for configurables by @xunilrj in #6058
• Fix issue with name clash on auto implementation of AbiEncode and AbiDecode by @jjcnn in #6044
• Update Inputs library return types to match VM specs by @bitzoic in #6108
• Fix mod by zero constant folding by @xunilrj in #6112
• Use immediates instead of data section when possible by @vaivaswatha in #6098
• Adds method and function deduplication to frontend. by @esdrubal in #5967
• Change StorageMap's remove() to use sha256(key, self.field_id()) instead of sha256(key, self.slot()) by @bitzoic in #6135
• Fix doc comment by @GearedPaladin in #6138
• Unify namespace import logic for parsed and typed declarations by @tritao in #6057
• chore: fix some comments by @tsinghuacoder in #6139
• Storage name based slots and namespaces. by @esdrubal in #6064
• Resolve memory overflow when b256::TryFrom<Bytes> is not 32 bytes by @bitzoic in #6136
• Support for string slices in contracts/predicates/scripts by @xunilrj in #6079
• Bump to v0.61.0 by @IGI-111 in #6144

Breaking Changes

• now using fuel-core 0.27.0
• Storage slot calculations use a new formula to enable namespacing syntax, please consult the documentation about storage namespacing and the in keyword for more details
• Inputs and return types have been updated according to VM spec changes

New Contributors

• @cuishuang made their first contribution in #5989
• @tsinghuacoder made their first contribution in #6139

Full Changelog: v0.60.0...v0.61.0