chore: Release Noir(1.0.0-beta.1)

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1.0.0-beta.1 (2024-12-20)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• stdlib: Remove Schnorr (#6749)
• remove SchnorrVerify opcode (chore!: remove SchnorrVerify opcode AztecProtocol/aztec-packages#9897)
• several format string fixes and improvements (#6703)
• remove ec module from stdlib (#6612)
• Disallow #[export] on associated methods (#6626)

Features

• nargo test -q (or nargo test --format terse) (#6776) (919149d)
• std::hint::black_box function. (#6529) (237e8fa)
• Add (x | 1) optimization for booleans (#6795) (feec2a1)
• Add BoundedVec::from_parts and BoundedVec::from_parts_unchecked (#6691) (768aa7c)
• Add nargo test --format json (#6796) (eb975ab)
• Add a warning when using unsafe blocks without safety comments (#6860) (5c00a79)
• Add memory report into the CI (#6630) (6acef6d)
• Allow filtering which SSA passes are printed (#6636) (50f4aa7)
• Allow ignoring test failures from foreign calls (#6660) (e3a0914)
• Better error message when trying to invoke struct function field (#6661) (ea7c04a)
• ci: Initial compilation report on test_programs (#6731) (b3c04f0)
• cli: Run command on the package closest to the current directory (#6752) (f45b354)
• cli: Verify return against ABI and Prover.toml (#6765) (5795a09)
• comptime: Implement blackbox functions in comptime interpreter (#6551) (10a9f81)
• Configurable external check failures (#6810) (73ccd45)
• Flatten nested if-else statements with equivalent conditions (#6875) (1a0a5f6)
• Improve parser recovery of constructor field with '::' instead of ':' (#6701) (c400543)
• Order attribute execution by their source ordering (#6326) (852155d)
• perf: Track last loads per block in mem2reg and remove them if possible (#6088) (624ae6c)
• Reduce memory consumption by storing array length as u32 during SSA (#6606) (6196d05)
• Replace eval_global_as_array_length with type/interpreter evaluation (#6469) (ddb4673)
• Replace quadratic removal of rc instructions (#6705) (7619da5)
• Replace quadratic removal of rc instructions (feat: replace quadratic removal of rc instructions AztecProtocol/aztec-packages#10416) (66d3275)
• Revert changes to ValueMerger and Instruction::IfElse (#6673) (f81244c)
• Several nargo test improvements (#6728) (1b0dd41)
• Show printable byte arrays as byte strings in SSA (#6709) (fc11b63)
• Simplify jmpifs by reversing branches if condition is negated (#5891) (ba7a568)
• ssa: Bring back tracking of RC instructions during DIE (#6783) (bc03152)
• ssa: Deduplicate intrinsics with predicates (#6615) (53f16c7)
• ssa: Hoist MakeArray instructions during loop invariant code motion (#6782) (b88db67)
• ssa: Hoisting of array get using known induction variable maximum (#6639) (26d2351)
• ssa: Implement missing brillig constraints SSA check (#6658) (c5a4caf)
• ssa: Option to set the maximum acceptable Brillig bytecode increase in unrolling (#6641) (4ff3081)
• ssa: Simplify array get from set that writes to the same dynamic index (#6684) (304403f)
• Sync from aztec-packages (#6634) (aa143a7)
• Sync from aztec-packages (#6656) (594aad2)
• Sync from aztec-packages (#6824) (b3bca76)
• Sync from noir (feat: Sync from noir AztecProtocol/aztec-packages#10307) (66d3275)
• test: Check that nargo::ops::transform_program is idempotent (#6694) (9f3e0e6)
• tooling: Skip program transformation when loaded from cache (#6689) (7feb658)
• Warn on unnecessary unsafe blocks (#6867) (a97402a)

Bug Fixes

• Allow empty loop headers (#6736) (332ba79)
• Allow multiple _ parameters, and disallow _ as an expression you can read from (#6657) (d80a9d7)
• Always return an array of u8s when simplifying Intrinsic::ToRadix calls (#6663) (59c0c35)
• Correct signed integer handling in noirc_abi (#6638) (ecaf63d)
• Correct types returned by constant EC operations simplified within SSA (#6652) (eec5970)
• Detect cycles in globals (#6859) (0d7642c)
• Disable failure persistance in nargo test fuzzing (#6777) (68ff7bd)
• Disallow #[export] on associated methods (#6626) (7b56904)
• Do not merge expressions that contain output witnesses (#6757) (f9abf72)
• Do not warn on unused functions marked with #[export] (#6625) (30f8378)
• Don't deduplicate binary math of unsigned types (#6848) (ee0754b)
• Don't remove necessary RC instructions in DIE pass (#6585) (440d94d)
• Double alias in path (#6855) (82f595b)
• Git dependency trailing slash (#6725) (df71df7)
• Implement as_field and from_field in the interpreter (#6829) (f037c36)
• Improve type error when indexing a variable of unknown type (#6744) (909b22b)
• LSP auto-import text indent (#6699) (bbe7564)
• LSP code action wasn't triggering on beginning or end of identifier (#6616) (1b910bc)
• LSP: Use generic self type to narrow down methods to complete (#6617) (454b77b)
• Map entry point indexes after all ssa passes (#6740) (1b6e26b)
• Minimal change to avoid reverting entire PR #6685 (#6778) (0925a33)
• Optimize array ref counts to copy arrays much less often (#6685) (24cc19e)
• Optimizer to keep track of changing opcode locations (#6781) (13c41d2)
• Parser would hand on function type with colon in it (#6764) (9d7aadc)
• Prevent hoisting binary instructions which can overflow (#6672) (b4750d8)
• Print ssa blocks without recursion (#6715) (5ccde81)
• Println("{{}}") was printing "{{}}" instead of "{}" (#6745) (36bca82)
• Several format string fixes and improvements (#6703) (b70daf4)
• ssa: Don't deduplicate constraints in blocks that are not dominated (#6627) (b024581)
• ssa: Remove RC tracker in DIE (#6700) (f2607fd)
• ssa: Track all local allocations during flattening (#6619) (6491175)
• Typo in u128 docs (#6711) (37a4996)
• Use correct type for attribute arguments (#6640) (de3e77a)
• Use extension in docs link so it also works on GitHub (#6787) (655a3d3)
• Used signed division for signed modulo (#6635) (dace078)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Remove ec module from stdlib (#6612) (1e965bc)
• Remove SchnorrVerify opcode (chore!: remove SchnorrVerify opcode AztecProtocol/aztec-packages#9897) (66d3275)
• stdlib: Remove Schnorr (#6749) (57ebee0)

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Peak Memory Sample

Program	Peak Memory
keccak256	78.48M
workspace	123.63M
regression_4709	422.91M
ram_blowup_regression	1.58G
private-kernel-tail	201.60M
private-kernel-reset	716.87M
private-kernel-inner	291.68M
parity-root	171.94M