Chisel v7.16.0

Features

• Preserve literals in Cat (by @jackkoenig in #5492)
• [chiseltest] Basic reimplementation of the verify function (by @dobios in #5500)

Fixes

• Fix @public constructor vals in Scala 2 (by @trmckay in #5485)
• Distinguish LHS/RHS in connect/bulkConnect hardware error (by @mumallaeng in #5491)
• Fix leaking of DynamicContext state when an exception is thrown (by @jackkoenig in #5501)
• [Bool] Give a descriptive error when resizing a Bool (by @mumallaeng in #5495)

Dependency Updates

• [cd] Bump CIRCT from firtool-1.158.0 to firtool-1.159.0 (by @chiselbot in #5489)
• [cd] Bump CIRCT from firtool-1.159.0 to firtool-1.160.0 (by @chiselbot in #5498)

Build and Internal Changes

• [main] Enable MiMa for v7.15.0 (by @chiselbot in #5478)
• Bump postcss-selector-parser in /website (by @dependabot[bot] in #5477)
• Bump fast-uri from 3.1.5 to 3.1.7 in /website (by @dependabot[bot] in #5479)
• Bump browserslist from 4.28.1 to 4.28.8 in /website (by @dependabot[bot] in #5480)
• [scala3] Cross-compiling the compiler plugin for Scala 3.9.0 (by @jackkoenig in #5483)
• [scala3] Fix return type of .pad (by @jackkoenig in #5486)
• Bump Docusaurus to 3.10.2 (by @jackkoenig in #5488)
• Update Github Actions (by @jackkoenig in #5468)
• Bump image-size from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 in /website (by @dependabot[bot] in #5497)

New Contributors

• @mumallaeng made their first contribution in #5491

Full Changelog: v7.15.0...v7.16.0