v0.76.4

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Block royalty payments even when receiver is exempt from in-scope fallback fee #27069 by @joshmarinacci
• ContractValidationRule order fix #27068 by @joshmarinacci
• Modify the language around folding beneficiary mappings into the root builder at staking finalization #27147 by @joshmarinacci
• don't advance beneficiary stake metadata for rewards redirected from a deleted account #27113 by @joshmarinacci
• deleting a rewardable stakee no longer freezes its indirect stakers #27112 by @joshmarinacci
• isolate scheduled-transaction failures in the expiry scan #27067 by @joshmarinacci
• replay processed inner fees when a later inner exceeds the record limit #27066 by @joshmarinacci
• enforce file-update authorization at ingest and charge failed attempts #27063 by @joshmarinacci
• guard exchange-rate fee conversion against non-positive centEquiv and overflow #27062 by @joshmarinacci
• require a node-controlled payer for NODE-category transactions #27061 by @joshmarinacci
• enforce contract trace-data limit for batch and scheduled calls #27102 by @joshmarinacci
• Cherry-pick stale createdContractIds, atomic batch rollback fixes #27101 by @joshmarinacci
• reject duplicate non-repeated fields when extracting query payment bytes #27100 by @joshmarinacci
• reject token transfers in query payments #27099 by @joshmarinacci
• validate migration-root-hash vote bodies and harden vote tallying and storage ordering #27098 by @joshmarinacci
• fold beneficiary mappings into the root builder at staking finalization #27097 by @joshmarinacci
• handle two bugs in reclaiming throttle capacity #27096 by @joshmarinacci
• make prng and exchange rate contracts stateless #27095 by @joshmarinacci
• optimise pre handle workflow #27058 by @joshmarinacci

Other Changes

Chores

• upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to 4.2.17.Final #27070 by @joshmarinacci
• Atomic batch EVM tx restriction #27114 by @joshmarinacci
• streamMode=BOTH block size circuit breaker #27072 by @joshmarinacci

Continuous Integration

• broken TCK & JS SDK XTS tests #27059 by @joshmarinacci
• replace hiero-solo-action #26749 by @andrewb1269