Alpha-0.2

What's New

Key Features

• Implement EVM integration via Frontier, including pallet-evm and pallet-ethereum runtime integration, Ethereum-compatible JSON-RPC support, and compatibility verification for mainstream tools such as Hardhat, Foundry, ethers.js/web3.js, and MetaMask. #8 ; #32 #33 #34

What's Changed

Pallet

• Integrate Frontier pallet-evm and pallet-ethereum into Runtime by @motoZ-crypto in #82
• Integrate Frontier Ethereum-compatible JSON-RPC layer by @motoZ-crypto in #84
• Vendor frontier precompile-utils framework by @motoZ-crypto in #85
• Use upstream precompile utils by @motoZ-crypto in #98
• Expose native UNIT as an ERC20 precompile by @motoZ-crypto in #86
• Expose session parameters for validator configuration by @motoZ-crypto in #91
• Add event for GRANDPA equivocation reporting and update tests by @motoZ-crypto in #89
• Add event for dropped pending validators and remove coin lock by @motoZ-crypto in #90
• Rename the validator pallet's ActiveValidators to DesiredValidators by @motoZ-crypto in #92
• Align equivocation tracking and kicking logic with offline implementation by @motoZ-crypto in #93

Test

• Add EVM developer tooling compatibility tests and pre-fund Frontier dev accounts by @motoZ-crypto in #87
• Add event for GRANDPA equivocation reporting and update tests by @motoZ-crypto in #89
• Add validator rejoin tests by @motoZ-crypto in #94
• Rewrite zombienet tests by @motoZ-crypto in #96

CI

• Split CI jobs into separate clippy and test stages by @motoZ-crypto in #83
• Increase timeout limit for clippy and test jobs in CI workflow by @motoZ-crypto in #88
• Fix GitHub action failures by @motoZ-crypto in #95
• Fix GitHub action failures by @motoZ-crypto in #97
• Rewrite release workflow by @motoZ-crypto in #99

Full Changelog: Alpha-0.1...Alpha-0.2