chore(master): Release 0.16.1

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aztec-packages: 0.16.1

0.16.1 (2023-11-28)

Features

• Added poseidon2 hash function to barretenberg/crypto (#3118) (d47782b)
• Aztec CI files in Noir (#3430) (1621f3a)
• Persistent archiver store (#3410) (4735bde), closes #3361

Bug Fixes

• ci: Don't leave DRY_DEPLOY unset (#3449) (454e316)
• ci: Publishing dockerhub manifests (#3451) (a59e7f0)
• Hotfix noir sync (#3436) (c4e4745)

Miscellaneous

• docs: Core concepts page in getting-started (#3401) (1a62f73)
• Point acir tests at noir master branch (#3440) (106e690)

Documentation

• Further updates to the gas and fees whitepaper (#3448) (4152ba6)
• Updates to gas and fees yellow paper (#3438) (5f0e1ca)

barretenberg.js: 0.16.1

0.16.1 (2023-11-28)

Miscellaneous

• barretenberg.js: Synchronize aztec-packages versions

barretenberg: 0.16.1

0.16.1 (2023-11-28)

Features

• Added poseidon2 hash function to barretenberg/crypto (#3118) (d47782b)

Miscellaneous

• Point acir tests at noir master branch (#3440) (106e690)

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Benchmark results

Metrics with a significant change:

• note_trial_decrypting_time_in_ms (8): 41.7 (-32%)

Detailed results

All benchmarks are run on txs on the Benchmarking contract on the repository. Each tx consists of a batch call to create_note and increment_balance, which guarantees that each tx has a private call, a nested private call, a public call, and a nested public call, as well as an emitted private note, an unencrypted log, and public storage read and write.

This benchmark source data is available in JSON format on S3 here.

Values are compared against data from master at commit 4735bdeb and shown if the difference exceeds 1%.

L2 block published to L1

Each column represents the number of txs on an L2 block published to L1.

Metric	8 txs	32 txs	128 txs
l1_rollup_calldata_size_in_bytes	45,444	179,588	716,132
l1_rollup_calldata_gas	222,972	868,172	3,449,300
l1_rollup_execution_gas	842,059	3,595,280	22,204,669
l2_block_processing_time_in_ms	2,015 (-2%)	7,899	31,528 (-2%)
note_successful_decrypting_time_in_ms	332 (-5%)	1,025	3,746
note_trial_decrypting_time_in_ms	⚠️ 41.7 (-32%)	125	198 (-1%)
l2_block_building_time_in_ms	25,417	101,349 (-1%)	405,188
l2_block_rollup_simulation_time_in_ms	17,832	71,167 (-1%)	283,655 (-1%)
l2_block_public_tx_process_time_in_ms	7,537	30,029	120,962

L2 chain processing

Each column represents the number of blocks on the L2 chain where each block has 16 txs.

Metric	5 blocks	10 blocks
node_history_sync_time_in_ms	22,711	43,747 (-1%)
note_history_successful_decrypting_time_in_ms	2,316	4,480
note_history_trial_decrypting_time_in_ms	163 (+2%)	227 (-1%)
node_database_size_in_bytes	3,314,937	3,655,708
pxe_database_size_in_bytes	29,748	59,307

Circuits stats

Stats on running time and I/O sizes collected for every circuit run across all benchmarks.

Circuit	circuit_simulation_time_in_ms	circuit_input_size_in_bytes	circuit_output_size_in_bytes
private-kernel-init	398	43,077	20,441
private-kernel-ordering	126	25,833	9,689
base-rollup	3,179	659,500	873
root-rollup	92.8 (+3%)	4,072	1,097
private-kernel-inner	826	64,484	20,441
public-kernel-private-input	417	25,203	20,441
public-kernel-non-first-iteration	411	25,245	20,441
merge-rollup	10.8 (-1%)	2,592	873

Miscellaneous

Transaction sizes based on how many contracts are deployed in the tx.

Metric	0 deployed contracts	1 deployed contracts
tx_size_in_bytes	10,323	29,083

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