Release 1.0.0-alpha.7

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Summary

This incremental bi-weekly release includes an API change to relax the generic requirements on the wallet transaction builder and a small fix when manually looking ahead to unrevealed scripts. Unless you need one of these changes there's no need to upgrade to this release.

Commit

TBD

Changelog

Fixed

• Fix KeychainTxOutIndex::lookahead_to_target to look ahead to correct index. Fix KeychainTxOutIndex::lookahead_to_target #1349

Changed

• Relax the generic requirements on TxBuilder. Relax generic requirements on TxBuilder #1312

Checklist

Release numbering must follow Semantic Versioning. These steps assume the current master branch development version is 1.0.0-alpha.7.

On the day of the feature freeze

Change the master branch to the 1.0.0-alpha.7 version:

• Switch to the master branch.
• Create a new PR branch called bump_dev_1.0.0_alpha.7.
• Bump the bump_dev_1.0.0_alpha.7 branch to the next development MINOR+1 version.
  • Change the bdk Cargo.toml version value to 1.0.0-alpha.7.
  • Bump the other modified crates versions in their Cargo.toml files.
    • bdk_chain
    • bdk_bitciond_rpc
    • bdk_electrum
    • bdk_esplora
    • bdk_file_store
  • The commit message should be:

    Bump version to 1.0.0-alpha.7
    
    bdk_chain to 0.11.0
    bdk_bitcoind_rpc to 0.6.0
    bdk_electrum to 0.9.0
    bdk_esplora to 0.9.0
    bdk_file_store to 0.7.0
    

• Create PR and merge the bump_dev_1.0.0-alpha.7 branch to master. Bump bdk version to 1.0.0-alpha.7 #1365
  • Title PR "Bump bdk version to 1.0.0-alpha.7".

On the day of the release

Tag and publish new release:

• Add a tag to the HEAD commit in the master branch.
  • The tag name should be v1.0.0-alpha.7
  • The first line of the tag message should be "Release 1.0.0-alpha.7".
  • In the body of the tag message put a copy of the Summary and Changelog for the release.
  • Make sure the tag is signed, for extra safety use the explicit --sign flag.
• Wait for the CI to finish one last time.
• Push the new tag to the bitcoindevkit/bdk repo.
• Publish all the updated crates to crates.io.
  • bdk_chain
  • bdk_bitciond_rpc
  • bdk_electrum
  • bdk_esplora
  • bdk_file_store
  • bdk
• Create the release on GitHub.
  • Go to "tags", click on the dots on the right and select "Create Release".
  • Set the title to Release 1.0.0-alpha.7.
  • In the release notes body put the Summary and Changelog.
  • Use the "+ Auto-generate release notes" button to add details from included PRs.
  • Until we reach a 1.0.0 release check the "Pre-release" box.
• Make sure the new release shows up on crates.io and that the docs are built correctly on docs.rs.
• Announce the release, using the Summary, on Discord, Twitter and Nostr.
• Celebrate 🎉