CORD v0.8.0

This release contains the changes from v0.7.7 to v0.8.0.

Major features implemented are:

• Persistent Content Identifiers
• DID and DID names
• Registry support for controlling the access and authorization
• Stream with identifiers - get the latest state and history of the off-chain data it represents.

What's Changed

• docs: provide more information on using the chain by @amarts in #97
• upgrade to v0.9.28 by @smohan-dw in #99
• Score pallet with automatic aggregate logic in pallet by @amarts in #107
• rebase with cordv2 features by @smohan-dw in #141
• Testing of registry pallet by @amarts in #146
• Separate quality check and docker build by @roynrishingha in #152
• Switch to using distroless in Dockerfiles by @Rithwik0480 in #150
• Runtime & Pallet Weight updates by @smohan-dw in #148
• registry benchmark updates by @smohan-dw in #154
• Benchmarks and Weights by @smohan-dw in #155
• New Stream changes in develop branch by @rohibhan in #157
• Registry benchmark by @vjgaur in #159
• update to release-v0.9.42 by @smohan-dw in #158
• Fix GitHub action error and improve readability and efficiency by @roynrishingha in #162
• pallets and runtime weights by @smohan-dw in #161
• Dockerfile: don't provide options to cord by @amarts in #165
• authorship chain-spec update by @smohan-dw in #166
• authority manager update by @smohan-dw in #167
• session key management and chain-specs by @smohan-dw in #168
• Stream Benchmarking_v1 by @rohibhan in #164
• Add missing documentations and extra tests in Schema pallet by @roynrishingha in #171
• Add missing docs to stream pallet by @roynrishingha in #170
• staging and builder network conf updates by @smohan-dw in #172
• prerelease benchmarks by @smohan-dw in #174
• chain raw spec update by @smohan-dw in #175

Full Changelog: 0.7.7...0.8.0

Contributions

This release has seen major commits from @smohan-dw along with @vjgaur @rohibhan @roynrishingha @Rithwik0480