remove pedersen commitment (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9107)
remove pedersen hash opcode (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9245)
Brillig and AVM default all uninitialized memory cells to Field 0 (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9057)
remove keccak256 opcode from ACIR/Brillig (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9104)
Brillig with a stack and conditional inlining (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/8989)
avm: remove CMOV opcode (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9030)
Integer division is not the inverse of integer multiplication (#6243)
kind size checks (#6137)
Change tag attributes to require a ' prefix (#6235)

Features

Add checked_transmute (#6262) (2618061)
Add more Type and UnresolvedType methods (#5994) (8236cbd)
Allow unconstrained after visibility (#6246) (f6dfbcf)
Brillig and AVM default all uninitialized memory cells to Field 0 (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9057) (70dcf4a)
Brillig with a stack and conditional inlining (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/8989) (70dcf4a)
Don't crash LSP when there are errors resolving the workspace (#6257) (7cc7197)
Don't suggest private struct fields in LSP (#6256) (2a727b3)
Handwritten parser (#6180) (c4273a0)
improve: Remove scan through globals (#6282) (fd91913)
Inclusive for loop (#6200) (bd861f2)
Integrate databus in the private kernels (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9028) (70dcf4a)
interpreter: Comptime derive generators (#6303) (d8767b3)
Kind size checks (#6137) (6e40f62)
New formatter (#6300) (62404d7)
Optimize Quoted::as_expr by parsing just once (#6237) (a4fcd00)
Optimize reading a workspace's files (#6281) (b54ed26)
perf: Flamegraphs for test program execution benchmarks (#6253) (c186791)
perf: Follow array sets backwards in array set from get optimization (#6208) (999071b)
Recover from '=' instead of ':' in struct constructor/pattern (#6236) (9a12f31)
Remove byte decomposition in compute_decomposition (#6159) (a8bcae2)
Show LSP diagnostic related information (#6277) (c8a91a5)
Slightly improve "unexpected token" error message (#6279) (8232bfa)
Sync from noir (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/8934) (70dcf4a)
Sync from noir (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9034) (70dcf4a)
Sync from noir (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9099) (70dcf4a)
Sync from noir (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9275) (70dcf4a)
test: Fuzz poseidon hases against an external library (#6273) (8d8ea89)
test: Fuzz test poseidon2 hash equivalence (#6265) (f61ba03)
test: Fuzz test stdlib hash functions (#6233) (1a2ca46)
test: Include the PoseidonHasher in the fuzzing (#6280) (afb8a7c)
Trait inheritance (#6252) (d3301a4)
Visibility for impl functions (#6179) (1b26440)
Visibility for struct fields (#6221) (fc1c7ab)
Warn about private types leaking in public functions and struct fields (#6296) (67ac0d6)

Bug Fixes

Add missing visibility for auto-import names (#6205) (c3cb38a)
Address inactive public key check in verify_signature_noir (#6270) (e4325aa)
Allow array map on empty arrays (#6305) (51ae1b3)
Change tag attributes to require a ' prefix (#6235) (b43dcb2)
Check for Schnorr null signature (#6226) (2430920)
Display function name and body when inlining recursion limit hit (#6291) (33a1e7d)
Do not warn on unused self in traits (#6298) (4d524bf)
Don't warn on unuse global if it has an abi annotation (#6258) (e13f617)
Don't warn on unused struct that has an abi annotation (#6254) (8a31632)
Don't warn twice when referring to private item (#6216) (619c545)
Enforce correctness of decompositions performed at compile time (#6278) (53252fd)
frontend: Do not warn when a nested struct is provided as input to main (#6239) (9dfe223)
Handle dfg databus in SSA normalization (#6249) (9d8bee5)
Handle nested arrays in calldata (#6232) (0ab8f5e)
Homogeneous input points for EC ADD (#6241) (f6a7306)
Integer division is not the inverse of integer multiplication (#6243) (1cd2587)
Panic on composite types within databus (#6225) (29bd125)
Prevent compiler panic when popping from empty slices (#6274) (87137d8)
Reject invalid expression with in CLI parser (#6287) (052aee8)
Remove need for duplicate attributes on each function (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9244) (70dcf4a)
Visibility for impl methods (#6261) (70cbeb4)

Miscellaneous Chores

Remove keccak256 opcode from ACIR/Brillig (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9104) (70dcf4a)
Remove pedersen commitment (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9107) (70dcf4a)
Remove pedersen hash opcode (https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/pull/9245) (70dcf4a)