0.11.0-rc1

Release 0.11.0 is a relatively large release of new features, fixes, and internal updates. 0.11.0 is planned to be the last major update before we transition to using the AnonCreds Rust in a release that is expected to bring some Admin/Controller API changes. We plan to do patches to 0.11.0 while the transition is made to the next breaking release.

Release 0.11.0-rc0 failed to publish because of a reference to a dependency via its GitHub repository rather than to its published artifact.

A significant addition to ACA-Py is support for signing and verifying SD-JWT verifiable credentials. We expect this to be the first of the changes to extend ACA-Py to support OpenID4VC protocols.

In the CI/CD realm, substantial changes were applied to the source base in switching from:

• pip to Poetry for packaging and dependency management,
• Flake8 to Ruff for linting,
• asynctest to IsolatedAsyncioTestCase and AsyncMock objects now included in Python's builtin unittest package for unit testing.

These are necessary and important modernization changes, with the latter two triggering many (largely mechanical) changes to the codebase.

NOTE: In addition to these PRs in the 0-11.0-rc0 release, we also expect to include at least those ACA-Py PRs labelled "0.11.0" in the release.

0.11.0 Breaking Changes

In addition to the impacts of the change for developers in switching from pip to Poetry, the only significant breaking change is the (overdue) transition of ACA-Py to always use the new DIDComm message type prefix, changing the DID Message prefix from the old hardcoded did:sov:BzCbsNYhMrjHiqZDTUASHg;spec to the new hardcoded https://didcomm.org value, and using the new DIDComm MIME type in place of the old. The vast majority (all?) Aries deployments have long since been updated to accept both values, so this change just forces the use of the newer value in sending messages. In updating this, we retained the old configuration parameters most deployments were using (--emit-new-didcomm-prefix and --emit-new-didcomm-mime-type) but updated the code to set the configuration parameters to true even if the parameters were not set. See PR #2517.

What's Changed

• #2289 Migrate to Poetry by @Gavinok in #2436
• Swap out flake8 in favor of Ruff by @dbluhm in #2438
• Update Python image version to 3.9.18 by @WadeBarnes in #2456
• chore: add black back in as a dev dep by @dbluhm in #2465
• feat: add timeout to did resolver resolve method by @dbluhm in #2464
• Remove old routing protocol code by @dbluhm in #2466
• fix: issue #2434: Change DIDExchange States to Match rfc160 by @anwalker293 in #2461
• fix: version should be set by pyproject.toml by @dbluhm in #2471
• fix: unique ids for services in legacy peer by @dbluhm in #2476
• peer did 2/3 resolution by @Jsyro in #2472
• Bugfix: Issue with write ledger pool when performing Accumulator sync by @shaangill025 in #2480
• Update steps for Manually Creating Revocation Registries by @WadeBarnes in #2491
• Issue #2419 InvalidClientTaaAcceptanceError time too precise error if container timezone is not UTC by @Ennovate-com in #2420
• Update devcontainer to read version from aries-cloudagent package by @usingtechnology in #2483
• Issue #2488 KeyError raised when Subject ID is not a URI by @Ennovate-com in #2490
• fix: run tests script copying local env by @dbluhm in #2495
• Feat/sd jwt implementation by @cjhowland in #2487
• Use correct rust log level in dockerfiles by @loneil in #2499
• Remove unused dependencies by @andrewwhitehead in #2510
• Feat: Upgrade from tags and fix issue with legacy IssuerRevRegRecords [<=v0.5.2] by @shaangill025 in #2486
• Change arg_parse to always set --emit-new-didcomm-prefix and --emit-new-didcomm-mime-type to true by @swcurran in #2517
• Fix: Problem Report Before Exchange Established by @Ennovate-com in #2519
• refactor: drop mediator_terms and recipient_terms by @dbluhm in #2515
• Avoid multiple open wallet connections by @andrewwhitehead in #2521
• chore(deps): Bump urllib3 from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 by @dependabot in #2525
• chore(deps): Bump urllib3 from 2.0.2 to 2.0.6 in /demo/playground/scripts by @dependabot in #2524
• chore: update pydid by @dbluhm in #2527
• 🎨 clarify LedgerError message when TAA is required and not accepted by @ff137 in #2545
• fix: correct minor typos by @Ennovate-com in #2544
• Update .readthedocs.yaml by @swcurran in #2547
• Update .readthedocs.yaml by @swcurran in #2548
• fix: routing behind mediator by @dbluhm in #2536
• Feat: Support subwallet upgradation using the Upgrade command by @shaangill025 in #2529
• chore(deps): Bump urllib3 from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 by @dependabot in #2552
• fix: taa rough timestamp timezone from datetime by @dbluhm in #2554
• refactor: replace multiformats library by @dbluhm in #2559
• fix: mediation routing keys as did key by @dbluhm in #2516
• chore(deps): Bump urllib3 from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 in /demo/playground/scripts by @dependabot in #2551
• fix: clean up requests and invites by @dbluhm in #2560
• Update demo/playground scripts by @usingtechnology in #2562
• refactor: use did-peer-2 instead of peerdid by @dbluhm in #2561
• Issue 2555 playground scripts readme by @usingtechnology in #2563
• Playground needs optionally external network by @usingtechnology in #2564
• chore: dependency updates by @dbluhm in #2565
• fix: drop asynctest by @dbluhm in #2566
• 0.11.0-rc0 by @swcurran in #2575
• chore: point to official sd-jwt lib release by @dbluhm in #2573
• 0.11.0-rc1 by @swcurran in #2576

New Contributors

• @Ennovate-com made their first contribution in #2420

Full Changelog: 0.10.1...0.11.0-rc1