chore(master): Release 0.74.0

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aztec-package: 0.74.0

0.74.0 (2025-02-04)

Miscellaneous

• Ensure new kv-store is used on the server (#11662) (aee1420)

barretenberg.js: 0.74.0

0.74.0 (2025-02-04)

Miscellaneous

• barretenberg.js: Synchronize aztec-packages versions

aztec-packages: 0.74.0

0.74.0 (2025-02-04)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• staking library (#11559)
• time library (#11542)

Features

• u128.ts accepting string on input (#11664) (bb25992)
• Add network, better drawer performance (#11694) (1f61822)
• Skip calculation of partial sums when simulating blobs (#11257) (aca66f7)
• Staking library (#11559) (c050320)
• Time library (#11542) (3b463f9), closes #11520
• UltraHonkZK contract (#11553) (a68369f)

Bug Fixes

• Add bootstrap.sh to rebuild_patterns (#11683) (e84a81a)
• archiver: Do not attempt to decode blob before filtering (#11668) (961cbdd)
• Barretenber/stdlib/logic bugs (#11651) (dddab22)
• Barretenberg/stdlib/logic bugs (redo) (#11691) (6d0bad7)
• docs: Keys docs update (#11665) (ce3d92c)
• Remove avm test that was split (#11719) (9dc8158)
• Revert "barretenberg/stdlib/logic bugs" (#11689) (b99570d)
• Solidity verifier caching (#11712) (2ba1e71)
• Use eth-execution label (#11713) (d3c31d8)

Miscellaneous

• Add tests for gov proposer (#11633) (5c6a48a), closes #11681
• bb-prover: Avm test skip and split (#11717) (1778867)
• Benchmark sha256 number of instructions executed in AVM (#11253) (aaf0d8c)
• Delete MerkleTrees implementation in JS (#11697) (1db7b78)
• Ensure new kv-store is used on the server (#11662) (aee1420)
• Field encoding should use fromString instead of fromHexString (#11585) (43fdbb1), closes #10331
• Improve boxes (#11656) (46a3e85)
• Increase node pool count and don't use a release channel (#11687) (65a3f11)
• Mark contracts as pub (#11241) (b168601)
• No rbac on kind (#11714) (7a142af)
• Reduce memory requests on prover node (#11678) (a720151)
• Remove profiler cache fallback (#11680) (a305aef)
• Remove some templates in templates (#11698) (61614b1)
• Remove unused functions from public side effect trace (#11600) (54e9602)
• Replace relative paths to noir-protocol-circuits (739151e)
• Replace relative paths to noir-protocol-circuits (bbd526c)
• sequencer: Add InvalidArchive to canProposeAtNextEthBlock ignored errors (#11682) (eea4bd3)
• spartan: Remove hardcoded keys and addresses - derive all from mnemonic (#11672) (65f0e48)
• Turn off auto-upgrade in node-pools (#11679) (09f98a9)
• Turn on masking in ultra and mega zk + oink clean-up (#11693) (08e96fe)
• Zombienet yaml (#11705) (5e9f12e)

Documentation

• Update mig notes release version (#11685) (46a30b5)

barretenberg: 0.74.0

0.74.0 (2025-02-04)

Features

• UltraHonkZK contract (#11553) (a68369f)

Bug Fixes

• Barretenber/stdlib/logic bugs (#11651) (dddab22)
• Barretenberg/stdlib/logic bugs (redo) (#11691) (6d0bad7)
• Revert "barretenberg/stdlib/logic bugs" (#11689) (b99570d)

Miscellaneous

• Ensure new kv-store is used on the server (#11662) (aee1420)
• Remove some templates in templates (#11698) (61614b1)
• Turn on masking in ultra and mega zk + oink clean-up (#11693) (08e96fe)

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