8.0.0

Changelogs

protocol version 8 and SECP256K1 cost model
P2P ON - Babbage with Babbage TX	✔️
P2P OFF - Babbage with default (Babbage) TX	✔️
Mix P2P and Legacy - Babbage with default (Babbage) TX	✔️
P2P ON - Babbage with Alonzo TX	✔️
Mix P2P and Legacy - Babbage with Mary TX	✔️
P2P ON - Babbage with Shelley TX	✔️

other testing
upgrade job (1.35.7 to 8.0.0-rc1)	✔️
block production testing on network with 10 pools, 5 of them P2P, 5 of them Legacy - results (sqlite db)	✔️
sanity check submit-api REST service	✔️

8.0.0-rc1 pushed to shelley-qa	✔️
Grafana metrics OK	⏳
Regression testing against shelley-qa - results	⏳
Regression testing against preview	✔️
Sync testing ran against shelley_qa & Preview & Preprod & Mainnet (Windows, Linux, macOS)	✔️
DB re-validation testing (ledger snapshots compatibility)	✔️
Backward compatibility testing (Node with version N-1)	✔️
Check build instructions changes	✔️
Benchmarking - Report	✔️
sanity check release notes	✔️

Introduction of the Conway era (Voltaire) as a developmental hard fork. ✔️
Governance action for SPO polls (cardano-cli governance *-poll) that the Cardano Foundation will use to conduct an SPO survey. ✔️
Fairness improvement into the mempool logic. ⏳
Query commands for inspecting metrics and data in mempool. ✔️
Possibility for the network to be defined via CARDANO_NODE_NETWORK_ID instead of needing to be passed in every CLI query. ✔️
More detailed output in the query tip CLI command. ✔️
Possibility for modification of connection limits via configuration file. ⏳
Versioned serialization formats for ledger. ➡️ (nothing to test on node/CLI side)
A ledger API. ➡️ (nothing to test on node/CLI side)
Changed deposit tracking. ⏳
Possibility for socket to be defined via ‘–socket-path’ CLI option instead of ‘CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH’ env var. ❌ (issue #5199)