v0.12.0

For polkadot-v1.0.0 use branch polkadot-v1.0.0-tag-v0.12.0
For polkadot-v0.9.43 use branch polkadot-v0.9.43
For polkadot-v0.9.42 use branch polkadot-v0.9.42

🎉 Featuring

• Async support for direct request/response communication (see #521)
• Improve Dispatch Errors (see #563)
• Introduce chain api helpers (see #538)
• Support decoding events from the metadata (see #545)
• Small bug fixing (see #535, #524)
• Code clean up (see #522, #532 #534, #541, #563)

What's Changed since v0.11.0

⚡ Breaking API changes

• Improve Dispatch Errors (#563) @echevrier
• Clean up trait bounds (#541) @echevrier
• Add next_events_from_metadata and rename next_event (#545) @haerdib
• Provide async support for direct request/response communication (#521) @Niederb
• Expand chain api (#538) @Niederb
• Clean up dependencies and fix primitives no_std build (#535) @haerdib
• Change generic types of traits to associated types (#534) @haerdib
• Clarify distinction of Metadata struct and internal metadata field (#532) @haerdib
• Update to Substrate commit 7363dce (#524) @haerdib
• Make pallet-staking and pallet-contracts dependencies optional (#522) @Niederb

🌈 Features

• Improve Dispatch Errors (#563) @echevrier
• Add next_events_from_metadata and rename next_event (#545) @haerdib
• Provide async support for direct request/response communication (#521) @Niederb
• Make pallet-staking and pallet-contracts dependencies optional (#522) @Niederb

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Clean up dependencies and fix primitives no_std build (#535) @haerdib
• Update to Substrate commit 7363dce (#524) @haerdib

Miscellaneous

16 changes

• Remove extra is from example println (#559) @haerdib
• Improve Dispatch Errors (#563) @echevrier
• Clean up trait bounds (#541) @echevrier
• Provide an async example (#551) @Niederb
• Document feature flags (#558) @Niederb
• Bump wasmtime from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 (#554) @dependabot
• Add next_events_from_metadata and rename next_event (#545) @haerdib
• Add documentation for the websocket features (#552) @Niederb
• Provide async support for direct request/response communication (#521) @Niederb
• Expand chain api (#538) @Niederb
• Update dependencies and remove GPL v3.0 from accepted licenses (#537) @haerdib
• Clean up dependencies and fix primitives no_std build (#535) @haerdib
• Change generic types of traits to associated types (#534) @haerdib
• Clarify distinction of Metadata struct and internal metadata field (#532) @haerdib
• Update to Substrate commit 7363dce (#524) @haerdib
• Make pallet-staking and pallet-contracts dependencies optional (#522) @Niederb

What's Changed

• Make pallet-staking and pallet-contracts dependencies optional by @Niederb in #522
• Update to Substrate commit 7363dce by @haerdib in #524
• Add semantic versioning explanation to developer doc by @haerdib in #529
• Add example upgrade section to readme by @haerdib in #530
• Clarify distinction of Metadata struct and internal metadata field by @haerdib in #532
• Change generic types of traits to associated types by @haerdib in #534
• Clean up dependencies and fix primitives no_std build by @haerdib in #535
• Update dependencies and remove GPL v3.0 from accepted licenses by @haerdib in #537
• Expand chain api by @Niederb in #538
• Provide async support for direct request/response communication by @Niederb in #521
• Add documentation for the websocket features by @Niederb in #552
• Add next_events_from_metadata and rename next_event by @haerdib in #545
• Bump wasmtime from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 by @dependabot in #554
• Bump cargo-install to remove Node.js warnings by @haerdib in #557
• Document feature flags by @Niederb in #558
• Provide an async example by @Niederb in #551
• Clean up trait bounds by @echevrier in #541
• Fix CI to run with latest node by @echevrier in #565
• Improve Dispatch Errors by @echevrier in #563
• Remove extra is from example println by @haerdib in #559
• Update toml versions for tag v0.12.0 by @echevrier in #567

Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.12.0