chore: Release Noir(1.0.0-beta.8)

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1.0.0-beta.8 (2025-07-10)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• disallow casting signed integers to field (#8818)
• remove hash_to_field from stdlib (#9098)

Features

• nargo expand for LSP (#9012) (4fb8d36)
• Allow TraitAsType syntax to refer to associated constants in expressions (#9041) (e64ae7d)
• debug: Print ssa locations along with ssa (#9001) (759dc57)
• fuzz: Add comptime_vs_brillig_direct target (#8924) (1478114)
• fuzz: Generate references in the AST fuzzer (#8728) (071c897)
• fuzz: Use Slice in the AST generator (#9156) (a8fe98e)
• Implement type suffixes (#8970) (27e5ed3)
• Implicit coercion of str and fmtstr into CtString (#9032) (2d8f14e)
• Push overflow checks inside of signed binary ops (#9074) (2684469)
• Show why an assertion will always fail if it's a static string (#9013) (ea507d6)
• Simplify apply function cfg immediately (#8895) (b09073a)
• Some nargo expand fixes related to function and method calls (#9038) (30a491d)
• ssa_fuzzer: Custom mutations (#8988) (4f52a7a)
• ssa_fuzzer: Loops + signed (#8881) (8a7046b)
• ssa: Handle println in the SSA interpreter (#9028) (85527e0)

Bug Fixes

• Add a aliased check for last stores (#8955) (a56d36a)
• Add a remove_unreachable_instructions SSA pass (with unreachable terminator) (#9008) (9fc413d)
• Add parent traits when adding trait impl where clause (#9000) (caabecf)
• Apply instantiation bindings to associated constants (#9117) (8988213)
• Assorted SSA interpreter fixes (#8893) (ca3238c)
• Better package name validation and error messages for nargo new/init (#8978) (06c73d7)
• Catch unbound type variables during frontend compilation (#8686) (53bd661)
• Check "negate with overflow" in comptime code + allow u1 to be used in comptime code (#8969) (256c678)
• Check both coordinates for point doubling (#9039) (d692001)
• Check for maximum limbs during radix decomposition (#9134) (409c838)
• Codegen generic type arguments (#9044) (b8abf30)
• Combine turbofish types with potential type bindings (#9062) (f627889)
• Compute the dominance frontier of the reverse cfg using the extended cfg (#9019) (d596f68)
• Create calls to apply before function values are changed to fields in defunctionalize (#8916) (3546f47)
• defunctionalize: Create a placeholder function for first-class function calls with no variants (#8697) (e96b40c)
• Do not hoist control dependent cast (#8886) (98d19fb)
• Enum match on integer type variable (#9122) (b6f0dee)
• Execution and proving discrepancy in ecdsa (#9157) (d651576)
• expand: Handle HirIdent with TraitItem (and other related fixes) (#9143) (4742c02)
• expand: Missing struct member visibility, and use "crate" instead of "super" when possible (#9081) (014d793)
• expand: Show references to ModuleDefId recursing on parents (#8977) (2cfc786)
• Fix if/match tracking in last uses pass (#8935) (670063c)
• formatter: Reset indetnation after group changed it (#8966) (39cec14)
• fuzz: Assign to an index variable to sequence side effects (#9056) (3672e3e)
• fuzz: Avoid negating i8::MIN into i8::MAX+1 which won't compile (#8972) (f1a3938)
• fuzz: Avoid overflow in gen_unary (#9024) (301d86e)
• fuzz: Avoid overflowing binary ops in "no dynamic" mode (#8996) (f9b66d6)
• fuzz: Consider == turning into != equivalent (#9025) (a77d56d)
• fuzz: Consider values returned from Brillig to ACIR as dynamic (#8931) (b04a51c)
• fuzz: Do not access arrays with &mut inside if using dynamic condition (#9072) (00980ec)
• fuzz: Do not take a mutable reference over immutable vars which contain a mutable ref (#8971) (de51b8f)
• fuzz: Enable print in comptime_vs_brillig_direct (#9045) (9369420)
• fuzz: Fix env var name in fuzzing workflow (#8929) (7b972b5)
• fuzz: Fix wrong source listing order for comptime (#9149) (8f7b3fa)
• fuzz: Handle overflow errors from the elaborator (#9014) (e25b5d7)
• fuzz: Use an inline block to circumvent negation with overflow (#8911) (753ad6f)
• fuzz: Use indirection for taking &mut over an array element (#8992) (01b9e16)
• Handle return_data in the interpreter SSA CLI (#8914) (237876e)
• Impl associated types can get out of order (#9137) (5d58460)
• Increment reference counts when deduplicating calls which return arrays (#8757) (d7030e8)
• Inline global arrays with functions at their call site (#8905) (202130c)
• licm: Account for negative bounds when checking whether a loop executes (#8889) (d49ec03)
• LICM: Consider negative loop bounds before hoisting div <const> <induction-var> (#8986) (5845dc5)
• LSP: Suggest generic type methods (#8948) (c0d47a5)
• Make <T as Trait> no longer an assumed impl (#9146) (4092be1)
• Match against all Value recursive types when checking for a function/closure in a global (#8967) (e43a7f4)
• mem2reg: Add the value in ArraySet to aliased_references (#8976) (38088d9)
• mem2reg: Keep last store for a used nested array (#8917) (2e36b30)
• mem2reg: Keep last store for reference in array used only in an array get (#8877) (b6ad823)
• mem2reg: Keep store when any aliased reference is kept (#8960) (8aa2267)
• mem2reg: Look for aliases in jmp arguments (#9120) (6392ced)
• More SSA interpreter fixes (#8904) (abef727)
• noirc_evaluator: U128 Binary::And simplification (#8940) (5071093)
• parser: Allow type expressions in turbofish named arguments (#9171) (8a25291)
• parser: Don't simplify double minus (#9163) (3937585)
• parser: Let as have a lower precedence (#8956) (71ab596)
• Preserve functions which are used in array_set instructions (#8891) (945ea6e)
• Prevent bound_constraint_with_offset from panicking (#9145) (c6ee7ba)
• Put constraint failure after binary operations that overflow (#9023) (f645c28)
• Recover generics when defining trait impl function (#9009) (f8c71c2)
• Remove hash_to_field from stdlib (#9098) (441f39a)
• Replace public key with curve generators in inactive branches (#8993) (5fbc2a4)
• Revert #9044 (#9080) (be74580)
• ssa interpreter: Add out of bounds error (#9147) (913ee63)
• ssa_fuzzer: Nested conditions in loops (#8997) (8e01c4a)
• ssa: Do not fail for static assertions in a map over empty dynamic slices (#9060) (0098c45)
• ssa: Iterative branch analysis (#9139) (2bffde4)
• ssa: Perform mem2reg before DIE (#9018) (afa4fcd)
• ssa: Recursively invalidate cached array instruction in constant folding (#9128) (2f11e87)
• ssa: Remove array from cache in constant folding if it's an argument to a Call (#9040) (17bf172)
• ssa: Signed cast simplification (#8862) (bcfb293)
• ssa: Swap Brillig index shift and DIE in minimal pipeline (#8946) (b891901)
• Strange use of predicates in euclidian division (#8934) (b2c38af)
• Track trait associated types as such (#9170) (692e94c)
• Use enable_side_effects for u128 multiplication overflow checks (#9115) (3beb8f5)
• Validate SSA call return values (#9129) (dbee137)
• When macro parse error happens, discard warnings; also preserve unquoted token locations (#8944) (d1e55d9)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Disallow casting signed integers to field (#8818) (e03f398)

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Execution Time'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.20.

Benchmark suite	Current: 5b44433	Previous: 3937585	Ratio
rollup-base-private	0.373 s	0.294 s	1.27

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Test Suite Duration'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.20.

Benchmark suite	Current: dd80ebd	Previous: 3937585	Ratio
test_report_zkpassport_noir_rsa_	2 s	1 s	2

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Compilation Time'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.20.

Benchmark suite	Current: 0bd4778	Previous: 692e94c	Ratio
rollup-block-root-empty	26.58 s	21.7 s	1.22

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