chore(release): 5.3.0 - #25240
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Promotes `v5-next` onto `v5` for the **v5.2.0** release. Frozen at `ee5d2d367e` — the `v5-next` tip at cut time. Both `merge-train/spartan-v5` and `merge-train/fairies-v5` are drained to that same commit, so nothing staged is left behind. ### Testnet validation This branch was cut at `a4db216abf`, which is byte-identical to the `v5.2.0-nightly.20260815` tag — same commit, same tree (`0b22572eace2419ede6bbab173514d6965d4e0d0`). That nightly's CI3 run is green, its artifacts are published to npm and Docker Hub, and it has been **running healthily on testnet since 2026-08-15**: | Component | Image / reported version | |---|---| | validators, prover node, prover broker, prover agents (`testnet` ns) | `aztecprotocol/aztec:5.2.0-nightly.20260815` | | `v5.testnet.rpc.aztec-labs.com` | `nodeVersion=5.2.0-nightly.20260815` | | `canonical.testnet.rpc.aztec-labs.com` | `nodeVersion=5.2.0-nightly.20260815` | Chain advancing normally, no prunes or reorgs, no WARN/ERROR across node pods since rollout. The branch has since been fast-forwarded to `ee5d2d367e` to pick up #25242 (configurable RPC server HTTP timeouts and CORS allowed-headers). That is the only delta from the soaked tree — 8 files, +131/−10, no nightly covers it yet. Its config defaults were checked against Node's built-ins (`keepAliveTimeout` 5000 ms, `headersTimeout` 60000 ms) and match exactly, and the CORS default path resolves to the same `cors()` call as before, so a node that sets none of the new env vars behaves identically. It touches no circuits, protocol contracts, or generated constants. ### Manifest `.release-please-manifest.json` reads `5.2.0` on this branch, which is the released version — correct as-is, no change needed in this PR. `v5-next` moves to `5.3.0` separately in #25240; this branch is frozen and cannot pick that up, so the two can merge in either order. `v5` is a strict ancestor of `v5-next` this cycle, so there was no manifest conflict to pre-resolve. ### Scope 139 commits (86 non-merge, 23 PR-level) spanning 2026-07-14 to 2026-08-17. | Area | Theme | |---|---| | `prover-node` / `prover-client` | Epoch-proving robustness: retry-to-converge with failure declared only at submission-window expiry, ticker-driven expiry, per-checkpoint post-mortem upload, checkpoint-only re-proving, prune-induced fault handling (#24678, #24982, #24983, #24990, #25027) | | `pxe` | Sync performance: hash-pinned node read cache (#24969), anchor-bounded tag log caching (#25074), note/event validation from cached tx data (#25076), constrained tag sync (#24275), sender tagging finalization from log blocks (#25045) | | `p2p` / `validator-client` | Gossip tx validation no longer stalls behind tx-pool finalization (#25148); startup fails when p2p fails to start (#25177); slashing/proposing/health/`sendTx` gated on p2p connectivity (#25185); duplicate time-sensitive proposal validation removed (#25207); `ValidatedProposal` branding (#25222) | | `ethereum` / `aztec-node` | L1 watchers poll `getLogs` instead of `eth_newFilter` (#25176); block stream sync no longer resolves against an earlier pass (#25206) | | `stdlib` / `foundation` | Deserialization bounds hardening (#25026, #25028, #25029, #25109); checkpoint block-shape and block-count validation (#25229); JSON-RPC cookies (#25231) | | `archiver` | Removed-block cleanup and ownership-checked tx-effect deletes (#24765); L2→L1 witness from a single store snapshot (#24754) | | `aztec` | Declarative deployment framework at `@aztec/aztec/deploy` (#24685) | | `slasher` | Own-validator slash-target warnings and metrics (#25058) | | telemetry | JSON-RPC metrics (#25159) | | JSON-RPC server | Configurable HTTP keep-alive / headers timeouts and CORS allowed-headers, defaults preserving current behaviour (#25242) | | toolchain | Noir bumped to `v1.0.0-beta.25` (#24907) | **One breaking change**, inherited from the Noir bump: note types declared directly inside a `contract` module must now be `pub`. Everything else is additive or internal. ### Protocol constants Built from source and compared against `v5` — a cache-free rebuild of every protocol circuit with each ref's own nargo and bb, then regeneration of `vk_tree.ts` and `protocol_contract_data.ts`: - `vkTreeRoot` = `0x2b3b6ea4412b9c8f6457a37f91a2870306f8641e07e16a49b68bda6f8bc02892` — unchanged from v5.1.0 - `protocolContractsHash` = `0x2c075866eafc88a1f6f9addc7e337c6e64e45d1cb7fd7c0d612ebcec72aab2ca` — unchanged from v5.1.0 The Noir beta.24 → beta.25 bump does not reach the circuits: the release build consumes the committed `pinned-build.tar.gz`, which is bit-identical between v5.1.0 and this commit (blob `3bedcb1fd1…`), so the protocol-circuit bytecode is frozen rather than recompiled. The 47 verification keys were recomputed locally from that pinned bytecode with the cache disabled, and all 47 `check_pinned_vk` checks passed. `protocolContractsHash` is likewise backed by the new `pinned-protocol-contracts.tar.gz`, whose three artifacts were byte-compared against the build. Both values were also confirmed inside the published `@aztec/protocol-contracts` and `@aztec/noir-protocol-circuits-types` packages for `5.2.0-nightly.20260815`. That makes v5.2.0 a drop-in upgrade against the current rollup rather than a coordinated one. ✅ **Gate re-run against `ee5d2d367e` (the current head) and passed** — both values reproduced exactly from a build at this commit, with `vkTreeRoot` numerically evaluated rather than inferred. `29556326ce..ee5d2d3` touches no `noir-projects/**`, `l1-contracts/src/**`, `ConstantsGen.sol`, `constants.gen.ts` or `constants.nr`. Scope of the check: it verifies that the pinned circuit bytecode plus locally recomputed VKs agree with the pin — not that a from-source recompile reproduces v5.1.0's bytecode. <details> <summary>Commits added after the original constants check at 2955632</summary> `#25207` `#25222` `#25206` `#25185` `#25176` `#25163` `#25229` `#25159` `#25162` `#25231` `#25224` `#25228` `#25230` `#25242` plus their merge commits. </details> ### Known gap Migration notes carry entries under `## TBD` that arrived with the docs baseline backport (#25017) and describe `next`-line changes not present on the v5 line — protocol contracts removed from `@aztec/noir-contracts.js`, and the `at(wallet)` → `withWallet(wallet)` deprecation. Neither exists on this branch. There is also no `## 5.1.0` heading, and the entries that ship in v5.2.0 sit under `## TBD` rather than a version heading. This ships in the release docs, so it is worth correcting on `v5-next` and backporting to `v5` before the tag, rather than after.
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v5-nextonto the next minor now that the 5.2.0 line has been cut.