v0.3.0

We are thrilled to announce the release of pop-cli version 0.3.0! This update brings significant enhancements, including the parachain builder and deployer, and support for the entire development process of smart contracts using ink!.
With this milestone,pop-cli now supports creating, building and running parachains, as well as the entire lifecycle of smart contract development.

Summary of New Features

• pop build. The builder has been designed to recognize the type of project the user wants to build. By simply typing pop build it can determine whether the project is a parachain, contract, or pallet, and proceed with the appropriate build process.
• pop build spec. Builds your parachain and generates the necessary files and data required for registering it on a Polkadot network. It has an interactive UI to guide the user in the process.
• Spawn a local network using pop up parachain, pop will source all the required binaries for you in seconds.
• pop up parachain keeps some artifacts in cache to improve the developer experience and make the development process faster. pop clean cache allows users to easily clean this cache.
• Spin up the Paseo, Kusama or Polkadot Relay Chain with a simple command. (More information here: https://learn.onpop.io/v/appchains/guides/spinning-up-a-polkadot-network/spinning-up-the-polkadot-network)
• Generate a new ink! smart contract from diverses templates with pop new contract.
• pop build. Builds your ink! smart contract. 
• Test an ink! smart contract by executing all unit tests with pop test contract and e2e tests with pop test contract --e2e. For e2e tests, pop will automatically source the substrate-contracts-node binary, making it easier to run these tests.
• Deploy an ink! smart contract to a local development or remote parachain node with pop up contract. If no specific blockchain is specified by the user, to streamline the development process, the system will automatically run a development contract node for testing purposes.
• Interacts with your deployed smart contract with pop call contract.
• Various bug fixes and user experience (UX) improvements

Community Contributions

We appreciate the valuable contributions from our external community members. Your efforts play a significant role in the success of of pop-cli. Thank you for your support!

• @hitchhooker for fixing a bug when renaming a binary #241
• @bolajahmad for adding a flag all flag to pop clean cache to remove all the artifacts #233

What's Changed

• fix: remove unused dependencies and fix cargo deny by @AlexD10S in #215
• feat(up parachain): faster binary sourcing by @evilrobot-01 in #199
• refactor: standardise commands by @evilrobot-01 in #217
• feat: clean cache by @evilrobot-01 in #216
• feat: add paseo support by @evilrobot-01 in #182
• feat: guide user for contract creation and add 4 contract templates by @AlexD10S in #201
• feat: dry-run flag to estimate gas by @AlexD10S in #203
• chore: set CONTRACTS_NODE_PATH env variable for e2e tests by @AlexD10S in #209
• refactor(templates): Make templates and providers generic by @peterwht in #226
• refactor: improve ux by @evilrobot-01 in #235
• refactor: upload + instantiate contract by @AlexD10S in #228
• feat: enable building without project type specification by @evilrobot-01 in #222
• docs: consolidate README into Docs by @brunopgalvao in #223
• feat(build parachain): generate specification, wasm and genesis state files by @AlexD10S in #219
• fix: handle IO error if rename fails by @hitchhooker in #241
• fix: readme commands by @AlexD10S in #243
• fix: remove unused folders after download contracts node binary by @AlexD10S in #240
• refactor: ensure the UX for new contracts is consistent with the parachains. by @AlexD10S in #232
• refactor: improve new consistency by @evilrobot-01 in #245
• refactor: improve up ux by @evilrobot-01 in #248
• fix: check if contracts needs to be build before deploy by @AlexD10S in #246
• refactor: default suri by @evilrobot-01 in #250
• test: integration tests, doc tests and improve coverage by @AlexD10S in #242
• feat(contracts): New contract templates by @al3mart in #249
• build(deps): bump openssl from 0.10.64 to 0.10.66 by @dependabot in #259
• feat: add all flag to pop clean by @bolajahmad in #233
• feat(contract-e2e): auto-source substrate-contracts-node with e2e tests by @peterwht in #254
• feat: consistency with pop up parachains to handle versioning for contracts-node by @AlexD10S in #262
• feat: pop build spec by @al3mart in #257
• chore: release 0.3.0 by @AlexD10S in #244

New Contributors

• @hitchhooker made their first contribution in #241

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0