ICICLE v4.0.0 Release Notes

🎉 Major Release: ICICLE v4.0.0

We're excited to announce the release of ICICLE v4.0.0! This major version introduces significant improvements to the API design, making it more intuitive, object-oriented, and developer-friendly across all supported languages.

🚀 Key Highlights

• Object-Oriented Field API: Complete redesign of field operations fro...

What's Changed

• Fix compilation for g++14.2.0 by @ChickenLover in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/924
• [FEAT] add method to get challenges from sumcheck's Fiat-Shamir by @idanfr-ingo in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/921
• Feat: balanced decomposition for Rq polynomials by @yshekel in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/922
• Added Darkmode, Benchmarks upd...

What's Changed

• [FIX] Docs deployment by @jeremyfelder in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/903
• Yshekel/jl projection by @yshekel in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/907
• DevDocs Version 2 by @Shalmoni in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/906
• quickfix by @Shalmoni in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/910
• 2 more broken references fixed by @Sh...

What's Changed

🔥 New Features 🔥

• [FEAT] Add Golang support for more fields by @jeremyfelder in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/882
• Add Goldilocks Ext by @ChickenLover in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/892
• Feat/fri poseidon by @ChickenLover in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/896

🚀 Performance 🚀

• G2 multiplier optimization by @micke...

What's Changed

• [FEAT] Release ubuntu and build for RTX 40XX,50XX by @LeonHibnik in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/868
• fix: stream type consistency with IcicleStreamHandle alias by @mdqst in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/858
• Danny/poseidon2 consolidate kernels by @danny-shterman in https://github.com/ingonyama-zk/icicle/pull/866
• fix: resolve compiler warn...