Introduce the Submodule Pattern: Fix Dependabot Alert & Go Mods

Summary

• Ran make mod_tidy
• Address dependabot alert on vulnerable package in badger submodule

Full Changelog: v0.8.1...v0.8.2

Introduce the Submodule Pattern: Fix Badger Submodule Path

Summary

Fix the badger submodule to use the kvstore directory in its path

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.8.1

Introduce the Submodule Pattern

Human Summary

• Improved documentation and workflow files
• Introduced submodule pattern for key-value stores
• Make the library into an auditable state

What's Changed

• chore: tidy up documentation and github workflows/templates by @h5law in #29
• Update proofs.go by @Olshansk in #30
• chore: replace instances of tree with trie by @h5law in #31
• [Documentation] Add clarifying comment to ClosestProof documentation by @h5law in #32
• fix whitepaper link by @zorjak in #35
• [Documentation] Cleanup Docs and Workflows by @h5law in #34
• [Enhancement] Reintroduce the MapStore interface and SimpleMap and make the Badger a submodules by @h5law in #33

New Contributors

• @Olshansk made their first contribution in #30
• @zorjak made their first contribution in #35

Full Changelog: v0.7.1...v0.8.0

SMT: Add the SparseMerkleClosestProof type

What's Changed

• feat: add SparseMerkleClosestProof proof type by @h5law in #27

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.7.1

SMT: ProveClosest, KVStore, Serialisable Proofs and Bechmarks

What's Changed

• feat: Replace MapStore and SimpleMap with KVStore and BadgerDB by @h5law in #19
• chore: cleanup documentation by @h5law in #24
• feat: add ProveClosest method to SMT and SMST by @h5law in #18
• feat: unexport GetPathBit by @h5law in #26
• feat: add benchmarking suite by @h5law in #25

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.7.0

SMST: Version Bump

What's Changed

• [Enhancement] Add Merkle Sum tree functionality (SMT Wrapper) by @h5law in #13
• [Minor] Expose GetPathBit() by @h5law in #15

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.1

SMST: Sparse Merkle Sum Tree

What's Changed

• [Enhancement] Add Merkle Sum tree functionality (SMT Wrapper) by @h5law in #13
• [Minor] Expose GetPathBit() by @h5law in #15

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

Lazy Loading - v0.5.0

Release: v0.5.0 📦

This release integrates the vulcanize PR that implements lazy-loading into the SMT's functionality with delayed commits, to improve the trees' performance.

What's Changed

• Use lazy-loaded cached tree implementation by @h5law in #6
• feat: reviewpad onboarding by @reviewpad in #5
• [Cleanup] Initial documentation improvements and code cleanup by @h5law in #8

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

pokt-network/smt release

Update Go version to 1.18 - marking start of pokt-network releases.