chore: Release Noir(1.0.0-beta.4)

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1.0.0-beta.4 (2025-03-10)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• convert TraitMethodNotInScope to error (#7427)
• bump bb version to v0.77.0 (#7599)
• remove merkle module from stdlib (#7582)
• remove deprecated hash functions from stdlib (#7477)
• frontend: Restrict capturing mutable variable in lambdas (#7488)
• remove U128 struct from stdlib (#7529)
• bump rust edition to 2024 (#7533)
• bump msrv to 1.85.0 (#7530)
• cli: Add --unstable-features to gate unstable features (#7449)

Features

• Add optional oracle resolver url in acvm_cli (#7630) (a9de769)
• Array concat method (#7199) (5b725bb)
• Better error message when keyword is found instead of type in p… (#7501) (43ca11a)
• cli: Add --unstable-features to gate unstable features (#7449) (fd213f6)
• cli: Log and replay oracle transcript (#7417) (95ac7a8)
• Compare bincode to CBOR, FlexBuffers and Protobuf - implement best (#7513) (d047779)
• debugger: REPL add breakpoint by sourcecode line (#5204) (ef51d8a)
• experimental: Add invalid pattern syntax error (#7487) (7aa23ec)
• experimental: Enable ownership syntax (#7603) (9594dee)
• experimental: Issue errors for unreachable match branches (#7556) (e832244)
• experimental: Support struct constructors in match patterns (#7489) (6f79fd1)
• Let all compiler errors carry a Location instead of a Span (#7486) (4fdc742)
• Optimize out range checks on limiting cases (#7510) (6f78848)
• Perform constant sha256 compressions at compile-time (#7566) (c2022f4)
• performance: Avoid extra Brillig array offsetting for constant indices (#7522) (b8b0e73)
• Relate errors to macro built-ins errors (#7609) (83d7e6a)
• Simplify simple conditionals for brillig (#7205) (9056d74)
• Support <Type as Trait>::method in expressions (#7551) (fdd2fe7)
• Sync from aztec-packages (#7474) (c254c3c)
• Sync from aztec-packages (#7606) (3531474)
• Test error spans and messages (#7526) (da5227e)
• Use resolved type instead of needing Constructor.struct_type (#7500) (e26e993)

Bug Fixes

• Compare Quoted by expanding interned values (#7602) (1a1eb6f)
• Correctly format trait function with multiple where clauses (#7531) (c438547)
• Display causes but not stack trace in CLI error report (#7584) (d57e0ac)
• Don't crash on broken impl syntax (#7512) (677c10c)
• Don't panic when shifting too much (#7429) (5073370)
• Don't use dummy location when inserting debug code (#7482) (87196fe)
• Error on infinitely recursive types (#7579) (ba5beb6)
• experimental: Allow shadowing in match patterns (#7484) (8e68ce6)
• experimental: Fix execution of match expressions with multiple branches (#7570) (d148df6)
• experimental: Replace most remaining match panics with errors (#7536) (d118e17)
• Fix a few cases where safety comment wasn't correctly identified (#7548) (22c7d9d)
• frontend: Restrict capturing mutable variable in lambdas (#7488) (899e8c8)
• FunctionDefinition::as_typed_expr didn't work well for trait imp… (#7611) (b3443c1)
• Issue duplicate error on impl function without self (#7490) (69e901f)
• Log to stderr (#7585) (223656f)
• LSP: References/rename only when underlying span has the correct… (#7598) (a6e5526)
• No longer error on INT_MIN globals (#7519) (0c0c397)
• performance: Accurately mark safe constant indices for arrays of complex types (#7491) (ffcc6f8)
• Shift right overflow in ACIR with unknown var now returns zero (#7509) (ca21820)
• TokensPrettyPrinter was missing some spaces between tokens (#7607) (073625a)
• Update error message to display 128 bits as valid bit size (#7626) (b4916a5)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Bump bb version to v0.77.0 (#7599) (2d373ec)
• Bump msrv to 1.85.0 (#7530) (42b4ba3)
• Bump rust edition to 2024 (#7533) (826b18a)
• Convert TraitMethodNotInScope to error (#7427) (37be49f)
• Remove deprecated hash functions from stdlib (#7477) (a5b47df)
• Remove merkle module from stdlib (#7582) (1192336)
• Remove U128 struct from stdlib (#7529) (47f4d0b)

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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: ee55b27	Previous: 899e8c8	Ratio
rollup-base-private	20.78 s	15.46 s	1.34

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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: 4ec5528	Previous: a6e5526	Ratio
noir-lang_noir_bigcurve_	243 s	195 s	1.25

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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: 51162bd	Previous: 6f78848	Ratio
rollup-merge	0.008 s	0.006 s	1.33

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FYI @noir-lang/developerrelations on Noir doc changes.