What's Changed

New features

• GKR by @Tabaie in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/243
• Efficiently verifiable Pedersen commitments by @Tabaie in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/266
• secp256k1 curve by @yelhousni in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/277
• element.SetBytesCanonical, element.BigEndian and element.LittleEndian by @gbotrel in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/286

Performance

• MSM uses batch affine addition (up to 60% speedup 🎉 ) by @gbotrel in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/261
• Faster G2 subgroup membership on BN254 by @yelhousni in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/251
• arm64,purego: field arithmetic mul for arm64 and cleanup build tags by @gbotrel in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/257

Refactor and cleanup

• Field package exposes Hash by @Tabaie in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/271
• Remove internal/ dependencies in field generated code by @gbotrel in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/287
• Removes FromMont and ToMont from field.Element api by @gbotrel in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/288
• ToBigIntRegular is deprecated, introduce BigInt method by @gbotrel in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/290

Fixes

• MiMC reasons with p-digits block by @ThomasPiellard in https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/pull/265

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ConsenSys/gnark-crypto/compare/v0.8.0...v0.9.0