Btclib

Major changes includes:

- added BlockHeader and Block data classes
- added OutPoint, TxIn, TxOut, and TX data classes
- added segwit_v0 sighash
- added PsbtIn, PbstOut, and Psbt data classes for
partially signed bitcoin transactions (BIP174)
- moved from unitest to pytest, including revision
of error messages and tests' logic

Major changes includes:

- switched to tox testing, gradually moving to pytest testing
(while discontinuing unittest)
- adopted black formatter and added compatible flake8 and isort
configurations
- added Integer as hex-string or bytes representation of an int
- adopted the function signature of dsa.sign for rfc6979.rfc6979 too
- added CURVES dictionary of all elliptic curves, e.g.:
from btclib.curve import CURVES; ec = CURVES['secp256k1']
- renamed prvkey_info_xyz as prvkey_info_xyz
- renamed pubkey_info_xyz as pubkey_info_xyz
- renamed bytes_from_key as pubkeyinfo_from_key
- renamed network_from_xpub as network_from_xkeyversion
extending its functionality to xprv too
- redundant spaces (and also tabs, newlines, returns, formfeeds, etc.)
are removed from mnemonic phrases using " ".join(mnemonic.split())
before any encoding of the mnemonic
- moved the WordLists class into the mnemonic module and
removed the wordlist module
- moved all entropy functions into the entropy module
- entropy.generate has been renamed as entropy.randbinstr

Major changes includes:

- Fixed Schnorr MuSig and Threshold Signature
- Generic public/private key accepted wherever PubKey is expected
(except for Schnorr where a public key cannot be discriminated as
different from a private key)
- P2PK and P2MS now handle also compressed public keys
- added gen_keys to dsa, ssa, bms, so that now all the standard
gen_keys, sign, and verify functions are available
- Wherever an input/output parameter sequence had
'compressed: bool, network: str', the order has been
inverted resulting in 'network: str, compressed: bool'.
Affected functions: base58address.p2pkh, base58wif.wif_from_prvkey,
to_prvkey.prvkey_info_from_prvkey, to_pubkey._bytes_from_xpub,
to_pubkey.bytes_from_key, to_pubkey.pubkey_info_from_prvkey,
hashes.hash160_from_pubkey, secpoint.bytes_from_point,
- renamed mxprv_from_bip39_mnemonic and mxprv_from_electrum_mnemonic
- made entropy the first input parameter of mnemonic_from_entropy
- improved size checks for bytes_from_octets
- entropy.generate_entropy has been renamed as entropy.generate

Major changes includes:

- The Bitcoin Message Signing module btcmsg.py has been rename bms.py
- refactored address/scriptPubKey
- consolidated wif_from_* in wif_from_prvkey
- removed ambigous functions going from prv_key to address
- refactored to_pub and to_prv functions
- added network <-> prefix <-> curve functions in network module
- removed trailing _scriptPubKey suffix from the function names
in the scriptPubKey module
- tests are now distributed as btclib.tests subpackage
- removed p2pkh_from_xpub, p2wpkh_p2sh_from_xpub, and p2wpkh_from_xpub
(use p2pkh, p2wpkh, and p2wpkh instead)
- introduced CurveGroup and CurveSubGroup as grand-parent and parent
of Curve. Also, renamed ec._p as ec.p and removed default parameters
from double_mult
- renamed ec.opposite(P) as ec.negate(P)
- the usage of DER (de)serialization is advocated through
dsa.(de)serialize, similarly to ssa.(de)serialize
and bms.(de)serialize; therefore, the corresponding
der.py functions have been renamed with leading underscore
- introduced XXXSig and XXXSigTuple for XXX = DSA, BTCMSG, and SSA

This is a major release that complete the far-reaching refactoring
initiated with v2020.3.20; it requires python>=3.8 as we use TypedDict.

Chances are this release might break most projects using btclib,
but the changes were long overdue and should be stable in time.
Functions and modules have been renamed to better reflect
the library design; anyway, because of the clearer logic,
it should not be hard to find the new versions.
The module alias.py might be a good entry point
to familiarize with the new design.

Most notably the library is now able to accept
any representation of private keys as input,
with all the WIF/BIP32/bytes/integer conversion
auto-magically being taken care of.
The same apply to public key BIP32/SEC-bytes/tuple conversion.
As usual, whenever bytes are accepted, hex-string or
text string are accepted too, as appropriate.

Moreover, major changes include:

- updated the Schnorr implementation to BIP340 proposed standard
- refactored BIP32 for increased derivation efficiency
- improved documentation
- extended functional test case coverage (as usual tests cover 100% of
the code base)
- removed all mypy warnings (but one)


Release

1. Run tox to verify that your code pass all tests
(at least on your OS with your python version)

1. Set appropriate version inside btclib/\_\_init\_\_.py and docs/source/conf.py

1. Follow docs/README.rst and test that
the documentation builds without problems

1. Add every major changes since the previous version to HISTORY.md,
if they were not already there.

1. Push to GitHub.

Verify that the documentation builds without failing on
[read the docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/btclib/builds/).

Also check that the [website](https://btclib.org) and the
[documentation](https://btclib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
are displayed correctly in a browser.

1. Build the package distribution files:

shell
rm -r btclib.egg-info/ build/ dist/
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel


1. Push the package files to PyPi:

shell
twine upload dist/*


1. Create a new release on GitHub:

Use the version as the title, and the history as the description.
Also upload the files in the dist/ folder as release attachments.

1. Prepare for a new generic version:

Choose a new version without specifying the day (e.g., if the previous
release was 2022.2.9, choose 2022.3). Then set this new version
in btclib/__init__.py and docs/source/conf.py.
Also, update HISTORY.md with this new version.