0.31.0-rc.1

This release introduces support for creating, querying and verifying public credentials as well as for querying CTypes from an archive node.
Additionally, this introduces a function (compliantResolve) which allows DID resolution that is compliant, out of the box, with specifications detailing data models for the DID resolution process.

What's Changed

Features

• feat: public credentials and asset DIDs by @ntn-x2 in #677
• feat: add CType block number support by @ntn-x2 in #694
• feat: DID spec compliant implementation of resolve by @rflechtner in #665
• feat: allow passing additional arguments to ApiPromise.create by @rflechtner in #705

Fixes

• fix: add peregrine stg chain to type decorations by @wischli in #681
• fix: old session types by @weichweich in #687
• fix: esm imports by @rflechtner in #700
• fix: various minor fixes by @rflechtner in #685
• fix: block parsing logic for public credentials by @ntn-x2 in #697
• fix: backwards-compatible ctype data decoding by @rflechtner in #703

Misc

• chore: update callback docstrings by @rflechtner in #680
• refactor: reduce startup time of tests by using babel to transpile js by @rflechtner in #689
• chore: update and dedupe dependencies by @ntn-x2 in #696
• chore: update 2023 by @weichweich in #698

Full Changelog: 0.30.0...0.31.0-rc.1