release-2024-02-16: Various Small Improvements

This is Internet Identity release release-2024-02-16 for commit cc0d5dd417fac5ecf65008cd8090598fdb4bb05d.

This release contains many small improvements for II, both in development infrastructure as well as the deployed application.

The sha256 of production asset internet_identity_production.wasm.gz is a3b50a3b35c487b9e5e9cd0174845d83fe15d5bb5d78e507647ed2272777568f.

What's Changed

• Bump nodejs16 actions by @nmattia in #2251
• Update release in README by @gix-bot in #2250
• Update commit of IC artefacts by @gix-bot in #2252
• Generalize CSP headers by @nmattia in #2248
• Decouple Anchor from serialized bytes by @frederikrothenberger in #2254
• Resolve authn / authz confusion in helper functions by @frederikrothenberger in #2255
• Add anchor number to Anchor type by @frederikrothenberger in #2256
• Don't panic in vc_util by @nmattia in #2257
• Package vc_util_js by @nmattia in #2258
• Add a convention connecting credential specs and the issued VCs by @przydatek in #2253
• Don't include dev build checksum in metadata by @nmattia in #2260
• Update rust version by @gix-bot in #2259
• Update commit of IC artefacts by @gix-bot in #2262
• Add a generic helper for validating II presentations with compliant VCs by @przydatek in #2261
• Add inline script loader by @nmattia in #2263
• Remove custom-submodule from vc_util by @przydatek in #2265
• Upgrade to astrojs v4 by @nmattia in #2264
• Change link color to look less visited by @meodai in #2267
• Move VC/JWT-handling from the issuer into helpers in vc_util by @przydatek in #2266
• Update dapps list by @gix-bot in #2269
• Remove redundant memory reserve by @frederikrothenberger in #2268
• Remove low-level stable memory tests by @frederikrothenberger in #2271
• Update node version by @gix-bot in #2270
• Improve vc-spec.md by @lmuntaner in #2272
• Add sig-verifier-js basic workspace by @nmattia in #2275
• Improve HACKING.md by @lmuntaner in #2273
• Bump docker related actions by @nmattia in #2276
• Remove changes link in RC message by @nmattia in #2277
• Push newAnchor into LoginData by @nmattia in #2278

New Contributors

• @lmuntaner made their first contribution in #2272

Full Changelog: release-2024-02-02...release-2024-02-16

Build flavors

For more information please see the Build flavors section of the README.

Filename	sha256 (links to CI Run)
internet_identity_production.wasm.gz	a3b50a3b35c487b9e5e9cd0174845d83fe15d5bb5d78e507647ed2272777568f
internet_identity_dev.wasm.gz	197d0423178a6ae2785c924b962648e2b47e6ccb2a25e98d9220d9f3ce5eebf7
internet_identity_test.wasm.gz	149b86e8d99a903ea1a076884a8d41287a49026f4bc675ad96c19309e91f52f0
archive.wasm.gz	cf0dd829a7c3f99103a81875cb663501b2ab2be80c28de1e84772aadd5b4b5b3
vc_demo_issuer.wasm.gz	aafa0c4b2b3541b788e01a32272a1c914043240e795fc1d36fd2e8d449c9ce86

Wasm Verification

To build the wasm modules yourself and verify their hashes, run the following commands from the root of the Internet Identity repository:

git pull # to ensure you have the latest changes.
git checkout cc0d5dd417fac5ecf65008cd8090598fdb4bb05d
./scripts/verify-hash --ii-hash a3b50a3b35c487b9e5e9cd0174845d83fe15d5bb5d78e507647ed2272777568f