release-2024-03-01: Add (experimental) support to disable PIN authentication

This is Internet Identity release release-2024-03-01 for commit 2c26130bb86c523c6017fbdad4d3bb97b77b1a42.

This release contains two new (experimental) feature for developers:

• II allows a dapp to disable PIN authentication for a specific authentication flow
• II will provide information about the authentication method used on successful authentication
  See the specification for more details.

The sha256 of production asset internet_identity_production.wasm.gz is 1d655f0bae74b9e54f0663f52c54e62cdece329fd5e4d8dc6cc06c0febd523c4.

What's Changed

• Simplify error clarification types by @nmattia in #2304
• Return information about authentication method by @nmattia in #2300
• Migrate stable memory tests to v8 by @frederikrothenberger in #2303
• Allow authenticating dapps to disable PIN auth by @nmattia in #2298
• Add documentation for the existing stable memory backups by @frederikrothenberger in #2306
• Remove unnecessary dev depenencies by @lmuntaner in #2305
• Update release in README by @gix-bot in #2308
• Use HeaderField where applicable by @nmattia in #2310
• Move compatibilityNotice showcase to astro by @lmuntaner in #2307
• Add derivation_origin-API to the demo issuer by @przydatek in #2312
• Remove support for storage v7 by @frederikrothenberger in #2309
• Update VC spec by @przydatek in #2313
• Add test for archive buffer limits by @frederikrothenberger in #2315
• Simplify storage initialization by @frederikrothenberger in #2316
• Migrate simple pages to Astro pages by @lmuntaner in #2314
• Update didc release by @gix-bot in #2317
• Update package-lock.json by @nmattia in #2319

Full Changelog: release-2024-02-26...release-2024-03-01

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	1d655f0bae74b9e54f0663f52c54e62cdece329fd5e4d8dc6cc06c0febd523c4
internet_identity_dev.wasm.gz	3c54c0005a41f3d8c5bfddf93636a2b9055d8901ab7aadbdd3ef2b69b711136c
internet_identity_test.wasm.gz	f4a7a0f87c414595e79664fbd82aacc990a338c57a04418bb44e0c27638cbca7
archive.wasm.gz	cf0dd829a7c3f99103a81875cb663501b2ab2be80c28de1e84772aadd5b4b5b3
vc_demo_issuer.wasm.gz	2680dd93ffbfc1d6ded260296c64e4e025b158f0c2e00f779a4a503e189d7ede

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 2c26130bb86c523c6017fbdad4d3bb97b77b1a42
./scripts/verify-hash --ii-hash 1d655f0bae74b9e54f0663f52c54e62cdece329fd5e4d8dc6cc06c0febd523c4