Release Notes - v0.16.0

v0.16.0 - certificate generation and key derivation

• Date: 2026-02-28
• Version: 0.16.0

Summary

This release includes CLI support for generating stake and Conway governance certificates and updates wallet root key derivation to Cardano CIP-3 Icarus, along with security and dependency updates.

✨ New Features

• Added CLI support for generating stake and Conway governance certificates.

⛓️‍💥 Breaking Changes

• Updated wallet root key derivation to follow Cardano CIP-3 Icarus (PBKDF2), which requires regenerating derived keys and updating any stored test vectors.

🔐 Security

• Updated cryptography and secret-management dependencies including filippo.io/edwards25519 to v1.2.0, github.com/cloudflare/circl to v1.6.3, github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum to v1.17.0, and sops to v3.12.1.

Additional Changes

• Updated Go modules including gouroboros, plutigo, and grpc, bumped GitHub Actions docker/build-push-action to v6.19.2, and updated the blinklabs-io/go Docker base image to 1.25.7-1.
• Updated lint-suppression annotations for selected security checks and updated .gitignore to exclude .worktrees/.