New Taquito stable release - v25.1.0

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One side note on this release:

After our Tezos Foundation grant ended earlier this year, we were assured at length that their octez.js fork (trilitech/octez.js / @tezos-x/octez.js) was only a contingency, and that there would be no changes as long as we continued maintaining Taquito. Later over the summer, they cut us off from the Slack-Connect channels because we no longer had an active TF agreement, and dropped me from the proto-ecosystem calls. That part is particularly ironic, since another community member and I started those calls years ago as a grassroots effort to fix coordination problems across the ecosystem.

No one from TF, Trilitech, or Nomadic Labs has reached out to me about octez.js since. However, I noticed last week, right after posting v25.1.0-beta0, that trilitech/octez.js actually has what looks like a full-time effort behind it:

  • The Tezos X Previewnet bug reports filed on Taquito (#3437, #3438, #3439) that I spent my spare time fixing for this release were actually found while testing @tezos-x/octez.js, and cross-filed to trilitech/octez.js six minutes later (#61, #62, #63) with the @tezos-x/octez.js imports swapped to @taquito/* for our issue tracker.
  • They are running an automated Taquito Sync Tracker (#53) monitoring ecadlabs/taquito commits and a check:rebrand linter to scrub taquito and ecadlabs references.
  • Hours after I published v25.1.0-beta0, they systematically backported my fixes and tz5 post-quantum implementation into octez.js (PR #137, PR #144, PR #145).

To be clear, I’m not looking to win back TF funding, and I’ll be glad to wrap up my Taquito maintenance once octez.js is officially announced and supported.

Still, saying one thing while doing the opposite (cutting us off from Slack and the coordination calls we helped start, filing octez.js bugs on our repo with swapped imports so I fix them in my spare time, and running an automated find-and-replace pipeline to harvest the commits without a word of communication) is a sad demonstration of bad culture, and shows just how low-trust this environment has become.

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