chore(deps-dev): Bump hardhat from 3.5.1 to 3.7.0

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Bumps hardhat from 3.5.1 to 3.7.0.

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Hardhat v3.7.0

Hardhat 3 has moved out of beta and is now stable.

The only change in this release is a small update to the hardhat --init process and project templates to reflect this.

Changes

• #8200 ce430ac Hardhat 3 is now stable, the "Beta" wording is being dropped from the hardhat --init process and project templates.

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Hardhat v3.6.0

This release include some changes to the Solidity hooks, introducing some new ones, and deprecating existing ones, to give Hardhat more opportunities to optimize the build process.

It also includes AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md files and skills in new projects.

See the full list of changes below.

Changes

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add a cleanupArtifacts option to SolidityBuildSystem#build. When true, the build system runs cleanupArtifacts against the build's root file paths after a successful build, deleting orphan artifacts and unreachable build-info files for the scope.

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Deprecate the following SolidityHooks: getCompiler, onCleanUpArtifacts, preprocessProjectFileBeforeBuilding, preprocessSolcInputBeforeBuilding, readSourceFile, invokeSolc, and readNpmPackageRemappings. They will be removed in a future release.

  Use processArtifactsAfterSuccessfulBuild instead of onCleanUpArtifacts, and getCompilationJobErrors instead of invokeSolc.

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add SolidityHooks#getCompilationJobErrors hook, which lets plugins process the compiler output errors of a compilation job before they are reported to the user.

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add SolidityHooks#processArtifactsAfterSuccessfulBuild hook to let plugins post-process the artifacts. The hook receives the resolved build options as a new exported ResolvedBuildOptions type.

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - SolidityBuildSystem#cleanupArtifacts now returns the list of artifact paths that remain after the cleanup.

• #8335 a4bf547 Thanks @​gultekinmakif! - Allow STRING_WITHOUT_DEFAULT and FILE_WITHOUT_DEFAULT as positional arguments

• #8326 959f2e1 Thanks @​kanej! - Fixed hardhat flatten silently producing a misleading output for projects with cyclic Solidity dependencies.

• #8262 d3ba170 Thanks @​fvictorio! - Add AGENTS.md and agentic skills to sample projects

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.1.3
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.14

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Changelog

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3.7.0

Minor Changes

• #8200 ce430ac Thanks @​tenderdeve! - Hardhat 3 is now stable, the "Beta" wording is being dropped from the hardhat --init process and project templates.

3.6.0

Minor Changes

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add a cleanupArtifacts option to SolidityBuildSystem#build. When true, the build system runs cleanupArtifacts against the build's root file paths after a successful build, deleting orphan artifacts and unreachable build-info files for the scope.

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Deprecate the following SolidityHooks: getCompiler, onCleanUpArtifacts, preprocessProjectFileBeforeBuilding, preprocessSolcInputBeforeBuilding, readSourceFile, invokeSolc, and readNpmPackageRemappings. They will be removed in a future release.

  Use processArtifactsAfterSuccessfulBuild instead of onCleanUpArtifacts, and getCompilationJobErrors instead of invokeSolc.

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add SolidityHooks#getCompilationJobErrors hook, which lets plugins process the compiler output errors of a compilation job before they are reported to the user.

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add SolidityHooks#processArtifactsAfterSuccessfulBuild hook to let plugins post-process the artifacts. The hook receives the resolved build options as a new exported ResolvedBuildOptions type.

Patch Changes

• #8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - SolidityBuildSystem#cleanupArtifacts now returns the list of artifact paths that remain after the cleanup.

• #8335 a4bf547 Thanks @​gultekinmakif! - Allow STRING_WITHOUT_DEFAULT and FILE_WITHOUT_DEFAULT as positional arguments

• #8326 959f2e1 Thanks @​kanej! - Fixed hardhat flatten silently producing a misleading output for projects with cyclic Solidity dependencies.

• #8262 d3ba170 Thanks @​fvictorio! - Add AGENTS.md and agentic skills to sample projects

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.1.3
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.14

Commits

• f10d7af Version Packages
• 7ea32fd docs: change telegram link
• 30441ae restore telegram links
• d3b1c81 chore: drop beta references from init process and templates
• 7b035db Version Packages
• 9df15c2 Merge pull request #8335 from gultekinmakif/fix/allow-optional-positional-args
• 85e9504 test: cover _WITHOUT_DEFAULT for variadic positional arguments
• 673959c test: cover required-after-optional ordering for _WITHOUT_DEFAULT positionals
• 0b16384 refactor: tighten isArgumentRequired and isOptionalArgumentType parameter types
• 2d38a50 fix: use isArgumentRequired in positional arg ordering validation
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Superseded by #75.