go-algorand v4.4.1-beta Release PR

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Overview

This release includes key updates to relay networking performance, stateful vote compression, and an upgrade to Golang 1.25 along with several bug fixes and test improvements.

Changelog

Enhancements

• AVM: sha512 opcode, txn commitments, (#6424)
• Build: use Go 1.25 (#6468)
• Build(deps): bump github.com/quic-go/quic-go from 0.48.2 to 0.49.1 (#6464)
• Ci: migrate to golangci-lint v2 (#6473)
• Cmds: Allow Arrays To Be Marked ": b64" (#6436)
• Config: add EnableBatchVerification option (#6454)
• Crypto: add go-based BatchVerifier implementation (#6440)
• Eval: call WellFormed from eval.transaction (#6450)
• Eval: Make counts and maxCounts simple values, not pointers (#6442)
• Network: add VP message type for stateful vote compression (#6466)
• Network: wsnet with p2p backup meshing strategy (#6391)
• Network: dynamic vote compression (#6351)
• Network: simplify UnicastPeer interface (#6452)
• Tests: Cover all wellFormed asset errors and small 0 axfer e2e test (#6417)
• Tests: Use NearZeros to make simple Equal() tests (#6458)
• Tests: expect tests for pingpong (#6427)
• Transactions: remove redundant arg from VerifiedTransactionCache (#6444)

Bugfixes

• Agreement: Fix for missing votes telemetry with logging level less than info (#6447)
• Build(deps): bump github.com/consensys/gnark-crypto from 0.12.1 to 0.18.1 (#6478)
• Ci: enable error-handling linters and fix a few bugs (#6479)
• Db: fix db.Initialize() sqlite3 error checking, add errortype linter (#6477)
• Network: call erlIPClient.m.Unlock() before calling OnClose() (#6451)
• Network: don't send VP in MOI messages if unsupported by remote peer (#6484)
• Pingpong: fix regression when making app calls (#6425)
• Teal: Fix panic when checking macro names containing non-ASCII runes (#6461)
• Tests: fix logging after TestP2PHTTPHandler finishes (#6469)
• Tests: fix flaky e2e multisig tests (#6475)

Protocol Upgrade

This release does not contain a protocol upgrade.

Additional Resources

• Algorand Forum
• Developer Portal

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 47.37%. Comparing base (20d2256) to head (056a980).
⚠️ Report is 3 commits behind head on rel/beta.
✅ All tests successful. No failed tests found.

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