1.26.0.0

What's Changed

• Remove obsolete edge case for GHC98/HSL from shell.nix by @zeme-wana in #5872
• [Bench] Fix arbitrary evaluation nonsense by @effectfully in #5867
• nix flake update iogx by @Unisay in #5878
• Kwxm/flat/canonincal data encoding (PLT-9705) by @kwxm in #5879
• Improved error message for the mustBeReplaced by @Unisay in #5883
• Add some text about how to deal with bad CHaP timestamps in RELEASE.adoc by @kwxm in #5882
• Fix compilation of unicode-containing BuiltinStrings by @Unisay in #5887
• Refer to && and || by their qualified TH names. by @Unisay in #5876
• Remove plutus-metatheory from plutus-benchmark-common by @kwxm in #5875
• Add some tests that non-canonically encoded bytestrings decode correctly by @kwxm in #5881
• PT20: reciprocalOfZeroError by @Unisay in #5880
• Refactor NoTrace spec by @Unisay in #5890
• How to handle builtins before they're costed (PLT-9686) by @kwxm in #5874
• Read model type from R (attempt number 2) [PLT-1174] by @kwxm in #5857
• Don't call mustBeReplaced in PlutusTx.Builtins.Internal by @zliu41 in #5897
• Vectors in UPLC by @michaelpj in #5816
• fix: flag simplifier-remove-dead-bindings by @Unisay in #5899
• Add PlutusTx.List.indexBuiltinList by @zliu41 in #5898
• Add plugin options: preserve-logging and inline-constants by @zliu41 in #5855
• Add some more complex test cases for the remove-trace plugin option by @Unisay in #5900
• Update some more benchmarks to use correct evaluation context (PLT-9713) [fourth attempt] by @kwxm in #5905
• Trace removal re-implemented as a IR rewrite rule by @Unisay in #5907
• CIP-0057 Howto: exporting a Plutus contract blueprint by @Unisay in #5817
• [Release] 1.26.0.0 by @ana-pantilie in #5914

Full Changelog: 1.25.0.0...1.26.0.0