0.8.4 release

[0xalpharush]

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Issues:

• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/1001
• [ ] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/1174
• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/1173
• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/1211
• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/pull/1227
• [ ] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/1019

Nice to have:

• [ ] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/511
• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/482
• [ ] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/922
• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/issues/1091

PRs to review:

Parse top level enums:

• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/pull/1245

Fix ternary parsing of unused tuple type:

• [ ] https://github.com/crytic/slither/pull/1217

Fix call conversion when library function and state variable conflict:

• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/pull/1230

Update dependencies, CI, move to python 3.8:

• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/pull/1178

Support top level constants in Yul:

• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/pull/1188

Filter calldata optimization detector:

• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/pull/1022

Document questions/ helpful info:

• [x] https://github.com/crytic/slither/pull/1047

PR ready to merge:

https://github.com/crytic/slither/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+review%3Aapproved

[0xalpharush]

I think we should also consider adding mypy for a subset of the project, at the very least. Namely, the following directories: core/, detectors/, slithir/. There were a couple bugs recently that would have been caught by type checking.

[montyly]

Another thing to do for the release: update the solc version detector, and document our process