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+## [v1.8.0-rc4](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/releases/tag/v1.8.0-rc4) - 2022-02-10
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add check for `authz` grants when there are missing signatures in `metadata` transactions [#516](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/516)
+* Add support for publishing Java and Kotlin Protobuf compiled sources to Maven Central [#562](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/562)
+* Adds support for creating root name governance proposals from the cli [#599](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/599)
+* Adding of the msg based fee module [#354](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/354)
+* Upgrade provenance to 0.45 cosmos sdk release [#607](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/607)
+* Upgrade wasmd to v0.22.0 Note: this removes dependency on provenance-io's wasmd fork [#479](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/479)
+* Add support for Scope mutation via wasm Smart Contracts [#531](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/531)
+* Increase governance deposit amount and add create proposal msg fee [#632](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/632)
+* Allow attributes to be associated with scopes [#631](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/631)
+
+### Improvements
+
+* Add `bank` and `authz` module query `proto` files required by `grpcurl` [#482](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/482)
+* Fix typeos in marker log statements [#502](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/502)
+* Set default coin type to network default [#534](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/534)
+* Add logger to upgrade handler [#507](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/507)
+* Allow markers to be created over existing accounts if they are not a marker and have a zero sequence [#520](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/520)
+* Removed extraneous Metadata index deletes/rewrites [#543](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/543)
+* Delete empty sessions when the last record is updated to a new session [#480](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/480)
+* Refactor the migration to be faster and have more log output [PR 586](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/pull/586)
+* Capture all included protobufs into release zip file [#556](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/556)
+* Add Protobuf support with buf.build [#614](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/614)
+* Limit the maximum attribute value length to 1000 (down from 10,000 currently) in the `green` upgrade [#616](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/616)
+* Add additional fees for specified operations in the `green` upgrade [#616](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/616)
+    * `provenance.name.v1.MsgBindNameRequest` 10 hash (10,000,000,000 nhash)
+    * `provenance.marker.v1.MsgAddMarkerRequest` 100 hash (100,000,000,000 nhash)
+    * `provenance.attribute.v1.MsgAddAttributeRequest` 10 hash (10,000,000,000 nhash)
+    * `provenance.metadata.v1.MsgWriteScopeRequest`  10 hash (10,000,000,000 nhash)
+    * `provenance.metadata.v1.MsgP8eMemorializeContractRequest` 10 hash (10,000,000,000 nhash)
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* When deleting a scope, require the same permissions as when updating it [#473](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/473)
+* Allow manager to adjust grants on finalized markers [#545](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/545)
+* Add migration to re-index the metadata indexes involving addresses [#541](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/541)
+* Add migration to delete empty sessions [#480](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/480)
+* Add Java distribution tag to workflow [#624](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/624)
+* Add `msgfees` module to added store upgrades [#640](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/issues/640)