Release provekit-whir 0.2.0 on arkworks 0.6

[dcbuild3r]

Summary

• publish the v1 WHIR fork as provekit-whir 0.2.0
• upgrade arkworks field and serialization crates from 0.5 to 0.6
• consume the published provekit-spongefish 0.2.0 crate
• record maintained repository metadata and preserve the whir Rust crate name

Validation

• cargo +nightly-2026-03-04 fmt --all --check
• cargo +nightly-2026-03-04 check --all-targets --all-features
• cargo +nightly-2026-03-04 test --all-features (150 passed, 10 ignored; doc tests passed)
• production dependency tree contains no arkworks 0.5 packages
• cargo package --locked succeeds

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will degrade performance by 18.75%

❌ 4 regressed benchmarks
✅ 6 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 22 skipped benchmarks¹

Warning

Please fix the performance issues or acknowledge them on CodSpeed.

Performance Changes

	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
❌	interleaved_rs_encode[(20, 4, 4)]	612.8 ms	808.7 ms	-24.23%
❌	interleaved_rs_encode[(18, 2, 2)]	68.8 ms	86.2 ms	-20.14%
❌	interleaved_rs_encode[(22, 4, 4)]	3.4 s	4.1 s	-16.81%
❌	interleaved_rs_encode[(18, 4, 3)]	155.3 ms	179.3 ms	-13.42%

Tip

Investigate this regression by commenting @codspeedbot fix this regression on this PR, or directly use the CodSpeed MCP with your agent.

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_{Comparing dcbuilder/arkworks-0.6-release (20f9dcc) with main (c03a4a5)²}

Footnotes

1. 22 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩

2. No successful run was found on v1 (0a68627) during the generation of this report, so main (c03a4a5) was used instead as the comparison base. There might be some changes unrelated to this pull request in this report. ↩