chore: merge v0.12.0 release

Author: bobbinth

.gitignore

@@ -21,5 +21,8 @@ faucet_client_store.sqlite3
 node_modules/
 package-lock.json
 
+# Frontend build artifacts
+bin/faucet/frontend/bundle.js
+
 # Ignore mdbook build files
 book/

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## 0.11.8 (TBD)
+## 0.12.0 (2025-11-10)
+
+- Added requested `amount` to PoW Challenge ([#68](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/68)).
+- Added `pow_base_difficulty_amount` CLI param and updated default values ([#68](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/68)).
+- Added Retry-After header for HTTP response on rate limited error ([#70](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/70)).
+- Replaced SHA3-256 with SHA-256 for PoW ([#79](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/79)).
+- Refactored CLI commands into `init` and `start` ([#84](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/84), [#145](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/145)).
+- Added wallet connection to prefill the recipient address ([#100](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/100)).
+- Redesigned the frontend ([#110](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/110)).
+- Separated frontend and backend servers ([#119](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/119)).
+- Frontend now awaits for the transaction to be committed ([#127](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/127)).
+- Added 10-block expiration delta to faucet minting transactions ([#136](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/136)).
+- 
+## 0.11.8 (2025-10-27)
 
 - Sync state before creating transactions to avoid desync errors (#[132](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/132)).
 
@@ -48,6 +61,8 @@
 - Replace amount options validation for maximum claimable amount ([#52](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/52)).
 - Added `mdbook` documentation ([#61](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/61)).
 - Added `--explorer-url` CLI parameter to optionally set the explorer url ([#63](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/63)).
+- Introduced `miden-pow-rate-limiter` crate ([#67](https://github.com/0xMiden/miden-faucet/pull/67))
+- [BREAKING] Incremented MSRV to 1.89.
 
 ## 0.10.0 (2025-07-10)