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Release Notes

This version is backwards compatible to v1.11.0. It is optional, but strongly encouraged.

The plugin version is updated to 34 all plugins must update to be compatible.

APIs

  • Removed the ipc API
  • Removed the auth API
  • Removed most keystore related methods from the platform API
    • platform.importKey
    • platform.createAddress
    • platform.addValidator
    • platform.addDelegator
    • platform.addSubnetValidator
    • platform.createSubnet
    • platform.exportAVAX
    • platform.importAVAX
    • platform.createBlockchain
  • Added push gossip metrics:
    • gossip_tracking{type="sent"}
    • gossip_tracking{type="unsent"}
    • gossip_tracking_lifetime_average to the following namespaces:
    • avalanche_P_vm_tx
    • avalanche_X_vm_avalanche_tx
    • avalanche_C_vm_sdk_atomic_tx_gossip
    • avalanche_C_vm_sdk_eth_tx_gossip
  • Removed metrics:
    • avalanche_C_vm_eth_gossip_atomic_sent
    • avalanche_C_vm_eth_gossip_eth_txs_sent
    • avalanche_C_vm_eth_regossip_eth_txs_queued_attempts
    • avalanche_C_vm_eth_regossip_eth_txs_queued_local_tx_count
    • avalanche_C_vm_eth_regossip_eth_txs_queued_remote_tx_count

Configs

  • Removed:
    • api-ipcs-enabled
    • ipcs-chain-ids
    • ipcs-path
    • api-auth-required
    • api-auth-password
    • api-auth-password-file
    • consensus-app-gossip-validator-size
    • consensus-app-gossip-non-validator-size
    • consensus-app-gossip-peer-size
  • Removed subnet configs:
    • appGossipValidatorSize
    • appGossipNonValidatorSize
    • appGossipPeerSize
  • Added X-chain and P-chain networking configs:
    • push-gossip-num-validators
    • push-gossip-num-peers
    • push-regossip-num-validators
    • push-regossip-num-peers
    • push-gossip-discarded-cache-size
    • push-gossip-max-regossip-frequency
    • push-gossip-frequency
  • Removed X-chain and P-chain networking configs:
    • legacy-push-gossip-cache-size
  • Added C-chain configs:
    • push-gossip-num-validators
    • push-gossip-num-peers
    • push-regossip-num-validators
    • push-regossip-num-peers
    • push-gossip-frequency
    • pull-gossip-frequency
    • tx-pool-lifetime
  • Removed C-chain configs:
    • tx-pool-journal
    • tx-pool-rejournal
    • remote-gossip-only-enabled
    • regossip-max-txs
    • remote-tx-gossip-only-enabled
    • tx-regossip-max-size

Fixes

  • Fixed mempool push gossip amplification

What's Changed

  • Remove deprecated IPC API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2760
  • vms/platformvm: Remove all keystore APIs except ExportKey and ListAddresses by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2761
  • Remove Deprecated Auth API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2759
  • Remove defaultAddress helper from platformvm service tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2767
  • [trace] upgrade opentelemetry to v1.22.0 by @bianyuanop in ava-labs#2702
  • Reenable the upgrade tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2769
  • [network/p2p] Redesign Push Gossip by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#2772
  • Move AppGossip configs from SubnetConfig into ChainConfig by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2785
  • merkledb -- move compressedKey declaration to avoid usage of stale values in loop by @danlaine in ava-labs#2777
  • merkledb -- fix hasValue in recordNodeDeleted by @danlaine in ava-labs#2779
  • merkledb -- rename metrics and add missing call by @danlaine in ava-labs#2781
  • merkledb -- style nit, remove var name newView to reduce shadowing by @danlaine in ava-labs#2784
  • merkledb style nits by @danlaine in ava-labs#2783
  • merkledb comment accuracy fixes by @danlaine in ava-labs#2780
  • Increase gossip size on first push by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2787

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.11.0...v1.11.2

This upgrade consists of the following Avalanche Community Proposals (ACPs):

  • ACP-23 P-Chain Native Transfers
  • ACP-24 Activate Shanghai EIPs on C-Chain
  • ACP-25 Virtual Machine Application Errors
  • ACP-30 Integrate Avalanche Warp Messaging into the EVM
  • ACP-31 Enable Subnet Ownership Transfer
  • ACP-41 Remove Pending Stakers
  • ACP-62 Disable AddValidatorTx and AddDelegatorTx

The changes in the upgrade go into effect at 11 AM ET (4 PM UTC) on Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 on Mainnet.

All Durango supporting Mainnet nodes should upgrade before 11 AM ET, March 6th 2024.

The plugin version is updated to 33 all plugins must update to be compatible.

APIs

  • Added platform.getSubnet API

Configs

  • Deprecated:
    • api-auth-required
    • api-auth-password
    • api-auth-password-file

Fixes

  • Fixed potential deadlock during P-chain shutdown
  • Updated the consensus engine to recover from previously misconfigured subnets without requiring a restart

What's Changed

  • ci: Upgrade all workflow actions to versions using Node 20 by @marun in ava-labs#2677
  • tmpnet: Ensure restart after chain creation by @marun in ava-labs#2675
  • Publish docker images with race detection by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2680
  • vms/platformvm: Remove NewRewardValidatorTx from Builder by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2676
  • ci: Updated shellcheck script to support autofix by @marun in ava-labs#2678
  • Unblock misconfigured subnets by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2679
  • Add transfer subnet ownership functionality to wallet by @felipemadero in ava-labs#2659
  • Add ACP-62 by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2681
  • vms/platformvm: Add missing txs to txs.Builder by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2663
  • vms/platformvm: Disable AddValidatorTx and AddDelegatorTx by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2662
  • Remove chain router from node.Config by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2683
  • Deprecate the auth API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2684
  • Fix P-chain Shutdown deadlock by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2686
  • Cleanup ID initialization by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2690
  • Remove unused chains#beacons field by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2692
  • x/sync: Remove duplicated call to TrackBandwidth by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2694
  • Move VMAliaser into node from config by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2689
  • Fix minor errors in x/sync tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2709
  • Update minimum golang version to v1.21.7 by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2710
  • Check for github action updates in dependabot by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2715
  • Update golangci-lint to v1.56.1 by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2714
  • Add stringer to warp types by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#2712
  • Refactor p2p.PeerTracker by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2701
  • Bump actions/stale from 8 to 9 by @dependabot in ava-labs#2719
  • Bump github/codeql-action from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in ava-labs#2720
  • Bump bufbuild/buf-setup-action from 1.26.1 to 1.29.0 by @dependabot in ava-labs#2721
  • Bump aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials from 1 to 4 by @dependabot in ava-labs#2722
  • Manually setup golang in codeql action by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2725
  • Provide pgo file during compilation by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2724
  • P-chain - Tx builder cleanup by @abi87 in ava-labs#2718
  • Refactor chain manager subnets by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2711
  • Replace snowball/snowflake interface with single shared snow interface by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#2717
  • Remove duplicate IP length constant by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2733
  • Add platform.getSubnet API by @felipemadero in ava-labs#2704
  • Provide BLS signature in Handshake message by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2730
  • Verify BLS signature provided in Handshake messages by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2735
  • Move UTXOs definition from primary to primary/common by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2741
  • Minimize Signer interface and document Sign by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2740
  • Revert setup-go during unit tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2744
  • P-chain wallet fees UTs by @abi87 in ava-labs#2734
  • merkledb -- generalize error case to check state that should never occur by @danlaine in ava-labs#2743
  • Revert setup-go to v3 on all arm actions by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2749
  • Add AppError to Sender interface by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2737
  • P-chain - Cleaned up fork switch in UTs by @abi87 in ava-labs#2746
  • X-chain wallet fees UTs by @abi87 in ava-labs#2747
  • Add keys values to bimap by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2754
  • fix test sender by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2755

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.19...v1.11.0

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 31 and is compatible with version v1.10.18.

APIs

  • Added admin.dbGet call to the admin API
  • Added bloom filter metrics:
    • bloom_filter_count
    • bloom_filter_entries
    • bloom_filter_hashes
    • bloom_filter_max_count
    • bloom_filter_reset_count to the following namespaces:
    • avalanche_X_vm_mempool
    • avalanche_P_vm_mempool
    • avalanche_C_vm_sdk_atomic_mempool
    • avalanche_C_vm_sdk_eth_mempool

Fixes

  • Fixed race condition during validator set creation
  • Fixed C-chain mempool bloom filter recalculation

What's Changed

  • vms/platformvm: Change AdvanceTimeTo to modify passed-in parentState by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2489
  • vms/platformvm: Remove MempoolTxVerifier by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2362
  • Verify SignedIP.Timestamp from PeerList messages by @danlaine in ava-labs#2587
  • Fix metrics namespace by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2632
  • Add bloom filter metrics to the p2p sdk by @ceyonur in ava-labs#2612
  • Replace shutdownEnvironment with t.Cleanup() by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2491
  • P-chain - Memo field zeroed post Durango by @abi87 in ava-labs#2607
  • Refactor feature extensions out of VMManager by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2578
  • Remove getter for router on chain manager by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2641
  • Fix require.ErrorIs argument order by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2645
  • api/admin: Cleanup SuccessResponseTests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2644
  • Allow calls to Options before Verify by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2363
  • Improve logging of unexpected proposer errors by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2646
  • Disable non-security related dependabot PRs by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2647
  • Add historical fork times by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2649
  • Cleanup warp signer tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2651
  • Reintroduce the upgrade test against v1.10.18 by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2652
  • Cleanup database benchmarks by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2653
  • Cleanup database tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2654
  • ci: Add shellcheck step to lint job by @marun in ava-labs#2650
  • Replace closeFn with t.Cleanup by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2638
  • Fix TestExpiredBuildBlock by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2655
  • Add admin.dbGet API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2667
  • ci: Update shellcheck.sh to pass all args to shellcheck by @marun in ava-labs#2657
  • vms/platformvm: Remove NewAdvanceTimeTx from Builder by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2668
  • Log error if database returns unsorted heights by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2670
  • vms/platformvm: Move vm.Shutdown call in tests to t.Cleanup by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2669
  • e2e: Add test of platform.getValidatorsAt across nodes by @marun in ava-labs#2664
  • Fix P-chain validator set lookup race condition by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2672

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.18...v1.10.19

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is updated to 31 all plugins must update to be compatible.

APIs

  • Added info.acps API
  • Added supportedACPs and objectedACPs for each peer returned by info.peers
  • Added txs field to BanffProposalBlock's json format
  • Added metrics:
    • avalanche_network_validator_ips
    • avalanche_network_gossipable_ips
    • avalanche_network_ip_bloom_count
    • avalanche_network_ip_bloom_entries
    • avalanche_network_ip_bloom_hashes
    • avalanche_network_ip_bloom_max_count
    • avalanche_network_ip_bloom_reset_count
  • Added metrics related to get_peer_list message handling
  • Added p2p SDK metrics to the P-chain and X-chain
  • Renamed metrics related to message handling:
    • version -> handshake
    • appRequestFailed -> appError
    • crossChainAppRequestFailed -> crossChainAppError
  • Removed gzip compression time metrics
  • Converted p2p SDK metrics to use vectors rather than independent metrics
  • Converted client name reported over the p2p network from avalanche to avalanchego

Configs

  • Added:
    • --acp-support
    • --acp-object
    • snow-commit-threshold
    • network-peer-list-pull-gossip-frequency
    • network-peer-list-bloom-reset-frequency
    • network to the X-chain and P-chain configs including:
      • max-validator-set-staleness
      • target-gossip-size
      • pull-gossip-poll-size
      • pull-gossip-frequency
      • pull-gossip-throttling-period
      • pull-gossip-throttling-limit
      • expected-bloom-filter-elements
      • expected-bloom-filter-false-positive-probability
      • max-bloom-filter-false-positive-probability
      • legacy-push-gossip-cache-size
  • Deprecated:
    • snow-virtuous-commit-threshold
    • snow-rogue-commit-threshold
    • network-peer-list-validator-gossip-size
    • network-peer-list-non-validator-gossip-size
    • network-peer-list-peers-gossip-size
    • network-peer-list-gossip-frequency
  • Removed:
    • gzip as an option for network-compression-type

Fixes

  • Fixed platformvm.SetPreference to correctly reset the block building timer
  • Fixed early bootstrapping termination
  • Fixed duplicated transaction initialization in the X-chain and P-chain
  • Fixed IP gossip when using dynamically allocated staking ports
  • Updated golang.org/x/exp dependency to fix downstream compilation errors
  • Updated golang.org/x/crypto dependency to address CVE-2023-48795
  • Updated minimum golang version to address CVE-2023-39326
  • Restricted GOPROXY during compilation to avoid direct version control fallbacks
  • Fixed merkledb deletion of the empty key
  • Fixed merkledb race condition when interacting with invalidated or closed trie views
  • Fixed json.Marshal for wallet transactions
  • Fixed duplicate outbound dialer for manually tracked nodes in the p2p network

What's Changed

  • testing: Update to latest version of ginkgo by @marun in ava-labs#2390
  • vms/platformvm: Cleanup block builder tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2406
  • Drop Pending Stakers 0 - De-duplicate staking tx verification by @abi87 in ava-labs#2335
  • vms/platformvm: Initialize txs in Transactions field for BanffProposalBlock by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2419
  • vms/platformvm: Move VerifyUniqueInputs from verifier to backend by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2410
  • Fix duplicated bootstrapper engine termination by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2334
  • allow user of build_fuzz.sh to specify a directory to fuzz in by @danlaine in ava-labs#2414
  • Update slices dependency to use Compare by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2424
  • vms/platformvm: Cleanup some block tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2422
  • ProposerVM Extend windows 0 - Cleanup by @abi87 in ava-labs#2404
  • vms/platformvm: Add decisionTxs parameter to NewBanffProposalBlock by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2411
  • Update minimum golang version to v1.20.12 by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2427
  • Fix platformvm.SetPreference by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2429
  • Restrict GOPROXY by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2434
  • Drop Pending Stakers 1 - introduced ScheduledStaker txs by @abi87 in ava-labs#2323
  • Run merkledb fuzz tests every 6 hours by @danlaine in ava-labs#2415
  • Remove unused error by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2426
  • Make messageQueue.msgAndCtxs a circular buffer by @danlaine in ava-labs#2433
  • ProposerVM Extend windows 1 - UTs Cleanup by @abi87 in ava-labs#2412
  • Change seed from int64 to uint64 by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2438
  • Remove usage of timer.Timer in node by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2441
  • Remove staged timer again by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2440
  • merkledb / sync -- Disambiguate no end root from no start root by @danlaine in ava-labs#2437
  • Drop Pending Stakers 2 - Replace txs.ScheduledStaker with txs.Staker by @abi87 in ava-labs#2305
  • vms/platformvm: Remove double block building logic by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2380
  • Remove usage of timer.Timer in benchlist by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2446
  • vms/avm: Simplify Peek function in mempool by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2449
  • vms/platformvm: Remove standardBlockState struct by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2450
  • Refactor sampler seeding by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2456
  • Update tmpnet fixture to include Proof-of-Possession for initial stakers by @marun in ava-labs#2391
  • vms/platformvm: Remove EnableAdding and DisableAdding from Mempool interface by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2463
  • vms/avm: Add exists bool to mempool Peek by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2465
  • vms/platformvm: Remove PeekTxs from Mempool interface by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2378
  • vms/platformvm: Add processStandardTxs helper by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2461
  • vms/platformvm: Process atomicRequests and onAcceptFunc in option blocks by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2459
  • e2e: Rename 'funded key' to 'pre-funded key' for consistency by @marun in ava-labs#2455
  • vms/platformvm: Surface VerifyUniqueInputs in the Manager by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2467
  • vms/platformvm: Add TestBuildBlockShouldReward test by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2466
  • Switch client version to a proto type from a string by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2188
  • Remove stale TODO by @danlaine in ava-labs#2468
  • vms/platformvm: Add TestBuildBlockDoesNotBuildWithEmptyMempool test by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2469
  • vms/platformvm: Add TestBuildBlockShouldAdvanceTime test by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2471
  • vms/platformvm: Permit usage of the Transactions field in BanffProposalBlock by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2451
  • vms/platformvm: Add TestBuildBlockForceAdvanceTime test by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2472
  • P2P AppError handling by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2248
  • vms/platformvm: Verify txs before building a block by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2359
  • Refactor p2p unit tests by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2475
  • Add ACP signaling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2476
  • Refactor SDK by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2452
  • Cleanup CI by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2480
  • Ensure upgrade test uses the correct binary on restart by @marun in ava-labs#2478
  • Prefetch Improvement by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2435
  • ci: run each fuzz test for 10 seconds by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2483
  • Remove nullable options by @nytzuga in ava-labs#2481
  • merkledb -- dynamic root by @danlaine in ava-labs#2177
  • fix onEvictCache by @danlaine in ava-labs#2484
  • Remove cached node bytes from merkle nodes by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2393
  • Fix race in view iteration by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2486
  • MerkleDB -- update readme by @danlaine in ava-labs#2423
  • Drop Pending Stakers 3 - persist stakers' StartTime by @abi87 in ava-labs#2306
  • SDK Push Gossiper implementation by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2428
  • tmpnet: Move tmpnet/local to tmpnet package by @marun in ava-labs#2457
  • merkledb -- make tests use time as randomness seed by @danlaine in ava-labs#2470
  • tmpnet: Break config.go up into coherent parts by @marun in ava-labs#2462
  • Drop Pending Stakers 4 - minimal UT infra cleanup by @abi87 in ava-labs#2332
  • ProposerVM Extend windows 2- extend windowing by @abi87 in ava-labs#2401
  • Support json marshalling txs returned from the wallet by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2494
  • Avoid escaping to improve readability by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2496
  • Allow OutputOwners to be json marshalled without InitCtx by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2495
  • Drop Pending Stakers 5 - validated PostDurango StakerTxs by @abi87 in ava-labs#2314
  • Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.14.0 to 0.17.0 by @dependabot in ava-labs#2502
  • Remove unused BuildGenesisTest function by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2503
  • Remove unused AcceptorTracker struct by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2508
  • Dedupe secp256k1 key usage in tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2511
  • Merkledb readme updates by @danlaine in ava-labs#2510
  • Gossip Test structs by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2514
  • tmpnet: Separate node into orchestration, config and process by @marun in ava-labs#2460
  • Move snow.DefaultConsensusContextTest to snowtest.ConsensusContext by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2507
  • Add gossip Marshaller interface by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2509
  • Include chain creation error in health check by @marun in ava-labs#2519
  • Make X-chain mempool safe for concurrent use by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2520
  • Initialize transactions once by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2521
  • vms/avm: Remove usage of require.Contains from service tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2517
  • Move context lock into issueTx by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2524
  • Rework X-chain locking in tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2526
  • vms/avm: Simplify mempool.Remove signature by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2527
  • Remove unused mocks by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2528
  • Move avm.newContext to snowtest.Context by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2513
  • Do not fail-fast Tests / Unit by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2530
  • Make P-Chain Mempool thread-safe by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2523
  • vms/platformvm: Use snowtest.Context helper by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2515
  • Export mempool errors by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2531
  • Move locking into issueTx by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2532
  • Fix merge in wallet service by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2534
  • Introduce TxVerifier interface to network by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2533
  • Export P-Chain Mempool Errors by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2535
  • Rename Version message to Handshake by @danlaine in ava-labs#2479
  • Rename myVersionTime to ipSigningTime by @danlaine in ava-labs#2537
  • Remove resolved TODO by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2540
  • Only initialize Txs once by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2538
  • JSON marshal the Transactions field in BanffProposalBlocks by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2541
  • Enable predeclared linter by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2539
  • Move context lock into network.issueTx by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2525
  • Remove comment on treating failed sends as FATAL by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2544
  • Add TxVerifier interface to network by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2542
  • X-chain SDK gossip by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2490
  • Remove network context by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2543
  • Remove snow.DefaultContextTest by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2518
  • Fix windowing when no validator is available by @abi87 in ava-labs#2529
  • Unexport fields from gossip.BloomFilter by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2547
  • P-Chain SDK Gossip by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2487
  • Documentation Fixes: Grammatical Corrections and Typo Fixes Across Multiple Files by @joaolago1113 in ava-labs#2550
  • Notify block builder of txs after reject by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2549
  • Set dependabot target branch to dev by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2553
  • Remove MockLogger by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2554
  • Clean up merkleDB interface and duplicate code by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2445
  • Do not mark txs as dropped when mempool is full by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2557
  • Update bug bounty program to immunefi by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2558
  • Fix p2p sdk metric labels by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2561
  • Suppress gossip warnings due to no sampled peers by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2562
  • Remove dead code and unnecessary lock from reflect codec by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2560
  • Remove unused index interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2564
  • Implement SetMap and use it in XP-chain mempools by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2555
  • vms/platformvm: Add TestIterate by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2565
  • Cleanup codec usage by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2563
  • Remove len tag parsing from the reflect codec by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2559
  • Use more specific type by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2567
  • Standardize onShutdownCtx by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2568
  • Verify avm mempool txs against the last accepted state by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2569
  • Update CODEOWNERS by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2570
  • Remove license from mocks by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2574
  • Add missing import by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2573
  • vms/platformvm: Prune mempool periodically by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2566
  • Update license header to 2024 by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2572
  • [MerkleDB] Make intermediate node cache two layered by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2576
  • Fix merkledb rebuild iterator by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2581
  • Fix intermediate node caching by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2585
  • Remove codec length check after Durango by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2586
  • tmpnet: Use AvalancheLocalChainConfig for cchain genesis by @marun in ava-labs#2583
  • testing: Ensure CheckBootstrapIsPossible is safe for teardown by @marun in ava-labs#2582
  • tmpnet: Separate network into orchestration and configuration by @marun in ava-labs#2464
  • Update uintsize implementation by @danlaine in ava-labs#2590
  • Optimize bloom filter by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2588
  • Remove TLS key gen from networking tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2596
  • [utils/bloom] Optionally Update Bloom Filter Size on Reset by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#2591
  • [ci] Increase Fuzz Time in Periodic Runs by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#2599
  • tmpnet: Save metrics snapshot to disk before node shutdown by @marun in ava-labs#2601
  • chore: Fix typo s/useage/usage by @hugo-syn in ava-labs#2602
  • Deprecate SnowRogueCommitThresholdKey and SnowVirtuousCommitThresholdKey by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2600
  • Fix networking invalid field log by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2604
  • chore: Fix typo s/seperate/separate/ by @hugo-syn in ava-labs#2605
  • Support dynamic port peerlist gossip by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2603
  • Replace PeerListAck with GetPeerList by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2580
  • Log critical consensus values during health checks by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2609
  • Update contributions branch to master by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2610
  • Add ip bloom metrics by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2614
  • x/sync: Auto-generate MockNetworkClient by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2617
  • Remove CreateStaticHandlers from VM interface by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2589
  • tmpnet: Add support for subnets by @marun in ava-labs#2492
  • Update go.uber.org/mock/gomock to v0.4.0 by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2618
  • Add mockgen source mode for generics + bls imports by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2615
  • Verify all MockGen generated files are re-generated in CI by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2616
  • Move division by 0 check out of the bloom loops by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2622
  • P-chain Add UTs around stakers persistence in platformvm state by @abi87 in ava-labs#2505
  • Revert "Set dependabot target branch to dev (#2553)" by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2623
  • Remove remaining 2023 remnants by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2624
  • Deprecate push-based peerlist gossip flags by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2625
  • Remove support for compressing gzip messages by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2627
  • Always attempt to install mockgen v0.4.0 before execution by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2628
  • Modify TLS parsing rules for Durango by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2458

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.17...v1.10.18

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 30 and is compatible with versions v1.10.15-v1.10.16.

APIs

  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_blks_build_accept_latency metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_blks_issued{source} metric with sources:
    • pull_gossip
    • push_gossip
    • put_gossip which is deprecated
    • built
    • unknown
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_issuer_stake_sum metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_issuer_stake_count metric

Configs

  • Added:
    • --consensus-frontier-poll-frequency
  • Removed:
    • --consensus-accepted-frontier-gossip-frequency
  • Deprecated:
    • --consensus-accepted-frontier-gossip-validator-size
    • --consensus-accepted-frontier-gossip-non-validator-size
    • --consensus-accepted-frontier-gossip-peer-size
      • Updated the default value to 1 to align with the change in default gossip frequency
    • --consensus-on-accept-gossip-validator-size
    • --consensus-on-accept-gossip-non-validator-size
    • --consensus-on-accept-gossip-peer-size

Fixes

  • Fixed duplicated operation on provided value error when executing atomic operations after state syncing the C-chain
  • Removed usage of atomic trie after commitment
  • Fixed atomic trie root overwrite during state sync
  • Prevented closure of stdout and stderr when shutting down the logger

What's Changed

  • Remove Banff check from mempool verifier by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2360
  • Document storage growth in readme by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2364
  • Add metric for duration between block timestamp and acceptance time by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2366
  • vms/platformvm: Remove unused withMetrics txheap by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2373
  • Move peerTracker from x/sync to network/p2p by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2356
  • Logging avoid closing standard outputs by @felipemadero in ava-labs#2372
  • vms/platformvm: Adjust Diff.Apply signature by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2368
  • Add bls validator info to genesis by @felipemadero in ava-labs#2371
  • Remove engine.GetVM by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2374
  • vms/platformvm: Consolidate state pkg mocks by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2370
  • Remove common bootstrapper by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2297
  • vms/platformvm: Move toEngine channel to mempool by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2333
  • vms/avm: Rename states pkg to state by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2381
  • Implement generic bimap by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2383
  • Unexport RequestID from snowman engine by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2384
  • Add metric to track the stake weight of block providers by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2376
  • Add block source metrics to monitor gossip by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2386
  • Rename D to Durango by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2389
  • Replace periodic push accepted gossip with pull preference gossip for block discovery by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2367
  • MerkleDB Remove ID from Node to reduce size and removal channel creation. by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2324
  • Remove method CappedList from set.Set by @danlaine in ava-labs#2395
  • Periodically PullGossip only from connected validators by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2399
  • Update bootstrap IPs by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2396
  • Rename testnet fixture to tmpnet by @marun in ava-labs#2307
  • Add p2p.Network component by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2283
  • vms/platformvm: Move GetRewardUTXOs, GetSubnets, and GetChains to State interface by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2402
  • Add more descriptive formatted error by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#2403

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.16...v1.10.17

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 30 and compatible with version v1.10.15.

APIs

  • Added log level information to the result of admin.setLoggerLevel
  • Updated info.peers to return chain aliases for benched chains
  • Added support to sample validators of non-tracked subnets with platform.sampleValidators
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_max_verified_height metric to track the highest verified block

Configs

  • Added --db-read-only to run the node without writing to disk.
    • This flag is only expected to be used during testing as it will cause memory use to increase over time
  • Removed --bootstrap-retry-enabled
  • Removed --bootstrap-retry-warn-frequency

Fixes

  • Fixed packing of large block requests during C-chain state sync
  • Fixed order of updating acceptor tip and sending chain events to C-chain event subscribers

What's Changed

  • Return log levels from admin.SetLoggerLevel by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2250
  • feat(api) : Peers function to return the PrimaryAlias of the chainID by @DoTheBestToGetTheBest in ava-labs#2251
  • Switch to using require.TestingT interface in SenderTest struct by @marun in ava-labs#2258
  • Cleanup ipcs Socket test by @danlaine in ava-labs#2257
  • Require poll metrics to be registered by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2260
  • Track all subnet validator sets in the validator manager by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2253
  • e2e: Make NewWallet and NewEthclient regular functions by @marun in ava-labs#2262
  • Fix typos in docs by @vuittont60 in ava-labs#2261
  • Remove Token constants information from keys by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2197
  • Remove unused UnsortedEquals function by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2264
  • Document p2p package by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2254
  • Use extended public key to derive ledger addresses by @felipemadero in ava-labs#2246
  • merkledb -- rename nit by @danlaine in ava-labs#2267
  • merkledb -- fix nil check in test by @danlaine in ava-labs#2268
  • Add read-only database flag (--db-read-only) by @danlaine in ava-labs#2266
  • merkledb -- remove unneeded var declarations by @danlaine in ava-labs#2269
  • Add fuzz test for NewIteratorWithStartAndPrefix by @danlaine in ava-labs#1992
  • Return if element was deleted from Hashmap by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2271
  • mempool.NewMempool -> mempool.New by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2276
  • e2e: Refactor suite setup and helpers to tests/fixture/e2e for reuse by coreth by @marun in ava-labs#2265
  • Cleanup platformvm mempool errs by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2278
  • MerkleDB:Naming and comments cleanup by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2274
  • Move DropExpiredStakerTxs to platformvm mempool by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2279
  • Cleanup ids.NodeID usage by @abi87 in ava-labs#2280
  • Genesis validators cleanup by @abi87 in ava-labs#2282
  • Remove Lazy Initialize on Node by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1384
  • Remove sentinel node from MerkleDB proofs by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2106
  • Embed noop handler for all unhandled messages by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2288
  • merkledb -- Add Clearer interface by @danlaine in ava-labs#2277
  • Simplify get server creation by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2285
  • Move management of platformvm preferred block to executor.Manager by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2292
  • Add recentTxsLock to platform network struct by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2294
  • e2e: More fixture refinement in support of coreth integration testing by @marun in ava-labs#2275
  • Add VerifyTx to executor.Manager by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2293
  • Simplify avalanche bootstrapping by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2286
  • Replace unique slices with sets in the engine interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2317
  • Use zap.Stringer rather than zap.Any by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2320
  • Move AddUnverifiedTx logic to network.IssueTx by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2310
  • Remove AddUnverifiedTx from Builder by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2311
  • Remove error from SDK AppGossip handler by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2252
  • Rename AppRequestFailed to AppError by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2321
  • Remove Network interface from Builder by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2312
  • Update error_code to be sint32 instead of uint32. by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2322
  • Refactor bootstrapper implementation into consensus by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2300
  • Pchain - Cleanup NodeID generation in UTs by @abi87 in ava-labs#2291
  • nit: loop --> variadic by @danlaine in ava-labs#2316
  • Update zap dependency to v1.26.0 by @danlaine in ava-labs#2325
  • Remove useless anon functions by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2326
  • Move network implementation to separate package by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2296
  • Unexport avalanche constant from common package by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2327
  • Remove common.Config functions by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2328
  • Move engine startup into helper function by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2329
  • Remove bootstrapping retry config by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2301
  • Export snowman bootstrapper by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2331
  • Remove common.Config from syncer.Config by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2330
  • platformvm.VM -- replace Config field with validators.Manager by @danlaine in ava-labs#2319
  • Improve height monitoring by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2347
  • Cleanup snowman consensus metrics by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2349
  • Expand consensus health check by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2354
  • Reduce the size of the OracleBlock interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2355
  • [vms/proposervm] Update Build Heuristic by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#2348
  • Use linkedhashmap for P-Chain mempool by @gyuho in ava-labs#1536
  • Increase txs in pool metric when adding tx by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2361

New Contributors

  • @DoTheBestToGetTheBest made their first contribution in ava-labs#2251
  • @vuittont60 made their first contribution in ava-labs#2261

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.15...v1.10.16

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is updated to 30 all plugins must update to be compatible.

Configs

  • Added pebble as an allowed option to --db-type

Fixes

  • Fixed C-chain tracer API panic

What's Changed

  • Reduce allocations on insert and remove by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2201
  • merkledb -- shift nit by @danlaine in ava-labs#2218
  • Update golangci-lint to v1.55.1 by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2228
  • Add json marshal tests to existing serialization tests in platformvm/txs pkg by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2227
  • Move all blst function usage to bls pkg by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2222
  • merkledb -- don't pass BranchFactor to encodeDBNode by @danlaine in ava-labs#2217
  • Add utils.Err helper by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2212
  • Enable perfsprint linter by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2229
  • Trim down size of secp256k1 Factory struct by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2223
  • Fix test typos by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2233
  • P2P AppRequestFailed protobuf definition by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2111
  • Remove error from Router AppGossip by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2238
  • Document host and port behavior in help text by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2236
  • Remove database.Manager by @danlaine in ava-labs#2239
  • Add BaseTx support to platformvm by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2232
  • Add pebble as valid value for --db-type. by @danlaine in ava-labs#2244
  • Add nullable option to codec by @nytzuga in ava-labs#2171

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.14...v1.10.15

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 29 and compatible with version v1.10.13.

Configs

  • Deprecated --api-ipcs-enabled
  • Deprecated --ipcs-chain-ids
  • Deprecated --ipcs-path
  • Deprecated --api-keystore-enabled

Fixes

  • Fixed shutdown of timeout manager
  • Fixed racy access of the shutdown time

What's Changed

  • Remove build check from unit tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2189
  • Update cgo usage by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2184
  • Deprecate IPC configs by @danlaine in ava-labs#2168
  • Update P2P proto docs by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2181
  • Merkle db Make Paths only refer to lists of nodes by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2143
  • Deprecate keystore config by @danlaine in ava-labs#2195
  • Add tests for BanffBlock serialization by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2194
  • Move Shutdown lock from Handler into Engines by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2179
  • Move HealthCheck lock from Handler into Engines by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2173
  • Implement Heap Map by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2137
  • Move selectStartGear lock from Handler into Engines by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2182
  • Add Heap Set by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2136
  • Shutdown TimeoutManager during node Shutdown by @abi87 in ava-labs#1707
  • Redesign validator set management to enable tracking all subnets by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1857
  • Update local network readme by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2203
  • Use custom codec for validator metadata by @abi87 in ava-labs#1510
  • Add RSA max key length test by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2205
  • Remove duplicate networking check by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2204
  • Update TestDialContext to use ManuallyTrack by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2209
  • Remove contains from validator manager interface by @ceyonur in ava-labs#2198
  • Move the overridden manager into the node by @ceyonur in ava-labs#2199
  • Remove aggregate struct by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2213
  • Add log for ungraceful shutdown on startup by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2215
  • Add pebble database implementation by @danlaine in ava-labs#1999
  • Add TransferSubnetOwnershipTx by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2178
  • Revert networking AllowConnection change by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2219
  • Fix unexpected unlock by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2221
  • Improve logging for block verification failure by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2224

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.13...v1.10.14

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is updated to 29 all plugins must update to be compatible.

Fixes

  • Added Prefetcher to the merkledb interface
  • Fixed json marshalling of TrackedSubnets and AllowedNodes

What's Changed

  • Fix typo in block formation logic documentation by @kyoshisuki in ava-labs#2158
  • Marshal blocks and transactions inside API calls by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2153
  • Remove lock options from the info api by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2149
  • Remove write lock option from the avm static API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2154
  • Remove write lock option from the avm wallet API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2155
  • Fix json marshalling of Sets by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2161
  • Rename removeSubnetValidatorValidation to verifyRemoveSubnetValidatorTx by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2162
  • Remove lock options from the IPCs api by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2151
  • Remove write lock option from the xsvm API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2152
  • Remove lock options from the admin API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2150
  • Remove aliasing of math standard lib by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2163
  • Remove write lock option from the platformvm API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2157
  • Remove write lock option from the avm rpc API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2156
  • Remove context lock from API VM interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2165
  • Use set.Of rather than set.Add by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2164
  • Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.55.0 to 1.58.3 by @dependabot in ava-labs#2159
  • [x/merkledb] Prefetcher interface by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#2167
  • Validator Diffs: docs and UTs cleanup by @abi87 in ava-labs#2037
  • MerkleDB Reduce buffer creation/memcopy on path construction by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2124
  • Fix some P-chain UTs by @abi87 in ava-labs#2117

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.12...v1.10.13

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 28 and compatible with versions v1.10.9 - v1.10.11.

APIs

  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_total_weight metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_validators metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_processing_ancestor_fetches_failed metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_processing_ancestor_fetches_dropped metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_processing_ancestor_fetches_succeeded metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_processing_ancestor_fetches_unneeded metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_missing_accepted_blocks metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_selected_vote_index_count metric
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_selected_vote_index_sum metric

Configs

  • Added --snow-preference-quorum-size flag
  • Added --snow-confidence-quorum-size flag
  • Added "fx-owner-cache-size" to the P-chain config

Fixes

  • Fixed concurrent node shutdown and chain creation race
  • Updated http2 implementation to patch CVE-2023-39325
  • Exited network.dial early to avoid goroutine leak when shutting down
  • Reduced log level of "failed to send peer list for handshake" messages from ERROR to DEBUG
  • Reduced log level of "state pruning failed" messages from ERROR to WARN

What's Changed

  • Add last accepted height to the snowman interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2091
  • Delete kurtosis CI jobs by @marun in ava-labs#2068
  • e2e: Ensure all Issue* calls use the default context by @marun in ava-labs#2069
  • Remove Finalized from the consensus interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2093
  • Remove embedding of verify.Verifiable in FxCredential by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2089
  • Clarify decidable interface simple default parameter tests by @gyuho in ava-labs#2094
  • snow/consensus/snowman/poll: remove "unused" no early term poller by @gyuho in ava-labs#2095
  • Cleanup .golangci.yml by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2097
  • Refactor ancestor.Tree by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2099
  • Update AMI runner image and instance type by @charlie-ava in ava-labs#1939
  • Add tagalign linter by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2084
  • Fix flaky BuildBlockIsIdempotent test by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2101
  • Make network.dial honor context cancellation. by @danlaine in ava-labs#2061
  • Add preference lookups by height to the consensus interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2092
  • Remove duplicate pullQuery method by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2103
  • Add additional validator set metrics by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#2051
  • Remove snowball.Initialize and snowball.Factory by @danlaine in ava-labs#2104
  • Remove initialize functions from the snowball package by @danlaine in ava-labs#2105
  • Remove genesis.State by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2112
  • add SetSubnetOwner to Chain interface by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2031
  • Move vote bubbling before poll termination by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2100
  • testing: Switch upgrade test to testnet fixture by @marun in ava-labs#1887
  • Reduce archivedb key lengths by 1 byte by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2113
  • Cleanup uptime manager constructor by @abi87 in ava-labs#2118
  • MerkleDB Compact Path Bytes by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2010
  • MerkleDB Path changes cleanup by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2120
  • Fix consensus engine interface comments by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2115
  • Standardize consensus variable names in tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2129
  • Prevent bytesNeeded overflow by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2130
  • Migrate xsvm from github.com/ava-labs/xsvm by @marun in ava-labs#2045
  • Fix handling of wg in the networking dial test by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2132
  • Update go.mod and add update check by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2133
  • Reduce log level of failing to send a peerList message by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2134
  • RPCChainVM fail-fast health RPCs by @hexfusion in ava-labs#2123
  • MerkleDB allow warming node cache by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2128
  • Add vote bubbling metrics by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2138
  • Reduce log level of an error during Prune by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2141
  • Exit chain creation routine before shutting down chain router by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2140
  • Merkle db fix type cast bug by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2142
  • Add Warp Payload Types by @nytzuga in ava-labs#2116
  • Add height voting for chits by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2102
  • Add Heap Queue by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2135
  • Add additional payload.Hash examples by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2145
  • Split Alpha into AlphaPreference and AlphaConfidence by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2125

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.11...v1.10.12

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 28 and compatible with versions v1.10.9 - v1.10.10.

Fixes

  • Prevented overzelous benching due to dropped AppRequests
  • Populated the process file atomically to avoid racy reads

What's Changed

  • Rename platformvm/blocks to platformvm/block by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1980
  • RewardValidatorTx cleanup by @abi87 in ava-labs#1891
  • Cancel stale SH actions by @danlaine in ava-labs#2003
  • e2e: Switch assertion library from gomega to testify by @marun in ava-labs#1909
  • e2e: Add bootstrap checks to migrated kurtosis tests by @marun in ava-labs#1935
  • Add GetTransformSubnetTx helper by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2047
  • Add readme for the staking/local folder by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2046
  • use IsCortinaActivated helper by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2048
  • add D upgrade boilerplate by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2049
  • e2e: Ensure interchain workflow coverage for the P-Chain by @marun in ava-labs#1882
  • e2e: Switch to using default timed context everywhere by @marun in ava-labs#1910
  • Remove indentation + confusing comment by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2053
  • Delete ErrDelegatorSubset by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2055
  • Fix default validator start time by @marun in ava-labs#2058
  • Enable workflows to be triggered by merge queue by @marun in ava-labs#2057
  • e2e: Migrate staking rewards test from kurtosis by @marun in ava-labs#1767
  • Fix LRU documentation comment by @anusha-ctrl in ava-labs#2036
  • Ignore AppResponse timeouts for benching by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2066
  • trace: provide appName and version from Config by @najeal in ava-labs#1893
  • Update perms.WriteFile to write atomically by @marun in ava-labs#2063
  • ArchiveDB by @nytzuga in ava-labs#1911

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.10...v1.10.11

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 28 and compatible with version v1.10.9.

APIs

  • Added height to the output of platform.getCurrentSupply

Configs

  • Added proposerNumHistoricalBlocks to subnet configs

Fixes

  • Fixed handling of SIGTERM signals in plugin processes prior to receiving a Shutdown message
  • Fixed range proof commitment of empty proofs

What's Changed

  • e2e: Save network data for each test run as an uploaded artifact by @marun in ava-labs#1856
  • e2e: Ensure interchain workflow coverage for X-Chain and C-Chain by @marun in ava-labs#1871
  • MerkleDB Adjust New View function(s) by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1927
  • e2e: Migrate duplicate node id test from kurtosis by @marun in ava-labs#1573
  • Add tracing levels to merkledb by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1933
  • [x/merkledb] Add Configuration for RootGenConcurrency by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#1936
  • e2e: Ensure testnet network dir is archived on failed test run by @marun in ava-labs#1930
  • Merkle db cleanup view creation by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1934
  • Add async DB deletion helper by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1931
  • Implement SDK handler to drop messages from non-validators by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1917
  • Support proposervm historical block deletion by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1929
  • Remove thread pool by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1940
  • Merkledb split node storage into value and intermediate by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1918
  • merkledb -- remove unneeded codec test helper by @danlaine in ava-labs#1943
  • merkledb -- add codec test and move helper by @danlaine in ava-labs#1944
  • Add throttler implementation to SDK by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1905
  • Add Throttled Handler implementation to SDK by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1906
  • Change merkledb caches to be size based by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1947
  • Rename node.marshal to node.bytes by @danlaine in ava-labs#1951
  • e2e: Switch to a default network node count of 2 by @marun in ava-labs#1928
  • MerkleDB Improve Node Size Calculation by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1950
  • merkledb -- remove unneeded return values by @danlaine in ava-labs#1959
  • sync -- reduce test sizes by @danlaine in ava-labs#1962
  • merkledb -- limit number of goroutines calculating node IDs by @danlaine in ava-labs#1960
  • Add gossip package to p2p SDK by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1958
  • Improve state sync logging by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1955
  • Update golang to 1.20.8 by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1826
  • Use odd-numbered request ids for SDK by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1975
  • update iterator invariant by @danlaine in ava-labs#1978
  • Document common usage of requestIDs for snow senders by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1981
  • e2e: Diagnose and fix flakes by @marun in ava-labs#1941
  • merkledb -- db_test.go cleanup by @danlaine in ava-labs#1954
  • merkledb -- make config fields uints by @danlaine in ava-labs#1963
  • Only gracefully exit rpcchainvm server after Shutdown by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1988
  • Add contexts to SDK callbacks by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1977
  • Change max response size to target response size by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1995
  • Add sdk gossip handler metrics by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1997
  • Add p2p SDK Router metrics by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2000
  • Merkledb Attempt to reduce test runtime by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1990
  • longer timeout on windows UT by @danlaine in ava-labs#2001
  • sync -- log tweaks by @danlaine in ava-labs#2008
  • Add Validator Gossiper by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2015
  • database: comment that Get returns ErrNotFound if key is not present by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#2018
  • Return height from GetCurrentSupply by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2022
  • simplify platformvm GetHeight function by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2023
  • Merkle db fix range proof commit bug by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2019
  • Add bag.Of helper by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2027
  • Cleanup early poll termination logic by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2029
  • fix typo by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2030
  • Merkle db intermediate node key compression by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1987
  • Improve RPC Chain version mismatch error message by @martineckardt in ava-labs#2021
  • Move subnet owner lookup to platformvm state by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2024
  • Fix fuzz tests; add iterator fuzz test by @danlaine in ava-labs#1991
  • Refactor subnet validator primary network requirements by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2014
  • Rename events to event by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1973
  • Add function to initialize SampleableSet by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#2017
  • add IsCortinaActivated helper by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#2013
  • Fix P-chain Import by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#2035
  • Rename avm/blocks package to avm/block by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1970
  • Merkledb Update rangeproof proto to be consistent with changeproof proto by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2040
  • merkledb -- encode lengths as uvarints by @danlaine in ava-labs#2039
  • MerkleDB Remove GetNodeFromParent by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#2041

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.9...v1.10.10

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is updated to 28 all plugins must update to be compatible.

Configs

  • Changed the default value of --network-compression-type from gzip to zstd

Fixes

  • Marked corruptabledb as corrupted after encountering an error during iteration
  • Fixed proposervm error handling during startup

What's Changed

  • merkledb -- verify range proof in fuzz test; fix bound error by @danlaine in ava-labs#1789
  • Update default compression type to zstd by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1839
  • Migrate to uber-go/mock by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1840
  • corruptabledb -- corrupt on iterator error by @danlaine in ava-labs#1829
  • Add support for Maps to the reflect_codec by @nytzuga in ava-labs#1790
  • Make linter fail if github.com/golang/mock/gomock is used by @danlaine in ava-labs#1843
  • Firewoodize merkle db Part 1: Make Views ReadOnly by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1816
  • E2E tests -- use appropriate timeouts by @danlaine in ava-labs#1851
  • e2e: Switch to testnet fixture by @marun in ava-labs#1709
  • secp256k1 -- add fuzz tests by @danlaine in ava-labs#1809
  • Add fuzz test for complex codec unmarshalling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1846
  • Simplify exported interface of the primary wallet by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1849
  • Regenerate mocks by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1860
  • Remove history btree by @danlaine in ava-labs#1861
  • merkledb -- Remove CommitToParent by @danlaine in ava-labs#1854
  • merkledb -- remove other history btree by @danlaine in ava-labs#1862
  • merkledb -- add path fuzz test by @danlaine in ava-labs#1852
  • fix range proof verification case by @danlaine in ava-labs#1834
  • merkledb -- add change proof fuzz test; fix change proof verification by @danlaine in ava-labs#1802
  • Warp readme by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#1780
  • CODEOWNERS: add marun to tests by @hexfusion in ava-labs#1863
  • Add CI check that auto-generated code is up to date by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1828
  • sync -- change proof request can return range proof by @danlaine in ava-labs#1772
  • Ensure consistent use of best-practice set -o in all scripts by @marun in ava-labs#1864
  • GetCanonicalValidatorSet minimal ValidatorState iface by @darioush in ava-labs#1875
  • sync -- handle fatal error by @danlaine in ava-labs#1874
  • merkledb -- use Maybe for start bounds by @danlaine in ava-labs#1872
  • Add C-chain wallet to the primary network by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1850
  • e2e: Refactor keychain and wallet creation to test helpers by @marun in ava-labs#1870
  • Update account nonce on exportTx accept by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1881
  • sync -- add workheap test by @danlaine in ava-labs#1879
  • merkledb -- commit to db only by @danlaine in ava-labs#1885
  • Remove node/value lock from trieview by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1865
  • remove old todo by @danlaine in ava-labs#1892
  • Fix race in TestHandlerDispatchInternal by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1895
  • Remove duplicate code from proposervm block acceptance by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1894
  • e2e: Bump permissionless subnets timeouts by @marun in ava-labs#1897
  • merkledb -- codec remove err checks by @danlaine in ava-labs#1899
  • Merkle db fix new return type by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1898
  • Add SDK Sampling interface by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1877
  • Add NoOpHandler implementation to SDK by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1903
  • Remove unused scripts by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1908
  • merkledb -- codec nits/cleanup by @danlaine in ava-labs#1904
  • merkledb -- preallocate bytes.Buffer in codec by @danlaine in ava-labs#1900
  • Proposervm height index repair fix by @abi87 in ava-labs#1915
  • merkledb -- move and rename methods by @danlaine in ava-labs#1919
  • Remove optional height indexing interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1896
  • merkledb -- nits by @danlaine in ava-labs#1916
  • Fix code owners file by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1922
  • Drop invalid TLS certs during initial handshake by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1923
  • Restricted tls metrics by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1924

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.8...v1.10.9

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 27 and compatible with versions v1.10.5 - v1.10.7.

This update changes the local network genesis. This version will not be able to join local networks with prior versions.

The first startup of the P-Chain will perform indexing operations. This indexing runs in the background and does not impact restart time. During this indexing the node will report increased CPU, memory, and disk usage.

APIs

  • Added platform.getBlockByHeight

Configs

  • Added --partial-sync-primary-network flag to enable non-validators to optionally sync only the P-chain on the primary network
  • Added P-chain cache size configuration block-id-cache-size

Fixes

  • Fixed P-chain GetValidatorSet regression for subnets
  • Changed x/sync range/change proof bounds from []byte to Maybe[[]byte]
  • Fixed x/sync error handling from failure to send app messages

What's Changed

  • Removes calls to ctrl.Finish by @darioush in ava-labs#1803
  • e2e: Remove unnecessary transaction status checking by @marun in ava-labs#1786
  • fix p2p mockgen location by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1806
  • fix end proof verification by @danlaine in ava-labs#1801
  • merkledb -- add proof fuzz test by @danlaine in ava-labs#1804
  • sync -- re-add network client metrics by @danlaine in ava-labs#1787
  • Add function to initialize set from elements by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1808
  • Add Maybe to the end bound of proofs (Part 1) by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1793
  • add go version to --version by @amirhasanzadehpy in ava-labs#1819
  • e2e: Add local network fixture by @marun in ava-labs#1700
  • Fix test flake in TestProposalTxsInMempool by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1822
  • sync -- remove todo by @danlaine in ava-labs#1788
  • Add Maybe to the end bound of proofs (Part 2) by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1813
  • Move Maybe to its own package by @danlaine in ava-labs#1817
  • merkledb -- clarify/improve change proof invariants by @danlaine in ava-labs#1810
  • P-chain state prune + height index by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1719
  • Update maintainer of the debian packages by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1825
  • Make platformvm implement block.HeightIndexedChainVM by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1746
  • Add P-chain GetBlockByHeight API method by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1747
  • Update local genesis startTime by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1811
  • sync -- add handling for fatal error by @danlaine in ava-labs#1690
  • Add error logs for unexpected proposervm BuildBlock failures by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1832
  • Fix subnet validator set public key initialization by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1833
  • Document PendingTxs + BuildBlock consensus engine requirement by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1835
  • Bump github.com/supranational/blst from 0.3.11-0.20230406105308-e9dfc5ee724b to 0.3.11 by @dependabot in ava-labs#1831
  • Add Primary Network Lite Sync Option by @abi87 in ava-labs#1769
  • Check P-chain ShouldPrune during Initialize by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1836

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.7...v1.10.8

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. This release contains meaningful performance improvements and we recommend updating as soon as possible.

The plugin version is unchanged at 27 and compatible with versions v1.10.5 - v1.10.6.

APIs

  • Modifed platform.getValidatorsAt to also return BLS public keys

Configs

  • Changed the default value of --network-allow-private-ips to false when the --network-id is either fuji or mainnet
  • Added P-chain cache size configurations
    • block-cache-size
    • tx-cache-size
    • transformed-subnet-tx-cache-size
    • reward-utxos-cache-size
    • chain-cache-size
    • chain-db-cache-size
  • Removed various long deprecated flags
    • --genesis use --genesis-file instead
    • --genesis-content use --genesis-file-content instead
    • --inbound-connection-throttling-cooldown use --network-inbound-connection-throttling-cooldown instead
    • --inbound-connection-throttling-max-conns-per-sec use --network-inbound-connection-throttling-max-conns-per-sec instead
    • --outbound-connection-throttling-rps use network-outbound-connection-throttling-rps instead
    • --outbound-connection-timeout use network-outbound-connection-timeout instead
    • --staking-enabled use sybil-protection-enabled instead
    • --staking-disabled-weight use sybil-protection-disabled-weight instead
    • --network-compression-enabled use --network-compression-type instead
    • --consensus-gossip-frequency use --consensus-accepted-frontier-gossip-frequency instead

Fixes

  • Fixed C-chain tx tracer crashes
  • Fixed merkledb panic during state sync
  • Fixed merkledb state sync stale target tracking

What's Changed

  • Remove deprecated configs by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1712
  • upgrade: Increase all ANR timeouts to 2m to ensure CI reliability by @marun in ava-labs#1737
  • fix sync panic by @danlaine in ava-labs#1736
  • remove vm.state re-assignment in tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1739
  • Expose BLS public keys from platform.getValidatorsAt by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1740
  • Fix validator set diff tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1744
  • Replace List() with Map() on validators.Set by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1745
  • vms/platformvm: configure state cache sizes #1522 by @najeal in ava-labs#1677
  • Support both stateBlks and Blocks in blockDB by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1748
  • Add DefaultExecutionConfig var to platformvm by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1749
  • Remove hanging TODO from prior change by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1758
  • Write process context on node start to simplify test orchestration by @marun in ava-labs#1729
  • x/sync: add locks for peerTracker by @darioush in ava-labs#1756
  • Add ids length constants by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1759
  • [x/sync] Update target locking by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#1763
  • Export warp errors for external use by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#1771
  • Remove unused networking constant by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1774
  • Change the default value of --network-allow-private-ips to false for mainnet and fuji by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1773
  • Remove context.TODO from tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1778
  • Replace linkeddb iterator with native DB range queries by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1752
  • Add support for measuring key size in caches by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1781
  • Bump coreth to v0.12.5-rc.0 by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#1775
  • Add metric for the number of elements in a cache by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1782
  • Evict blocks based on size by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1766
  • Add proposervm state metrics by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1785
  • Register metercacher len metric by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1791
  • Reduce block cache sizes to 64 MiB by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1794
  • Add p2p sdk by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1799

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.5...v1.10.7

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is updated to 27 all plugins must update to be compatible.

The first startup of the X-Chain will perform an indexing operation. This indexing runs in the background and does not impact restart time.

APIs

  • Added avalanche_network_clock_skew_sum metric
  • Added avalanche_network_clock_skew_count metric

Configs

  • Added --tracing-headers to allow specifying headers to the tracing indexer

Fixes

  • Fixed API handler crash for lookupState in prestate tracer
  • Fixed API handler crash for LOG edge cases in the callTracer

What's Changed

  • stop persisting rejected blocks on P-chain by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1696
  • Ensure scripts/lint.sh failure when used with incompatible grep by @marun in ava-labs#1711
  • sum peers clock skew into metric by @najeal in ava-labs#1695
  • Make AVM implement block.HeightIndexedChainVM by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1699
  • ProposerVM nits by @abi87 in ava-labs#1688
  • Sorting -- Remove old IsSortedAndUnique, rename IsSortedAndUniqueSortable to IsSortedAndUnique by @danlaine in ava-labs#1666
  • Update snow consensus doc post X-chain linearization by @exdx in ava-labs#1703
  • merkledb / sync -- remove TODOs by @danlaine in ava-labs#1718
  • remove cache TODOs by @danlaine in ava-labs#1721
  • Adjust NewSizedCache to take in a size function by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1725
  • Wallet issuance to return tx instead of tx id by @felipemadero in ava-labs#1704
  • Add support for providing tracing headers by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1727
  • Only return accepted blocks in GetStatelessBlock by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1724
  • Proposermv fix goroutine leaks by @abi87 in ava-labs#1713
  • Update warp msg format by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#1686
  • Cleanup anr scripts by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1714
  • remove TrackBandwidth from NetworkClient by @danlaine in ava-labs#1716
  • Bump network start timeout by @marun in ava-labs#1730
  • e2e: Ensure e2e.test is built with portable BLST by @marun in ava-labs#1734
  • e2e: Increase all ANR timeouts to 2m to ensure CI reliability. by @marun in ava-labs#1733

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.4...v1.10.5

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 26 and compatible with versions v1.10.1 - v1.10.3.

The first startup of the X-Chain will perform a pruning operation. This pruning runs in the background and does not impact restart time.

APIs

  • Removed avalanche_X_vm_avalanche_metervm_pending_txs_count metric
  • Removed avalanche_X_vm_avalanche_metervm_pending_txs_sum metric
  • Removed avalanche_X_vm_avalanche_metervm_get_tx_count metric
  • Removed avalanche_X_vm_avalanche_metervm_get_tx_sum metric
  • Removed avalanche_X_vm_avalanche_metervm_get_tx_err_count metric
  • Removed avalanche_X_vm_avalanche_metervm_get_tx_err_sum metric

Configs

  • Added --staking-host to allow binding only on a specific address for staking
  • Added checksums-enabled to the X-chain and P-chain configs

Fixes

  • Fixed proposervm preForkBlock.Status() response after the fork has occurred
  • Fixed C-chain logs collection error when no receipts occur in a block
  • Fixed merkledb's findNextKey when an empty end proof is provided
  • Fixed 0 length key issues with proof generation and verification
  • Fixed Docker execution on non-amd64 architectures

What's Changed

  • e2e: Support testing on MacOS without requiring firewall exceptions by @marun in ava-labs#1613
  • Reduce resource log level by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1622
  • Improve snow/ tests with require by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1503
  • Improve x/ tests with require by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1454
  • sync -- fix TestFindNextKeyRandom by @danlaine in ava-labs#1624
  • Improve vms/ tests with require by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1505
  • Improve database/ tests with require by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1506
  • Ban usage of t.Fatal and t.Error by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1453
  • chore: fix typo in binary_snowflake.go by @eltociear in ava-labs#1630
  • Discriminate window fit err msg from overdelegated error msg by @felipemadero in ava-labs#1606
  • Remove MaxConnectionAge gRPC StreamID overflow mitigation by @hexfusion in ava-labs#1388
  • add fuzzing action by @danlaine in ava-labs#1635
  • Remove dagState and GetUTXOFromID by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1632
  • Update all AVM tests for post-linearization by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1631
  • Remove PendingTxs from the DAGVM interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1641
  • Remove GetTx from the DAGVM interface by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1642
  • Bump coreth v0.12.4 by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#1646
  • [x/merkledb] Remove useless err check by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#1650
  • [x/merkledb] Trailing whitespace removal on README by @patrick-ogrady in ava-labs#1649
  • Remove unneeded functions from UniqueTx by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1643
  • Simplify tx verification by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1654
  • merkledb -- fix findNextKey by @danlaine in ava-labs#1653
  • Cleanup X-chain UniqueTx Dependencies by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1656
  • Prune X-chain State by @coffeeavax in ava-labs#1427
  • Support building docker image on ARM64 by @dshiell in ava-labs#1103
  • remove goreleaser by @danlaine in ava-labs#1660
  • Fix Dockerfile on non amd64 platforms by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1661
  • Improve metrics error message by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1663
  • Remove X-chain UniqueTx by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1662
  • Add state checksums by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1658
  • Modify proposervm window by @najeal in ava-labs#1638
  • sorting nit by @danlaine in ava-labs#1665
  • merkledb -- rewrite and test range proof invariants; fix proof generation/veriifcation bugs by @danlaine in ava-labs#1629
  • Add minimum proposer window length by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1667
  • CI -- only run fuzz tests on ubuntu by @danlaine in ava-labs#1636
  • MerkleDB -- remove codec version by @danlaine in ava-labs#1671
  • MerkleDB -- use default config in all tests by @danlaine in ava-labs#1590
  • sync -- reduce stuttering by @danlaine in ava-labs#1672
  • Sync -- unexport field by @danlaine in ava-labs#1673
  • sync -- nits and cleanup by @danlaine in ava-labs#1674
  • sync -- remove unused code by @danlaine in ava-labs#1676
  • Mark preForkBlocks after the fork as Rejected by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1683
  • merkledb -- fix comment by @danlaine in ava-labs#1675
  • MerkleDB -- document codec by @danlaine in ava-labs#1670
  • sync -- client cleanup by @danlaine in ava-labs#1680
  • Update buf version to v1.23.1 by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#1685

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.3...v1.10.4

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 26.

Users must specify the --allowed-hosts-flag to receive inbound API traffic from non-local hosts.

APIs

  • Added health metrics based on tags
    • avalanche_health_checks_failing{tag="TAG"}
    • avalanche_liveness_checks_failing{tag="TAG"}
    • avalanche_readiness_checks_failing{tag="TAG"}
  • Removed P-chain VM percent connected metrics
    • avalanche_P_vm_percent_connected
    • avalanche_P_vm_percent_connected_subnet{subnetID="SUBNETID"}
  • Added percent connected metrics by chain
    • avalanche_{ChainID}_percent_connected
  • Removed avalanche_network_send_queue_portion_full metric

Configs

  • Added --http-allowed-hosts with a default value of localhost
  • Removed --snow-mixed-query-num-push-vdr
  • Removed --snow-mixed-query-num-push-non-vdr
  • Removed minPercentConnectedStakeHealthy from the subnet config

Fixes

  • Fixed platformvm.GetValidatorSet returning incorrect BLS public keys
  • Fixed IPv6 literal binding with --http-host
  • Fixed P2P message log format

What's Changed

  • x/sync -- Add proto for P2P messages by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1472
  • Bump Protobuf and tooling and add section to proto docs outlining buf publishing by @hexfusion in ava-labs#1552
  • Minor pchain UTs cleanup by @abi87 in ava-labs#1554
  • Add ping uptimes test by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1550
  • Add workflow to mark stale issues and PRs by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1443
  • Enforce inlining functions with a single error return in require.NoError by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1500
  • x/sync / x/merkledb -- add SyncableDB interface by @danlaine in ava-labs#1555
  • Rename beacon to boostrapper, define bootstrappers in JSON file for cross-language compatibility by @gyuho in ava-labs#1439
  • add P-chain height indexing by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1447
  • Add P-chain GetBlockByHeight API method by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1448
  • x/sync -- use for sending Range Proofs by @danlaine in ava-labs#1537
  • Add test to ensure that database packing produces sorted values by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1560
  • Randomize unit test execution order to identify unwanted dependency by @marun in ava-labs#1565
  • use http.Error instead of separately writing error code and message by @danlaine in ava-labs#1564
  • Adding allowed http hosts flag by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1566
  • x/sync -- Use proto for sending Change Proofs by @danlaine in ava-labs#1541
  • Only send PushQuery messages after building the block by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1428
  • Rename APIAllowedOrigins to HTTPAllowedOrigins by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1567
  • Add GetBalance examples for the P-chain and X-chain wallets by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1569
  • Reduce number of test iterations by @danlaine in ava-labs#1568
  • Re-add upgrade tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1410
  • Remove lists from Chits messages by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1412
  • Add more X-chain tests by @coffeeavax in ava-labs#1487
  • fix typo by @meaghanfitzgerald in ava-labs#1570
  • Reduce the number of test health checks by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1571
  • Fix proposervm.GetAncestors test flake by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1572
  • Remove list from AcceptedFrontier message by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1578
  • Remove version db from merkle db by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1534
  • MerkleDB -- add eviction batch size config by @danlaine in ava-labs#1586
  • MerkleDB -- fix onEvictCache.Flush by @danlaine in ava-labs#1589
  • Revert P-Chain height index by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1591
  • x/sync -- Add SyncableDB proto by @danlaine in ava-labs#1559
  • Clarify break on error during ancestors lookup by @hexfusion in ava-labs#1580
  • Add buf-push github workflow by @hexfusion in ava-labs#1556
  • Pchain bls key diff fix by @abi87 in ava-labs#1584
  • Cleanup fx interface compliance by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1599
  • Improve metrics error msging by @anusha-ctrl in ava-labs#1598
  • Separate health checks by tags by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1579
  • Separate subnet stake connected health and metrics from P-chain by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1358
  • Merkle db iterator by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1533
  • Fix unreadable message errors by @morrisettjohn in ava-labs#1585
  • Log unexpected errors during GetValidatorSet by @hexfusion in ava-labs#1592
  • merkleDB -- add inner heap type to syncWorkHeap by @danlaine in ava-labs#1582
  • sync -- explain algorithm in readme by @danlaine in ava-labs#1600
  • Rename license header file to avoid unintended license indexing by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1608
  • merkledb and sync -- use time based rand seed by @danlaine in ava-labs#1607
  • add local-prefixes setting for goimports by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1612
  • snow/engine/snowman: instantiate voter after issuer by @gyuho in ava-labs#1610
  • Update CodeQL to v2 by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1616
  • Remove old networking metric by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1619
  • Fix --http-host flag to support IPv6 by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1620

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.2...v1.10.3

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 26.

APIs

  • Significantly improved the performance of platform.getStake
  • Added portion_filled metric for all metered caches
  • Added resource metrics by process
    • avalanche_system_resources_num_cpu_cycles
    • avalanche_system_resources_num_disk_read_bytes
    • avalanche_system_resources_num_disk_reads
    • avalanche_system_resources_num_disk_write_bytes
    • avalanche_system_resources_num_disk_writes

Configs

  • Deprecated --genesis in favor of --genesis-file
  • Deprecated --genesis-content in favor of --genesis-file-content
  • Deprecated --inbound-connection-throttling-cooldown in favor of --network-inbound-connection-throttling-cooldown
  • Deprecated --inbound-connection-throttling-max-conns-per-sec in favor of --network-inbound-connection-throttling-max-conns-per-sec
  • Deprecated --outbound-connection-throttling-rps in favor of --network-outbound-connection-throttling-rps
  • Deprecated --outbound-connection-timeout in favor of --network-outbound-connection-timeout
  • Deprecated --staking-enabled in favor of --sybil-protection-enabled
  • Deprecated --staking-disabled-weight in favor of --sybil-protection-disabled-weight
  • Deprecated --consensus-gossip-frequency in favor of --consensus-accepted-frontier-gossip-frequency

Fixes

  • Fixed --network-compression-type to correctly honor the requested compression type, rather than always using gzip
  • Fixed CPU metrics on macos

What's Changed

  • use require library functions in tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1451
  • style nits in vm clients by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1449
  • utils/logging: add "Enabled" method to remove redundant verbo logs by @gyuho in ava-labs#1461
  • ban require.EqualValues by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1457
  • chains: do not hold write subnetsLock in health checks by @gyuho in ava-labs#1460
  • remove zstd check by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1459
  • use require.IsType for type assertions in tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1458
  • vms/platformvm/service: nits (preallocate address slice, error msg) by @gyuho in ava-labs#1477
  • ban require.NotEqualValues by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1470
  • use require in api and utils/password packages by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1471
  • use "golang.org/x/term" as "golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal" is deprecated by @gyuho in ava-labs#1464
  • chains: move "msgChan" closer to the first use (readability) by @gyuho in ava-labs#1484
  • ban function params for require.ErrorIs by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1486
  • standardize imports by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1466
  • fix license header test by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1492
  • use blank identifier for interface compliance by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1493
  • codec: remove "SetMaxSize" from "Manager", remove unnecessary lock by @gyuho in ava-labs#1481
  • config: disallow "ThrottlerConfig.MaxRecheckDelay" < 1 ms by @gyuho in ava-labs#1435
  • ban require.Equal when testing for 0 by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1495
  • Clean up MerkleDVB Sync Close lock by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1469
  • MerkleDB Cleanup by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1465
  • Remove comment referencing old IP based tracking by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1509
  • ban usage of require.Len when testing for length 0 by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1496
  • ban usage of require.Equal when testing for length by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1497
  • ban usage of nil in require functions by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1498
  • Sized LRU cache by @abi87 in ava-labs#1517
  • engine/snowman: clean up some comments in "bubbleVotes" unit tests by @gyuho in ava-labs#1444
  • snow/networking/sender: add missing verbo check by @gyuho in ava-labs#1504
  • Delete duplicate test var definitions by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1518
  • utils/bag: print generic type for bag elements by @gyuho in ava-labs#1507
  • Fix incorrect test refactor by @abi87 in ava-labs#1526
  • Pchain validators repackaging by @abi87 in ava-labs#1284
  • Config overhaul by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1370
  • rename enabled staking to sybil protection enabled by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1441
  • Fix network compression type flag usage by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1532
  • Deprecate uptimes in pong message by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1362
  • Add CPU cycles and number of disk read/write metrics by pid by @coffeeavax in ava-labs#1334
  • Fetch process resource stats as best-effort by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1543
  • Add serialization tests for transactions added in Banff by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1513
  • Log chain shutdown duration by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1545
  • add interface for MerkleDB by @danlaine in ava-labs#1519

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.1...v1.10.2

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 26.

APIs

  • Enabled avm.getBlockByHeight to take in height as a string
  • Added IDs to json formats
    • platform.getTx now includes id in the tx response
    • platform.getBlock now includes id in the block response and in the internal tx fields
    • avm.getTx now includes id in the tx response
    • avm.getBlock now includes id in the block response and in the internal tx fields
    • avm.getBlockByHeight now includes id in the block response and in the internal tx fields
  • Removed avm.issueStopVertex
  • Fixed wallet methods to correctly allow issuance of dependent transactions after the X-chain linearization
  • Added validatorOnly flag in platform.getStake
  • Removed all avalanche consensus metrics
  • Fixed msgHandlingTime metrics

Configs

  • Removed --snow-avalanche-num-parents
  • Removed --snow-avalanche-batch-size

Fixes

  • Fixed panic when restarting partially completed X-chain snowman bootstrapping
  • Fixed --network-allow-private-ips handling to correctly prevent outbound connections to private IP ranges
  • Fixed UniformSampler to support sampling numbers between MaxInt64 and MaxUint64
  • Fixed data race in txID access during transaction gossip in the AVM

What's Changed

  • Add benchmark for gRPC GetValidatorSet by @hexfusion in ava-labs#1326
  • Add checks for database being closed in merkledb; other nits by @danlaine in ava-labs#1333
  • Update linkedhashmap to only Rlock when possible by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1329
  • Remove no-op changes from history results by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1335
  • Cleanup type assertions in the linkedHashmap by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1341
  • Fix racy avm tx access by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1349
  • Update Fuji beacon ips by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1354
  • Remove duplicate TLS verification by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1364
  • Adjust Merkledb Trie invalidation locking by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1355
  • Use require in Avalanche bootstrapping tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1344
  • Add Proof size limit to sync client by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1269
  • Add stake priority helpers by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1375
  • add contribution file by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1373
  • Remove max sample value by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1374
  • Prefetch rpcdb iterator batches by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1323
  • Temp fix for flaky Sync Test by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1378
  • Update merkle cache to be FIFO instead of LRU by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1353
  • Improve cost of BLS key serialization for gRPC by @hexfusion in ava-labs#1343
  • [Issue-1368]: Panic in serializedPath.HasPrefix by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1371
  • Add ValidatorsOnly flag to GetStake by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1377
  • Use proto in x/sync by @danlaine in ava-labs#1336
  • Update incorrect fuji beacon IPs by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1392
  • Update api/ error handling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1393
  • refactor concurrent work limiting in sync in x/sync by @danlaine in ava-labs#1347
  • Remove check for impossible condition in x/sync by @danlaine in ava-labs#1348
  • Improve codec/ error handling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1396
  • Improve config/ error handling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1397
  • Improve genesis/ error handling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1398
  • Improve various error handling locations by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1399
  • Improve utils/ error handling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1400
  • Improve consensus error handling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1401
  • Improve secp256k1fx + merkledb error handling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1402
  • Ban usage of require.Error by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1346
  • Remove slice capacity hint in x/sync by @danlaine in ava-labs#1350
  • Simplify syncWorkHeap less function in x/sync by @danlaine in ava-labs#1351
  • Replace switch with txs.Visitor in X chain signer by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1404
  • Include IDs in json marshalling by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1408
  • Adjust find next key logic in x/Sync by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1331
  • Remove bitmask from writeMsgLen by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1342
  • Require txIDs in PeerList messages by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1411
  • Allow dependent tx issuance over the wallet API by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1413
  • Add support for proto message.Tx decoding by @danlaine in ava-labs#1332
  • Remove avalanche bootstrapping -> avalanche consensus transition by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1345
  • Benchmark get canonical validator set by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#1417
  • Simplify IP status calculation by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1421
  • Honor AllowPrivateIPs config by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1422
  • Update BLS signature ordering to avoid public key compression by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1416
  • Remove DAG based consensus by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1359
  • Remove IssueStopVertex message by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1419
  • Fix msgHandlingTime by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1432
  • Change ChangeProofs to only have one list of key/value change instead of key/values and deleted by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1385
  • Update AMI generation workflow by @charlie-ava in ava-labs#1289
  • Support height as a string in avm.getBlockByHeight by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1437
  • Defer Snowman Bootstrapper parser initialization to Start by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1442
  • Cleanup proposervm ancestors packing @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1446

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.10.0...v1.10.1

This upgrade linearizes the X-chain, introduces delegation batching to the P-chain, and increases the maximum block size on the C-chain.

The changes in the upgrade go into effect at 11 AM ET, April 25th 2023 on Mainnet.

All Mainnet nodes should upgrade before 11 AM ET, April 25th 2023.

The supported plugin version is 25.

What's Changed

  • Add CODEOWNERS for the x/ package by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1260
  • Feature Spec Template by @richardpringle in ava-labs#1258
  • Standardize CI triggers by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1265
  • special case no sent/received message in network health check by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1263
  • Fix bug template by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1268
  • Replace flags usage with pflags by @danlaine in ava-labs#1270
  • Fixed grammatical errors in README.md by @krakxn in ava-labs#1102
  • Add tests for race conditions in merkledb by @kyl27 in ava-labs#1256
  • Add P-chain indexer API example by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1271
  • use require in snow/choices tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1279
  • use require in utils/wrappers tests by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1280
  • add support for tracking delegatee rewards to validator metadata by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1273
  • defer delegatee rewards until end of validator staking period by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1262
  • Initialize UptimeCalculator in TestPeer by @joshua-kim in ava-labs#1283
  • Add Avalanche liveness health checks by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1287
  • Skip AMI generation with Fuji tags by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1288
  • Use maps.Equal in set.Equals by @danlaine in ava-labs#1290
  • return accrued delegator rewards in GetCurrentValidators by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1291
  • Add zstd compression by @danlaine in ava-labs#1278
  • implement txs.Visitor in X chain wallet by @dhrubabasu in ava-labs#1299
  • Parallelize gzip compression by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1293
  • Add zip bomb tests by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1300
  • Gossip Avalanche frontier after the linearization by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1303
  • Add fine grained metrics+logging for handling, processing, and grab l… by @aaronbuchwald in ava-labs#1301
  • Persist stateless block in AVM state by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1305
  • Initialize FxID fields in GetBlock and GetBlockByHeight by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1306
  • Filterable Health Tags by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1304
  • increase health await timeout by @ceyonur in ava-labs#1317
  • Expose GetEngineManager from the chain Handler by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1316
  • Add BLS benchmarks by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1318
  • Encode codec version in merkledb by @danlaine in ava-labs#1313
  • Expose consensus-app-concurrency by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1322
  • Adjust Logic In Merkle DB History by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1310
  • Fix Concurrency Bug In CommitToParent by @dboehm-avalabs in ava-labs#1320
  • Cleanup goroutines on health.Stop by @StephenButtolph in ava-labs#1325

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.9.16...v1.10.0

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

  • Removed unnecessary repoll after rejecting vertices
  • Improved snowstorm lookup error handling
  • Removed rejected vertices from the Avalanche frontier more aggressively
  • Reduced default health check values for processing decisions

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

  • Fixed x/merkledb.ChangeProof#getLargestKey to correctly handle no changes
  • Added test for avm/txs/executor.SemanticVerifier#verifyFxUsage with multiple valid fxs
  • Fixed CPU + bandwidth performance regression during vertex processing
  • Added example usage of the /ext/index/X/block API
  • Reduced the default value of --snow-optimal-processing from 50 to 10
  • Updated the year in the license header

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

Networking

  • Removed linger setting on P2P connections
  • Improved error message when failing to calculate peer uptimes
  • Removed EngineType from P2P response messages
  • Added context cancellation during dynamic IP updates
  • Reduced the maximum P2P reconnect delay from 1 hour to 1 minute

Consensus

  • Added support to switch from Avalanche consensus to Snowman consensus
  • Added support for routing consensus messages to either Avalanche or Snowman consensus on the same chain
  • Removed usage of deferred evaluation of the handler.Consensus in the Avalanche OnFinished callback
  • Dropped inbound Avalanche consensus messages after switching to Snowman consensus
  • Renamed the Avalanche VM metrics prefix from avalanche_{chainID}_vm_ to avalanche_{chainID}_vm_avalanche
  • Replaced consensus and decision dispatchers with block, tx, and vertex dispatchers
  • Removed Avalanche bootstrapping restarts during the switch to Snowman consensus

AVM

  • Added avm block execution manager
  • Added avm block builder
  • Refactored avm transaction syntactic verification
  • Refactored avm transaction semantic verification
  • Refactored avm transaction execution
  • Added avm mempool gossip
  • Removed block timer interface from avm mempool
  • Moved toEngine channel into the avm mempool
  • Added GetUTXOFromID to the avm state.Chain interface
  • Added unpopulated MerkleRoot to avm blocks
  • Added avm transaction based metrics
  • Replaced error strings with error interfaces in the avm mempool

PlatformVM

  • Added logs when the local nodes stake amount changes
  • Moved platformvm message package into components
  • Replaced error strings with error interfaces in the platformvm mempool

Warp

  • Added ID method to warp.UnsignedMessage
  • Improved warp.Signature verification error descriptions

Miscellaneous

  • Improved merkledb locking to allow concurrent read access through trieViews
  • Fixed Banff transaction signing with ledger when using the wallet
  • Emitted github artifacts after successful builds
  • Added non-blocking bounded queue
  • Converted the x.Parser helper to be a block.Parser interface from a tx.Parser interface

Cleanup

  • Separated dockerhub image publishing from the kurtosis test workflow
  • Exported various errors to use in testing
  • Removed the vms/components/state package
  • Replaced ad-hoc linked hashmaps with the standard data-structure
  • Removed usr/local/lib/avalanche from deb packages
  • Standardized usage of constants.UnitTestID

Examples

  • Added P-chain RemoveSubnetValidatorTx example using the wallet
  • Added X-chain CreateAssetTx example using the wallet

Configs

  • Added support to specify HTTP server timeouts
    • --http-read-timeout
    • --http-read-header-timeout
    • --http-write-timeout
    • --http-idle-timeout

APIs

  • Added avm block APIs
    • avm.getBlock
    • avm.getBlockByHeight
    • avm.getHeight
  • Converted avm APIs to only surface accepted state
  • Deprecated all ipcs APIs
    • ipcs.publishBlockchain
    • ipcs.unpublishBlockchain
    • ipcs.getPublishedBlockchains
  • Deprecated all keystore APIs
    • keystore.createUser
    • keystore.deleteUser
    • keystore.listUsers
    • keystore.importUser
    • keystore.exportUser
  • Deprecated the avm/pubsub API endpoint
  • Deprecated various avm APIs
    • avm.getAddressTxs
    • avm.getBalance
    • avm.getAllBalances
    • avm.createAsset
    • avm.createFixedCapAsset
    • avm.createVariableCapAsset
    • avm.createNFTAsset
    • avm.createAddress
    • avm.listAddresses
    • avm.exportKey
    • avm.importKey
    • avm.mint
    • avm.sendNFT
    • avm.mintNFT
    • avm.import
    • avm.export
    • avm.send
    • avm.sendMultiple
  • Deprecated the avm/wallet API endpoint
    • wallet.issueTx
    • wallet.send
    • wallet.sendMultiple
  • Deprecated various platformvm APIs
    • platform.exportKey
    • platform.importKey
    • platform.getBalance
    • platform.createAddress
    • platform.listAddresses
    • platform.getSubnets
    • platform.addValidator
    • platform.addDelegator
    • platform.addSubnetValidator
    • platform.createSubnet
    • platform.exportAVAX
    • platform.importAVAX
    • platform.createBlockchain
    • platform.getBlockchains
    • platform.getStake
    • platform.getMaxStakeAmount
    • platform.getRewardUTXOs
  • Deprecated the stake field in the platform.getTotalStake response in favor of weight

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

Plugins

  • Removed error from logging.NoLog#Write
  • Added logging to the static VM factory usage
  • Fixed incorrect error being returned from subprocess.Bootstrap

Ledger

  • Added ledger tx parsing support

MerkleDB

  • Added explicit consistency guarantees when committing multiple merkledb.trieViews to disk at once
  • Removed reliance on premature root calculations for merkledb.trieView validity tracking
  • Updated x/merkledb/README.md

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

MerkleDB

  • Removed parent tracking from merkledb.trieView
  • Removed base caches from merkledb.trieView
  • Fixed error handling during merkledb intermediate node eviction
  • Replaced values larger than 32 bytes with a hash in the merkledb hash representation

AVM

  • Refactored avm API tx creation into a standalone Spender implementation
  • Migrated UTXO interfaces from the platformvm into the components for use in the avm
  • Refactored avm tx.SyntacticVerify to expect the config rather than the fee fields

Miscellaneous

  • Updated the minimum golang version to v1.19.6
  • Fixed rpcchainvm signal handling to only shutdown upon receipt of SIGTERM
  • Added warp.Signature#NumSigners for better cost tracking support
  • Added snow.Context#PublicKey to provide access to the local node's BLS public key inside the VM execution environment
  • Renamed Avalanche consensus metric prefix to avalanche_{chainID}_avalanche
  • Specified an explicit TCP Linger timeout of 15 seconds
  • Updated the secp256k1 library to v4.1.0

Cleanup

  • Removed support for the --whitelisted-subnets flag
  • Removed unnecessary abstractions from the app package
  • Removed Factory embedding from platformvm.VM and avm.VM
  • Removed validator package from the platformvm
  • Removed timer.TimeoutManager
  • Replaced snow.Context in Factory.New with logging.Logger
  • Renamed set.Bits#Len to BitLen and set.Bits#HammingWeight to Len to align with set.Bits64

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 23.

Note: The --whitelisted-subnets flag was deprecated in v1.9.6. This is the last release in which it will be supported. Use --track-subnets instead.

Monitoring

  • Added warning when the P2P server IP is private
  • Added warning when the HTTP server IP is potentially publicly reachable
  • Removed merkledb.trieView#calculateIDs tracing when no recalculation is needed

Databases

  • Capped the number of goroutines that merkledb.trieView#calculateIDsConcurrent will create
  • Removed nodb package
  • Refactored Batch implementations to share common code
  • Added Batch.Replay invariant tests
  • Converted to use require in all database interface tests

Cryptography

  • Moved the secp256k1 implementations to a new secp256k1 package out of the crypto package
  • Added rfc6979 compliance tests to the secp256k1 signing implementation
  • Removed unused cryptography implementations ed25519, rsa, and rsapss
  • Removed unnecessary cryptography interfaces crypto.Factory, crypto.RecoverableFactory, crypto.PublicKey, and crypto.PrivateKey
  • Added verification when parsing secp256k1 public keys to ensure usage of the compressed format

API

  • Removed delegators from platform.getCurrentValidators unless a single nodeID is requested
  • Added delegatorCount and delegatorWeight to the validators returned by platform.getCurrentValidators

Documentation

  • Improved documentation on the block.WithVerifyContext interface
  • Fixed --public-ip and --public-ip-resolution-service CLI flag descriptions
  • Updated README.md to explicitly reference SECURITY.md

Coreth

  • Enabled state sync by default when syncing from an empty database
  • Increased block gas limit to 15M for Cortina Network Upgrade
  • Added back file tracer endpoint
  • Added back JS tracer

Miscellaneous

  • Added allowedNodes to the subnet config for validatorOnly subnets
  • Removed the hashicorp/go-plugin dependency to improve plugin flexibility
  • Replaced specialized bag implementations with generic bag implementations
  • Added mempool package to the avm
  • Added chain.State#IsProcessing to simplify integration with block.WithVerifyContext
  • Added StateSyncMinVersion to sync.ClientConfig
  • Added validity checks for InitialStakeDuration in a custom network genesis
  • Removed unnecessary reflect call when marshalling an empty slice

Cleanup

  • Renamed teleporter package to warp
  • Replaced bool flags in P-chain state diffs with an enum
  • Refactored subnet configs to more closely align between the primary network and subnets
  • Simplified the utxo.Spender interface
  • Removed unused field common.Config#Validators

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 22.

Networking

  • Added TCP proxy support for p2p network traffic
  • Added p2p network client utility for directly messaging the p2p network

Consensus

  • Guaranteed delivery of App messages to the VM, regardless of sync status
  • Added EngineType to consensus context

MerkleDB - Alpha

  • Added initial implementation of a path-based merkle-radix tree
  • Added initial implementation of state sync powered by the merkledb

APIs

  • Updated platform.getCurrentValidators to return uptime as a percentage
  • Updated platform.get*Validators to avoid iterating over the staker set when requesting specific nodeIDs
  • Cached staker data in platform.get*Validators to significantly reduce DB IO
  • Added stakeAmount and weight to all staker responses in P-chain APIs
  • Deprecated stakeAmount in staker responses from P-chain APIs
  • Removed creationTxFee from info.GetTxFeeResponse
  • Removed address from platformvm.GetBalanceRequest

Fixes

  • Fixed RemoveSubnetValidatorTx weight diff corruption
  • Released network lock before attempting to close a peer connection
  • Fixed X-Chain last accepted block initialization to use the genesis block, not the stop vertex after linearization
  • Removed plugin directory handling from AMI generation
  • Removed copy of plugins directory from tar script

Cleanup

  • Removed unused rpm packaging scripts
  • Removed engine dependency from chain registrants
  • Removed unused field from chain handler log
  • Linted custom test chains.Manager
  • Used generic btree implementation
  • Deleted utils.CopyBytes
  • Updated rjeczalik/notify from v0.9.2 to v0.9.3

Miscellaneous

  • Added AVM state.Chain interface
  • Added generic atomic value utility
  • Added test for the AMI builder during RCs
  • Converted cache implementations to use generics
  • Added optional cache eviction callback

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 22.

Fixes

  • Fixed subnet validator lookup regression

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 22.

Consensus

  • Added StateSyncMode to the return of StateSummary#Accept to support syncing chain state while tracking the chain as a light client
  • Added AcceptedFrontier to Chits messages
  • Reduced unnecessary confidence resets during consensus by applying AcceptedFrontiers during QueryFailed handling
  • Added EngineType for consensus messages in the p2p message definitions
  • Updated vertex.DAGVM interface to support linearization

Configs

  • Added --plugin-dir flag. The default value is [DATADIR]/plugins
  • Removed --build-dir flag. The location of the avalanchego binary is no longer considered when looking for the plugins directory. Subnet maintainers should ensure that their node is able to properly discover plugins, as the default location is likely changed. See --plugin-dir
  • Changed the default value of --api-keystore-enabled to false
  • Added --track-subnets flag as a replacement of --whitelisted-subnets

Fixes

  • Fixed NAT-PMP router discovery and port mapping
  • Fixed --staking-enabled=false setting to correctly start subnet chains and report healthy
  • Fixed message logging in the consensus handler

VMs

  • Populated non-trivial logger in the rpcchainvm Server's snow.Context
  • Updated rpcchainvm proto definitions to use enums
  • Added Block format and definition to the AVM
  • Removed proposervm height index reset

Metrics

  • Added avalanche_network_peer_connected_duration_average metric
  • Added avalanche_api_calls_processing metric
  • Added avalanche_api_calls metric
  • Added avalanche_api_calls_duration metric

Documentation

  • Added wallet example to create stakeable.LockOut outputs
  • Improved ubuntu deb install instructions

Miscellaneous

  • Updated ledger-avalanche to v0.6.5
  • Added linter to ban the usage of fmt.Errorf without format directives
  • Added List to the buffer#Deque interface
  • Added Index to the buffer#Deque interface
  • Added SetLevel to the Logger interface
  • Updated auth API to use the new jwt standard

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 21.

Subnet Messaging

  • Added subnet message serialization format
  • Added subnet message signing
  • Replaced bls.SecretKey with a teleporter.Signer in the snow.Context
  • Moved SNLookup into the validators.State interface to support non-whitelisted chainID to subnetID lookups
  • Added support for non-whitelisted subnetIDs for fetching the validator set at a given height
  • Added subnet message verification
  • Added teleporter.AnycastID to denote a subnet message not intended for a specific chain

Fixes

  • Added re-gossip of updated validator IPs
  • Fixed rpcchainvm.BatchedParseBlock to correctly wrap returned blocks
  • Removed incorrect uintptr handling in the generic codec
  • Removed message latency tracking on messages being sent to itself

Coreth

  • Added support for eth_call over VM2VM messaging
  • Added config flags for tx pool behavior

Miscellaneous

  • Added networking package README.md
  • Removed pagination of large db messages over gRPC
  • Added Size to the generic codec to reduce allocations
  • Added UnpackLimitedBytes and UnpackLimitedStr to the manual packer
  • Added SECURITY.md
  • Exposed proposer list from the proposervm's Windower interface
  • Added health and bootstrapping client helpers that block until the node is healthy
  • Moved bit sets from the ids package to the set package
  • Added more wallet examples

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 20.

This version modifies the db format. The db format is compatible with v1.9.3, but not v1.9.2 or earlier. After running a node with v1.9.4 attempting to run a node with a version earlier than v1.9.3 may report a fatal error on startup.

PeerList Gossip Optimization

  • Added gossip tracking to the peer instance to only gossip new IPs to a connection
  • Added PeerListAck message to report which TxIDs provided by the PeerList message were tracked
  • Added TxIDs to the PeerList message to unique-ify nodeIDs across validation periods
  • Added TxID mappings to the gossip tracker

Validator Set Tracking

  • Renamed GetValidators to Get on the validators.Manager interface
  • Removed Set, AddWeight, RemoveWeight, and Contains from the validators.Manager interface
  • Added Add to the validators.Manager interface
  • Removed Set from the validators.Set interface
  • Added Add and Get to the validators.Set interface
  • Modified validators.Set#Sample to return ids.NodeID rather than valdiators.Validator
  • Replaced the validators.Validator interface with a struct
  • Added a BLS public key field to validators.Validator
  • Added a TxID field to validators.Validator
  • Improved and documented error handling within the validators.Set interface
  • Added BLS public keys to the result of GetValidatorSet
  • Added BuildBlockWithContext as an optional VM method to build blocks at a specific P-chain height
  • Added VerifyWithContext as an optional block method to verify blocks at a specific P-chain height

Uptime Tracking

  • Added ConnectedSubnet message handling to the chain handler
  • Added SubnetConnector interface and implemented it in the platformvm
  • Added subnet uptimes to p2p pong messages
  • Added subnet uptimes to platform.getCurrentValidators
  • Added subnetID as an argument to info.Uptime

Fixes

  • Fixed incorrect context cancellation of escaped contexts from grpc servers
  • Fixed race condition between API initialization and shutdown
  • Fixed race condition between NAT traversal initialization and shutdown
  • Fixed race condition during beacon connection tracking
  • Added race detection to the E2E tests
  • Added additional message and sender tests

Coreth

  • Improved header and logs caching using maximum accepted depth cache
  • Added config option to perform database inspection on startup
  • Added configurable transaction indexing to reduce disk usage
  • Added special case to allow transactions using Nick's Method to bypass API level replay protection
  • Added counter metrics for number of accepted/processed logs

APIs

  • Added indices to the return values of GetLastAccepted and GetContainerByID on the indexer API client
  • Removed unnecessary locking from the info API

Chain Data

  • Added ChainDataDir to the snow.Context to allow blockchains to canonically access disk outside avalanchego's database
  • Added --chain-data-dir as a CLI flag to specify the base directory for all ChainDataDirs

Miscellaneous

  • Removed Version from the peer.Network interface
  • Removed Pong from the peer.Network interface
  • Reduced memory allocations inside the system throttler
  • Added CChainID to the snow.Context
  • Converted all sorting to utilize generics
  • Converted all set management to utilize generics

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 19.

Tracing

  • Added context.Context to all VM interface functions
  • Added context.Context to the validators.State interface
  • Added additional message fields to tracedRouter#HandleInbound
  • Added tracedVM implementations for block.ChainVM and vertex.DAGVM
  • Added tracedState implementation for validators.State
  • Added tracedHandler implementation for http.Handler
  • Added tracedConsensus implementations for snowman.Consensus and avalanche.Consensus

Fixes

  • Fixed incorrect NodeID used in registered AppRequest timeouts
  • Fixed panic when calling encdb#NewBatch after encdb#Close
  • Fixed panic when calling prefixdb#NewBatch after prefixdb#Close

Configs

  • Added proposerMinBlockDelay support to subnet configs
  • Added providedFlags field to the initializing node for easily observing custom node configs
  • Added --chain-aliases-file and --chain-aliases-file-content CLI flags
  • Added --proposervm-use-current-height CLI flag

Coreth

  • Added metric for number of processed and accepted transactions
  • Added wait for state sync goroutines to complete on shutdown
  • Increased go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.26
  • Increased soft cap on transaction size limits
  • Added back isForkIncompatible checks for all existing forks
  • Cleaned up Apricot Phase 6 code

Linting

  • Added unused-receiver linter
  • Added unused-parameter linter
  • Added useless-break linter
  • Added unhandled-error linter
  • Added unexported-naming linter
  • Added struct-tag linter
  • Added bool-literal-in-expr linter
  • Added early-return linter
  • Added empty-lines linter
  • Added error-lint linter

Testing

  • Added scripts/build_fuzz.sh and initial fuzz tests
  • Added additional Fx tests
  • Added additional messageQueue tests
  • Fixed vmRegisterer tests

Documentation

  • Documented Database.Put invariant for nil and empty slices
  • Documented avalanchego's versioning scheme
  • Improved vm.proto docs

Miscellaneous

  • Added peer gossip tracker
  • Added avalanche_P_vm_time_until_unstake and avalanche_P_vm_time_until_unstake_subnet metrics
  • Added keychain.NewLedgerKeychainFromIndices
  • Removed usage of Temporary error handling after listener#Accept
  • Removed Parameters from all Consensus interfaces
  • Updated avalanche-network-runner to v1.3.0
  • Added ids.BigBitSet to extend ids.BitSet64 for arbitrarily large sets
  • Added support for parsing future subnet uptime tracking data to the P-chain's state implementation
  • Increased validator set cache size
  • Added avax.UTXOIDFromString helper for managing UTXOIDs more easily

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 19.

Coreth

  • Added trie clean cache journaling to disk to improve processing time after restart
  • Fixed regression where a snapshot could be marked as stale by the async acceptor during block processing
  • Added fine-grained block processing metrics

RPCChainVM

  • Added validators.State to the rpcchainvm server's snow.Context
  • Added rpcProtocolVersion to the output of info.getNodeVersion
  • Added rpcchainvm protocol version to the output of the --version flag
  • Added version.RPCChainVMProtocolCompatibility map to easily compare plugin compatibility against avalanchego versions

Builds

  • Downgraded ubuntu release binaries from jammy to focal
  • Updated macos github runners to macos-12
  • Added workflow dispatch to build release binaries

BLS

  • Added bls proof of possession to platform.getCurrentValidators and platform.getPendingValidators
  • Added bls public key to in-memory staker objects
  • Improved memory clearing of bls secret keys

Cleanup

  • Fixed issue where the chain manager would attempt to start chain creation multiple times
  • Fixed race that caused the P-chain to finish bootstrapping before the primary network finished bootstrapping
  • Converted inbound message handling to expect usage of types rather than maps of fields
  • Simplified the validators.Set implementation
  • Added a warning if synchronous consensus messages take too long

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 18.

Features

  • Added cross-chain messaging support to the VM interface
  • Added Ledger support to the Primary Network wallet
  • Converted Bionic builds to Jammy builds
  • Added mock.gen.sh to programmatically generate mock implementations
  • Added BLS signer to the snow.Context
  • Moved base from rpc.NewEndpointRequester to be included in the method in SendRequest
  • Converted UnboundedQueue to UnboundedDeque

Observability

  • Added support for OpenTelemetry tracing
  • Converted periodic bootstrapping status update to be time-based
  • Removed duplicated fields from the json format of the node config
  • Configured min connected stake health check based on the consensus parameters
  • Added new consensus metrics
  • Documented how chain time is advanced in the PlatformVM with chain_time_update.md

Cleanup

  • Converted chain creation to be handled asynchronously from the P-chain's execution environment
  • Removed SetLinger usage of P2P TCP connections
  • Removed Banff upgrade flow
  • Fixed ProposerVM inner block caching after verification
  • Fixed PlatformVM mempool verification to use an updated chain time
  • Removed deprecated CLI flags: --dynamic-update-duration, --dynamic-public-ip
  • Added unexpected Put bytes tests to the Avalanche and Snowman consensus engines
  • Removed mockery generated mock implementations
  • Converted safe math functions to use generics where possible
  • Added linting to prevent usage of assert in unit tests
  • Converted empty struct usage to nil for interface compliance checks
  • Added CODEOWNERs to own first rounds of PR review

This upgrade adds support for creating Proof-of-Stake Subnets.

This version is not backwards compatible. The changes in the upgrade go into effect at 12 PM EDT, October 18th 2022 on Mainnet.

All Mainnet nodes should upgrade before 12 PM EDT, October 18th 2022.

The supported plugin version is 17.

Upgrades

  • Activated P2P serialization format change to Protobuf
  • Activated non-AVAX ImportTx/ExportTxs to/from the P-chain
  • Activated Banff* blocks on the P-chain
  • Deactivated Apricot* blocks on the P-chain
  • Activated RemoveSubnetValidatorTxs on the P-chain
  • Activated TransformSubnetTxs on the P-chain
  • Activated AddPermissionlessValidatorTxs on the P-chain
  • Activated AddPermissionlessDelegatorTxs on the P-chain
  • Deactivated ANT ImportTx/ExportTxs on the C-chain
  • Deactivated ANT precompiles on the C-chain

Deprecations

  • Ubuntu 18.04 releases are deprecated and will not be provided for >=v1.9.1

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed locked input signing in the P-chain wallet
  • Removed assertions from the logger interface
  • Removed --assertions-enabled flag
  • Fixed typo in --bootstrap-max-time-get-ancestors flag
  • Standardized exported P-Chain codec usage
  • Improved isolation and execution of the E2E tests
  • Updated the linked hashmap implementation to use generics

This version is backwards compatible to v1.8.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 16.

BLS

  • Added BLS key file at --staking-signer-key-file
  • Exposed BLS proof of possession in the info.getNodeID API
  • Added BLS proof of possession to AddPermissionlessValidatorTxs for the Primary Network

The default value of --staking-signer-key-file is ~/.avalanchego/staking/signer.key. If the key file doesn't exist, it will be populated with a new key.

Networking

  • Added P2P proto support to be activated in a future release
  • Fixed inbound bandwidth spike after leaving the validation set
  • Removed support for ChitsV2 messages
  • Removed ContainerIDs from Put and PushQuery messages
  • Added pending_timeouts metric to track the number of active timeouts a node is tracking
  • Fixed overflow in gzip decompression
  • Optimized memory usage in peer.MessageQueue

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed bootstrapping ETA metric
  • Removed unused unknown_txs_count metric
  • Replaced duplicated code with generic implementations

Coreth

  • Added failure reason to bad block API

Please upgrade your node as soon as possible.

The supported plugin version is 16.

Fixes

  • Fixed stale block reference by evicting blocks upon successful verification
  • Removed check for Apricot Phase6 incompatible fork to unblock nodes that did not upgrade ahead of the activation time

Please upgrade your node as soon as possible.

The supported plugin version is 16.

Caching

  • Added temporarily invalid block caching to reduce repeated network requests
  • Added caching to the proposervm's inner block parsing
  • Reduced the log level of BAD BLOCKs from ERROR to DEBUG
  • Deprecated Native Asset Call

Please upgrade your node as soon as possible.

The changes in v1.8.x go into effect at 4 PM EDT on September 6th, 2022 on both Fuji and Mainnet. You should upgrade your node before the changes go into effect, otherwise they may experience loss of uptime.

The supported plugin version is 16.

  • Fixed live-lock in bootstrapping, after performing state-sync, by properly reporting database.ErrNotFound in GetBlockIDAtHeight rather than a formatted error
  • Increased the log level of BAD BLOCKs from DEBUG to ERROR
  • Fixed typo in Chain Config String function

Please upgrade your node as soon as possible.

The changes in v1.8.x go into effect at 4 PM EDT on September 6th, 2022 on both Fuji and Mainnet. You should upgrade your node before the changes go into effect, otherwise they may experience loss of uptime.

The supported plugin version is 16.

Miscellaneous

  • Reduced the severity of not quickly connecting to bootstrap nodes from FATAL to WARN
  • Reduced the log level of BAD BLOCKs from ERROR to DEBUG
  • Added Apricot Phase6 to Chain Config String function

This is a mandatory security upgrade. Please upgrade your node as soon as possible.

The changes in the upgrade go into effect at 4 PM EDT on September 6th, 2022 on both Fuji and Mainnet. You should upgrade your node before the changes go into effect, otherwise they may experience loss of uptime.

You may see some extraneous ERROR logs ("BAD BLOCK") on your node after upgrading. These may continue until the Apricot Phase 6 activation (at 4 PM EDT on September 6th).

The supported plugin version is 16.

PlatformVM APIs

  • Fixed GetBlock API when requesting the encoding as json
  • Changed the json key in AddSubnetValidatorTxs from subnet to subnetID
  • Added multiple asset support to getBalance
  • Updated PermissionlessValidators returned from getCurrentValidators and getPendingValidators to include validationRewardOwner and delegationRewardOwner
  • Deprecated rewardOwner in PermissionlessValidators returned from getCurrentValidators and getPendingValidators
  • Added subnetID argument to getCurrentSupply
  • Added multiple asset support to getStake
  • Added subnetID argument to getMinStake

PlatformVM Structures

  • Renamed existing blocks
    • ProposalBlock -> ApricotProposalBlock
    • AbortBlock -> ApricotAbortBlock
    • CommitBlock -> ApricotCommitBlock
    • StandardBlock -> ApricotStandardBlock
    • AtomicBlock -> ApricotAtomicBlock
  • Added new block types to be enabled in a future release
    • BlueberryProposalBlock
      • Introduces a Time field and an unused Txs field before the remaining ApricotProposalBlock fields
    • BlueberryAbortBlock
      • Introduces a Time field before the remaining ApricotAbortBlock fields
    • BlueberryCommitBlock
      • Introduces a Time field before the remaining ApricotCommitBlock fields
    • BlueberryStandardBlock
      • Introduces a Time field before the remaining ApricotStandardBlock fields
  • Added new transaction types to be enabled in a future release
    • RemoveSubnetValidatorTx
      • Can be included into BlueberryStandardBlocks
      • Allows a subnet owner to remove a validator from their subnet
    • TransformSubnetTx
      • Can be included into BlueberryStandardBlocks
      • Allows a subnet owner to convert their subnet into a permissionless subnet
    • AddPermissionlessValidatorTx
      • Can be included into BlueberryStandardBlocks
      • Adds a new validator to the requested permissionless subnet
    • AddPermissionlessDelegatorTx
      • Can be included into BlueberryStandardBlocks
      • Adds a new delegator to the requested permissionless validator on the requested subnet

PlatformVM Block Building

  • Fixed race in AdvanceTimeTx creation to avoid unnecessary block construction
  • Added block_formation_logic.md to describe how blocks are created
  • Refactored BlockBuilder into ApricotBlockBuilder
  • Added BlueberryBlockBuilder
  • Added OptionBlock builder visitor
  • Refactored Mempool issuance and removal logic to use transaction visitors

PlatformVM Block Execution

  • Added support for executing AddValidatorTx, AddDelegatorTx, and AddSubnetValidatorTx inside of a BlueberryStandardBlock
  • Refactored time advancement into a standard state modification structure
  • Refactored ProposalTxExecutor to abstract state diff creation
  • Standardized upgrade checking rules
  • Refactored subnet authorization checking

Wallet

  • Added support for new transaction types in the P-chain wallet
  • Fixed fee amounts used in the Primary Network wallet to reduce unnecessary fee burning

Networking

  • Defined p2p.proto to be used for future network messages
  • Added --network-tls-key-log-file-unsafe to support inspecting p2p messages
  • Added avalanche_network_accept_failed metrics to track networking Accept errors

Miscellaneous

  • Removed reserved fields from proto files and renumbered the existing fields
  • Added generic dynamically resized ring buffer
  • Updated gRPC version to v1.49.0 to fix non-deterministic errors reported in the rpcchainvm
  • Removed --signature-verification-enabled flag
  • Removed dead code
    • ids.QueueSet
    • timer.Repeater
    • timer.NewStagedTimer
    • timer.TimedMeter
  • Incorrectly deprecated Native Asset Call
  • Migrated to go-ethereum v1.10.23
  • Added API to fetch Chain Config

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 15.

Fixes

  • Fixed bug in codeToFetch database accessors that caused an error when starting/stopping state sync
  • Fixed rare BAD BLOCK errors during C-chain bootstrapping
  • Fixed platformvm couldn't get preferred block state log due to attempted block building during bootstrapping
  • Fixed platformvm failed to fetch next staker to reward error log due to an incorrect lastAcceptedID reference
  • Fixed AWS AMI creation

PlatformVM

  • Refactored platformvm metrics handling
  • Refactored platformvm block creation
  • Introduced support to prevent empty nodeID use on the P-chain to be activated in a future upgrade

Coreth

  • Updated gas price estimation to limit lookback window based on block timestamps
  • Added metrics for processed/accepted gas
  • Simplified syntactic block verification
  • Ensured statedb errors during block processing are logged
  • Removed deprecated gossiper/block building logic from pre-Apricot Phase 4
  • Added marshal function for duration to improve config output

Miscellaneous

  • Updated local network genesis to use a newer start time
  • Updated minimum golang version to go1.18.1
  • Removed support for RocksDB
  • Bumped go-ethereum version to v1.10.21
  • Added various additional tests
  • Introduced additional database invariants for all database implementations
  • Added retries to windows CI installations
  • Removed useless ID aliasing during chain creation

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 15.

VMs

  • Refactored P-chain block state management
    • Supporting easier parsing and usage of blocks
    • Improving separation of block execution with block definition
    • Unifying state definitions
  • Introduced support to send custom X-chain assets to the P-chain to be activated in a future upgrade
  • Introduced support to use custom assets on the P-chain to be activated in a future upgrade
  • Added VMs README to begin fully documenting plugin invariants
  • Added various comments around expected usages of VM tools

Coreth

  • Added optional JSON logging
  • Added interface for supporting stateful precompiles
  • Removed legacy code format from the database

Fixes

  • Fixed ungraceful gRPC connection closure during very long running requests
  • Fixed LevelDB panic during shutdown
  • Fixed verification of --stake-max-consumption-rate to include the upper-bound
  • Fixed various CI failures
  • Fixed flaky unit tests

Miscellaneous

  • Added bootstrapping ETA metrics
  • Converted all logs to support structured fields
  • Improved Snowman++ oracle block verification error messages
  • Removed deprecated or unused scripts

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 15.

LevelDB

  • Fix rapid disk growth by manually specifying the maximum manifest file size

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 15.

PlatformVM

  • Replaced copy-on-write validator set data-structure to use tree diffs to optimize validator set additions
  • Replaced validation transactions with a standardized representation to remove transaction type handling
  • Migrated transaction execution to its own package
  • Removed child pointers from processing blocks
  • Added P-chain wallet helper for providing initial transactions

Coreth

  • Bumped go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.20
  • Updated API names used to enable services in eth-api config flag. Prior names are supported but deprecated, please update configurations accordingly
  • Optimized state sync by parallelizing trie syncing
  • Added eth_syncing API for compatibility. Note: This API is only accessible after bootstrapping and always returns "false", since the node will no longer be syncing at that point
  • Added metrics to the atomic transaction mempool
  • Added metrics for incoming/outgoing mempool gossip

Fixes

  • Updated Snowman and Avalanche consensus engines to report original container preferences before processing the provided container
  • Fixed inbound message byte throttler context cancellation cleanup
  • Removed case sensitivity of IP resolver services
  • Added failing health check when a whitelisted subnet fails to initialize a chain

Miscellaneous

  • Added gRPC client metrics for dynamically created connections
  • Added uninitialized continuous time averager for when initial predictions are unreliable
  • Updated linter version
  • Documented various platform invariants
  • Cleaned up various dead parameters
  • Improved various tests

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

APIs

These API format changes are breaking changes. https://api.avax.network and https://api.avax-test.network have been updated with this format. If you are using AvalancheGo APIs in your code, please ensure you have updated to the latest versions. See https://docs.avax.network/apis/avalanchego/cb58-deprecation for details about the CB58 removal.

  • Removed CB58 as an encoding option from all APIs
  • Added HexC and HexNC as encoding options for all APIs that accept an encoding format
  • Removed the Success response from all APIs
  • Replaced containerID with id in the indexer API

PlatformVM

  • Fixed incorrect P-chain height in Snowman++ when staking is disabled
  • Moved platformvm transactions to be defined in a sub-package
  • Moved platformvm genesis management to be defined in a sub-package
  • Moved platformvm state to be defined in a sub-package
  • Standardized platformvm transactions to always be referenced via pointer
  • Moved the platformvm transaction builder to be defined in a sub-package
  • Fixed uptime rounding during node shutdown

Coreth

  • Bumped go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.18
  • Parallelized state sync code fetching

Networking

  • Updated Connected and Disconnected messages to only be sent to chains if the peer is tracking the subnet
  • Updated the minimum TLS version on the p2p network to v1.3
  • Supported context cancellation in the networking rate limiters
  • Added ChitsV2 message format for the p2p network to be used in a future upgrade

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed --public-ip-resolution-frequency invalid overwrite of the resolution service
  • Added additional metrics to distinguish between virtuous and rogue currently processing transactions
  • Suppressed the super cool avalanchego banner when stdout is not directed to a terminal
  • Updated linter version
  • Improved various comments and documentation
  • Standardized primary network handling across subnet maps

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

State Sync

  • Added peer bandwidth tracking to optimize coreth state sync message routing
  • Fixed coreth leaf request handler bug to ensure the handler delivers a valid range proof
  • Removed redundant proof keys from coreth leafs response message format
  • Improved coreth state sync request retry logic
  • Improved coreth state sync handler metrics
  • Improved coreth state sync ETA
  • Added avalanche_{chainID}_handler_async_expired metric

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed platform.getCurrentValidators API to correctly mark a node as connected to itself on subnets.
  • Fixed platform.getBlockchainStatus to correctly report Unknown for blockchains that are not managed by the P-Chain
  • Added process metrics by default in the rpcchainvm#Server
  • Added Database health checks
  • Removed the deprecated Database.Stat call from the rpcdb#Server
  • Added fail fast logic to duplicated Snowman additions to avoid undefined behavior
  • Added additional testing around Snowman diverged voting tests
  • Deprecated --dynamic-update-duration and --dynamic-public-ip CLI flags
  • Added --public-ip-resolution-frequency and --public-ip-resolution-service to replace --dynamic-update-duration and --dynamic-public-ip, respectively

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

State Sync

  • Fixed proposervm state summary acceptance to only accept state summaries with heights higher than the locally last accepted block
  • Fixed proposervm state summary serving to only respond to requests after height indexing has finished
  • Improved C-chain state sync leaf request serving by optimistically reading leaves from snapshot
  • Refactored C-chain state sync block fetching

Networking

  • Reduced default peerlist and accepted frontier gossipping
  • Increased the default at-large outbound buffer size to 32 MiB

Metrics

  • Added leveldb metrics
  • Added process and golang metrics for the avalanchego binary
  • Added available disk space health check
    • Ensured that the disk space will not be fully utilized by shutting down the node if there is a critically low amount of free space remaining
  • Improved C-chain state sync metrics

Performance

  • Added C-chain acceptor queue within core/blockchain.go
  • Removed rpcdb locking when committing batches and using iterators
  • Capped C-chain TrieDB dirties cache size during block acceptance to reduce commit size at 4096 block interval

Cleanup

  • Refactored the avm to utilize the external txs package
  • Unified platformvm dropped tx handling
  • Clarified snowman child block acceptance calls
  • Fixed small consensus typos
  • Reduced minor duplicated code in consensus
  • Moved the platformvm key factory out of the VM into the test file
  • Removed unused return values from the timeout manager
  • Removed weird json rpc private interface
  • Standardized json imports
  • Added vm factory interface checks

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The first startup of the C-Chain will cause an increase in CPU and IO usage due to an index update. This index update runs in the background and does not impact restart time.

State Sync

  • Added state syncer engine to facilitate VM state syncing, rather than full historical syncing
  • Added GetStateSummaryFrontier, StateSummaryFrontier, GetAcceptedStateSummary, AcceptedStateSummary as P2P messages
  • Updated Ancestors message specification to expect an empty response if the container is unknown
  • Added --state-sync-ips and --state-sync-ids flags to allow manual overrides of which nodes to query for accepted state summaries
  • Updated networking library to permanently track all manually tracked peers, rather than just beacons
  • Added state sync support to the metervm
  • Added state sync support to the proposervm
  • Added state sync support to the rpcchainvm
  • Added beta state sync support to coreth

ProposerVM

  • Prevented rejected blocks from overwriting the proposervm height index
  • Optimized proposervm block rewind to utilize the height index if available
  • Ensured proposervm height index is marked as repaired in Initialize if it is fully repaired on startup
  • Removed --reset-proposervm-height-index. The height index will be reset upon first restart
  • Optimized proposervm height index resetting to periodically flush deletions

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed IPC message issuance and restructured consensus event callbacks to be checked at compile time
  • Fixed coreth metrics initialization
  • Fixed bootstrapping startup logic to correctly startup if initially connected to enough stake
  • Fixed coreth panic during metrics collection
  • Fixed panic on concurrent map read/write in P-chain wallet SDK
  • Fixed rpcchainvm panic by sanitizing http response codes
  • Fixed incorrect JSON tag on platformvm.BaseTx
  • Fixed AppRequest, AppResponse, and AppGossip stringers used in logging

API/Client

  • Supported client implementations pointing to non-standard URIs
  • Introduced ids.NodeID type to standardize logging and simplify API service and client implementations
  • Changed client implementations to use standard types rather than strings wherever possible
  • Added subnetID as an argument to platform.getTotalStake
  • Added connected to the subnet validators in responses to platform.getCurrentValidators and platform.getPendingValidators
  • Add missing admin API client methods
  • Improved indexer API client implementation to avoid encoding edge cases

Networking

  • Added --snow-mixed-query-num-push-vdr and --snow-mixed-query-num-push-non-vdr to allow parameterization of sending push queries
    • By default, non-validators now send only pull queries, not push queries.
    • By default, validators now send both pull queries and push queries upon inserting a container into consensus. Previously, nodes sent only push queries.
  • Added metrics to track the amount of over gossipping of peerlist messages
  • Added custom message queueing support to outbound Peer messages
  • Reused Ping messages to avoid needless memory allocations

Logging

  • Replaced AvalancheGo's internal logger with uber-go/zap.
  • Replaced AvalancheGo's log rotation with lumberjack.
  • Renamed log-display-highlight to log-format and added json option.
  • Added log-rotater-max-size, log-rotater-max-files, log-rotater-max-age, log-rotater-compress-enabled options for log rotation.

Miscellaneous

  • Added --data-dir flag to easily move all default file locations to a custom location
  • Standardized RPC specification of timestamp fields
  • Logged health checks whenever a failing health check is queried
  • Added callback support for the validator set manager
  • Increased coreth trie tip buffer size to 32
  • Added CPU usage metrics for AvalancheGo and all sub-processes
  • Added Disk IO usage metrics for AvalancheGo and all sub-processes

Cleanup

  • Refactored easily separable platformvm files into separate smaller packages
  • Simplified default version parsing
  • Fixed various typos
  • Converted some structs to interfaces to better support mocked testing
  • Refactored IP utils

Documentation

  • Increased recommended disk size to 1 TB
  • Updated issue template
  • Documented additional snowman.Block invariants

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Networking

  • Improved vertex and block gossiping for validators with low stake weight.
  • Added peers metric by subnet.
  • Added percentage of stake connected metric by subnet.

APIs

  • Added support for specifying additional headers and query params in the RPC client implementations.
  • Added static API clients for the platformvm and the avm.

PlatformVM

  • Introduced time based windowing of accepted P-chain block heights to ensure that local networks update the proposer list timely in the proposervm.
  • Improved selection of decision transactions from the mempool.

RPCChainVM

  • Increased buf version to v1.3.1.
  • Migrated all proto definitions to a dedicated /proto folder.
  • Removed the dependency on the non-standard grpc broker to better support other language implementations.
  • Added grpc metrics.
  • Added grpc server health checks.

Coreth

  • Fixed a bug where a deadlock on shutdown caused historical re-generation on restart.
  • Added an API endpoint to fetch the current VM Config.
  • Added AvalancheGo custom log formatting to the logs.
  • Removed support for the JS Tracer.

Logging

  • Added piping of subnet logs to stdout.
  • Lazily initialized logs to avoid opening files that are never written to.
  • Added support for arbitrarily deleted log files while avalanchego is running.
  • Removed redundant logging configs.

Miscellaneous

  • Updated minimum go version to v1.17.9.
  • Added subnet bootstrapping health checks.
  • Supported multiple tags per codec instantiation.
  • Added minor fail-fast optimization to string packing.
  • Removed dead code.
  • Fixed typos.
  • Simplified consensus engine Shutdown notification dispatching.
  • Removed Sleep call in the inbound connection throttler.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Updates

  • Improved subnet gossip to only send messages to nodes participating in that subnet.
  • Fixed inlined VM initialization to correctly register static APIs.
  • Added logging for file descriptor limit errors.
  • Removed dead code from network packer.
  • Improved logging of invalid hash length errors.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Networking

  • Fixed duplicate reference decrease when closing a peer.
  • Freed allocated message buffers immediately after sending.
  • Added --network-peer-read-buffer-size and --network-peer-write-buffer-size config options.
  • Moved peer IP signature verification to enable concurrent verifications.
  • Reduced the number of connection flushes when sending messages.
  • Canceled outbound connection requests on shutdown.
  • Reused dialer across multiple outbound connections.
  • Exported NewTestNetwork for easier external testing.

Coreth

  • Reduced log level of snapshot regeneration logs.
  • Enabled atomic tx replacement with higher gas fees.
  • Parallelized trie index re-generation.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed incorrect BlockchainID usage in the X-chain ImportTx builder.
  • Fixed incorrect OutputOwners in the P-chain ImportTx builder.
  • Improved FD limit error logging and warnings.
  • Rounded bootstrapping ETAs to the nearest second.
  • Added gossip config support to the subnet configs.
  • Optimized various queue removals for improved memory freeing.
  • Added a basic X-chain E2E usage test to the new testing framework.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Networking

  • Refactored the networking library to track potential peers by nodeID rather than IP.
  • Separated peer connections from the mesh network implementation to simplify testing.
  • Fixed duplicate Connected messages bug.
  • Supported establishing outbound connections with peers reporting different inbound and outbound IPs.

Database

  • Disabled seek compaction in leveldb by default.

GRPC

  • Increased protocol version, this requires all plugin definitions to update their communication dependencies.
  • Merged services to be served using the same server when possible.
  • Implemented a fast path for simple HTTP requests.
  • Removed duplicated message definitions.
  • Improved error reporting around invalid plugins.

Coreth

  • Optimized FeeHistory API.
  • Added protection to prevent accidental corruption of archival node trie index.
  • Added capability to restore complete trie index on best effort basis.
  • Rounded up fastcache sizes to utilize all mmap'd memory in chunks of 64MB.

Configs

  • Removed --inbound-connection-throttling-max-recent
  • Renamed --network-peer-list-size to --network-peer-list-num-validator-ips
  • Removed --network-peer-list-gossip-size
  • Removed --network-peer-list-staker-gossip-fraction
  • Added --network-peer-list-validator-gossip-size
  • Added --network-peer-list-non-validator-gossip-size
  • Removed --network-get-version-timeout
  • Removed --benchlist-peer-summary-enabled
  • Removed --peer-alias-timeout

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed error reporting when making Avalanche chains that did not manually specify a primary alias.
  • Added beacon utils for easier programmatic handling of beacon nodes.
  • Resolved the default log directory on initialization to avoid additional error handling.
  • Added support to the chain state module to specify an arbitrary new accepted block.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Consensus

  • Introduced a new vertex type to support future Avalanche based network upgrades.
  • Added pending message metrics to the chain message queues.
  • Refactored event dispatchers to simplify dependencies and remove dead code.

PlatformVM

  • Added json encoding option to the platform.getTx call.
  • Added platform.getBlock API.
  • Cleaned up block building logic to be more modular and testable.

Coreth

  • Increased FeeHistory maximum historical limit to improve MetaMask UI on the C-Chain.
  • Enabled chain state metrics.
  • Migrated go-ethereum v1.10.16 changes.

Miscellaneous

  • Added the ability to load new VM plugins dynamically.
  • Implemented X-chain + P-chain wallet that can be used to build and sign transactions. Without providing a full node private keys.
  • Integrated e2e testing to the repo to avoid maintaining multiple synced repos.
  • Fixed proposervm height indexing check to correctly mark the indexer as repaired.
  • Introduced message throttling overrides to be used in future improvements to reliably send messages.
  • Introduced a cap on the client specified request deadline.
  • Increased the default leveldb open files limit to 1024.
  • Documented the leveldb configurations.
  • Extended chain shutdown timeout.
  • Performed various cleanup passes.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Consensus

  • Added asynchronous processing of App.* messages.
  • Added height indexing support to the proposervm and rpcchainvm. If a node is updated to >=v1.7.5 and then downgraded to <v1.7.5, the user must enable the --reset-proposervm-height-index=true flag to ensure the proposervm height index is correctly updated going forward.
  • Fixed bootstrapping job counter initialization that could cause negative ETAs to be reported.
  • Fixed incorrect processing check that could log incorrect information.
  • Removed incorrect warning logs.

Miscellaneous

  • Added tracked subnets to be reported in calls to the info.peers API.
  • Updated gRPC implementations to use buf tooling and standardized naming and locations.
  • Added a consistent hashing implementation to be used in future improvements.
  • Fixed database iteration invariants to report ErrClosed rather than silently exiting.
  • Added additional sanity checks to prevent users from incorrectly configuring their node.
  • Updated log timestamps to include milliseconds.

Coreth

  • Added beta support for offline pruning.
  • Refactored peer networking layer.
  • Enabled cheap metrics by default.
  • Marked RPC call metrics as expensive.
  • Added Abigen support for native asset call precompile.
  • Fixed bug in BLOCKHASH opcode during traceBlock.
  • Fixed bug in handling updated chain config on startup.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The first startup of the C-Chain will take a few minutes longer due to an index update.

Consensus

  • Removed deprecated Snowstorm consensus implementation that no longer aligned with the updated specification.
  • Updated bootstrapping logs to no longer reset counters after a node restart.
  • Added bootstrapping ETAs for fetching Snowman blocks and executing operations.
  • Renamed the MultiPut message to the Ancestors message to match other message naming conventions.
  • Introduced Whitelist conflicts into the Snowstorm specification that will be used in future X-chain improvements.
  • Refactored the separation between the Bootstrapping engine and the Consensus engine to support Fast-Sync.

Coreth

  • Added an index mapping height to the list of accepted atomic operations at that height in a trie. Generating this index will cause the node to take a few minutes longer to startup the C-Chain for the first restart.
  • Updated Geth dependency to v1.10.15.
  • Updated networkID to match chainID.

VMs

  • Refactored platformvm rewards calculations to enable usage from an external library.
  • Fixed platformvm and avm UTXO fetching to not re-iterate the UTXO set if no UTXOs are fetched.
  • Refactored platformvm status definitions.
  • Added support for multiple address balance lookups in the platformvm.
  • Refactored platformvm and avm keystore users to reuse similar code.

RPCChainVM

  • Returned a 500 InternalServerError if an unexpected gRPC error occurs during the handling of an HTTP request to a plugin.
  • Updated gRPC server's max message size to enable responses larger than 4MiB from the plugin's handling of an HTTP request.

Configs

  • Added --stake-max-consumption-rate which defaults to 120,000.
  • Added --stake-min-consumption-rate which defaults to 100,000.
  • Added --stake-supply-cap which defaults to 720,000,000,000,000,000 nAVAX.
  • Renamed --bootstrap-multiput-max-containers-sent to --bootstrap-ancestors-max-containers-sent.
  • Renamed --bootstrap-multiput-max-containers-received to --bootstrap-ancestors-max-containers-received.
  • Enforced that --staking-enabled=false can not be specified on public networks (Fuji and Mainnet).

Metrics

  • All multi_put metrics were converted to ancestors metrics.

Miscellaneous

  • Improved corruptabledb error reporting by tracking the first reported error.
  • Updated CPU tracking to use the proper EWMA tracker rather than a linear approximation.
  • Separated health checks into readiness, healthiness, and liveness checks to support more fine-grained monitoring.
  • Refactored API client utilities to use a Context rather than an explicit timeout.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Consensus

  • Introduced a notion of vertex conflicts that will be used in future X-chain improvements.

Coreth

  • Added an index mapping height to the list of accepted atomic transactions at that height. Generating this index will cause the node to take approximately 2 minutes longer to startup the C-Chain for the first restart.
  • Fixed bug in base fee estimation API that impacted custom defined networks.
  • Decreased minimum transaction re-gossiping interval from 1s to 500ms.
  • Removed websocket handler from the static vm APIs.

Database

  • Reduced lock contention in prefixDBs.

Networking

  • Increase the gossip size from 6 to 10 validators.
  • Prioritized Connected and Disconnected messages in the message handler.

Miscellaneous

  • Notified VMs of peer versions on Connected.
  • Fixed acceptance broadcasting over IPC.
  • Fixed 32-bit architecture builds for AvalancheGo (not Coreth).

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Coreth

  • Fixed memory leak in the estimate gas API.
  • Reduced the default RPC gas limit to 50,000,000 gas.
  • Improved RPC logging.
  • Removed pre-AP5 legacy code.

PlatformVM

  • Optimized validator set change calculations.
  • Removed storage of non-decided blocks.
  • Simplified error handling.
  • Removed pre-AP5 legacy code.

Networking

  • Explicitly fail requests with responses that failed to be parsed.
  • Removed pre-AP5 legacy code.

Configs

  • Introduced the ability for a delayed graceful node shutdown.
  • Added the ability to take all configs as environment variables for containerized deployments.

Utils

  • Fixed panic bug in logging library when importing from external projects.

This update is backwards compatible with v1.7.0. Please see the expected update times in the v1.7.0 release.

Coreth

  • Reduced fee estimate volatility.

Consensus

  • Fixed vote bubbling for unverified block chits.

This upgrade adds support for issuing multiple atomic transactions into a single block and directly transferring assets between the P-chain and the C-chain.

The changes in the upgrade go into effect at 1 PM EST, December 2nd 2021 on Mainnet. One should upgrade their node before the changes go into effect, otherwise they may experience loss of uptime.

All nodes should upgrade before 1 PM EST, December 2nd 2021.

Networking

  • Added peer uptime reports as metrics.
  • Removed IP rate limiting over local networks.

PlatformVM

  • Enabled AtomicTxs to be issued into StandardBlocks and deprecated AtomicBlocks.
  • Added the ability to export/import AVAX to/from the C-chain.

Coreth

  • Enabled multiple AtomicTxs to be issued per block.
  • Added the ability to export/import AVAX to/from the P-chain.
  • Updated dynamic fee calculations.

ProposerVM

  • Removed storage of undecided blocks.

RPCChainVM

  • Added support for metrics to be reported by plugin VMs.

Configs

  • Removed --snow-epoch-first-transition and snow-epoch-duration as command line arguments.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.6.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Bootstrapping

  • Drop inbound messages to a chain if that chain is in the execution phase of bootstrapping.
  • Print beacon nodeIDs upon failure to connect to them.

Metrics

  • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_bootstrap_finished, which is 1 if the chain is done bootstrapping, 0 otherwise.

APIs

  • Added info.uptime API call that attempts to report the network's view of the local node.
  • Added observedUptime to each peer's result in info.peers.

Network

  • Added reported uptime to pong messages to be able to better track a local node's uptime as viewed by the network.
  • Refactored request timeout registry to avoid a potential race condition.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.6.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Config

  • Added flag throttler-inbound-bandwidth-refill-rate, which specifies the max average inbound bandwidth usage of a peer.
  • Added flag throttler-inbound-bandwidth-max-burst-size, which specifies the max inbound bandwidth usage of a peer.

Networking

  • Updated peerlist gossiping to use the same mechanism as other gossip calls.
  • Added inbound message throttling based on recent bandwidth usage.

Metrics

  • Updated avalanche_{ChainID}_handler_gossip_{count,sum} to avalanche_{ChainID}_handler_gossip_request_{count,sum}.
  • Updated avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_get_accepted_{count,sum} to avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_accepted_{count,sum}.
  • Updated avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_get_accepted_frontier_{count,sum} to avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_accepted_frontier_{count,sum}.
  • Updated avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_get_ancestors_{count,sum} to avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_multi_put_{count,sum}.
  • Combined avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_pull_query_{count,sum} and avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_push_query_{count,sum} to avalanche_{ChainID}_lat_chits_{count,sum}.
  • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_app_response_{count,sum}.
  • Added avalanche_network_bandwidth_throttler_inbound_acquire_latency_{count,sum}
  • Added avalanche_network_bandwidth_throttler_inbound_awaiting_acquire
  • Added avalanche_P_vm_votes_won
  • Added avalanche_P_vm_votes_lost

Indexer

  • Added method GetContainerByID to client implementation.
  • Client methods now return []byte rather than string representations of a container.

C-Chain

  • Updated Geth dependency to 1.10.11.
  • Added a new admin API for updating the log level and measuring performance.
  • Added a new --allow-unprotected-txs flag to allow issuance of transactions without EIP-155 replay protection.

Subnet & Custom VMs

  • Ensured that all possible chains are run in --staking-enabled=false networks.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.6.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Config Options

  • Updated the default value of --inbound-connection-throttling-max-conns-per-sec to 256.
  • Updated the default value of --meter-vms-enabled to true.
  • Updated the default value of --staking-disabled-weight to 100.

Metrics

  • Changed the behavior of avalanche_network_buffer_throttler_inbound_awaiting_acquire to only increment if the message is actually blocking.
  • Changed the behavior of avalanche_network_byte_throttler_inbound_awaiting_acquire to only increment if the message is actually blocking.
  • Added Block/Tx metrics on meterVMs.
    • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_vm_metervm_build_block_err_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_vm_metervm_parse_block_err_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_vm_metervm_get_block_err_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_vm_metervm_verify_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_vm_metervm_verify_err_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_vm_metervm_accept_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{ChainID}_vm_metervm_reject_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{DAGID}_vm_metervm_parse_tx_err_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{DAGID}_vm_metervm_get_tx_err_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{DAGID}_vm_metervm_verify_tx_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{DAGID}_vm_metervm_verify_tx_err_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{DAGID}_vm_metervm_accept_{count,sum}.
    • Added avalanche_{DAGID}_vm_metervm_reject_{count,sum}.

Coreth

  • Applied callTracer fault handling fix.
  • Initialized multicoin functions in the runtime environment.

ProposerVM

  • Updated block Delay in --staking-enabled=false networks to be 0.