About this release

This is a maintenance Iris release.

It:

• Introduces a new cli admin interface for the node operator to have better control of their node. It is to be used by

  ./bin/aeternity admin <command>

  It allows interacting with the transaction pool and network peers. It currently supports the following pool functionalities:

  • Push of a new transaction to the pool. It has a force option in order to skip the checks if the transaction had already been deleted in the past

  • Delete a transaction from the pool.

  • Check the current size of the transaction pool. It comes with options for showing only transactions that were visited/not visited during this generation.

  • Inspect a transaction currently present in the transaction pool. It provides number of failures and TTL.

  • A getter and a setter for the minimum gas required from this node in particular. This allows scripting node behaviour with varying gas price expectations. It also supports the following peers functionalities:

  • Inspect peers - currently connected, verified, unverified and blocked. They are returned in a list but there is also an optional argument to return their count instead.

  • Add a new peer - add a new peer to the unverified list. This new peer will follow the same verification process as if received by other peer. There is also the option of adding a trusted peer - those are a special set of peers that are always kept in the verified bucket and are never degraded to unverified even if they are offline.

  • Remove a peer by their peer id.

  • Block and unblock peers - blocked peers are considered malicious entities and the node will not attempt connecting to them. It will also refuse incoming connections from blocked peers.

• Improve dev-mode to allow running it on protocols beyond iris. iris is still the default one but if the user wants to, they can define different hard fork heights.

• Fixes a crash in HTTP endpoint /<version prefix>/names/<name> when the name was invalid according to IDNA rules.

• Fixes a bug: when an HTTP endpoint crashes, now appropriate CORS headers are provided as well.

• Improves rollback script: allows rollbacks when GC is enabled. Rollback beyond GCed heights is still impossible.

Please join the mainnet by following the instructions in the documentation below, and let us know if you have any problems by opening a ticket. Troubleshooting of common issues is documented in the wiki.

Documentation

For an overview of the installation process for different platforms, building the package from source, configuration and operation of the Aeternity node please refer to Aeternity node documentation.