About this release

This is a maintenance Iris and HyperChains release.

It:

• Improvement of the accounts tree garbage collection: A small node restart is no longer required at the end of each GC sweep.

• A new runtime mode has been added: 'offline', which disables mining and sync, but leaves HTTP endpoints active. Controlled via the command bin/aeternity offline [on | off | status] (GH #4036)

• The method debug/channels/fsm-count has been added as a debug HTTP endpoint (GH #4029)

• It is now possible to use a custom file name for pre-funded accounts for testing, e.g. when using dev mode. (GH #4025)

• Corrected nonce handling in tx events generated from oracle queries (GH #4027)

• Internal fault escalation for the core modules was improperly configured, which could lead to protracted error conditions. (GH #4023)

• When loading plugins during development, the node now automatically loads dependent applications (provided the plugin is built using rebar3) (GH #4020)

• In order to sync testnet with OTP-24 (and later) we need a pre-Iris mapping.

With regards of HyperChains it:

• Exposes configurable parent chain cache size to the config

• Changes the encoding of private keys in the config. Till now keys were encoded as contract byte array (cb_...) but from now on they would be hex instead. This is for better integration with wallets.

• Enforces staker key pairs to be valid at start time: if any of the key pairs is invalid, the node will not start.

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.