Release 2022-08-30

Testnet hotfix release:

• Incorporated bug fix for the sync protocol in substrate network.

Release 2022-08-02

What's changed:

• basic chain crash recovery added
• various small bug fixes and quality of life improvements
• try-runtime integrated into the node
• pruning disabled
• bump of aleph-bft 0.12 → 0.18
  • unit saving for recovery
  • improved logging
  • public api improvements
• substrate version v0.9.23 → v0.9.26

Release 2022-07-20

Testnet hotfix release:

• We ensure that pallet_elections::ElectionProvider::elect() returns only staking validators. Before it was possible for validators to chill and unbound their funds and still be elected to the committee.
• Added support for rotating reserved nodes.

Release 2022-07-13

Hotfix release:

• [pallet-contracts] Fixed the bug with transfer value for delegate call

Release 2022-07-11

Hotfix release:

• fixing bug that caused premature change in the committee size.

As a result of human error, runtime uploaded during that Testnet release was the one used in local tests. As a result of this, Testnet blocks from 5,268,502 till 5,434,491 contain faulty runtime (aleph_runtime.compact.wasm), whereas blocks 5,434,492 onwards contain correct runtime (correct-aleph_runtime.compact.wasm).

Release 2022-06-22

What's changed:

• pallet contracts - adds chain side engine to run WASM smart contracs
• everybody wins - opens committee responsible for establishing consensus for outside validators
• pallet identity - enables human readable aliases for accounts
• tweaks in substrate network - enable querying the same block multiple times
• compatibility for justifications
• substrate update 9.13 → 9.23
• AlephBFT 0.8.4 → 0.12

Release 2022-04-26

Disable treasury proposals by increasing the minimum bond.

Release 2022-03-21

Bugfix in justification request logic, archivists should now request justifications for blocks properly.

Release 2022-03-17

What's changed:

• improving finality gadget resilience for processing forks on old branches fixing data availability problems
• massive network upgrade adding a new protocol for direct communication among committee members
• pallet staking enabling nominating validators and introducing constant inflation of 30M per year
• pallet aleph migration decouples validators election from supporting finality gadget
• pallet elections introducing PoA elections as a first step towards open elections
• pallet utility enabling users to send transactions in batches
• pallet transaction payment adds a mechanism for dynamic fee adjustment related to block saturation
• substrate update 9.9 -> 9.13 including a pallet vesting migration, which allows for setting multiple vesting schedules per account

Release 2021-11-25

AZ-318 Compatibility with old justification format. (#204)

* Compatibility with old justification format.

* Commented code.

* Clippy.

* Added tests

* Review comments.

* Fix comment in tests.

* Remove v1 modules.