Cardinal-Cryptography/aleph-node r-15.0.0

Aleph Node 15.0.0

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This is a major release.

Testnet deployment

Status : Scheduled on 18.02.2025 10:00 AM UTC
Node upgrade deadline: 25.02.2025 10:00 AM UTC

Mainnet deployment

Status : TBA
Node upgrade deadline: TBA

Changelog

• Storing ABFT performance on-chain:
  • each validator report how far behind the current ABFT round are other validators
  • the scores are accumulated and validators gather a multisignature on them
  • the signed accumulated scores are put on chain by an unsigned transaction
  • the scores are displayed in azero.dev
• Unit censorship resistance in ABFT
• Banning for bad ABFT score - disabled by default.
• Added metric aleph_sync_is_major_syncing (previously known as substrate_sub_libp2p_is_major_syncing)
• Bugfixes:
  • NonTransfer proxy cannot call Identity pallet now
  • Fix for 14.0.0 aleph-node being stuck in sync state
  • Fix for slow block producers
  • Improve chain resistance for randomness attacks

API changes

• Pallet Aleph changes:
  • Extrinsics:
    • added: unsigned_submit_abft_score
  • Storage:
    • added: AbftScores
    • added: LastScoreNonce
  • Constants:
    • added: ScoreSubmissionPeriod
• Pallet CommitteeManagement changes:
  • Extrinsics:
    • added: set_finality_ban_config
  • Storage:
    • renamed: BanConfig -> ProductionBanConfig
    • added: FinalityBanConfig
    • added: UnderperformedFinalizerSessionCount
  • Constants:
    • added: ScoreSubmissionPeriod
• Pallet Session changes:
  • Storage:
    • validators contains now list of all slots within a session, ie 900 entries

Docker image

public.ecr.aws/p6e8q1z1/aleph-node:r-15.0.0

Runtime migrations

• Palet CommitteeManagement migration from v1 to v2