v9.5.0 is an intermediate upgrade. It prepares the chain for v10, which follows a few days later: Cosmos SDK v0.54, IBC v11, CosmWasm 3.
Alliance retired
Following proposal #99, v9.5.0 retires the Alliance module, which has been inactive since the Migaloo/White Whale project wound down.
- The HUAHUA held by the module is reintroduced into the ecosystem.
- The staked ampGASH and the rewards left unclaimed in the module are burned: they no longer have any use or value.
The module is left empty, and v10 removes it for good.
Bug fixes
- Stakedrops: fixed the start and end block checks, and the missing payout for the first block.
- Event attributes:
fee_payernow reports the bech32 address; tokenfactory mint and burn events report the correct address. chihuahuad exportworks again.
For validators
- The upgrade proposal carries the binaries with their sha256. With cosmovisor v1.7, set:
DAEMON_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD_BINARIES=true: cosmovisor downloads and verifies the binary by itself;DAEMON_SHUTDOWN_GRACE=30s: the node stops cleanly before the new binary starts;nodein~/.chihuahuad/config/client.tomlpointing at your node's RPC: cosmovisor uses it to check the height.
- Without automatic download, put
chihuahuadv9.5.0 in~/.chihuahuad/cosmovisor/upgrades/v9.5.0/bin/before the upgrade height. - Upgrade notes: mainnet/UPGRADES/v9.5.0. Upgrade height 25571500, expected around 2026-10-02 12:37 UTC: countdown.
Full Changelog: v9.0.7...v9.5.0