IntersectMBO/cardano-node 1.1.0

Cardano Node 1.1.0

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This Cardano Node release includes consensus, network, monitoring and logging changes with improved CLI, maintenance and run-time behaviour. See its ChangeLog for details.

Improvements

• Added finish feature to support accepting blocks from the near future, once the local time catches up
• Enhanced code with tracing the reason for a known block being invalid when rejecting a header
• Added --validate-db flag to re-validate all on-disk database files
• Added script to connect to mainnet using deployed mainnet relays
• Improved CLI and config file handling
• Adjusted log severity levels for many trace messages
• Improved default RTS flags
• Updated README instructions
• Blocks served as binary blobs without de-serialising for improved performance
• Added checksums verification when reading blocks to detect disk corruption
• Simplified API to network layer used by consensus and node clients

Resolved issues

• Fixed bugs identified by QuickCheck state machine tests
• Fixed space leak in deployed nodes

Documentation

• Cardano Node CLI

Platforms

• Linux 64-bit

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