Cardano Node 1.10.0

This release includes further improvements in memory use and syncing performance, as well as some bug fixes and other minor internal enhancements. See Cardano Node 1.10.0 ChangeLog for more details.

Improvements

• Added a cross-platform clean shutdown mechanism (#726, #767)
• Added logging node version on startup (#757)
• Changed interpretation of relative paths in the config file ( #750)
• Improved docs for building and running cardano-node (#718, #752)
• Improved sync performance with refined hash representation (#1887)
• Improved validation performance with refined hash representation (#760)
• Improved chain DB locking for better concurrent performance (#1816, #1866, #1907, #1919)
• Disabled support for rewinding system clock to simplify hard fork support (#1908)
• Improved transaction submission tracing (#1861, #1895)
• Simplified tracing output and internals (#763, #768)
• Improved Windows IO manager exception handling (#1897)
• Handled DNS server changes in case of switching network connection (#1891)
• Reduced memory use in low level network code (#1902)
• Added extensions to a simplified library interface for node clients (#1894)

Resolved issues

• Fixed activation of the TraceForwarder logging system plugin (#743)
• Fixed mismatch with specs with update proposal version numbers (#759, #766)

Known Issues

• Syncing can be slow on Windows (#736)
• ChainValidationUpdateError for cardano-node 1.10.0 on staging (#782)

Documentation

• Cardano CLI

Platforms

• Linux 64-bit, Windows 64 bit (beta)

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