IntersectMBO/cardano-node 1.19.0

Cardano Node 1.19.0

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This release delivers major improvements to the performance of the node, including synchronisation time, startup time and epoch boundary processing.

It also introduces a number of new and updated CLI commands and an enhancement to show KES periods in the Live View console.

Deployed on the testnet on 20 August 2020.
Deployed on the mainnet on 20 August 2020.

New features

• Conversion of ITN extended keys to Shelley stake keys via the CLI (#1579)
• Conversion of password-protected Byron signing keys via the CLI (#1633)
• Build script addresses via the CLI (#1641)
• Display KES current and remaining periods in the Live View console (#1503)
• Forget old copies of KES keys, pending crypto support (#2446)
• A new keep-alive network mini protocol (#2251)

Improvements

• To CLI commands:
  • Improved the output of the stake-address-info query (#1546, #1636, #1671)
  • Reorganised Byron CLI commands similarly to Shelley ones (#1609, #1628)
• Improved rendering of points in unstructured log output (#1693)
• Improved error messages for problems in the JSON topology file (#1446, #1634)
• Added improvements in ledger layer to enable consensus layer performance optimisations (#1742, #1789)
• Made performance optimisations in ledger layer (#1707, #1760, #1771, #1779, #1785, #1786)
• Made performance optimisations in consensus layer(#2512, #2520, #2521)

Resolved issues

• Fixed the Live View display of memory metrics (#1552)
• Fixed incorrect console state after Live View shutdown (#1569)
• Fixed display of stake distribution pool ids to be in Bech32 (#1729)
• Fixed size accounting in block forging to avoid over-filling blocks (#2469)
• Fixed size-accounting for block fetching (#2480, #2481, #2484)
• Fixed pool-ranking calculation for newly registered pools (#1724)
• Corrected hash algorithm used for script hashes (#1746)
• Minor corrections to the formal specification arising from internal review and internal
  audit (#1714, #1717, #1725, #1733, #1728, #1745, #1748, #1751, #1752, #1753, #1764, #1765, #1773)
• Minor correction to the CDDL specification for transaction metadata (#1743)

Known Issues

• #1734 ErrorPolicyUnhandledApplicationException may be observed when running cli commands on windows
• An old compiler version (GHC 8.6.5) must be used to build the code
• Build documentation could be improved
• https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/README.rst - extension changed and old references to the README.md do not work, e.g. in cardano-cli README.md
• See GitHub Issues for further issues that have been reported

Documentation

• Cardano Node documentation
• Cardano CLI
• Internal API docs for ledger, consensus and network
• Making a Shelley blockchain from scratch
• Cardano tutorials

Platforms

• Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS; Mint 19.3, 20; Debian 10.3)
• Windows 8.1, 10 64 bit
• MacOS 10.13, 10.14, 10.15
• Docker image

Minimum System Requirements

• An Intel or AMD x86 processor with two or more cores, at 1.6GHz or faster (2GHz or faster for a stake pool or relay)
• 4GB of RAM (8GB for a relay or stake pool)
• 10GB of free storage (20GB for a stake pool)

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