This Cardano Node release includes consensus, ledger, monitoring and logging changes with significant performance improvements in serving headers and blocks. See its ChangeLog for details.
Deployed to mainnet 14 January 2020.
Improvements
- Significant performance improvements in serving headers and blocks
- Snapshot ledger state on shutdown to avoid long restart times
- Chain selection is now based only on the latest header in each chain (rather than last k headers)
- Initial support for multiple slot lengths (for hard forks)
Resolved issues
- Fixed garbage collection of previously applied points in the ledger DB
- Fixed unnecessary memory retention in volatile DB indices
Known issues
- Cardano node memory leak #460
- Syncing with the testnet chain stops (the old and new nodes disagree about the validity of a specific update proposal on the testnet) #461
Documentation
Platforms
- Linux 64-bit
Sign off
| Role | Approval |
|---|---|
| Technical Lead | ✔️ |
| QA Engineer | ✔️ |
| Ops | ✔️ |
| Release Manager | ✔️ |