IMPORTANT If you're building from source you must upgrade to libblst 0.3.14.

** This version includes the hot fix in cardano-crypto-class addressing an issue with hash sizes**

Technical Specification

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)
Or, for MacOS, an Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3 or M4) processor
24GB of RAM when running with the InMemory backend, 8GB when running with the OnDisk backend (pending confirmation)
300GB of free storage (350GB recommended for future growth)

Platforms

Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS, 26.04 LTS; Mint 20, 21, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22, 22.1, 22.2; Debian 11, 12, 13)
Windows 64-bit (10, 11)
MacOS 10.15, 11 (Big Sur), 12 (Monterey), 13 (Ventura), 14 (Sonoma), 15 (Sequoia), 26 (Tahoe)

GHC/Cabal supported versions

Supported roles

Platform	Block Production	Relay	Client (Desktop)
Linux	🟢	🟢	🟢
Windows	🟥	🟥	🟢
MacOS	🟥	🟥	🟢

Downloads

Documentation

Cardano Node documentation
- For details about changes to configuration for UTxO-HD please refer to the Consensus docs on UTxO-HD
- The getting started guide may also be helpful for general queries.
- Networking options and related changes are listed on the P2P section
Cardano CLI
Internal API docs for ledger, consensus and network
Compatibility matrix

Role	Approval
Technical Steering Committee (Intersect)
Product Committee (Intersect)	🟢
Test Engineer	N/A
Performance Engineer	🟢
Site Reliability Engineer	N/A
Release Engineer	🟢

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