• 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 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)

• 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 9.6
• Cabal 3.8/3.12

• Pre-release configuration files
• Docker Images: cardano-node, cardano-tracer, cardano-submit-api

• 🟢 - signed / agreed / supported
• 🟥 - not agreed / unsupported

• Added soft and hard timeouts to mempool (IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus#1831)
• Added EKG metrics for soft and hard mempool timeouts (#6420)
• Improved cardano-node --help output by making it the same as the one shown when calling cardano-node without arguments (#6403)
• Improved consistency of traces between immdb-server and cardano-node (#6397)
• New Tracing
  • Environment variable TRACE_DISPATCHER_LOGGING_HOSTNAME, covering same functionality as CARDANO_NODE_LOGGING_HOSTNAME in the legacy system (#6429)
  • Increased PrometheusSimple robustness: Restart backend upon crash; add start/stop traces and more eagerly reap dangling sockets (#6396)
  • Adjusted config for tracing system (#6401)
• Remove peersFromNodeKernel metric and NodeKernelPeers tracer as well as TraceOptionPeerFrequency config key (#6387)

• Support Prometheus HTTP Service Discovery (#6377)
• RTView: Removed monitoring based on the NodePeers datapoint (#6422)

• Made cardano-testnet remain running until stopped (#6405)
• Made cardano-testnet exit earlier when cardano-node fails on startup (#6408)

Main changes

• Print estimated transaction fee in transaction build-estimate
  (feature)
  PR 1325

• Modified query stake-address-info to include the correct CIP129 hex format as well as the Ledger State format.
  (breaking change)
  PR 1313

Bug fixes

• create-testnet-data: use the same k for byron and shelley genesis
  (bugfix)
  PR 1318

• Improved error message for malformed timestamps
  (bugfix)
  PR 1324

• Upgrade cardano-crypto-class-2.2.3.2 with hashes deserialisation fix
  (compatible, bugfix)
  PR 1310

• Fixed error message in readStringOfMaxLength to correctly display the actual maximum length parameter instead of hardcoded value "128"
  (bugfix)
  PR 1297

• Updated cardano-ledger-api to fix bug in queryPoolState, where current Pool parameters were returned instead of the future ones.
  (bugfix)
  PR 1298

Main changes

• In order to move away from the "old" api's TxBodyContent that utilizes the "eon" abstractions and somewhat
  unnecessarily wrapped data definitions, we introduced a new TxBodyContent type that aims to be closer to the
  ledger's type definitions and therefore easier to use.
  (feature)
  PR 1011

• Deprecated "old" certificate api helper functions and introduced equivalent functions exposed by:
  Cardano.Api.Compatible.Certificate
Cardano.Api.Experimental.Certificate
  (feature, breaking, refactoring)
  PR 983

• Replace Certificate in TxCertificates with new api's Certificate type.
  (breaking)
  PR 962

• Renamed throwErrorAsException to throwErrorM
  (breaking)
  PR 1032

Bug fixes

• Made canonicalisation functionality does work with CBOR maps in CBOR lists
  (bugfix)
  PR 1047

• Reverted PR that broke the query utxo command in cardano-cli which is supposed to be compatible for all shelley based eras.
  (bugfix)
  PR 1048

• Added empty hashes support in NodeConfig. Add start time check with seconds precision for Shelley/Byron geneses checks.
  (breaking, bugfix)
  PR 1078

• Update cardano-ledger-api to fix bug in queryPoolState, where current Pool parameters were returned instead of the future ones.
  (bugfix)
  PR 991

Other changes

• Added Show (AsType a) instance
  (compatible)
  PR 1031

• Added SerialiseAsRawBytes Word64 instance to Cardano.Api.Serialise.Raw
  Added Text reexport to Cardano.Api.Pretty. Added DecoderError reexported to Cardano.Api.Serialise.Cbor
  gRPC: Added tracing datatypes
  (compatible)
  PR 1079

• Removed duplicated Arbitrary orphans and re-imported testlibs
  (compatible)
  PR 1051

• Added HasTypeProxy FromCBOR, ToCBOR, and SerialiseAsCBOR instances to TxOut.
  (feature)
  PR 960

• Enforce maximum number of re-connection attempts by the outbound governor.
• Shorten the timeout when waiting for chain-sync to terminate.
• Increase chain-sync timeout in the StNext StMustReply state to a random value between ~10mins and ~15mins (it used to be between ~2.5mins and ~5mins).
• Fixed outbound governor bootstrap action.

• Fix leaky read lock acquisition that could lead to whole node deadlock.
• Force snapshot tracer to avoid retaining the Genesis state.
• Added the defensive mempool feature, to help mitigate the disruption caused by bugs such as the June 2024 incident.

All of the following features will become available in protocol version 11.

• The built-in Array type and functions (CIP-138)
• The built-in Value type and functions (CIP-153)
• The modular exponentiation built-in function (CIP-109)
• The multi-scalar multiplication built-in functions over BLS12-381 (CIP-133)
• The dropList built-in function (CIP-132)
• Case analysis on built-in Bool, Integer, List, Pair and Unit (user guide)
• All built-in types and functions can be used in Plutus V1 and V2
• Plutus Core 1.1.0 (that is, support for sums-of-products) can be used in Plutus V1 and V2