• 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)
• 24GB of RAM
• 150GB of free storage (250GB recommended for future growth)

• Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS; Mint 19.3, 20; Debian 10.3)
• Windows 64-bit (8.1, 10, 11)
• MacOS 10.13, 10.14, 10.15, 11

• GHC 8.10.7/Cabal 3.8.1.0

• Docker image
• Configuration files

NOTE: Linux is showing a git revision of 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 in --version because of a corruption issue in set-git-rev that only affects static musl built binaries. This is expected, and if it concerns you, please build from source.

• Expose the latest Conway ledger queries: GetCommitteeState, GetConstitution, GetDRepStakeDistr setOfDReps, GetDRepState setOfDRepCredentials, GetGovState.

• DRep functionality progress:
  • Implement DRep voting and use actual DRep stake distribution for ratification.
  • Implement DRep expiry for stale DRep's.
  • Add DRep deposit tracking.
  • Add Anchors for DReps.
• Fix ProposalProcedure deposit tracking.
• Add ability to upgrade core types from one era to the next.
• Add Script capability to Constitutional Committee Hot and Cold credentials.
• Add NetworkId validation for ProposalProcedure and TreasuryWithdrawals.
• Add currentTreasuryValue as a new field to Conway TxBody.
• Voting thresholds have been added to PParams.

• Changes in arguments of Conway-related commands: create-constitution, create-new-committee, create-no-confidence,
  create-treasury-withdrawal, governance vote create PR 174

• New governance drep id command PR 194

• New governance drep and vote command groups PR 191

• Add --verification-key option to committee key-hash command PR 187

• New conway governance committee create-cold-key-resignation command PR 146

• New conway governance committee create-hot-key-authorization-certificate command PR 145

• Add create-no-confidence command to era based cli PR 176

• Add create-new-committee command to era based cli PR 175

• Add conway governance action create-treasury-withdrawal PR 155

• Add create-protocol-parameters-update command to era based commands PR 170

• Add command 'drep cardano-cli conway governance drep key-gen` for DRep key generation PR 163

• Add governance action create-constitution command PR 142

• Fix deregistration-certificate: generate deregistration instead of registration certs PR 159

• Plural for command groups PR 151

• Add conway governance committee key-hash command PR 144

• Add conway governance committee hot-key-gen command PR 136

• Add VotingProcedures type. PR 204

• Expose following queries from consensus:

  • GetGovState
  • GetDRepState
  • GetDRepStakeDistr
  • GetCommitteeState
  • GetConstitution
    (feature, compatible) PR 196

• Update createAnchor to use hashAnchorData
  (feature, breaking) PR 200

• Updating the ledger dependency to cardano-ledger-conway-1.7.0.0:

  • Many superficial renamings
  • TxVotes carries a map now
  • ResolvablePointers now has a different representation than does the ledger
  • ProposalNewCommitee requires the old committee's credentials
  • The ProposalNewConstitution case of toGovernanceAction was hashing the argument ByteString, but it was already a hash. See temporarilyOptOutOfPrevGovAction
  • makeGovernanceActionId was reusing the transaction id as the governance action id, but the types no longer allow that.
  • Semigroup oprhan was missing for ConwayPParams
  • QueryConstitutionHash phantom type is now more specific
  • Cardano.Ledger.Api no longer export EraCrypto
  • Introduced (internal) pattern synonyms for scripts to cover up a change in the corresponding ledger types.
    (feature, breaking) PR 179

• New VotingEntry type
  (compatible) PR 194

• Fix parameterisation of GovernanceActionId
  (breaking) PR 192

• Implement createPParams and begin propagating Ledger.PParams in cardano-api
  (feature) PR 190

• Delete deprecated functions and types
  (improvement) PR 173

• Fix parameterisation of GovernanceActionId
  (breaking) PR 192

• Implement createPParams and begin propagating Ledger.PParams in cardano-api
  (feature) PR 190

• Delete deprecated functions and types
  (improvement) PR 173

• Implement EraBasedProtocolParametersUpdate
  (feature) PR 180

• Modify queryGenesisParameters so that its type advertises it only returns genesis parameters for the Shelley era
  (breaking) PR 181

• 17 new builtin functions and 3 new builtin types are added to Plutus Core to support BLS12-381 operations. They are usable in Plutus V3 and Protocol Version 9.0 or above. Further extensions are planned for Plutus V3 prior to mainnet release.