NOTE: THIS RELEASE IS ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR USE ON THE SANCHONET AND PUBLIC TEST ENVIRONMENTS (E.G. PREVIEW) AT THIS TIME. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR USE ON MAINNET.
Cardano Node 8.6.0-pre
is a minor release of the Cardano node. It includes minor ledger fixes in the Conway era and improvements to the CLI user experience.
Breaking changes:
- Do not allow submitting transactions older than current node era
- Renamed create-new-committee into update-committee to accommodate to ledger terminology
- Move
governance query
commands toquery
command group
Known Issues
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)
- 24GB of RAM
- 150GB of free storage (250GB recommended for future growth)
Platforms
- 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/Cabal supported versions
- GHC 8.10.7/Cabal 3.8.1.0
Supported roles
Platform | Block Production | Relay | Client (Desktop) |
---|---|---|---|
Linux | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Windows | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
MacOS | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
Downloads
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.
Documentation
- Cardano Node documentation
- Cardano CLI
- Internal API docs for ledger, consensus and network
- Compatibility matrix
Sign off
Role | Approval |
---|---|
Cardano Head of Engineering | ✔️ |
Cardano Head of Product | ✔️ |
Test Engineer | N/A for pre-release |
Site Reliability Engineer | N/A for pre-release |
Release Engineer | ✔️ |
Changelogs
Node
*NONE*Consensus
- Changing the selection now traces the entire SelectView (including the tiebreaker VRF)
- Ledger state query change: Replaced GetCommitteeState query with GetCommitteeMembersState.
Ledger
- Prevent updating protocol version with PParamUpdate
- Slight performance improvements to native script handling:
- Remove redundant script hash verification.
- Short circuit "multisig" and "timelock" verification for
RequireMOf
as soon as necessary number of scripts have been validated.
- Check that the previous governance action of a specific type is either the very last action that has been enacted or is already in the current proposals set.
- Replace
queryCommitteeState
with more powerfulqueryCommitteeMembersState
, which returns more information about committee members and supports filters based on credentials and statuses. - Repurpose
DRepPulser
to encapsulate the Snapshots needed to run theEPOCH
andRATIFY
Rules. This has fixed some problem related to snapshots and behaviour at the epoch boundary. - Add an optional anchor to committee member resignation certificate
- Prevent delegation to non-registered pools
Network
- Added a 3673s timeout to chainsync's
StIdle
state. - Added a 97s timeout to keepalive's
StClient
state.
NONE
Cardano-cli
New features:
- DRep retirement certificate
build-raw
now supports--proposal-file
and--vote-file
- Add optional anchors to Votes
drep metadata-hash
command to calculate DRep metadata hashesaction view
command to inspect action files before including them in a tx bodyquery stake-address-info
now returns the current deposits for the staking credential- Add optional anchor to CC cold key resignation certificate
Bug-fixes:
- The
query drep-state
andquery drep-stake-distribution
now accept zero or more DRep verification keys action create-protocol-parameters-update
now allows proposals to modify conway era parameters- Fix delegating to always no confidence default DRep
- Enable use of inline datums in Babbage era transactions
Breaking changes:
- Do not allow submitting transactions older than current node era
- Renamed
create-new-committee
intoupdate-committee
to accommodate to ledger terminology - Move
governance query
commands toquery
command group
Cardano-api
- Support for PlutusV3
- Support for PlutusV1
- Support for simple scripts in Conway era
- Support for DRep extended keys
Submit-api
Plutus
- The PIR inliner is now more likely to inline constructor applications.
- The PIR optimiser now performs the case-of-case transformation.
Individual packages' changelogs
Package | Version | Changelog |
---|---|---|
Win32-network | 0.1.1.1 | ChangeLog.md |
base-deriving-via | 0.1.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
bech32 | 1.1.4.1 | ChangeLog.md |
byron-spec-chain | 1.0.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
byron-spec-ledger | 1.0.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-api | 8.29.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-binary | 1.7.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-cli | 8.13.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-crypto | 1.1.2 | |
cardano-crypto-class | 2.1.3.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-crypto-praos | 2.1.2.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-crypto-test | 1.5.0.0 | |
cardano-crypto-tests | 2.1.2.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-crypto-wrapper | 1.5.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-data | 1.1.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-allegra | 1.2.3.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-alonzo | 1.5.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-alonzo-test | 1.1.2.6 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-api | 1.7.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-babbage | 1.5.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-babbage-test | 1.1.1.7 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-binary | 1.2.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-byron | 1.0.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-byron-test | 1.5.0.0 | |
cardano-ledger-conway | 1.10.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-conway-test | 1.2.1.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-core | 1.8.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-mary | 1.3.5.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-pretty | 1.3.3.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-shelley | 1.7.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-shelley-ma-test | 1.2.1.4 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ledger-shelley-test | 1.2.0.6 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-ping | 0.2.0.7 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-prelude | 0.1.0.2 | ChangeLog.md |
cardano-prelude-test | 0.1.0.2 | |
cardano-protocol-tpraos | 1.0.3.6 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-slotting | 0.1.1.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
cardano-strict-containers | 0.1.2.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
contra-tracer | 0.1.0.2 | |
dependent-sum-template | 0.1.1.1.0.0.0.1 | ChangeLog.md |
ekg | 0.4.0.15.0.0.0.0.1 | |
ekg-forward | 0.4 | CHANGELOG.md |
ekg-json | 0.1.0.7.0.0.0.0.1 | |
fs-api | 0.2.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
fs-sim | 0.2.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
heapwords | 0.1.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
iohk-monitoring | 0.1.11.3 | |
libsystemd-journal | 1.4.5.0.0.0.0.1 | Changelog.md |
lobemo-backend-aggregation | 0.1.0.0 | |
lobemo-backend-ekg | 0.1.0.1 | |
lobemo-backend-monitoring | 0.1.0.0 | |
lobemo-backend-trace-forwarder | 0.1.0.0 | |
lobemo-scribe-systemd | 0.1.0.0 | |
measures | 0.1.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
monoidal-synchronisation | 0.1.0.3 | CHANGELOG.md |
network-mux | 0.4.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
non-integral | 1.0.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
optparse-applicative-fork | 0.18.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-consensus | 0.13.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-consensus-cardano | 0.11.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-consensus-diffusion | 0.8.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-consensus-protocol | 0.6.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-network | 0.9.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-network-api | 0.5.1.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-network-framework | 0.9.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-network-mock | 0.1.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-network-protocols | 0.5.3.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
ouroboros-network-testing | 0.4.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
plutus-core | 1.15.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
plutus-ledger-api | 1.15.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
plutus-tx | 1.15.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
prettyprinter-configurable | 1.15.0.0 | |
protolude | 0.3.3.0.0.0.0.1 | ChangeLog.md |
set-algebra | 1.1.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
small-steps | 1.0.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
small-steps-test | 1.0.0.1 | |
sop-extras | 0.1.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
strict-checked-vars | 0.1.0.4 | CHANGELOG.md |
strict-sop-core | 0.1.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
th-extras | 0.0.0.6.0.0.0.0.1 | ChangeLog.md |
tracer-transformers | 0.1.0.4 | |
typed-protocols | 0.1.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
typed-protocols-cborg | 0.1.0.4 | CHANGELOG.md |
typed-protocols-examples | 0.2.0.2 | |
validation-selective | 0.2.0.0.0.0.0.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
vector-algorithms | 0.9.0.1.0.0.0.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
vector-map | 1.0.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |