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.
8.8.1-pre is a patch release of the Cardano node. It fixes an issue in 8.8.0-pre that prevented the BLS12-381 primitives in Plutus from working properly on some older x86 architectures (pre-Broadwell).
This release does not support Windows or include a Windows binary due to a problem with linking against libblst on Windows.
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)
- Or, for MacOS, an Apple Silicon (M1, M2 or M3) processor
- 24GB of RAM
- 200GB 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
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 |
| Performance Engineer | N/A for pre-release |
| Site Reliability Engineer | N/A for pre-release |
| Release Engineer | ✔️ |
Changelogs
Node
NONE
Consensus
NONE
Ledger
NONE
Network
- [ouroboros-network-4748]
Cardano-cli
- Fix
create-testnet-datacreating negative supply - Add the
drep update-certificatecommand - Add
--include-stakeflag to obtain the stake in the drep-state query - Allow users to specify the target in conway queries (either immutable tip or volatile tip)
- Fix error messages as support for cardano-cli serialisation format was already removed.
- Improve create-testnet-data cmd so that it takes testnet magic either from template file or from the CLI flag --testnet-magic, when used.
- Make committee keys able to sign transactions
Cardano-api
NONE
Submit-api
NONE
Plutus
NONE
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 | 1.0.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
| byron-spec-ledger | 1.0.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-api | 8.38.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-binary | 1.7.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-cli | 8.20.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-crypto | 1.1.2 | |
| cardano-crypto-class | 2.1.4.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-crypto-praos | 2.1.2.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-crypto-test | 1.5.0.1 | |
| cardano-crypto-tests | 2.1.2.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-crypto-wrapper | 1.5.1.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-data | 1.2.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-allegra | 1.3.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-alonzo | 1.6.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-alonzo-test | 1.2.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-api | 1.8.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-babbage | 1.6.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-babbage-test | 1.2.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-binary | 1.3.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-byron | 1.0.0.4 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-byron-test | 1.5.0.1 | |
| cardano-ledger-conway | 1.12.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-conway-test | 1.2.1.3 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-core | 1.10.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-mary | 1.5.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-shelley | 1.9.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-shelley-ma-test | 1.2.1.6 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ledger-shelley-test | 1.3.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-ping | 0.2.0.11 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-prelude | 0.1.0.4 | ChangeLog.md |
| cardano-prelude-test | 0.1.0.2 | |
| cardano-protocol-tpraos | 1.1.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-slotting | 0.1.2.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| cardano-strict-containers | 0.1.3.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| contra-tracer | 0.1.0.2 | |
| ekg | 0.4.0.15.0.0.0.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ekg-core | 0.1.1.7.0.0.0.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ekg-forward | 0.4 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ekg-json | 0.1.0.7.0.0.0.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
| fs-api | 0.2.0.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
| fs-sim | 0.2.1.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
| heapwords | 0.1.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
| iohk-monitoring | 0.1.11.4 | |
| 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 | 0.1.0.5 | CHANGELOG.md |
| network-mux | 0.4.5.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| non-integral | 1.0.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| optparse-applicative-fork | 0.18.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-consensus | 0.15.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-consensus-cardano | 0.13.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-consensus-diffusion | 0.10.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-consensus-protocol | 0.7.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-network | 0.11.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-network-api | 0.6.3.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-network-framework | 0.11.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-network-mock | 0.1.1.1 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-network-protocols | 0.7.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| ouroboros-network-testing | 0.5.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| plutus-core | 1.21.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| plutus-ledger-api | 1.21.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| plutus-tx | 1.21.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| prettyprinter-configurable | 1.21.0.0 | |
| set-algebra | 1.1.0.2 | CHANGELOG.md |
| small-steps | 1.0.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| small-steps-test | 1.0.1.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| sop-extras | 0.1.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| strict-checked-vars | 0.2.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |
| strict-sop-core | 0.1.0.0 | 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-map | 1.1.0.0 | CHANGELOG.md |