Kava-Labs/kava v0.27.0-alpha.0

Kava 17 Release Candidate 1 (v0.27.0-alpha.0)

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For deployment to Kava Testnet at height 14290160 around 2024-11-07 00:00 UTC.

Note: This is a release candidate only. Do not attempt to run this software on mainnet.

Please note that if you run your node with rocksdb as the database, this update will require an update to v9.3.1 of rocksdb.

Upgrade Changes

For a complete list of changes, see CHANGELOG.md.

Low-level Data Structure Updated to IAVL V1

IAVL V1 is an updated data format for the low-level storage of application data in the Kava blockchain.
The change in format results in much more performant syncing of the chain, and greatly reduces the
storage footprint required for Kava nodes.

The release will continue to work with previous data (IAVL V0). However, greater performance benefits will be had if the data is synced from scratch.

• For public testnet, full-archive node operators should install as usual. No IAVL V1 snapshot data is available for public testnet.
• Pruning node operators are encouraged to start their node from scratch via statesync
• Nodes using rocksdb are encouraged to use tcmalloc as their memory allocator

See the IAVL V1 migration guide.

Fix EIP712 Signing

This release removes some invalid restrictions on signing EIP712 transactions that prevented some EVM wallets from submitting valid transactions.