Protocol
Sui Protocol Version in this release: 68
#19684: Introduce an uncompressed representation of BLS12381-G1 group elements for faster addition of group elements.
#20039: Protocol bumped to 68, introducing a framework change to fix next_epoch_stake book-keeping while redeeming fungible staked sui.
#19918: A new protocol version was added due to internal changes to the Sui framework.
#20072: Enables gas-budget-based congestion control with allowed overage & absolute cap
#20102: Updated restrictions on deps-only packages to not allow adding new modules to the package.
Nodes (Validators and Full nodes)
#19935: restores ability to launch fullnode from epochs before random beacon was enabled
#19936: removes unsigned version of Discovery protocol
#19796: Adds support for TLS on validator gRPC interface.
CLI
#19954: Fixed an issue on the sui move command regarding writing into a non existing directory.
#19972: You can now pass --dev-inspect flag to all relevant sui client commands, similarly to the existing --dry-run flag.
#20005: add --run-bytecode-verifier and --print-diags-to-stderr for sui-move
#20081: The gas-profiler Rust feature flag was renamed to tracing. If you were previously building the Sui CLI from source with --features gas-profiler this will no longer work, and you should instead use --features tracing. This will enable the same features as before.
#20111: sui keytool import --alias is now fixed and correctly records the provided alias.