Protocol
Sui Protocol Version in this release: 87
#22244: Changes to using type tags in the object runtime. No user-visible impacts.
#22419: Adds an existing hardcoded bound to the protocol config for clarity.
#19439: Added epoch-stable sequence numbers for read-only per-epoch configs accessed in the transaction.
#22474: enables Party objects (and associated party_transfer functions) in testnet
Nodes (Validators and Full nodes)
#21877: TLS is now required to connect to the validator gRPC interface.
#22540: The default bucket for state sync archive fallback now uses a requester pays policy. Update sui node's state-archive-read-config section according to the docs
gRPC
#21877: TLS is now required to connect to the validator gRPC interface.
CLI
#22332: Update test names used for filtering in Move unit tests so the fully-qualified name is used to match against (i.e., testing::a::test_name instead of a::test_name). Also, add support for regexes to be used for test filtering rather than just substring matching.
#22303: Update the package summary generation to make it more portable.
#22350: Improved initial clone times for Move packages that are git dependencies.