Do not get confused by a minor version number change - 1.3.7 is a massive performance and stability improvement over 1.3.6 and our best release yet.
Easy CentOS support and more coming in next versions.
- fixed an issue where all threads were waiting for an ethash lock unnecessarily
- introduced a tx pool size limit
- fixed a sync peers list related memory leak
- fixed a cancellation tokens related memory leak
- using ArrayPool for ethash tables now
- old ethash caches are evicted from memory now after 15 seconds
- shortened tx lifetime in the mempool for non-mining nodes
- added string interning for capabilities and client ids
- added AuRa step validation
- rocksDB is built with PORTABLE set now
Running Nethermind:
Nethermind Launcher is a self-contained app - you do not need to install .NET separately to run it.
Linux
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev libc6-dev libc6 unzip
wget https://github.com/NethermindEth/nethermind/releases/download/1.3.7/nethermind-linux-amd64-1.3.7-7608cdb-20191218.zip
unzip nethermind-linux-amd64-1.3.7-7608cdb-20191218.zip -d nethermind
cd nethermind
./Nethermind.Launcher
- Select desired configuration
Additionally for Ubuntu 16.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-6 g++-6
sudo apt install libzstd1
Windows
- download windows package
nethermind-windows-amd64-1.3.7-7608cdb-20191218.zip
- unzip the file
- run Nethermind.Launcher.exe
- select desired configuration
macOS
- download darwin package
nethermind-darwin-amd64-1.3.7-7608cdb-20191218.zip
- unzip the file
- run Nethermind.Launcher
- select desired configuration