Highlights

This is a maintenance release focused around many test improvements and other optimizations.

Changes

1. REST API
   • Bug Fix
     • Use the strict json encoder to correctly encode maps with numeric fields in REST API v2 endpoints. (#2611)
     • Fix installation of oapi-codegen. (#2668)
2. TEAL
   • New Feature
     • vFuture: cover opcode: "remove top of stack, and place it down the stack such that N elements are above it" (#2541)
     • vFuture: uncover opcode: "remove the value at depth N in the stack and shift above items down so the Nth deep value is on top of the stack" (#2541)
     • vFuture: added op code log for logging. (#2529)
   • Tests
     • Extend global and txn field tests for all TEAL versions and protocols. (#2669)
     • Create a quine to test app_params_get AppApprovalProgram (#2682)
3. Ledger
   • Enhancements
     • Replace Balances.PutWithCreatable() to new functions that notify the COW that a creatable was created or deleted. (#2638)
     • Add a public Eval() function for indexer. (#2662)
     • Added support for batch verification of signatures. (#2578)
     • Record modified local creatable states in state delta. (#2680)
     • Add individual program length checks into updateApplication (#2699)
     • Return an error in EncodeSignedTxn() and DecodeSignedTxn() if consensus protocol is unknown. (#2708)
     • Add additional functions to improve type tracking of AVM stack manipulation opcodes. (#2710)
     • Pool app call budget for group transactions. (#2711)
   • Bug Fixes
     • Consensus upgrade for ExtraProgramPages fix. (#2694)
4. Node
   • Bug Fixes
     • Disable networking on devmode (#2601)
5. Metrics
   • Bug Fix
     • Remove Gauge timeout (#2508)
6. Goal
   • Bug Fix
     • Use the appIdx instead of txn app id when calling goal app create. (#2720)
7. Other
   • New Features
     • Add builds, build tests, and integration tests in CircleCI. (#2444)
   • Enhancements
     • Update our feature_request.md template for new Issues (#2568)
     • Enable ineffassign linter (#2574)
     • Remove old msgp 1.1.47 code from go.mod/go.sum (#2615)
     • Implement partitiontest_linter (#2635)
     • Update systemd-steup.sh to install system.json (#2651)
     • Generate Slack notifications for rel/nightly failures (#2643)
     • Added golangci-lint action. (#2647)
     • Fix a go lint issue. (#2688)
     • Renamed no_gimme env var to skip_go_installation (#2696)
     • Consolidate testing options SKIP_E2E_SUBS and E2E_SUBS_ONLY. (#2705)
     • Update the Circle CI branch filters to run "nightly"/longer tests over "rel/" and "hotfix/" branches. (#2729)
   • Tools
     • Replace KMD usage in the pingpong utility with direct signing. (#2653)

Protocol Upgrade

This release does not contain a protocol upgrade.

Additional Resources

• Algorand Forum
• Developer Documentation