algorand/go-algorand v2.4.0-beta

Algorand BetaNet v2.4.0

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Highlights

Primarily enhancements and fixes to Fast Catchup and DNSSEC, but other logging improvements, miscellaneous optimizations, and other fixes as well.

Changelog

1. General
   • Bug Fix - fix return code testing & fix data directory cloning
2. Catchup
   • New Feature - add the ability to disable catchup in config file
   • Bug Fixes
     • Clear roundDigest when fast catchup is switching off
     • Fix catchup concurrently from a single host
     • Incorrect block download retry accounting during fast catchup
3. Config
   • Bug Fix - fix DNSBootstrapArray returning empty strings
4. Goal
   • Enhancements
     • Generate error on goal clerk group on signed transaction
     • Pass transaction groups correctly to logicsig evaluator
5. KMD
   • Enhancement - better kmd permission error message
6. Ledger
   • Enhancement - parallelize proposal transactions signature verification
   • Bug Fix - fix in memory database bug revealed by TestFullCatchpointWriter
   • Create a unified transaction verification cache
   • Small transaction pool rebuild & assembly optimizations
   • Compact accounts deltas before persisting to disk
   • Convert the catchpointWriting from a channel to an atomic variable
   • Refactor account updates consistency checking
7. Logging
   • Enhancements
     • Improve agreement cadaver & crash database error handling
     • Improve error logging of elastic search telemetry module
     • Improve node error code checking
8. Network
   • Enhancements
     • Add explicit error for stale network message writes
     • Use OS and fallback DNS servers in DNSSEC resolver
     • Get system DNS on Windows
   • Bug Fix - add f.Close() return code testing in SystemConfig()
   • Bug Fix - fix network peers list memory leak
   • Code style fixes DNSSEC client
9. Tools
   • Enhancements
     • Create configuration file using config.Local data structure
     • Show all errors, not just the first, when compiling TEAL
     • Allow catchpointdump to download a single catchpoint from a specified relay
     • Update catchpointdump utility to have progress bars
10. Tests & Benchmarks
    • Benchmarks
      • Add payset benchmarks
      • Benchmark account db random reads and BlockEvaluator
    • Enhancements
      • Add travis_retry to build and test commands in case of random failures
      • Disable cadaver for mainnet model
      • Disable cadaver for mainnet model, include config overrides this time
      • Improve catchpoint catchup expect test by not compiling on the fly
      • Remove code quality checking on integration tests builds
      • Set CadaverSizeTarget to 0 for Scenario testing
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix a race in arm test in algoh startup and algod.* files creation
      • Fix arm64 failures running TestAlgohWithExpect
      • Fix miscellaneous bugs in goalAsset expect test
      • Fix random limit order test
      • Fix various bugs in expect tests
      • Wait for EOF on StartNetwork/StopNetwork and test status correctly
11. Other
    • Enhancements
      • Add transaction evaluation distribution metrics
      • Check minimal go version 1.14 prior the build
      • Pipeline - clean up environmental variable usage to simplify building
      • Run gofmt against source code
      • Update go files to have license range of 2021
      • Use go tooling to get version from go.mod instead of parsing
    • Bug Fixes
      • Pipeline - fix download location when signing build assets
      • Pipeline - fix releases-page task
      • Pipeline - minimal bug fixes for latest package deployment

Protocol Upgrade

This release does not contain a consensus protocol upgrade.

Additional Resources

• Algorand Forum
• Developer Documentation