algorand/go-algorand v2.6.0-beta

Algorand BetaNet 2.6.0

on GitHub

Highlights

• Increased Test Coverage: including adding NFT support for pingpong
• Logging: reduced verbosity
• TEAL: TEAL 3 Refactoring and new features in tealdbg
• Catchup and Catchpoint enhancements
• BugFixes: Update.sh script, GOPROXY, REST API, Nil Check, KMD for Windows, netgoal

Changelog

1. General/Other
   • New Feature
     • Add support for Arch Linux
   • Enhancement
     • Expand /metrics to show per-message-tag stats on number of messages and amount of bytes moved.
     • Cache docker images in Travis and re-load them
     • Copy database files generation in create_and_deploy_recipe.sh to nodes
     • Improve handling of ledger falling behind agreement
     • Report algod panic in algoh
     • BlockService will redirect when it does not have the round
     • Efficiency Improvement: Avoid compact cert validation on non-validate/non-generate path
   • BugFix
     • Fix bug with updater not restarting services with systemctl
     • Update GOPROXY: Deal with deprecated gocenter.io GOPROXY
     • Pipeline - don't reset CHANNEL if defined
     • skip printing the logs when program is in terminated state.
     • nil check fix
     • Push docker tag to betanet
     • Fix requestNonce alignment on arm32
     • rollback config v17 into v16
     • Fixes for KMD on Windows
2. Teal
   • Enhancement
     • Cleanup and re-factor of TEAL 3 code
     • adding extra docs for pushbytes and pushint
   • Tealdbg:
     • Check compile and dryrun programs against consensus limits
     • Better support for TEAL 3 in tealdbg
     • Allow tealdbg to listen on specified address
     • Removes program version assumption
3. REST API
   • Bug Fix
     • Add swagger response annotations so a valid swagger doc gets generated
     • Fix parameter check in abort procedure
     • Fixes for pending transaction endpoint
     • Return an empty string instead of null when making a proof for transaction with no siblings.
4. Tests
   • Enhancement
     • algofix - Allow struct field to be sync.Mutex if tagged algofix:"allow sync.Mutex"
     • Add DisableLocalhostConnectionRateLimit configuration option
     • Fix/improve kmd speed in test
     • Add pingpong mode to create NFTs for testing
     • script to watch algod heap
     • Improve TestCompactCerts error testing
     • Bandwidth watch
     • Unit test demonstrating high memory consumption
     • Catchup: Add deep block validation support
     • Add performance metrics for account updates
     • Add tests for ledger/compactcert.go
     • test coverage for ledger/eval.go funcs
     • Filter out verbosed output from automated testing
   • Bug Fix
     • Fix parameter check in abort procedure
     • Fix testing bug : avoid datarace on a node crash during e2e test
     • logfilter: exit with non-zero when test fails
     • Node Controller: delete pid file on killing process
     • Fix node shutdown on the wrong node directory
5. Catchup and Catchpoint
   • Enhancement
     • Support for catching up from http or ws fetchers
     • Reduce memory utilization during accounts update init by reconstructing balances db from blocks
     • Extend catchpointdump utility to verify merkle trie
     • Fine tune catchup peer selection logic
     • Add cross-verify for genesis.json hash
   • Bug Fix
     • catchpoint: truncate output file
6. Ledger
   • Enhancement
     • Preload account data in parallel on the evaluator
     • Improve ConsensusVersion error messages
     • Disable minimum balance check when not validating or generating
     • Split committed round range by consensus protocol version
   • Bug Fix
     • Fix consensus version to flush correctly
7. Network
   • Enhancement
     • Improve ConsensusVersion error messages
     • Add peer functions to network interface to associate data with a peer to be garbage collected when peer goes away
     • Add networking infrastructure for cancelling sends
8. Goal
   • Enhancement
     • Add comments to disassembly of constant load lines to show constant
     • add support for a single node private network
     • Improve waitForCommit logic
     • Refactor waitForCommit
   • Bug Fix
     • Fix goal node restart message when node already started
9. Transactions
   • Enhancement
     • Transaction Sync: Optimize bloom filter memory allocations
   • Bug Fix
     • txpool: Fix incorrect datatype checking in recomputeBlockEvaluator
10. Logger
    • Enhancement
      • Make deadlockLogger thread-safe
      • Reduce verbosity of logged messages
      • Print out intermediate decoding errors
      • logfilter: provide proper handling for panicking unit tests
    • Bug Fix
      • logfilter bug when running test without -v
11. netgoal
    • Enhancement
      • Add pre-generated network support
    • Bug Fix
      • Fix insufficient account with preloaded db files
      • Resolve netgoal errors when bootstrap files are missing
      • Fixup small amounts of float64 roundoff
12. Participation Keys
    • Enhancement
      • Refactor participation keys management
      • Add support for overlapping participation keys
      • Ensure the participation key database is being correctly closed after being installed
      • Add ParticipationKeysRefreshInterval to the node config

Protocol Upgrade

This release does not contain a protocol upgrade.

Additional Resources

• Algorand Forum
• Developer Documentation