Release Notes

Release Hash: b98e6b9

Validator Update Required? Yes, by Dec 21st
Fullnode Update Required? Yes, by Dec 27th.

New features and enhancements

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• Addendum to AIP-71: Event V2 Translation Engine
  • Ecosystem Impact: Once AIP-71 is enabled, this event v2 translation engine allow querying the event v1 using the temporary REST API path https://api.mainnet.aptoslabs.com/translated/v1 .

Aptos Node

General

• Optimistic signature verification feature is enabled. This reduces the CPU utilize for verifying votes, order votes, commit votes and signed batch infos. Instead of verifying each vote individually, the validator aggregates the votes and verifies them all at once.

Move

• Significantly optimized following vector functions: insert, remove, append, trim , by using vector::move_range native function. It reduces both running time and gas costs. more details and evaluation in the PR

Performance

• Execution pipeline performance improvements by removing unnecessary memory allocations, among others.
• Significant reduced the node start time on sharding mode by doing DB operations in parallel.