Please note that this change is not backwards compatible with previous releases.
This upgrade reduces C-chain gas fees, removes C-chain gas refunds, and includes various security improvements. We urge everyone in the community to update as soon as possible in order to ensure that their nodes remain healthy.
The changes in the upgrade go into effect at 10 AM EST, March 25th 2021 on the Fuji testnet and 10 AM EST, March 31st 2021 on mainnet.
The primary components to this upgrade include:
- Reduced C-chain gas cost from 470 nAVAX to 225 nAVAX.
- Removed C-chain gas refunds. This change adopts EIP-3298.
- Refactored C-chain verification to be cleaner when performing network upgrades.
- Fixed the Auth API to properly enforce revoked tokens.
- Strengthened the Auth API to ensure the expected signature format is used.
- Removed the Auth API's password from the CLI arguments.
- Added more strict file permissions checks.
- Added some minor additional error handling.
- Sanitized log writes before being written to disk.
- Added configurable origins to the HTTP endpoint.
- Removed attempted HTTPs to HTTP fail over on startup. Now the node will close on startup if upgrading the HTTP endpoint to HTTPs fails.
Added command line arguments:
api-auth-password-filespecifies the file to read the Auth API's password from.
Removed command line arguments:
api-auth-password
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