ava-labs/avalanchego v1.5.0

Apricot Phase 3 - Dynamic Fees

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This change is not backwards compatible with previous releases.

This upgrade adds dynamic fees to the C-chain, along with various other improvements.

The v1.5.x changes go into effect at 10 AM EDT, August 24th 2021 on Mainnet.

Network Upgrades

• Added dynamic fee calculations to the C-chain.
• Increased CreateSubnetTx and CreateChainTx fees.
• Fixed heap corruption bug in delegator validation.
• Enforced MaxStakeWeight for delegation transactions.

Client Upgrades

• Added transaction indexing capabilities to the X-chain to enable historical lookups of transactions by address and asset.
• Added ./avalanchego as the default command in the docker image.
• Used static dependency versions in the docker image.
• Removed database migration support and deamon runner.
• Refactored node config parsing.
• Optimized container gossiping sampling.
• Added the ability to statically build the AvalancheGo and EVM binaries.
• Simplified the Block interface to only expose the parent block's ID rather than fetching the full parent block.
• Added additional metrics for pending jobs in the consensus engines.
• Refactored P-chain statuses to handle blockchain validation statuses separately from transaction confirmation statuses.

Updated APIs

• Added GetAddressTxs to the avm API.
• Added SetLoggerLevel and GetLoggerLevel to the Admin API to allow fine grained tuning of log levels while the node is still running.
• Added GetConfig to the Admin API to allow fetching the node config that the node is currently using.
• Updated platformvm.Client to allow specifying nodeIDs in GetCurrentValidators and GetPendingValidators and generalized the response to GetStake.

Updated CLI Arguments

• Removed fetch-only.
• Added JSON config parsing to avm VM.
  • Added indexTransactions
  • Added indexAllowIncomplete