Gaia v20.0.0 Release Notes

🕐 Timeline

This is a mandatory upgrade for all validators and full node operators.
The upgrade height is 22443500, which is approx. October 2nd 2024, 15:00 UTC.

📝 Changelog

Check out the changelog for a list of relevant changes or compare all changes from last release.

Refer to the upgrading guide when migrating from v19.2.x to v20.x.

🚀 Highlights

This release bumps Interchain Security (ICS) to v6.1.0 which brings the following major features:

ICS with Inactive Validators (as per prop 930) enables validators from outside the Hub’s active set to validate on Consumer Chains.
Permissionless ICS (as per prop 945) enables users to permissionlessly launch opt-in Consumer Chains on the Cosmos Hub.

It also bumps CosmWasm/wasmd to v0.53.0 and ibc-go to v8.5.1.

🔨 Build from source

❗You must use Golang v1.22 if building from source.

git clone https://github.com/cosmos/gaia
cd gaia && git checkout v20.0.0
make install

⚡️ Download binaries

Binaries for linux, darwin, and windows are available below.

cosmos/gaia v20.0.0 on GitHub