v1.17.6
With this release, many hardening issues were tackled. The team's focus has been mostly on improving connectivity of nodes across the network and bringing performance improvements to chunk caching operations.
Also featured is a new DB command that will perform a chunk validation of the chunkstore, similar to the optional step in the compaction command.
The retrieval protocol now has a similar multiplexing capability like pushsync, where multiple, in parallel, requests are fired from a forwarder peer that can directly access the neighborhood of a chunk.
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Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug where parallel uploads can cause a race condition in the uploadstore. ( #4434 )
Features
- Added a new DB cmd that performs a validation check of the chunks in the chunkstore. ( #4435 )
- Added multiplexing to the retrieval protocol where a forwarding peer that can reach in to the neighborhood of the chunk fires multiple attempts to different peers. ( #4405 )
Hardening
- Added extra documentation about the logger API in the CODING.md. ( #4406 )
- Fixed logs containing wrong token name. ( #4408 )
- Added metrics for zero addressed chunks received by the pullsync protocol. ( #4407 )
- Kademlia depth value is overwritten by the storage radius for full nodes. ( #4410 )
- Salud response duration check is now more stricter. ( #4417 #4426 )
- Upgraded libp2p to the latest version v0.30.0. ( #3927 )
- When batches expire and are removed the batchstore, the stamp issuer data is also removed ( #4416 #4431 #4439 )
- Add a new log to display the amount of time the postage listener will sleep for until the next blockchain sync event ( #4444 #4426 )
- API now returns 404 instead of 500 when no peer can be found for a chunk retrieval attempt. ( #4436 )
- Upgraded crypto related packages. ( #4425 )
- Added various connectivity related improvements: ( #4412 )
- The reachability of connected peers is tested periodically instead of once at the time of the initial connection.
- All and not a small subset of neighbor peers are broadcast to a newly connected neighbor.
- Neighbor peers are periodically broadcast to other neighbors.
- A peer will be re-added to the addressbook if hive detects an underlay change.
Performance
- Added a cache eviction worker so cached chunks do not need to removed immediately when adding new entries to an over-capacity cache. ( #4423 #4433 )
- The
POST /pins/{ref}API endpoint now stores chunks in parallel. ( #4427 )