This optional release of Lotus introduces a new version of markets which switches to CBOR-map encodings, and allows datastore migrations. The release also introduces several improvements to the mining process, a few performance optimizations, and a battery of UX additions and enhancements.
Changes
Dependencies
Core Lotus
Performance
- Implement caching syscalls for import-bench (#3888)
- Fetch tipset blocks in parallel (#4074)
- Optimize Tipset equals() (#4056)
- Make state transition in validation async (#3868)
Mining
- Add trace window post (#4020)
- Use abstract types for Dont recompute post on revert (#4022)
- Fix injectNulls logic in test miner (#4058)
- Fix potential panic in FinalizeSector (#4092)
- Don't recompute post on revert (#3924)
- Fix some failed precommit handling (#3445)
- Add --no-swap flag for worker (#4107)
- Allow some single-thread tasks to run in parallel with PC2/C2 (#4116)
UX
- Add an envvar to set address network version (#4028)
- Add logging to chain export (#4030)
- Add JSON output to state compute (#4038)
- Wallet list CLI: Print balances/nonces (#4088)
- Added an option to show or not show sector info for
lotus-miner info(#4003) - Add a command to import an ipld object into the chainstore (#3434)
- Improve the lotus-shed dealtracker (#4051)
- Docs review and re-organization (#3431)
- Fix wallet list (#4104)
- Add an endpoint to validate whether a string is a well-formed address (#4106)
- Add an option to set config path (#4103)
- Add printf in TestWindowPost (#4043)
- Improve miner sectors list UX (#4108)
Tooling
- Move policy change to seal bench (#4032)
- Add back network power to stats (#4050)
- Conformance: Record and feed circulating supply (#4078)
- Snapshot import progress bar, add HTTP support (#4070)
- Add lotus shed util to validate a tipset (#4065)
- tvx: a test vector extraction and execution tool (#4064)