This is a major release of Harmony protocol.
This release reduces the average CPU usage of validators by 50% and filters out invalid p2p messages.
With all the optimizations, it paves the way for lower block latency and faster block finality.
It contains the following major updates since v2.1.9 release.
- p2p validation on consensus messages to protect the network (#3212)
- consensus optimization and separate channel to process consensus/node messages (#3232, #3228)
- blskey serialization/deserialization optimization (#3209, #3217, #3229)
- updated README, Makefile, and docker image for local test (#3237)
- test coverage improvement (#3204, #3205)
- additional rpc API to return peerinfo (#3230)
- rpc bug fixes (#3221)
- explorer node bug fixes (#3199)
The release version of harmony binary is:
v6137-v2.2.0-0-gb9b462d9