This is a major release of Harmony mainnet. It is a mandatory update for all validators.
The main changes are:
- shorten the block time to 5 seconds from epoch 230, adjusted the block rewards accordingly with the same issuance rate. Note that this will shorten the epoch time down to around 1 day (#3250)
- support 640 open slots for validators from epoch 231 (#3250)
Other changes included are:
- Node API refactor towards Coinbase Rosetta API support (#3244)
- further consensus optimization in mutex and bls masks (#3239)
- compute and return latest 30 epoch signing info (#3249)
- node messages validation to prevent p2p spamming (#3238)
- print out both installed and running version of node (#3245)
- various bug fixes, enhancement, and helper modules (#3242, #3235, #3246, #3248)
Check the version of your node:
node.sh: version: v1 20200723.0
harmony: version v6154-v2.3.1-0-g16c1b062