This is a major release to enable 2 seconds finality on epoch 366 (Tuesday Dec 8th 2020, 4PM UTC)
All validators have to update the node software before epoch 366.
Major changes included in this release.
- reduce block time to every 2 seconds
- change blocks per epoch to 32768 (with 2s block time, every epoch is around 18.2 hours)
- reduce block rewards to 7 ONE per block to keep the annual inflation the same as before
- prometheus metrics and pushgateway support
- non-archival beacon shard support for explorer node to reduce disk usage
- various bug fixes on consensus and view change
The released version is v6662-v3.0.0-0-g2a722bb0