Instructions for Node Maintainers

This is the first stable release that includes the database version upgrade introduced in #494. When you run this version with an existing datadir, you may be asked to upgrade your database version in CLI. To proceed, type y or yes and hit enter. Alternatively, you can run this version with a --yes flag to skip the interactive question.

This database upgrade is a one-way path, which means after updating your datadir to the new version, you won't be able to go back to an earlier version.

Database Upgrade to v4

This release includes a database upgrade from v3 to v4. This upgrade includes:

• introducing new data stores for temp ghostdag stores used when building pruning proofs
• removing deprecated higher level ghostdag data entries - these are now calculated on-the-fly when needed (validating pruning proofs, building pruning proofs)

What's Changed

• rothschild: donate funds to external address with custom priority fee by @demisrael in #482
• fix wrong combiner condition by @biryukovmaxim in #567
• fix wRPC JSON notification message format by @aspect in #571
• Documentation updates by @aspect in #570
• WASM RPC method type updates by @aspect in #572
• Cleanup legacy bip39 cfg flags interfering with docs.rs documentation builds by @aspect in #573
• Bump tonic and prost versions, adapt middlewares by @biryukovmaxim in #553
• Fix README.md layout and add linting section by @gvbgduh in #488
• Bump tonic version by @michaelsutton in #579
• replace statrs and statest deps & upgrade some deps. by @D-Stacks in #425
• enhance tx inputs processing by @biryukovmaxim in #495
• Parallelize MuHash calculations by @coderofstuff in #575
• Muhash parallel reduce -- optimize U3072 mul when LHS = one by @michaelsutton in #581
• Rust 1.82 fixes + mempool std sig op count check by @michaelsutton in #583
• typo(cli/utils): kaspa wording by @IzioDev in #582
• On-demand calculation for Ghostdag for Higher Levels by @coderofstuff in #494
• Standartize fork activation logic by @someone235 in #588
• Refactoring for cleaner pruning proof module by @coderofstuff in #589
• Pruning proof minor improvements by @coderofstuff in #590
• Add KIP-10 Transaction Introspection Opcodes, 8-byte arithmetic and Hard Fork Support by @biryukovmaxim in #487
• Some simplification to script number types by @someone235 in #594
• feat: add signMessageWithoutRand method for kaspa wasm by @witter-deland in #587
• Optimize window cache building for ibd by @D-Stacks in #576
• Enable payloads for non coinbase transactions by @someone235 in #591
• Small fixes related to enabling payload by @someone235 in #605
• Fix new lints required by Rust 1.83 by @michaelsutton in #606
• IBD sync: recover sampled window by @michaelsutton in #598
• Track the average transaction mass throughout the mempool's lifespan by @michaelsutton in #599
• Create TN11 KIP10 HF activation and KIP9 beta switch by @coderofstuff in #595
• CI Update by @saefstroem in #622
• Bump version to 0.16.0 by @coderofstuff in #623

New Contributors

• @demisrael made their first contribution in #482
• @IzioDev made their first contribution in #582
• @witter-deland made their first contribution in #587

Full Changelog: v0.15.2...v0.16.0