maidsafe/autonomi stable-2025.1.2.6

2025.1.2.6

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Binary Versions

• antnode: v0.3.7
• antctld: v0.12.0
• antctl: v0.12.0
• ant: v0.3.8
• nat-detection: v0.2.17
• node-launchpad: v0.5.5

Merged Pull Requests

2025-02-17 #2756 -- chore(CI): remove un-necessary duplicated CI tests [@maqi]
2025-02-21 #2767 -- improvement of relay related metrics; remove relay clients if we have no more connections [@RolandSherwin]
2025-02-22 #2744 -- Fs api renames [@grumbach] [BREAKING]
2025-02-22 #2745 -- Enable UPnP by default in antctl & show UPnP support in Launchpad [@mickvandijke] [BREAKING]
2025-02-22 #2754 -- Attempts to reduce client upload failing rate during upscale test [@maqi]
2025-02-22 #2766 -- feat(node): use closer peers as relayer candidate [@maqi]
2025-02-22 #2769 -- feat: archive and files improvements [@jacderida]
2025-02-22 #2740 -- fix: out of bounds array error in antctl [@ermineJose]
2025-02-24 #2771 -- Revert Using Closer Peers for Relay Candidates [@jacderida]
2025-02-26 #2768 -- feat: organically bootstrap network and limit concurrency [@RolandSherwin]
2025-02-26 #2779 -- [metric] versions of nodes (upgraded percentage) [@maqi]
2025-02-26 #2784 -- fix: records_store metrics count [@ermineJose]
2025-02-26 #2787 -- feat!: accurate useable uniform address management [@mickvandijke] [BREAKING]
2025-02-27 #2791 -- feat!: add gas fee limit for transactions [@mickvandijke] [BREAKING]

Detailed Changes

Network

Added

• The node outputs critical start up and runtime failures to a critical_failure.log file. This is
  to help antctl feedback failure information to the user, but it should hopefully be generally
  useful to more advanced users.
• New metrics:
  • connected_relay_clients
  • relay_peers_in_routing_table
  • peers_in_non_full_buckets
  • relay_peers_in_non_full_buckets
  • percentage_of_relay_peers
• We also add a node_versions metric. This will be used to help us gauge what versions of nodes
  are present in the network and how many nodes have upgraded to the latest releases. It will also
  assist us in ensuring backward compatibility.

Changed

• The network bootstrapping process is changed to dial three of the initial peer addresses rather
  than all of them concurrently. When the routing table reaches five peers, network discovery takes
  over the rest of the bootstrapping process, and no more peers are dialled. This mechanism is much
  more efficient and avoids overloading the peers in the bootstrap cache.
• Network discovery rate has been increased during the start up phase, but it should slow down
  exponentially as more peers are added to the routing table.
• Several items aim to address uploading issues:
  • Avoid deadlocks on record store cache access
  • Do not fetch from the network when a replication fetch failed
  • Lower the number of parallel replication fetches
  • Issues that come in too quick will not trigger an extra action
  • Disable the current black list (possibly to be re-enabled when we have more data)
    They may also help reduce open connections and libp2p identify attempts
• Remove relay clients from the swarm driver tracker if the reservation has been closed.
• The peers_in_rt metric is improved by calculating it directly from kbuckets rather than using
  libp2p events.

Autonomi API

Added

• Support uploading files with empty metadata

Changed

• Several file-related functions were renamed [BREAKING]:
  • dir_upload to dir_content_upload
  • dir_and_archive_upload to dir_upload
  • file_upload to file_content_upload
  • dir_upload_public to dir_content_upload_public
  • dir_and_archive_upload_public to dir_upload_public
  • file_upload_public to file_content_upload_public
• Improved address management to make it easier to use [BREAKING]:
  • All address types have the same methods: to_hex and from_hex.
  • All public-key addressed data types have the public key in their address.
  • High level DataAddress shares the values above instead of the low-level XorName that can't
    be constructed from hex.
  • Python now uses accurate addresses instead of clunky hex strings, and addresses for other
    types.
  • Fix inaccurate/missing python bindings for addresses: now all have to_hex and from_hex.

Client

Added

• Support merging one archive into another.
• Introduce a maximum limit of 0.2 Gwei on the gas price when uploading files or creating/editing
  registers. If the gas exceeds this value, operations will be aborted. The commands provide a
  --max-fee-per-gas argument to override the value. This measure has been taken to avoid
  involuntarily paying excessive fees when the gas price fluctuates.

Changed

• The ant file download command can download directly from a XorName.
• The ant file download command can download data directly from a DataMapChunk to a file.

Antctl

Added

• A --no-upnp flag to disable launching nodes with UPnP.
• A failure column is added to the status command.

Changed

• The add command will create services that will launch the node with --upnp by default. For
  home networking we want to try encourage people to use UPnP rather than relaying.
• The add command does not apply the 'on failure' restart policy to services. This is to prevent
  the node from continually restarting if UPnP is not working.
• The --home-network argument has been renamed --relay [BREAKING].

Fixed

• A debug logging statement used during the upgrade process caused an error if there were no nodes
  in the node registry.

Launchpad

Added

• New column in the nodes panel for node failure reason.
• New column in the nodes panel to indicate UPnP support.
• New column in the nodes panel to the connection mode chosen by Automatic.

Changed

• Remove Home Network from the connection modes. Relay can only be selected by using Automatic
  in the case where UPnP fails. We are trying to avoid the use of relays when UPnP is available.