📣 Summary

v8.0.0 is the new stable mainnet release of the mezod chain client software.

This release lays out necessary foundation for the incoming Triparty feature.

⚠️ This release incurs a mandatory upgrade of all Mezo Mainnet nodes that must occur on block 7739500 (ETA Wednesday, March 25th, around noon UTC). Upgrading the node before the mentioned block will cause a failure.

📝 Changelog

Include v7.0.0 mainnet upgrade info in the docs by @pdyraga in #618
Bump testnet validators and mainnet RPC to v7.0.0 by @lukasz-zimnoch in #621
Add Earn Bot monitoring to staging and production by @lukasz-zimnoch in #620
Triparty Part I: State change observability primitives by @lukasz-zimnoch in #624
RFC-6: Triparty BTC minting by @pdyraga in #623
fix minor docs errors by @intls in #576
Triparty Part II: New AssetsBridge precompile methods by @lukasz-zimnoch in #625
v8.0.0 upgrade handler by @lukasz-zimnoch in #626

Full Changelog: v7.0.0...v8.0.0

⚙️ Node setup

For guidance around node setup, please refer to the Validator Kit repository.

🔐 Signatures

We're providing two pieces of information for node providers and other interested parties:

The Docker image sha256sum
The Linux binary archive sha256 sum

Both hashes are signed by the development team and verifiable on Keybase. Our Keybase usernames are all associated our GitHub usernames.

Docker image

Image: mezo/mezod:v8.0.0.
sha256 sum: sha256:e5686bc354e63a1ad4c157ec4fc9a65edbd30d750f47e2bf8ac5dd29c3f2be41

Signatures from the development team (verify these in the Keybase app):

@lukasz-zimnoch
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@pdyraga
BEGIN KEYBASE SALTPACK SIGNED MESSAGE. kXR7VktZdyH7rvq v5weRa0zk8SRO9e gN94erb57G43YvY asc2ypx7KtJhJpq tOozFkj38nv5hKY L7v0tsRS9xswi3B zQhmInyMDratkEb sRU5WuS1dzdktHI sazRO47xSmJmSlq XEIbAEqxnD4TGyi Ei8e0gL52M4thYX FRupAScGuOjyAoU FVjJyUYioXoAa6q 9GZGVe6eX9d2Lea go9WzN5rHVMTva9 BmQGLUPTclADKPZ un7emj4RAOxBE2s 0QcCqR1iZ7abYLP K6C3jWJcNCj. END KEYBASE SALTPACK SIGNED MESSAGE.

Linux binary

Archive: linux-amd64.tar.gz (see Assets section)
sha256 sum: 96bc7cd5f78134b4b777510b793a1f38645ccab0859c6c5863ba4b94f4ac094c linux-amd64.tar.gz