solana-labs/solana v1.5.6

Testnet - v1.5.6

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This is a Testnet release. It is not recommended for Mainnet Beta

Changes

• Add Inflation Candidate Nominations
• Staking documentation improvements
• Speed up snapshot loading during validator startup
• solana-validator stability fixes
• Add solana-validator init subcommand to easily initialize a new ledger directory
• solana-program-test now supports moving to new slot during test execution
• Improve runtime error log messages
• solana cli bug fixes and minor improvements to existing commands
• solana-install now purges older releases from its cache
• solana-ledger-tool create-snapshot now works again
• Support for SPL Memo v3
• solana-ledger-tool verify now supports enabling the BPF JIT and disabling accounts caching
• solana-test-validator now uses the BPF JIT by default
• Gossip optimizations
• Use spl-token-mint secondary index for relevant getProgramAccounts JSON RPC requests
• Extend max-allowable-drift to accommodate slow blocks during cluster time adjustments

NOTE: as of this release, nodes running with --enable-rpc-transaction-history will no longer store transaction logs and CPI inner-instructions by default. To include this metadata in blockstore storage, also include the --enable-cpi-and-log-storage flag

Known Isssues

• Under certain program conditions the BPF JIT can produce divergent behaviour from the BPF interpreter. Avoid using the --bpf-jit validator flag on Testnet with this release.