solana-labs/solana v1.6.8

Mainnet - v1.6.8

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This is a stable release suitable for use on Mainnet Beta

Changes

• solana-validator improvements
  • Interrupted snapshot archive downloads are now ignored
  • Add --tower argument to specify where tower files are persisted
  • solana-validator exit terminates the process more forcefully if necessary
  • Gossip optimizations
• solana command-line improvements
  • solana gossip now supports JSON output
• solana-ledger-tool improvements
  • Add new repair-roots command
  • capitalization command now outputs rent collector and inflation configuration
• RPC
  • RpcClient now respects the retry-after server response header when getting rate limited
  • getBlockProduction RPC method now correctly reports block production in all cases
• Minor documentation fixes