This is a Testnet release. It is not recommended for Mainnet Beta
Changes
- Migrate from address maps to address lookup tables
- Optimized leader QoS service
- Add vote instructions that directly update on chain vote state
- Reject vote withdraws that create non-rent-exempt accounts
- Accountsdb plugin
- Adds fallback logic if retransmit multicast fails
- Create solana-poh and move remaining rpc modules to solana-rpc
- Parallelizes gossip packets receiver with processing of requests
- Add Incremental Snapshots
- Incremental snapshots are effectively a diff of what's changed since the last full snapshot, and as a result, are much smaller
- Currently opt-in; to enable, add the
--incremental-snapshotsflag when starting a validator
NOTE: This version of the solana-cli contains a bug in solana withdraw-from-vote-account ALL; it is recommended to NOT USE that command.
This release contains contributions from many people at Solana, as well as:
Tim Hagn, imprfekt, xuoe, Jarred Nicholls