2026.02 Update
- Preparation for upcoming network speed up: disabled by default but ready to deploy new broadcast and consensus
- Consequent external message allowed: liteservers now accept external messages with seqno higher than seqno in last commited state iff it knows previous uncommited external message
- Improved non-final LS interface which allows faster candidate indexing
- Fixed memory leak which causes OOM on LSes
- Improved block compression
- More stable custom overlays
- Fixed a few performance and stability issues
- Added Tontester framework
Besides the work of the core team, this update also includes contributions from Vahagn @vah13, InfiniteSec team https://x.com/infsec_io and Christos from Cantina and Spearbit.