github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

• Removed unnecessary repoll after rejecting vertices
• Improved snowstorm lookup error handling
• Removed rejected vertices from the Avalanche frontier more aggressively
• Reduced default health check values for processing decisions

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

• Fixed x/merkledb.ChangeProof#getLargestKey to correctly handle no changes
• Added test for avm/txs/executor.SemanticVerifier#verifyFxUsage with multiple valid fxs
• Fixed CPU + bandwidth performance regression during vertex processing
• Added example usage of the /ext/index/X/block API
• Reduced the default value of --snow-optimal-processing from 50 to 10
• Updated the year in the license header

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

Networking

• Removed linger setting on P2P connections
• Improved error message when failing to calculate peer uptimes
• Removed EngineType from P2P response messages
• Added context cancellation during dynamic IP updates
• Reduced the maximum P2P reconnect delay from 1 hour to 1 minute

Consensus

• Added support to switch from Avalanche consensus to Snowman consensus
• Added support for routing consensus messages to either Avalanche or Snowman consensus on the same chain
• Removed usage of deferred evaluation of the handler.Consensus in the Avalanche OnFinished callback
• Dropped inbound Avalanche consensus messages after switching to Snowman consensus
• Renamed the Avalanche VM metrics prefix from avalanche_{chainID}_vm_ to avalanche_{chainID}_vm_avalanche
• Replaced consensus and decision dispatchers with block, tx, and vertex dispatchers
• Removed Avalanche bootstrapping restarts during the switch to Snowman consensus

AVM

• Added avm block execution manager
• Added avm block builder
• Refactored avm transaction syntactic verification
• Refactored avm transaction semantic verification
• Refactored avm transaction execution
• Added avm mempool gossip
• Removed block timer interface from avm mempool
• Moved toEngine channel into the avm mempool
• Added GetUTXOFromID to the avm state.Chain interface
• Added unpopulated MerkleRoot to avm blocks
• Added avm transaction based metrics
• Replaced error strings with error interfaces in the avm mempool

PlatformVM

• Added logs when the local nodes stake amount changes
• Moved platformvm message package into components
• Replaced error strings with error interfaces in the platformvm mempool

Warp

• Added ID method to warp.UnsignedMessage
• Improved warp.Signature verification error descriptions

Miscellaneous

• Improved merkledb locking to allow concurrent read access through trieViews
• Fixed Banff transaction signing with ledger when using the wallet
• Emitted github artifacts after successful builds
• Added non-blocking bounded queue
• Converted the x.Parser helper to be a block.Parser interface from a tx.Parser interface

Cleanup

• Separated dockerhub image publishing from the kurtosis test workflow
• Exported various errors to use in testing
• Removed the vms/components/state package
• Replaced ad-hoc linked hashmaps with the standard data-structure
• Removed usr/local/lib/avalanche from deb packages
• Standardized usage of constants.UnitTestID

Examples

• Added P-chain RemoveSubnetValidatorTx example using the wallet
• Added X-chain CreateAssetTx example using the wallet

Configs

• Added support to specify HTTP server timeouts
  • --http-read-timeout
  • --http-read-header-timeout
  • --http-write-timeout
  • --http-idle-timeout

APIs

• Added avm block APIs
  • avm.getBlock
  • avm.getBlockByHeight
  • avm.getHeight
• Converted avm APIs to only surface accepted state
• Deprecated all ipcs APIs
  • ipcs.publishBlockchain
  • ipcs.unpublishBlockchain
  • ipcs.getPublishedBlockchains
• Deprecated all keystore APIs
  • keystore.createUser
  • keystore.deleteUser
  • keystore.listUsers
  • keystore.importUser
  • keystore.exportUser
• Deprecated the avm/pubsub API endpoint
• Deprecated various avm APIs
  • avm.getAddressTxs
  • avm.getBalance
  • avm.getAllBalances
  • avm.createAsset
  • avm.createFixedCapAsset
  • avm.createVariableCapAsset
  • avm.createNFTAsset
  • avm.createAddress
  • avm.listAddresses
  • avm.exportKey
  • avm.importKey
  • avm.mint
  • avm.sendNFT
  • avm.mintNFT
  • avm.import
  • avm.export
  • avm.send
  • avm.sendMultiple
• Deprecated the avm/wallet API endpoint
  • wallet.issueTx
  • wallet.send
  • wallet.sendMultiple
• Deprecated various platformvm APIs
  • platform.exportKey
  • platform.importKey
  • platform.getBalance
  • platform.createAddress
  • platform.listAddresses
  • platform.getSubnets
  • platform.addValidator
  • platform.addDelegator
  • platform.addSubnetValidator
  • platform.createSubnet
  • platform.exportAVAX
  • platform.importAVAX
  • platform.createBlockchain
  • platform.getBlockchains
  • platform.getStake
  • platform.getMaxStakeAmount
  • platform.getRewardUTXOs
• Deprecated the stake field in the platform.getTotalStake response in favor of weight

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

Plugins

• Removed error from logging.NoLog#Write
• Added logging to the static VM factory usage
• Fixed incorrect error being returned from subprocess.Bootstrap

Ledger

• Added ledger tx parsing support

MerkleDB

• Added explicit consistency guarantees when committing multiple merkledb.trieViews to disk at once
• Removed reliance on premature root calculations for merkledb.trieView validity tracking
• Updated x/merkledb/README.md

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 24.

MerkleDB

• Removed parent tracking from merkledb.trieView
• Removed base caches from merkledb.trieView
• Fixed error handling during merkledb intermediate node eviction
• Replaced values larger than 32 bytes with a hash in the merkledb hash representation

AVM

• Refactored avm API tx creation into a standalone Spender implementation
• Migrated UTXO interfaces from the platformvm into the components for use in the avm
• Refactored avm tx.SyntacticVerify to expect the config rather than the fee fields

Miscellaneous

• Updated the minimum golang version to v1.19.6
• Fixed rpcchainvm signal handling to only shutdown upon receipt of SIGTERM
• Added warp.Signature#NumSigners for better cost tracking support
• Added snow.Context#PublicKey to provide access to the local node's BLS public key inside the VM execution environment
• Renamed Avalanche consensus metric prefix to avalanche_{chainID}_avalanche
• Specified an explicit TCP Linger timeout of 15 seconds
• Updated the secp256k1 library to v4.1.0

Cleanup

• Removed support for the --whitelisted-subnets flag
• Removed unnecessary abstractions from the app package
• Removed Factory embedding from platformvm.VM and avm.VM
• Removed validator package from the platformvm
• Removed timer.TimeoutManager
• Replaced snow.Context in Factory.New with logging.Logger
• Renamed set.Bits#Len to BitLen and set.Bits#HammingWeight to Len to align with set.Bits64

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 23.

Note: The --whitelisted-subnets flag was deprecated in v1.9.6. This is the last release in which it will be supported. Use --track-subnets instead.

Monitoring

• Added warning when the P2P server IP is private
• Added warning when the HTTP server IP is potentially publicly reachable
• Removed merkledb.trieView#calculateIDs tracing when no recalculation is needed

Databases

• Capped the number of goroutines that merkledb.trieView#calculateIDsConcurrent will create
• Removed nodb package
• Refactored Batch implementations to share common code
• Added Batch.Replay invariant tests
• Converted to use require in all database interface tests

Cryptography

• Moved the secp256k1 implementations to a new secp256k1 package out of the crypto package
• Added rfc6979 compliance tests to the secp256k1 signing implementation
• Removed unused cryptography implementations ed25519, rsa, and rsapss
• Removed unnecessary cryptography interfaces crypto.Factory, crypto.RecoverableFactory, crypto.PublicKey, and crypto.PrivateKey
• Added verification when parsing secp256k1 public keys to ensure usage of the compressed format

API

• Removed delegators from platform.getCurrentValidators unless a single nodeID is requested
• Added delegatorCount and delegatorWeight to the validators returned by platform.getCurrentValidators

Documentation

• Improved documentation on the block.WithVerifyContext interface
• Fixed --public-ip and --public-ip-resolution-service CLI flag descriptions
• Updated README.md to explicitly reference SECURITY.md

Coreth

• Enabled state sync by default when syncing from an empty database
• Increased block gas limit to 15M for Cortina Network Upgrade
• Added back file tracer endpoint
• Added back JS tracer

Miscellaneous

• Added allowedNodes to the subnet config for validatorOnly subnets
• Removed the hashicorp/go-plugin dependency to improve plugin flexibility
• Replaced specialized bag implementations with generic bag implementations
• Added mempool package to the avm
• Added chain.State#IsProcessing to simplify integration with block.WithVerifyContext
• Added StateSyncMinVersion to sync.ClientConfig
• Added validity checks for InitialStakeDuration in a custom network genesis
• Removed unnecessary reflect call when marshalling an empty slice

Cleanup

• Renamed teleporter package to warp
• Replaced bool flags in P-chain state diffs with an enum
• Refactored subnet configs to more closely align between the primary network and subnets
• Simplified the utxo.Spender interface
• Removed unused field common.Config#Validators