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@nfrisby nfrisby released this 05 Sep 15:03
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NOTE: THIS RELEASE IS ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR USE ON THE SANCHONET AND PUBLIC TEST ENVIRONMENTS (E.G. PREVIEW) AT THIS TIME. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR USE ON MAINNET.

Node 8.3.0-pre is a minor release of the Cardano node. In particular, it adds DReps to the Conway governance rules. This release allows registration of DReps, delegation to DReps and voting on constitution action with DReps and SPOs.

Known Issues

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Technical Specification

Minimum System Requirements
  • An Intel or AMD x86 processor with two or more cores, at 1.6GHz or faster (2GHz or faster for a stake pool or relay)
  • 24GB of RAM
  • 150GB of free storage (250GB recommended for future growth)
Platforms
  • Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS; Mint 19.3, 20; Debian 10.3)
  • Windows 64-bit (8.1, 10, 11)
  • MacOS 10.13, 10.14, 10.15, 11
GHC/Cabal supported versions
  • GHC 8.10.7/Cabal 3.8.1.0
Supported roles
Platform Block Production Relay Client (Desktop)
Linux ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Windows ✔️
MacOS ✔️
Downloads

NOTE: Linux is showing a git revision of 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 in --version because of a corruption issue in set-git-rev that only affects static musl built binaries. This is expected, and if it concerns you, please build from source.

Documentation

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Role Approval
Cardano Head of Engineering ✔️
Cardano Head of Product ✔️
Test Engineer N/A for pre-release
Site Reliability Engineer N/A for pre-release
Release Engineer ✔️

Changelogs

Node *NONE*
Consensus
  • Expose the latest Conway ledger queries: GetCommitteeState, GetConstitution, GetDRepStakeDistr setOfDReps, GetDRepState setOfDRepCredentials, GetGovState.
Ledger
  • DRep functionality progress:
    • Implement DRep voting and use actual DRep stake distribution for ratification.
    • Implement DRep expiry for stale DRep's.
    • Add DRep deposit tracking.
    • Add Anchors for DReps.
  • Fix ProposalProcedure deposit tracking.
  • Add ability to upgrade core types from one era to the next.
  • Add Script capability to Constitutional Committee Hot and Cold credentials.
  • Add NetworkId validation for ProposalProcedure and TreasuryWithdrawals.
  • Add currentTreasuryValue as a new field to Conway TxBody.
  • Voting thresholds have been added to PParams.
Network *NONE*
Cardano-cli
  • Changes in arguments of Conway-related commands: create-constitution, create-new-committee, create-no-confidence,
    create-treasury-withdrawal, governance vote create PR 174

  • New governance drep id command PR 194

  • New governance drep and vote command groups PR 191

  • Add --verification-key option to committee key-hash command PR 187

  • New conway governance committee create-cold-key-resignation command PR 146

  • New conway governance committee create-hot-key-authorization-certificate command PR 145

  • Add create-no-confidence command to era based cli PR 176

  • Add create-new-committee command to era based cli PR 175

  • Add conway governance action create-treasury-withdrawal PR 155

  • Add create-protocol-parameters-update command to era based commands PR 170

  • Add command 'drep cardano-cli conway governance drep key-gen` for DRep key generation PR 163

  • Add governance action create-constitution command PR 142

  • Fix deregistration-certificate: generate deregistration instead of registration certs PR 159

  • Plural for command groups PR 151

  • Add conway governance committee key-hash command PR 144

  • Add conway governance committee hot-key-gen command PR 136

Cardano-api
  • Add VotingProcedures type. PR 204

  • Expose following queries from consensus:

    • GetGovState
    • GetDRepState
    • GetDRepStakeDistr
    • GetCommitteeState
    • GetConstitution
      (feature, compatible) PR 196
  • Update createAnchor to use hashAnchorData
    (feature, breaking) PR 200

  • Updating the ledger dependency to cardano-ledger-conway-1.7.0.0:

    • Many superficial renamings
    • TxVotes carries a map now
    • ResolvablePointers now has a different representation than does the ledger
    • ProposalNewCommitee requires the old committee's credentials
    • The ProposalNewConstitution case of toGovernanceAction was hashing the argument ByteString, but it was already a hash. See temporarilyOptOutOfPrevGovAction
    • makeGovernanceActionId was reusing the transaction id as the governance action id, but the types no longer allow that.
    • Semigroup oprhan was missing for ConwayPParams
    • QueryConstitutionHash phantom type is now more specific
    • Cardano.Ledger.Api no longer export EraCrypto
    • Introduced (internal) pattern synonyms for scripts to cover up a change in the corresponding ledger types.
      (feature, breaking) PR 179
  • New VotingEntry type
    (compatible) PR 194

  • Fix parameterisation of GovernanceActionId
    (breaking) PR 192

  • Implement createPParams and begin propagating Ledger.PParams in cardano-api
    (feature) PR 190

  • Delete deprecated functions and types
    (improvement) PR 173

  • Fix parameterisation of GovernanceActionId
    (breaking) PR 192

  • Implement createPParams and begin propagating Ledger.PParams in cardano-api
    (feature) PR 190

  • Delete deprecated functions and types
    (improvement) PR 173

  • Implement EraBasedProtocolParametersUpdate
    (feature) PR 180

  • Modify queryGenesisParameters so that its type advertises it only returns genesis parameters for the Shelley era
    (breaking) PR 181

Submit-api *NONE*
Plutus
  • 17 new builtin functions and 3 new builtin types are added to Plutus Core to support BLS12-381 operations. They are usable in Plutus V3 and Protocol Version 9.0 or above. Further extensions are planned for Plutus V3 prior to mainnet release.
Individual packages' changelogs
Package Version Changelog
Win32-network 0.1.1.1 ChangeLog.md
base-deriving-via 0.1.0.2 CHANGELOG.md
bech32 1.1.4.1 ChangeLog.md
byron-spec-chain 1.0.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
byron-spec-ledger 1.0.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-api 8.16.3.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-binary 1.7.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-cli 8.6.1.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-crypto 1.1.2
cardano-crypto-class 2.1.2.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-crypto-praos 2.1.2.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-crypto-test 1.5.0.0
cardano-crypto-tests 2.1.2.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-crypto-wrapper 1.5.1.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-data 1.1.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-allegra 1.2.1.1 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-alonzo 1.4.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-alonzo-test 1.1.2.3 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-api 1.4.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-babbage 1.4.3.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-babbage-test 1.1.1.4 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-binary 1.1.2.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-byron 1.0.0.2 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-byron-test 1.5.0.0
cardano-ledger-conway 1.7.1.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-conway-test 1.2.0.4 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-core 1.5.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-mary 1.3.2.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-pretty 1.3.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-shelley 1.5.1.0 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-shelley-ma-test 1.2.1.2 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ledger-shelley-test 1.2.0.3 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-ping 0.2.0.5 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-prelude 0.1.0.2 ChangeLog.md
cardano-prelude-test 0.1.0.2
cardano-protocol-tpraos 1.0.3.4 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-slotting 0.1.1.1 CHANGELOG.md
cardano-strict-containers 0.1.2.1 CHANGELOG.md
contra-tracer 0.1.0.2
ekg 0.4.0.15.0.0.0.0.1
ekg-forward 0.3.0.4 CHANGELOG.md
ekg-json 0.1.0.7.0.0.0.0.1
fs-api 0.2.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
fs-sim 0.2.1.0 CHANGELOG.md
heapwords 0.1.0.2 CHANGELOG.md
iohk-monitoring 0.1.11.3
libsystemd-journal 1.4.5.0.0.0.0.1 Changelog.md
lobemo-backend-aggregation 0.1.0.0
lobemo-backend-ekg 0.1.0.1
lobemo-backend-monitoring 0.1.0.0
lobemo-backend-trace-forwarder 0.1.0.0
lobemo-scribe-systemd 0.1.0.0
measures 0.1.0.2 CHANGELOG.md
monoidal-synchronisation 0.1.0.3 CHANGELOG.md
network-mux 0.4.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
non-integral 1.0.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
optparse-applicative-fork 0.18.1.0 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-consensus 0.10.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-consensus-cardano 0.8.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-consensus-diffusion 0.7.1.1 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-consensus-protocol 0.5.0.6 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-network 0.8.2.0 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-network-api 0.5.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-network-framework 0.7.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-network-mock 0.1.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-network-protocols 0.5.1.0 CHANGELOG.md
ouroboros-network-testing 0.3.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
plutus-core 1.9.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
plutus-ledger-api 1.9.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
plutus-tx 1.9.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
prettyprinter-configurable 1.9.0.0
protolude 0.3.3.0.0.0.0.1 ChangeLog.md
set-algebra 1.1.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
small-steps 1.0.0.0 CHANGELOG.md
small-steps-test 1.0.0.1
th-extras 0.0.0.6.0.0.0.0.1 ChangeLog.md
tracer-transformers 0.1.0.4
typed-protocols 0.1.0.6 CHANGELOG.md
typed-protocols-cborg 0.1.0.4 CHANGELOG.md
typed-protocols-examples 0.2.0.2
validation-selective 0.2.0.0.0.0.0.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
vector-algorithms 0.9.0.1.0.0.0.0.1 CHANGELOG.md
vector-map 1.0.1.0 CHANGELOG.md