Mainnet release 8.3

• Fix for nomination pools unbonding issue:
  • add pending_rewards API call to Aleph Runtime

Testnet release 8.3

• Fix for nomination pools unbonding issue:
  • add pending_rewards API call to Aleph Runtime

Mainnet release 8.2

Release notes:

• a bugfix for a scenario in which finalization proofs (justifications) were not disseminated reliably enough, which caused some validators to think they are on the "main branch" while they were not,
• Stop producing blocks when finalization does not happen

Testnet release 8.2

Release notes:

• a bugfix for a scenario in which finalization proofs (justifications) were not disseminated reliably enough, which caused some validators to think they are on the "main branch" while they were not,
• Produce fewer blocks when finalization does not happen

Mainnet release 8.0

Release notes:

• Add a new mode to the elections subsystem that will allow permissionless elections on mainnet.
• Add automated removal of dead validators from the validators list for a given era. If a validator doesn’t produce blocks when they should and they meet the given threshold, they are removed from the validator list for the next era.
• Rewrite of network layer for the committee establishing consensus and ensuring better stability and performance.
• New layer for compatibility of consensus messages sent in alephbft enabling smoother runtime updates.
• There are improvements to the build process that result in a smaller and faster binary.
• The justifications are now created for all blocks that simplify the logic of several components.
• A new command to the binary for checking its version.
• Incorporated bug fix for the sync protocol.
• CCR basic support
• Fix for justification compatibility
• Try-runtime cli in the node (plus fixes for logging in the substrate)
• Pruning related changes
• Unit saving for crash recovery
• everybody wins - opens committee responsible for establishing consensus for outside validators
• pallet identity - enables human-readable aliases for accounts
• tweaks in substrate network - enable querying the same block multiple times
• compatibility for justifications
• substrate update 9.13 → 9.28
• AlephBFT 0.8.4 → 0.19.1

Release 2022-11-03

What's changed:

• Add a new mode to the elections subsystem that will allow permissionless elections on mainnet.
• Add automated removal of dead validators from the validators list for given era. If a validator doesn’t produce blocks when they should and they meet given threshold, they are removed from the validator list for next era.
• Rewrite of network layer for the committee establishing consensus ensuring better stability and performance.
• New layer for compatibility of consensus messages sent in alephbft enabling smoother runtime updates.
• There are improvements to build process that result it smaller and faster binary.
• The justifications are now created for all blocks that simplifies logic of several components.
• A new command to the binary for checking its version.
• Update substrate to v0.9.28.
• Update alephbft to 0.19.1.

Release 2022-08-30

Testnet hotfix release:

• Incorporated bug fix for the sync protocol in substrate network.

Release 2022-08-02

What's changed:

• basic chain crash recovery added
• various small bug fixes and quality of life improvements
• try-runtime integrated into the node
• pruning disabled
• bump of aleph-bft 0.12 → 0.18
  • unit saving for recovery
  • improved logging
  • public api improvements
• substrate version v0.9.23 → v0.9.26

Release 2022-07-20

Testnet hotfix release:

• We ensure that pallet_elections::ElectionProvider::elect() returns only staking validators. Before it was possible for validators to chill and unbound their funds and still be elected to the committee.
• Added support for rotating reserved nodes.

Release 2022-07-13

Hotfix release:

• [pallet-contracts] Fixed the bug with transfer value for delegate call