Testnet - v1.17.8

This is a Testnet release. It is not recommended for Mainnet Beta.

• The v1.17 minimum dynamic port range is now 14 so you may need to expand the range specified by --dynamic-port-range
  • This is expanded from the v1.16 minimum of 13
• Archive formats[bz2, gzip, tar, none] have been deprecated for the --snapshot-archive-format argument (#33484)
  • Existing snapshots with these formats can still be read, but solana-validator and solana-ledger-tool must be updated to use a different archive format. The recommended value is zstd, which is also the default if the --snapshot-archive-format argument is removed altogether

Changes

• v1.17: tokens: fix url clap arg name (backport of #34371) (#34375)
• v1.17: chore: Update light-poseidon to 0.2.0 (backport of #33923) (#34247)
• v1.17: Comment sysvar and builtin lists as deprecated and remove new keys (backport of #34365) (#34369)
• v1.17: Fix solana-address-lookup-table-program compilation (backport of #34353) (#34357)
• v1.17: adds feature gated code to drop legacy shreds (backport of #34328) (#34346)
• v1.17: shred: expose merkle root for use in blockstore (backport of #34063) (#34291)
• v1.17: Fix - Removes redundant TotalBatchesLen from ThreadExecuteTimings::accumulate() (backport of #34179) (#34347)
• v1.17: patches slots_per_epoch vs last_slot ordering in shred_fetch_stage (backport of #34338) (#34345)
• v1.17: exits send_datagram_task if the connection is closed (backport of #33836) (#34327)
• v1.17: exits send_requests_task if the connection is closed (backport of #33837) (#34324)
• v1.17: add merkle root meta column to blockstore (backport of #33979) (#34028)