Version 9.0~rc1

The first release candidate for version 9.0 contains a new version (V2) of the protocol environment, which is the set of functions that protocols can call. This new version is used by Florence, which is the current protocol proposal on Mainnet. The release candidate also contains Florence itself as well as its daemons (baker, endorser and accuser) so that you can test it easily.

This release candidate also contains the necessary configuration to join the Florencenet test network, which runs Florence. To join Florencenet, simply configure your node with tezos-node config init --network florencenet.

Update Instructions

To update from sources:

git fetch
git checkout v9.0-rc1
rm -rf _opam _build
make build-deps
eval $(opam env)
make

If you are using Docker instead, use the v9.0 Docker images of Tezos.

Changelog — Version 9.0~rc1

Node

  • Added Florence, the current protocol proposal on Mainnet. This is the version of Florence without baking accounts (PsFLoren).

  • Added a new version of the protocol environment (v2). It is used by Florence.

  • Added built-in network configurations for Edo2net (which runs Edo2, the current Mainnet protocol) and Florencenet (which runs Florence). Their corresponding aliases for --network are edo2net and florencenet.

  • Capped the number of expected connections to 100 on the command-line interface.

  • Fixed a bug that caused the execution of the prevalidator when the node was not bootstrapped.

  • Enforced loading of non-embedded protocols before starting the node to allow the prevalidator to start correctly.

  • Optimized I/O and CPU usage by removing an unnecessary access to the context during block validation.

  • Fixed a bug where any event would allocate more memory than needed when it was not to be printed.

  • Added a new RPC for Alpha: helpers/scripts/normalize_type.

  • Replace Edonet by Edo2net in built-in network configuration. The alias to give to --network is now edo2net.

  • Removed the built-in configuration for Delphinet. You can no longer configure your node with --network delphinet.

  • The --network option now also accepts the name of a file containing the configuration for a custom network, or a URL from which such a file can be downloaded.

  • Fixed JSON encoding of timestamps before epoch (1970). Pretty-printing and encoding of dates before epoch in human-readable form (as part of a JSON value) that failed in the past will now succeed. Binary form (used when nodes exchange data) was unaffected by the bug. This may impact some RPC representations of timestamps.

  • Some RPCs now send their response in chunked transfer encoding. Additionally, the implementation allows for more concurrency internally: it allows RPC requests to be treated even if a request is currently being treated. This leads to some improved response times on some RPC requests.

Client

  • Fixed the return code of errors in the client calls to be non-zero.

  • Added a new multisig command to change keys and threshold: set threshold of multisig contract ....

  • Added a command to perform protocol migrations in persistent mockup mode: migrate mockup to <protocol_hash>.

  • Added the --version flag.

  • Fixed commands --mode mockup config show and --mode mockup config init which returned the default values rather than the actual ones.

  • Replaced command check that <bytes> was signed by <pkh> by check that bytes <bytes> were signed by <pkh> to differentiate from new command check that message <string> was signed by <pkh>.

  • Added wallet support for PVSS keys.

  • Added support for all protocol constants in Mockup mode.

Baker / Endorser / Accuser

  • Added the --version flag.

  • Fixed the operation ordering in the baker so that the most profitable operations are applied first.

Protocol Compiler And Environment

  • Added the --version flag.

Codec

  • Added the --version flag.

  • Added support for some base encodings including arbitrary precision integers, n-bit sized integers, and floating point numbers.

Miscellaneous

  • Sapling: fixed dummy address generator (the last 5 bits are now correctly set to 0 instead of the first 5 bits).

  • Fixed a bug that caused some file descriptors to be leaked to external processes.