Devnet Pre-Release 1.4.1alpha1

The O(1) Labs team is proud to announce that 1.4.1alpha1 is ready to test on Devnet! This release includes a set of important bugfixes, improvements as well as code cleanup.

If you run into any issues, please include Release: 1.4.1alpha1 in the name of any issues you create. Please report any issues you encounter here or join the Discussion!

What changed

Bug Fixes

• Disable snark pool persistence and additional daemon performance fixes due to snark pool #13409
• Fix for long async cycles impacting block production performance #13654
• Fix for when a slot to start replaying from doesn’t have a block #13765
• Replayer app fixes: #13406 #13401 #13600

Improvements

• Add a GraphQL query to generate a config file for a hard fork #13787
• Support larger ledgers in IPC communication #11973
• Remove memory stats #12904
• Remove support for bionic and stretch #13657

Complete Changelog since 1.4.0:

1.4.0...1.4.1alpha1

Upgrading & Connecting to Devnet

Debian Packages:

Debian Repository:
First, set up and update the alpha Debian Repository for your platform with the following commands:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mina*.list
echo "deb [trusted=yes] http://packages.o1test.net $(lsb_release -cs) alpha" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mina-alpha.list
sudo apt-get update

Then, install the package(s) that you need:
Mina Daemon: sudo apt-get install -y mina-devnet=1.4.1alpha1-3f42da6
Mina Archive: sudo apt-get install -y mina-archive=1.4.1alpha1-3f42da6
New Mina Archive Schema: create_schema.sql

Docker Images:

Every docker image is built for each of the supported platforms, replace CODENAME in the images below with your choice of focal, buster, or bullseye to select the base docker image.

Mina Daemon: minaprotocol/mina-daemon:1.4.1alpha1-3f42da6-CODENAME-devnet
Mina Archive: minaprotocol/mina-archive:1.4.1alpha1-3f42da6-CODENAME

Sandbox Node: For testing in an isolated, single-node network without snarks

As of 1.2.0, the demo functionality is built into the standard daemon container, via the environment variable RUN_DEMO=true.
Just docker run -it --name mina-demo -e RUN_DEMO=true minaprotocol/mina-daemon:1.4.1alpha1-3f42da6-CODENAME-devnet and go!

Step by Step Guide:

Check out our documentation for complete instructions on using this version to connect to Devnet.
Docker only Make sure to run with --peer-list-url https://storage.googleapis.com/seed-lists/devnet_seeds.txt. or add PEER_LIST_URL=https://storage.googleapis.com/seed-lists/devnet_seeds.txt to your .mina-env.

If you are running the correct version on the correct network DEVNET, mina client status will show:

Chain id:     b6ee40d336f4cc3f33c1cc04dee7618eb8e556664c2b2d82ad4676b512a82418
Git SHA-1:    3f42da6683ed6bc17d00ff3158e2e68ad9df11c3