Release v2023-04-14 · cardano-foundation/cardano-wallet

Changes

The listStakePools endpoint no longer returns null values for the metadata and retirement fields if no data is available. Instead, if no data is available, these fields are simply omitted from the JSON response. This fixes a regression introduced in the v2022-12-14 release. (ADP-2523, PR 3675)
When the wallet decodes a transaction that includes native scripts (that act as witnesses and contain key hashes):
- If the key hash belongs to the wallet (i.e., it is an "internal" hash), the wallet will mark these as belonging to the wallet and use an appropriate bech32 prefix in the JSON representation:
  - policy_vkh
  - addr_shared_vkh
  - stake_shared_vkh
- If the key hash does not belong to the wallet (i.e., it is an "external" hash), the wallet will represent these hashes with hexadecimal values, and not include a bech32 prefix in the JSON representation.

This brings the wallet into compliance with CIP-0005 and CIP-1855.

The following endpoints are affected:

Incomplete shared wallet is no longer silently syncing in background (ADP-2432, PR 3676)
Tx history not available after receiving token from minting transaction made using reference script (ADP-2666)
Unexpected "balance_tx_underestimated_fee" on the preprod Shelley/Shared wallet (ADP-2646)

⚠️ When starting an updated cardano-wallet with an old database file, all transactions that had Pending or Expired status will be forgotten about, so that the wallet will not attempt to re-submit these transactions. (Note that these transactions can still reappear with InLedger status). This is due to an internal database migration. While inconvenient, user impact should be small, as:
- this database migration will be performed only once (during the first startup of the updated wallet); and
- most Pending transactions will have expired naturally before the user opens their wallet again.

⚠️ When starting an updated cardano-wallet with an old database file, this database file will be migrated and can no longer be used with old versions of cardano-wallet. If you wish to revert to an old version of the software, please make a backup of the database file, or you will have to restore your wallets from scratch. (ADP-2367, PR 3717)
The transaction history is now stored on-disk again, reducing RAM usage at the expense of query time. (ADP-2780, PR 3763; ADP-2871, PR 3828)
Fees are now reported for all transactions, both incoming and outgoing, in the transaction history. Previously, fees were only reported on outgoing transactions. However, please note that for transactions made during the Byron era, the fee will still be reported as 0. (ADP-2840)

User documentation for shared wallets. (ADP-2457)
New endpoints for shared wallets (ADP-2636):
- getUTxOsStatisticsShared
- getSharedWalletUtxoSnapshot
Add an optional limit max_count to the number of transactions returned by GET /transactions endpoint. This is useful to limit the resource consumption of this endpoint for large wallets. (ADP-2788, PR 3772)

Removed all references to the stack build tool from user documentation, replacing these references with equivalent instructions to build with cabal (and nix) instead. (ADP-2102, PR 3671)
Removed Blockfrost-related CLI options from the cardano-wallet executable, and all support for Blockfrost from Cardano Wallet. (ADP-2272, PR 3668)

error "restoreBlocks: given chain isn't a valid continuation" when quickly creating new wallets after startup (ADP-1148)
Occasional invalid transaction error (MaxTxSizeUTxO) on wallets with big amounts of assets (ADP-1052)
High memory usage observed in SPO testnet wallet (ADP-776)
Rare SQLite3 constraint errors when making transactions (ADP-773)
On really large wallets, postTransaction is slow and sometimes returns transaction_is_too_big (ADP-772)
Multi-addresses transactions sometimes result in an internal server error. (ADP-571)

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API Documentation	CLI Manual	Docker Manual

Install cardano-node@1.35.4.
Download the provided cardano-wallet for your platform, and uncompress it in a directory that is on your $PATH, e.g. /usr/local/bin. Or %PATH% on Windows.
Start cardano-wallet --help and see available parameters.

Pull from DockerHub and verify the version matches 2023.4.14.

$ docker pull inputoutput/cardano-wallet:2023.4.14
$ docker run --rm inputoutput/cardano-wallet:2023.4.14 version

Name	Role	Approval
Yura Lazarev @Unisay	Software Engineer	✔️
Piotr Stachyra @piotr-iohk	QA Engineer	✔️
Laurence Jenkins @LaurenceIO	Release Manager	✔️