Cardano Node 1.19.1
This release delivers minor improvements to the performance of the node, fixes KES period reporting for newly generated KES keys, and disables RDRAND for seed generation.
Deployed on the testnet on 2 September 2020.
Deployed on the mainnet on 4 September 2020.
Improvements
- Lowered memory usage (#2532, #2533)
- Made minor performance improvements (#1790, #1798)
- Defaulted cabal scripts to build with
RDRANDdisabled (#1787) - Added validation of transaction metadata (#1432, #1677)
- Adjusted the transaction metadata JSON schema to be fully recursive (#1735)
- Updated documentation (#1718, #1736, #1740, #1741, #1750, #1752, #1757, #1763, #1764, #1770)
Resolved issues
- Fixed the reporting of the metrics for the opcert/KES status (#1742, #2529)
- Fixed the testnet vs mainnet argument for the genesis create command in CLI (#1761)
- Fixed the
--treasuryflag for MIR cert creation (#1780) - Fixed the output rendering in the command to hash genesis files (#1713, #1767)
- Fixed minor issue to ensure compliance with CIP5 for common bech32 prefixes (#1781)
- Fixed bugs related to the ledger view history (#1935, #2506, #2559, #2562, #2546)
Known Issues
- #1734 ErrorPolicyUnhandledApplicationException may be observed when running cli commands on windows
- Build documentation could be improved
- https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/README.rst - extension changed and old references to the README.md do not work, e.g. in cardano-cli README.md
- See GitHub Issues for further issues that have been reported
Documentation
- Cardano Node documentation
- Cardano CLI
- Internal API docs for ledger, consensus and network
- Making a Shelley blockchain from scratch
- Cardano tutorials
Platforms
- Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS; Mint 19.3, 20; Debian 10.3)
- Windows 8.1, 10 64 bit
- MacOS 10.13, 10.14, 10.15
- Docker image
Minimum System Requirements
- An Intel or AMD x86 processor with two or more cores, at 1.6GHz or faster (2GHz or faster for a stake pool or relay)
- 4GB of RAM (8GB for a relay or stake pool)
- 10GB of free storage (20GB for a stake pool)
Sign off
| Role | Approval |
|---|---|
| Technical Lead | ✔️ |
| QA Engineer | ✔️ |
| Ops | ✔️ |
| Release Manager | ✔️ |