BetaNet Update: 2.10.0

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BetaNet is scheduled to upgrade to version 2.10.0 tomorrow, Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:30AM ET (2:30PM UTC). This release does not contain a consensus upgrade.

If you have your node set to automatic updates, you don’t need to do anything. It will automatically update to the newer version whenever that becomes available.

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Highlights

This is a maintenance release focused around many test improvements and other optimizations.

Changes

  1. REST API
  • Bug Fix
    • Use the strict json encoder to correctly encode maps with numeric fields in REST API v2 endpoints.
    • Fix installation of oapi-codegen.
  1. TEAL
  • New Feature
    • vFuture: cover opcode: “remove top of stack, and place it down the stack such that N elements are above it”
    • vFuture: uncover opcode: “remove the value at depth N in the stack and shift above items down so the Nth deep value is on top of the stack”
    • vFuture: added op code log for logging.
  • Tests
    • Extend global and txn field tests for all TEAL versions and protocols.
    • Create a quine to test app_params_get AppApprovalProgram
  1. Ledger
  • Enhancements
    • Replace Balances.PutWithCreatable() to new functions that notify the COW that a creatable was created or deleted.
    • Add a public Eval() function for indexer.
    • Added support for batch verification of signatures.
    • Record modified local creatable states in state delta.
    • Add individual program length checks into updateApplication
    • Return an error in EncodeSignedTxn() and DecodeSignedTxn() if consensus protocol is unknown.
    • Add additional functions to improve type tracking of AVM stack manipulation opcodes.
    • Pool app call budget for group transactions.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Consensus upgrade for ExtraProgramPages fix.
  1. Node
  • Bug Fixes
    • Disable networking on devmode
  1. Metrics
  • Bug Fix
    • Remove Gauge timeout
  1. Goal
  • Bug Fix
    • Use the appIdx instead of txn app id when calling goal app create.
  1. Other
  • New Features
    • Add builds, build tests, and integration tests in CircleCI.
  • Enhancements
    • Update our feature_request.md template for new Issues
    • Enable ineffassign linter
    • Remove old msgp 1.1.47 code from go.mod/go.sum
    • Implement partitiontest_linter
    • Update systemd-steup.sh to install system.json
    • Generate Slack notifications for rel/nightly failures
    • Added golangci-lint action.
    • Fix a go lint issue.
    • Renamed no_gimme env var to skip_go_installation
    • Consolidate testing options SKIP_E2E_SUBS and E2E_SUBS_ONLY.
    • Update the Circle CI branch filters to run “nightly”/longer tests over “rel/” and “hotfix/” branches.
  • Tools
    • Replace KMD usage in the pingpong utility with direct signing.

Protocol Upgrade

This release does not contain a protocol upgrade.

Additional Resources

To update to the current version of BetaNet, you can run the following goal command:

./update.sh -c beta -i -d <betanet-data-directory> -n

If you haven’t already done so, we also advise setting up a CRON job to automatically update your algorand networks. If you haven’t done this for BetaNet, you can follow the instructions here: