BetaNet Update: 2.9.0

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BetaNet is scheduled to upgrade to version 2.9.0 tomorrow, Wed Aug 4, 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 strict json encoder to correctly encode maps with numeric fields in REST API v2 endpoints
  2. TEAL
    • New Feature
      • cover opcode: “remove top of stack, and place it down the stack such that N elements are above it”
      • 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”
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix extraProgramPages: Looks up the actual application ExtraProgramPages when not updating and uses the stored value
  3. 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
  4. Node
    • Bug Fixes
      • Disable networking on devmode
  5. Metrics
    • Bug Fix
      • Remove Gauge timeout
  6. Tests
    • Enhancements
      • Added test partitioning to long-running tests
      • Add report line about txn pool fullness
      • Add codec_tester
    • Bug Fixes
      • fix TestVoteAggregatorBundles
  7. Other
    • New Features
      • Add builds, build tests, and integrations 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

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: