BetaNet Update: 3.2.0

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BetaNet is scheduled to upgrade to version 3.2.0, today, Wed Nov 24, 2021, by EOD. 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

Enhancements to Ledger and Smart Contract functionality.

Changelog

  1. Agreement

    • Bugfix
      • Handle pseudo node enqueueing failures (#2741)

  2. Algod

    • BugFix
      • Update sys to resolve golang 1.17 local build crash (#3157)
    • Enhancement
      • Move Local structure definition to localTemplate (#3161)
      • Fix typo in batchverifier.go (#3176)
      • Update go mod/sum to include updated algorand/websocket (#3221)

  3. Catchup

    • Bugfix
      • Ignore benign evaluator failures (#3135)
    • Enhancement
      • Avoid requesting blocks that aren’t needed by the ledger (#3089)

  4. Consensus

    • BugFix
      • Fix panic on closing nil db (#3175)
    • Enhancement
      • Added Participation Key Expiration Check (#2924)
      • Use LookupAgreement in AlgorandFullNode.VotingKeys() (#3050)
      • Participation Key Interface (#3164)
      • Make proposal assembly time configurable (#3165)

  5. DevOps

    • Bugfix
      • Fix CircleCI deploy for Betanet and Stablenet (#3077)
    • Enhancement
      • Changing Circleci workflow name (#2887)
      • Increase machine size to large and use consistent parallelism for Circleci nightly testing (#3016)
      • Removing integration tests from Travis steps (#3023)
      • Integrate Buildpulse to check release checksums (#3051)
      • Move deploy from TravisCI to CircleCI (#3075)
      • Optimize Circleci machine sizes and parallelism (#3095)
      • Disabling re-building of binaries in Circleci during upload stage (#3112)
      • Make heapwatch.py port configurable (#3143)
      • Remove all but windows builds from Travis (#3154)
      • Add c5d.4xlarge and c5d.18xlarge us-east-2 to hosttemplates.json (#3160)
      • Use large VMs for integration tests (#3201)

  6. go-algorand

    • Merge with master
      • Re-merge go-algorand 3.1.3-beta (#3230)

  7. Goal

    • New Feature
      • Add ABI support to goal (#3088)

  8. Indexer

    • Enhancement
      • Allow getting versions for any package. (#2935)

  9. Ledger

    • New Feature
      • Implement LookupAgreement (#3046)
    • Bugfix
      • Fix regression in transaction pool (#3029)
      • Fix regression in TestReproducibleCatchpointLabels (#3037)
      • Refactor fix catchpoint tracker (#3214)
      • Enhancement
        • Make fields in ledger.Creatable public (#3125)
        • Refactor evaluator into an internal package (#2983)
        • Move accountdb schema migration to trackerdb.go (#2984)
        • Allow all trackers committing into DB (#3014)
        • Preload resources argument in EvalForIndexer (#3019)
        • Move StartEvaluator parameters into a parameters object (#3030)
        • Create catchpoint tracker (#3085)
        • Add err to solicitedAsyncTxHandler.loop log message (#3123)
        • Enable totals calculation in eval for indexer (#3124)
        • Do final validation in endOfBlock() (#3132)
        • Refactor maxPaysetHint → avarageEncodedTxnSizeHint (#3162)
        • roundCowBase: use lookup() instead of going to ledger directly (#3173)

  10. Network

    • Bugfix
      • Fix missing TX registration (#3080)
      • Update the websocket library (#3131)
    • Enhancement
      • Add initial support for latency tracking (#3028)

  11. REST API

    • BugFix
      • Removed Register handler (#3130)
    • Enhancement
      • Fix global-state-schema key name in REST API spec (#2972)

  12. Teal

    • New Feature
      • Refactor ABI encoding feature (#3055)
    • Bugfix
      • Fixed off-by-one error in the assembler’s typeDig() (#3056)
      • Use associated group index instead of global (#3111)
      • Trim whitespaces before/after each line of TEAL code (#3128)
    • Documentation
      • Clarify get_ex opcode docs (#3208)
    • Enhancement
      • Make bytes and pushbytes check their immediate better (and similarly) (#3087)
      • Support creation of inner transaction groups (#3009)
      • Hide unexposed fields (#3119)
      • Report assembly error strings for compile API endpoint (#3190)
      • Add Goal ABI method outfile checking (#3204)

  13. Testing

    • Bugfix
      • Fix potential race in TrxSync TestBasicCatchpointCatchup test (#3033)
      • Fix failure in TestAccountInformationV2 (#3049)
      • Fix bug in TestRekeyUpgrade (#3026)
    • Enhancement
      • Disable the participation key refresh on the TestPartitionHalfOffline test (#3017)
      • Adjust the application of dontReportFailures in syncTest (#3018)
      • Make the TestMultiThreaded run at a constant time (#3035)
      • Close handle in importRootKeys (#3039)
      • Adjust TenNodesDistributedMultiWallet.json to use smaller key dilution (#3041)
      • Remove redundant checking from TestParticipationAccountsExpirationFuture (#3043)
      • Remove duplicate testing of accounts totals (#3053)
      • Modify TestAccountInformationV2 to wait for transaction (#3098)
      • Add unit test to avoid new string fields (#3101)
      • Refactor ledger internal tests (#3149)

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: