Go-Algorand 3.17.0 has been released to MainNet and TestNet today, Wed Aug 9th, 10:30AM EDT (14:30 UTC). This release does not contain a consensus upgrade
Overview
Go-algorand 3.17.0 is a maintenance release that fixes some minor issues, cleans up stale code, upgrades the Algod client to Go version 1.20
, and introduces enhancements such as backup DNS bootstrap support and initial PC trace support.
What’s New
- Network Resiliency: Algod now supports multiple DNS providers for bootstrapping onto the network increasing network resiliency against DNS failures.
- Go-lang upgrades: go-algorand now requires Go version
1.20
, a change that improves the security and performance of internal Algod functionality. - Agreement: We have externalized our go-algorand’s implementation of its cryptographic sortition to better manage its dependencies and make it usable as a separate library (see here for implementation details).
- Container: Multi-algod container setup is now supported. This is great for those who want to set up a private network with networking enabled as well as adding peers to a non-standard relay node.
- Improved error handling: Algod will now return an error if it is unable to begin fast catchup providing a better user experience when trying to start a node.
- Smart Contract Debugging: simulate PC-based execution trace has been introduced including both stack and scratch slot changes. This is one of the final building blocks towards the full debugger experience.
Changelog
New Features
- Algod: Leverage 2 SRV record providers for resolving relay addresses w/ de-duplication. (#5087)
- Algod: Simulate endpoint scratch-change exposure (#5563)
- Algod: Simulate endpoint stack-change exposure (#5440)
- Algod: Simulation PC exposure for App approval/clear-state transaction (#5360)
Enhancements
- API: Allow DELETE calls (#5515)
- AVM: Increase coverage by deleting a dead function and adding limit tests (#5422)
- AVM: Some error cleanup, and added coverage (#5441)
- Algocfg: Add EnableTxnEvalTracer to algocfg development profile. (#5481)
- Algocfg: Remove block validation override from participation profile. (#5502)
- Algod: Add README file to state proof package (#5386)
- Block-generator: conduit performance benchmark scenarios. (#5532)
- Blockserver: Memory counter for http block requests (#5428)
- Build: Disable goexperiments in our builds due to issue present in Go 1.20.5 (#5484)
- Build: Golang 1.20 upgrade. (#5462)
- Build: Split nightly job into its own workflow. Remove ARM64 platform builds from our triggered/on commit builds. (#5485)
- Build: remove boost dependency and internal sortition package (#5459)
- Build: remove sqlite from release configurations (#5562)
- Build: update falcon to v0.1.0 for new CFLAGS (#5460)
- Catchpoint: use read connection for data retrieval for spver hash calculation (#5592)
- Catchup: Add HEAD request to catchpoint service start (#5393)
- Catchup: Catchup variable reuse (#5551)
- Chore: Small cleanups for clarity (#5526)
- Chore: Use exp/slices and exp/maps to simplify some code (#5479)
- Chore: Use strings.Cut for clarity (#5474)
- Chore: remove a redundant argument to maintain single source of truth (#5530)
- Chore: use string builder instead of string concatenation in catchup service (#5572)
- Ci: Don't run tests during benchmark (#5491)
- Cicd: Update docker containers to newer versions (#5529)
- Cicd: Update ubuntu circleci image and orbs (#5564)
- Circleci: Update macos xcode versions (#5590)
- Cleanup: Remove indexer v1 from codebase (#5477)
- Cli: clarify program source flag description (#5571)
- Config: make Tx dedupe cache maxSize configurable (#5419)
- Config: update MaxCatchpointDownloadDuration to 12h (#5503)
- Docker: Additional private network options and container tweaks. (#5525)
- Encoding: Update go-codec version. (#5471)
- Genesis: add GenesisAccountData type for use in GenesisAllocation (#5463)
- Goal: support simulate scratch in exec trace (#5589)
- Lint: enable govet shadow linter and resolve linter warnings (#5261)
- Lint: enable staticcheck for test code and fix issues (#5401)
- Metrics: Add LedgerDBRound gauge (#5456)
- Network: Limit message length based on Tag (#5388)
- Network: discard unrequested or stale block messages (#5431)
- Network: improve MsgOfInterest message handling (#5476)
- Network: peer selector expansion and PeersPhonebookArchivalNodes (#5385)
- Network: ws block byte limiter (#5472)
- Perf Tests: use metrics for memory usage charts (#5565)
- Runtime: Add delete-if-exists check for the no longer used indexer.sqlite file… (#5531)
- Sortition: use external sortition package (#5429)
- Tests: Fix catchpoint catchup tests to use relay for catchup (#5507)
- Tests: Get rapid into the codebase (#5437)
- Tests: Replace timer with counter loop in TestNodeTxHandlerRestart (#5533)
- Tools: Block Generator Apps. Part 2: boxes (#5478)
- Tools: Block-generator Applications. Part 1: create (#5450)
- Tools: EvalDelta and ConsensusParams x-repo type checks (#5381)
- Tools: Reorganize block generator scripts. (#5582)
- Tools: let catchpointdump to calculate and print data hashes (#5584)
- Tools: prepare block-generator for configuring apps (#5443)
- Tools: replace upload_metrics (#5470)
- Tools: txn replayer (#5420)
Bugfixes
- Bugfix: ensure blockservice callbacks are not nil (#5518)
- Ci: don't use deprecated set-output in github actions (#5453)
- Docker: Start kmd in the background. (#5514)
- Docker: fix slow docker container start up (#5513)
- Docs: Fix broken markdown in follower documentation. (#5585)
- Fix: goal clerk rawsend print pending round rather than ptr to round (#5499)
- Flake: TestLedgerContinuesOnVotersCallbackFailure (#5454)
- Follower: Use Buffered syncNow channel to correctly trigger sync in private networks (#5516)
- Goal: account info with deleted asset suppress error and better output (#5504)
- Ledger: fix catchpoint pending hashes locking (#5534)
- Ledger: move MakeCatchpointReader back to the Reader interface (#5583)
- Ledger: use single SP verification hash/data query for catchpoint tracking & generation (#5579)
- Netgoal: fix large db generation (#5445)
- Tests: fix rawsend.sh nightly test failure (#5519)
- Tests: reenable TestVotersReloadFromDiskPassRecoveryPeriod (#5496)
- Tools: block generator inner transactions (#5506)
- Tools: bugfix block-generator to handle conduit's Init block requests (#5449)
- Tracer: Default to ledger tracer when starting new evaluator (#5521)
Protocol Upgrade
This release does not contain a protocol upgrade.