Cortina.12 - Dual-Alpha Support

This version is backwards compatible to v1.10.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is unchanged at 28 and compatible with versions v1.10.9 - v1.10.11.

APIs

• Added avalanche_{chainID}_total_weight metric
• Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_validators metric
• Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_processing_ancestor_fetches_failed metric
• Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_processing_ancestor_fetches_dropped metric
• Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_processing_ancestor_fetches_succeeded metric
• Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_processing_ancestor_fetches_unneeded metric
• Added avalanche_{chainID}_num_missing_accepted_blocks metric
• Added avalanche_{chainID}_selected_vote_index_count metric
• Added avalanche_{chainID}_selected_vote_index_sum metric

Configs

• Added --snow-preference-quorum-size flag
• Added --snow-confidence-quorum-size flag
• Added "fx-owner-cache-size" to the P-chain config

Fixes

• Fixed concurrent node shutdown and chain creation race
• Updated http2 implementation to patch CVE-2023-39325
• Exited network.dial early to avoid goroutine leak when shutting down
• Reduced log level of "failed to send peer list for handshake" messages from ERROR to DEBUG
• Reduced log level of "state pruning failed" messages from ERROR to WARN

What's Changed

• Add last accepted height to the snowman interface by @StephenButtolph in #2091
• Delete kurtosis CI jobs by @marun in #2068
• e2e: Ensure all Issue* calls use the default context by @marun in #2069
• Remove Finalized from the consensus interface by @StephenButtolph in #2093
• Remove embedding of verify.Verifiable in FxCredential by @dhrubabasu in #2089
• Clarify decidable interface simple default parameter tests by @gyuho in #2094
• snow/consensus/snowman/poll: remove "unused" no early term poller by @gyuho in #2095
• Cleanup .golangci.yml by @dhrubabasu in #2097
• Refactor ancestor.Tree by @StephenButtolph in #2099
• Update AMI runner image and instance type by @charlie-ava in #1939
• Add tagalign linter by @dhrubabasu in #2084
• Fix flaky BuildBlockIsIdempotent test by @StephenButtolph in #2101
• Make network.dial honor context cancellation. by @danlaine in #2061
• Add preference lookups by height to the consensus interface by @StephenButtolph in #2092
• Remove duplicate pullQuery method by @StephenButtolph in #2103
• Add additional validator set metrics by @aaronbuchwald in #2051
• Remove snowball.Initialize and snowball.Factory by @danlaine in #2104
• Remove initialize functions from the snowball package by @danlaine in #2105
• Remove genesis.State by @joshua-kim in #2112
• add SetSubnetOwner to Chain interface by @dhrubabasu in #2031
• Move vote bubbling before poll termination by @StephenButtolph in #2100
• testing: Switch upgrade test to testnet fixture by @marun in #1887
• Reduce archivedb key lengths by 1 byte by @StephenButtolph in #2113
• Cleanup uptime manager constructor by @abi87 in #2118
• MerkleDB Compact Path Bytes by @dboehm-avalabs in #2010
• MerkleDB Path changes cleanup by @dboehm-avalabs in #2120
• Fix consensus engine interface comments by @StephenButtolph in #2115
• Standardize consensus variable names in tests by @StephenButtolph in #2129
• Prevent bytesNeeded overflow by @StephenButtolph in #2130
• Migrate xsvm from github.com/ava-labs/xsvm by @marun in #2045
• Fix handling of wg in the networking dial test by @StephenButtolph in #2132
• Update go.mod and add update check by @StephenButtolph in #2133
• Reduce log level of failing to send a peerList message by @StephenButtolph in #2134
• RPCChainVM fail-fast health RPCs by @hexfusion in #2123
• MerkleDB allow warming node cache by @dboehm-avalabs in #2128
• Add vote bubbling metrics by @StephenButtolph in #2138
• Reduce log level of an error during Prune by @StephenButtolph in #2141
• Exit chain creation routine before shutting down chain router by @StephenButtolph in #2140
• Merkle db fix type cast bug by @dboehm-avalabs in #2142
• Add Warp Payload Types by @nytzuga in #2116
• Add height voting for chits by @StephenButtolph in #2102
• Add Heap Queue by @joshua-kim in #2135
• Add additional payload.Hash examples by @StephenButtolph in #2145
• Split Alpha into AlphaPreference and AlphaConfidence by @StephenButtolph in #2125

Full Changelog: v1.10.11...v1.10.12