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@mvines mvines released this 10 Feb 03:52
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This is a Testnet release. It is not recommended for Mainnet Beta

Changes

  • Add Inflation Candidate Nominations
  • Staking documentation improvements
  • Speed up snapshot loading during validator startup
  • solana-validator stability fixes
  • Add solana-validator init subcommand to easily initialize a new ledger directory
  • solana-program-test now supports moving to new slot during test execution
  • Improve runtime error log messages
  • solana cli bug fixes and minor improvements to existing commands
  • solana-install now purges older releases from its cache
  • solana-ledger-tool create-snapshot now works again
  • Support for SPL Memo v3
  • solana-ledger-tool verify now supports enabling the BPF JIT and disabling accounts caching
  • solana-test-validator now uses the BPF JIT by default
  • Gossip optimizations
  • Use spl-token-mint secondary index for relevant getProgramAccounts JSON RPC requests
  • Extend max-allowable-drift to accommodate slow blocks during cluster time adjustments

NOTE: as of this release, nodes running with --enable-rpc-transaction-history will no longer store transaction logs and CPI inner-instructions by default. To include this metadata in blockstore storage, also include the --enable-cpi-and-log-storage flag

Known Isssues

  • Under certain program conditions the BPF JIT can produce divergent behaviour from the BPF interpreter. Avoid using the --bpf-jit validator flag on Testnet with this release.