AlephNode Release 13.0

This is a major release.

Testnet deployment

Status : deployed on 22.02.2024
Node upgrade priority: critical

Mainnet deployment

Status : pending
Node upgrade priority: critical

Changelog

• Pruning enabled by default (tutorials for: aleph-node-runner building from source)
• Addition of pallet Proxy
• Substrate dependencies (including all pallets) upgraded from version polkadot-v1.0.0 to polkadot-v1.2.0 (significant API changes! See below)
• New AlephBFT version with better resilience to crashes and new finality protocol
• New normal sync mechanism:
  • Periodic request
  • Remove legacy block requests
  • Forest memory limitations
  • New metrics

API changes

• Pallet Balances changes:
  • Extrinsics:
    • [BREAKING]transfer removed
    • [BREAKING]set_balance_deprecated removed
  • Storage:
    • Holds return type changed
  • Constants:
    • MaxHolds changed from 0 to 2
    • MaxReserves changed from 0 to 50
• Pallet Staking changes:
  • Constants
    • [BREAKING]MaxNominations removed
• Pallet Contracts changes:
  • Storage:
    • ContractInfoOf return type changed
  • Constants:
    • Changed Schedule - updated call weights
    • New: CodeHashLockupDepositPercent
    • New: Environment
    • New: MaxDelegateDependencies
    • Changed: MaxCodeLen from 131072 to 262144

Docker image

public.ecr.aws/p6e8q1z1/aleph-node:r-13.0

Runtime migrations

• Contracts: v12 -> v15