Velas Mainnet release v0.6.0
In this release we merged all features from solana codebase v1.9
A list of major changes:
- Implemented borsh Serialization format for evm instructions - this will make better foreign language support, and allows future extendability
- Implemented feature that allow pay evm fee in native.
- EVM bridge will proxy all unknown requests to node, and for now using async api (this will increase its resilience and performance).
- (Solana) New native fee management - deprecated Fee governor, new rpc methods to receive fee of tx.
- (Solana) QUIC protocol support for tpu/tvu.
- (Solana) Rpc is splitted to basic (for validators) and full version (for rpc node).
- (Solana) Implemented etcd consensus recovery that allows failover for validator nodes https://docs.solana.com/ru/running-validator/validator-failover.
- Updates of many external dependencies.
Notes for validators:
- Port range are changed and now validator needs more ports.
- If you use your node for retrieving transactions history, please set
--full-rpc-api
flag in order to enable history apis.
On update, make sure that delinquent validators is less than 5%.