Mainnet and testnet release v0.4.1

This release fixes a bug in v0.4.0.

Validators should update their nodes to this release in order to continue work properly.

v0.4.1-pre1

fix(evm-bridge): Fix sender error handling.

v0.4.1-pre: Revert "feat(cli): Request airdrop by RPC from CLI"

This reverts commit 5a440e95aff9a488b10ac4a85847545744c4a37c.

v0.4.0-hotfix1

fix(rpc): Native swap transaction format.

Mainnet and testnet release v0.4.0

Update solana fork upstream to version 1.6

Solana Changes:

Migrating Rust programs from v1.5 to v1.6

RPC improvements:

• new getSlotLeaders endpoint
• getBlockTime now returns the block time for any processed block (previously only finalized)
• several endpoints now return confirmed data when specified with the commitment parameter (default finalized): getConfirmedBlock, getConfirmedBlocks, getConfirmedBlocksWithLimit, and getConfirmedTransaction

• getConfirmedBlock response data can now be limited via request args: transaction data may be full, just signatures, or skipped altogether; rewards info may be skipped
• new getSlotLeaders endpoint
• getBlockTime now returns the block time for any processed block (previously only finalized)
• several endpoints now return confirmed data when specified with the commitment parameter (default finalized): getConfirmedBlock, getConfirmedBlocks, getConfirmedBlocksWithLimit, and getConfirmedTransaction

• fixes potential for getConfirmedTransaction to return the wrong slot
• getConfirmedSignaturesForAddress2 now returns confirmed data when specified with the commitment parameter (default finalized)

• fixes potential for getConfirmedTransaction to return the wrong slot
• getConfirmedSignaturesForAddress2 now returns confirmed data when specified with the commitment parameter (default finalized)

• new getInflationReward endpoint
• unprocessed transactions are now filtered out of logs
• correct transaction parsing for uninitialized system/nonce accounts
• PubSub now correctly uses finalized as the default commitment level

• Add getBlockProduction RPC method
• getLeaderSchedule now supports filtered results based on validator identity
• The default commitment of pubsub subscriptions are now correctly set to confirmed instead of finalized
• Add Rust TPU client for sending transactions to the current leader TPU port

• RpcClient now respects the retry-after server response header when getting rate limited
• getBlockProduction RPC method now correctly reports block production in all cases

• Add toggle to getProgramAccounts to enable return of slot context

• Adds last-valid block height to Fees
• Adds block height to block metadata
• Adds rent debit charges to block and transaction metadata
• simulateTransaction can now return accounts modified by the transaction
• Adds flag to simulateTransaction to use most-recent blockhash

• Fix bincode deserialization of BigTable StoredConfirmedBlocks

CLI tools:

• All transaction-generating commands now support --with-memo to add an spl-memo instruction

• velas stake-account and velas vote-account are now wicked fast; use the --with-rewards and --num-rewards-epochs parameters to control amount of reward data
• New velas inflation rewards command allows inspecting rewards for multiple accounts during a particular epoch
• Limit velas stake-history output by default

velas command-line improvements:

• Fix APR calculation and clarify language around APR in velas inflation output
• Add sorting options to velas validators
• Display last vote, skip rate, and root behind distance in velas validators output
• withdraw-stake now supports ALL
• Add --seed argument support to delegate-stake and withdraw-stake commands
• The deprecated pay command is now an alias to transfer
• Implement Bip32 for seed-phrase/passphrase signing

velas-test-validator improvements:

• Add --limit-ledger-size argument
• Upgradable BPF loader is now included by default

velas-validator improvements:

• send votes to next leader's TPU instead of our TPU
• gossip optimizations
• Allow SetUpgradeAuthority instruction in CPI calls
• Vote processing improvements

velas-validator improvements:

• Interrupted snapshot archive downloads are now ignored
• Add --tower argument to specify where tower files are persisted
• velas-validator exit terminates the process more forcefully if necessary
• Gossip optimizations

velascommand-line improvements:

• velas gossip now supports JSON output

velas-ledger-tool improvements:

• Add new repair-roots command
• capitalization command now outputs rent collector and inflation configuration

velas-validator improvements:

• (RPC nodes) Removes bloat for account secondary indexes, and allow index keys to be explicitly excluded/included
• Gossip optimizations
• Moves block-time caching earlier to improve availability of this data
• Expands dashboard information for velas-test-validator

velas command-line improvements:

• velas-keygen recover now supports bip32 HD

velas-validator improvements:

• Gossip optimizations and bug fixes
• Validator progress bars are now rendered when stdout is not a terminal
• Add flag for RPC nodes to scan and verify ledger roots on boot

velas-validator improvements:

• velas-test-validator faucet balance now configurable

• velas-validator: run poh test earlier in startup
• Remove unwrap of metrics client instatiaion

• Expose validator RPC Pubsub subscription limit via CLI flag
• Harden loader instruction checks
• Add metrics for RPC Pubsub subscriptions and RPC health check
• Update validator requirements docs with networking guidance

Other changes:

• Program Test now properly handles duplicate accounts
• Improved handling of duplicate shreds

• Adds loader instruction and cli tooling for closing program buffer accounts

• Velas CLI now supports dumping the transaction message in sign-only mode

• Fixes pesky cli crash when calling velas epoch-info against non-RPC nodes

• Solana Ledger app settings now available via the remote-wallet crate

• Update BPF Toolchain to v1.4

• Program Test now properly handles duplicate accounts

• Improved handling of duplicate shreds

• velas-keygen grind can now output BIP39 mnemonics (see --use-mnemonic)

• Improves ClusterInfo performance

• Write locks on sysvar accounts are automatically lowered to read locks; increases transaction processing batch sizes
• Fixes BPF ELF layout
• velas-validator monitor now displays the max retransmit slot

• Require 90% stake in gossip for restart
• PoH timing improvements and metrics
• wait-for-restart-window improvements

• velas-validator: Add new authorized-voter subcommand to give dynamic control over the validator's ability to vote
• velas-test-validator: Add --faucet-port option
• Bug fix in banking stage
• Update BPF VM

• Gossip pull request optimizations
• Airdrop is now available via RPC
• Improved reliability of System account decoding

Update BPF VM
Erasure coding improvements
Various other bug fixes and minor performance improvements

Upgrade Rust toolchain to 1.51

SDK improvements:

• Improves C sdk
• Adds get_instance_packed_len for variable-size types
• Adds Keccak256 syscall feature

• Changed ledger (RocksDB) cleaning strategy to avoid peaked IOs at every few days and possible stalls
  (NOTE: it'll take a week or two for nodes with existing ledger to transition; also downgrading is supported).
• New minor runtime feature activation for system instruction processor
• Improve usability of ProgramTest
• Bump internal libraries (spl-token, jsonrpc)
• Other stability improvements.

BREAKING CHANGES

• velas transfer will no longer transfer to an unfunded recipient by default to prevent accidental loss of funds. Add the --allow-unfunded-recipient flag to override
• velas stake-account and velas vote-account will only show rewards with the --with-rewards flag added
• velas-faucet args --slice and --per-time-cap now apply to individual IP addresses and recipient account addresses

• velas stake-history output is now limited to 10 entries by default, use --limit to display more

• The default commitment level for PubSub now correctly uses "finalized" as the default commitment level, as documented, instead of "confirmed" (#16596)

• The recently added ask: signer-source with bip32 support (v1.6.7) renamed to prompt:. With no query string, prompt: derives the solana bip44 base key, m/44'/501'

v0.4.0-pre

fix(ci): fix scripts after rebase.

Testnet v0.4 prerelease

v0.4-prerelease

fix(ci): fix scripts after rebase.

Mainnet and Testnet release v0.3.7

• Added feature to publish evm tx in explorer.
• Added feature to allow cross-execution of evm transaciton.

This release contain some bugfixes.

Feature will be activated by developers when more than 95% of validators will use this release.

Please update your validator nodes to the current release.

Mainnet and Testnet release v0.3.6

• Fixed multiply incompatibility with evm structure.
• Implement velas account resolver api.
• Implement basic precompiles for evm.

This release contain feature that improve fork resolving and change evm block structure.

This feature is incompatible with older node version. Feature will be activated by developers when more than 95% of validators will use it.

Please update your validator nodes to the current release.

Mainnet and testnet release v0.3.5

• Fixed a various rpc bugs.
• Added bigtable blockstore for evm blocks.
• Added support of protobuf encoding.