Frankendancer Mainnet v0.303.20104

This is a mainnet ready release.

Release Notes

• Fixed an issue where replay thread count might be too low, preventing validator from keeping up on low core count machines.
• Added layout.agave_unified_scheduler_handler_threads configuration option to manually specify number of Agave replay threads.
• Changes to QUIC to improve performance and client compatibility.

Full Changelog: v0.302.20104...v0.303.20104

Frankendancer Mainnet v0.302.20104

This is a mainnet ready release.

Release Notes

• Major changes to QUIC to improve performance and client compatibility.
• Improvements to block packing engine to improve fees and vote inclusion.
• Improvements to PoH component to reduce skip rate.
• Optimized default configuration options for mainnet traffic.
• Various minor tweaks and usability improvements to the GUI.
• Many other small changes and improvements.

Full Changelog: v0.202.20016...v0.302.20104

Frankendancer Mainnet v0.202.20016

This is a mainnet ready release.

Release Notes

• Added a GUI. The GUI is disabled by default, and can be enabled under [tiles.gui] in the configuration file.
• Significant changes to QUIC to improve performance and conformance.
• Improved packing efficiency for improved block rewards.
• Added support for address lookup tables to block production pipeline.
• Many other bug fixes.

Full Changelog: v0.115.20013...v0.202.20016

Frankendancer Testnet v0.115.20013

This is a Testnet release. It is not suitable for Mainnet Beta use.

Release Notes

• Fixed issue joining testnet due to bad development.bench.disable_status_cache check

Full Changelog: v0.114.20013...v0.115.20013

Frankendancer Testnet v0.114.20013

This is a Testnet release. It is not suitable for Mainnet Beta use.

Release Notes

• Update Agave submodule to 2.0.13
• Add more snapshot and index options to the TOML
• By default, only download snapshots from known validators
• Add additional metrics
• Harden shred parsing
• Improve QUIC performance 

Full Changelog: v0.113.20007...v0.114.20013

Frankendancer Mainnet v0.113.20007

This is a mainnet ready release.

Release Notes

• Allow running against mainnet-beta and devnet clusters
• Fixed an issue where QUIC tiles would be busy doing unneeded work
• Fixed an issue where QUIC transactions would get dropped unexpectedly
• Added extra shred parsing validation
• Fix an ARP issue handling permanent ARP entries
• Fixed a minor performance optimization in pack where transactions would not get expired

Full Changelog: v0.112.20007...v0.113.20007

v0.112.20007

This is a Testnet release. It is not suitable for Mainnet Beta use.

Releae Notes

• Agave version is moved to 2.0.7

Full Changelog: v0.111.20005...v0.112.20007

Frankendancer Testnet v0.111.20005

This is a Testnet release. It is not suitable for Mainnet Beta use.

Release Notes

• Fixed a crash in the pack tile

Full Changelog: v0.110.20005...v0.111.20005

Frankendancer Testnet v0.110.20005

This is a Testnet release. It is not suitable for Mainnet Beta use.

Migration Notes

• Moved from solana to agave repository for the submodule. You may need to update the submodules to build.

Release Notes

• Fixed a limitation where produced blocks would not consume all available CUs
• Added support for authorized-voter keypairs
• Restored full Agave validator logs to the Firedancer log file
• Agave version is moved to 2.0.5
• Various QUIC bug fixes and performance improvements
• Various minor security related fixes

Full Changelog: v0.108.11817...v0.110.20005

Frankendancer Testnet v0.108.11817

This is a Testnet release. It is not suitable for Mainnet Beta use.

Migration Notes
The ethtool stage of configure has been renamed to ethtool-channels, and a new ethtool-gro stage has been added which ensures GRO (generic receive offload) is disabled on the network device for proper functioning of XDP.

Release Notes

• Added a [reporting.solana_metrics_config] configuration option, to provide SOLANA_METRICS_CONFIG to the validator
• fdctl configure gained an ethtool-gro stage which disables GRO for the network device
• Fixes an issue where sandboxing would fail on Ubuntu 24.04
• Changed fdctl to exit with success (code 0) when receiving SIGTERM
• Improved handling of automatic user detection when none is specified in configuration file
• Various fixes and performance improvements to the QUIC protocol
• Fix error starting monitor when logging to stdout
• Improved performance of pack occasionally when not leader
• Improve performance when handling votes received via. gossip
• Fixed a rare issue where transactions were not verified correctly
• Made it so --help and --version commands do not require loading configuration or sandboxing

Full Changelog: v0.107.11817...v0.108.11817