Frankendancer Testnet v0.406.20113

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

Release Notes

• Relaxed overstrict CPU offline/online toggling on hyperthreaded CPUs, which will now just issue warnings.
• Various minor changes to block packer to increase priority fees and block fullness.

Full Changelog: v0.404.20113...v0.406.20113

Frankendancer Testnet v0.404.20113

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

Release Notes

• Prevent crashing for an occasional assertion that was tripping (again)

Full Changelog: v0.403.20113...v0.404.20113

Frankendancer Testnet v0.403.20113

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

Release Notes

• Added additional diagnostics, and prevent crashing for an occasional assertion that was tripping

Full Changelog: v0.402.20113...v0.403.20113

Frankendancer Testnet v0.402.20113

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

Release Notes

• Fixed an issue with connecting to bundle server on Ubuntu 24.

Full Changelog: v0.401.20113...v0.402.20113

Frankendancer Testnet v0.401.20113

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

Release Notes

• Added fdctl set-identity command. You must provide the configuration file with --config <toml>.
• Added support for bundle providers. See [tiles.bundle] in the configuration file for details.
• auto layout is made aware of hyper-threaded CPUs and will try to arrange tiles with sympathy for this configuration.
• Added hyperthreads stage to fdctl configure. This stage will disable hyperthread pairs of performance critical tiles to ensure on-time leader slots.
• Improvements to the GUI including better mobile rendering, support for multiple filters on the leader schedule, and showing the commit hash.
• Networking subsystem rewritten from scratch for performance, security, correctness, and observability.
• Various performance improvements and bug fixes to QUIC.

Full Changelog: v0.305.20111...v0.401.20113

Frankendancer Mainnet v0.305.20111

This is a mainnet ready release.

Release Notes

• Various fixes and improvements to the GUI
• Added snapshots.enabled configuration option to allow manually disabling snapshot creation
• Improvements to TPU pipeline to improve performance under certain types of heavy load

Full Changelog: v0.304.20106...v0.305.20111

Frankendancer Mainnet v0.304.20106

This is a mainnet ready release.

Release Notes

• Allow passing in a public key for the vote account
• Upgrade the Agave submodule to v2.1.6
• Fix an issue where the GUI would close connections with long headers

Full Changelog: v0.303.20104...v0.304.20106

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