2024-05-13 - 2024-06-05

High level summary

CARDANO NODE

• In order to avoid an accidental hardfork, when "ConwayGenesisFile" is not set in the node configuration file, by default the node can only understand protocol version 8 (Babbage era).

CARDANO CLI

• query protocol-parameters now shows Conway era protocol parameters when in Conway.
• transaction view now shows proposales and votes inside a transaction body.
• Release of cardano-cli 8.23.1.0
• We now publish pre-compiled binaries of each release together with the corresponding SHA256Sum.

CARDANO-API

• Release of 8.46.0.0

Details

cardano-cli

• New debug log-epoch-state command
• transaction view: show proposals and votes
• Make --fee mandatory in transaction build-raw
• Release 8.23.1.0 (for node-8.11.0)
• query protocol-parameters: use ledger JSON encoding, not API one

cardano-api

• Release cardano-api-8.46.0.0
  • Updated cardano-ledger, ouroboros-consensus and plutus packages.
  • Added FailT dependency.
  • Updated conwayGenesisDefaults and alonzoGenesisDefaults.
  • Changed CostModel to use Int64 instead of Integer.
  • Fixed ProtocolParameters golden test to account for the Integer -> Int64 change in the CostModel. (breaking, test) PR 523

cardano-node

• Enforce protocol version 8 if "ConwayGenesisFile" is not set in node configuration

cardano-testnet

• Add tallying of votes to the "Motion of no confidence" test
• Simplify epoch state diff logging
• Fix GHC 9.8 build
• Use TestWatchdog from hedgehog-extras.
• Improve NewEpochState logging
• hlint: fix cardano-testnet-test
• Use waiting for blocks instead epochs, when waiting for new UTXOs
• Refactor: Reorganize testnet CLI functions