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

2024-04-27 - 2024-05-13

High level summary​

Enhancements to the CLI encompass several noteworthy additions. These include the introduction of a new hardfork initiation command, rendering --prev-governance-action-tx-id optional for create-no-confidence actions, addressing scenarios where the committee is defined in the Conway Genesis file, and refining help texts. Additionally, there have been updates to the description fields in governance action files.

Adjust maximum understood protocol version from 9 to 10 when the experimental hardforks flag is enabled. This allows us to bypass Conway's bootstrap phase in testing

Continued work in testing implementation of CIP1694 with cardano-testnet.

cardano-cli​

• Make --prev-governance-action-tx-id and --prev-governance-action-tx-id optional for create-no-confidence command
• Clarify help texts related to JSON and CBOR
• Release 8.23.0.0 + upgrade cardano-api to 8.45.2.0
• Export friendly function that returns ByteString + export buildShelleyAddress
• action create-hardfork cmd + update description fields in all governance action files.
• Export toTxOutInAnyEra
• Enable manual specification of execution units for plutus voting and proposing scripts

cardano-api​

• Release cardano-api-8.45.2.0
• Update estimateBalancedTxBody to account for required deposits

cardano-node​

• Count votes in Propose Constitution test before ratification
• Adjust maximum understood protocol version from 9 to 10

cardano-testnet​

• Refactor: Use KeyPair type for key pairs in cardano-testnet
• Count votes in Propose Constitution test before ratification
• Disable DRep Activity test
• Reorganize cardano-testnet
• cardano-testnet: Add new constitutional committee
• Enable epoch state logging by default
• Refactor ProposeNewConstitutionSPO test to reuse code

docs​

CI & project maintenance​

2024-04-16 - 2024-04-26

High level summary​

8.10.1-pre was released to SanchoNet.

The team continues focused on implementing tests for the Conway era on the cardano-node repository. This sprint the team made various improvements to CI pipelines on cardano-cli.

• Cardano-cli: implemented build-estimate to facilitate automatic transaction balancing without access to a live node; and added minFeeRefScriptCostPerByte as an option to create-protocol-parameters-update command.

cardano-node​

• version bumps for 8.10.1-pre
• Rename new 'can_forge_blocks' metric to 'forging_enabled'

cardano-cli​

• add minFeeRefScriptCostPerByte to create-protocol-param-update + bump cardano-api
• Introduce new cardano-cli latest transaction build-estimate command
• Fix misunderstanding in generated README
• Better use of golden files in CI

cardano-api​

• cardano-api 8.45.1.0
• adding MinFeeRefScriptCostPerByte to Conway PParams

cardano-testnet​

• Use random port number when starting cardano-testnet

docs​

CI & project maintenance​

2024-04-01 - 2024-04-15

High level summary​

Adding support for script based committee members certificates: authorization and resignation. It is now possible to convert extended signing Drep and Committee keys to a Shelley-format key. Improvements to Conway era tests. Use threshold instead of quorum for committee members.

cardano-cli​

• Provide a default value for calculate-min-fee --reference-script-size
• Improvements to governance tests
• Add transaction metadata golden test
• key non-extended-key: make pattern matches exhaustive, so that we are notified of possible extensions
• foldSomeAddressVerificationKey->mapSomeAddressVerificationKey
• Enable both --cold-script-file and --cold-script-hash for committee auth and resig commands
• Fix inversion in --include-stake parser + print "stake" field even when there is no stake (do not hide stake absence)
• Release cardano-cli-8.22.0.0
• Fix broken golden tests
• Fix protocol params order for minFeeA and minFeeB
• convert-cardano-address-key: support DRep and CC keys
• updating cli to use threshold instead of quorum for constitutional co…

cardano-api​

• Sort metadata keys for no-schema json for canonical CBOR
• Add support for CC keys in the SomeAddressVerificationKey type
• Implement estimateBalancedTxBody and estimateOrCalculateBalancedTxBody
• Release cardano-api-8.44.0.0
• LedgerState.hs improvements

cardano-testnet​

• Updated copyright
• Set NumThreads to 1 in cardano-testnet-test
• Remove manual DRep registration from InfoAction test
• DRep deposits test
• Add tx fee check to hprop_transaction
• cardano-testnet: Avoid rewrite of sgMaxLovelaceSupply

docs​

CI & project maintenance​

2024-03-16 - 2024-03-30

High level summary​

Adding support for script based committee and dreps. This includes queries and using script as arguments instead of keys on various command.

cardano-cli​

• Fix issues in MonadWarning Haddock
• Follow-ups of merged PRs
• Comments and indentation
• Throw an error on identical action-ids in votes of one voter
• Add --drep-script-hash parameter to conway governance drep retirement-certificate
• Update index-state and set cardano-git-rev ^>= 0.2.2
• Update index-state and set cardano-git-rev ^>= 0.2.2
• drep: registration-certificate, update-certificate: test anchors URLs of length > 64 and <= 128
• Update ouroboros-consensus-cardano-0.14.2
• proposal: disambiguate binary data from text data
• Release cardano-cli-8.21.0.0
• Support querying drep-state by script hash
• vote create: support DRep and CC script hash
• Display redeemers in transaction view
• Add Plutus script hash support in update-committee, overnance committee create-cold-key-resignation-certificate and query committee-state commands.
• Add semaphore for vote view JSON test cases
• verification-key: support DRep keys as well as committee keys, extended or not

cardano-api​

• Replace unsafeMergeVotingProcedures by mergeVotingProcedures
• Undeprecate evaluateTransactionFee
• New version cardano-api-8.43.0.0
• Release cardano-api-8.42.0.0
• Tidy up "New calculateMinTxFee function"
• Add support for script-based CC members
• Bump ouroboros-consensus-diffusion

cardano-testnet​

• Bump cardano-api to 8.39.3.0 and ouroboros-* and ekg-forward as a consequence
• testnet: fix that custom genesis files were not passed to create-testnet-data

docs​

CI & project maintenance​