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Node

Node is a component of the blockchain infrastructure that interacts with the Midnight network to perform tasks such as syncing, validating transactions, and maintaining the chain state.

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14 January 2025

Midnight 0.8.0-rc4 Release Notes​

This pre-release focuses on improvements in monitoring, benchmarking, key management, and testnet configurations, ensuring stability and performance enhancements.

New Features​

  • Integrated Prometheus metrics for ledger monitoring and insights.
  • Introduced benchmarks for midnight-pallet to measure and track performance.
  • Added governance keys for qanet in the res directory.
  • Implemented an automated tool for creating release notes.
  • Added support for testnet-02.

Changes​

  • Ledger upgraded to 3.0.5 and further to 3.0.6.
  • Transaction generator has an enhanced generate-contract-calls functionality to use a random nonce by default.
  • Enabled both new and legacy key derivation methods across all networks, excluding testnet.
  • Updated key derivation for qanet and local genesis files.
  • Rust compiler upgraded from version 1.82 to 1.83.
  • Set the default trie cache size to zero .
  • *Adjusted shutdown trigger to 512 MB of remaining storage (previously 1024 MB).
  • Refactored the transaction generator to use a thread-local global variable for network ID serialization and deserialization.

Known Issues​

  • Benchmarks might require further refinement for specific use cases.

Upgrade Instructions​

  1. Use the specified node image for accessing the new features and improvements.
  2. Ensure compatibility by upgrading to Ledger 3.0.6.
  3. Apply the testnet-02 configurations for expanded testing capabilities.
  4. Update genesis files to support both new and legacy key derivation methods.