Network Update Highlights, 11.18.22

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This blog post provides an overview of the updates that have been made over the past week, with a particular emphasis on changes relevant to wallet operations.

Under each network header, releases are formatted as follows:

Cosmos

Cosmos SDK v0.46.5 (11/17)

• Fixes serious issues in the group module, upgrade required immediately. These fixes include requiring group member weights to be positive and finite as well as a fix for message event propagation.
• Fixes an issue in the bank module coin metadata migration (commit)
• Bumps golang crypto from 0.2.0 to 0.3.0

ibc-go v6.0.0-rc0 prerelease (11/11)

• Introduces a series of improvements to interchain accounts with a focus on making controller chain functionality easier.

Solana

Mainnet v1.13.5 (11/11)

• Validators on v1.13.4 or v1.13.5 no longer support UDP for tx ingress by default.
• This update contains important QUIC client performance improvements, upgrading RPC nodes is highly recommended
• For those who build their own binaries, make sure to use the correct Rust version as specified in ci/rust-version.sh (Rust 1.59 for v1.13). Recent rust versons have backwards-incompatibel changes that break Solana's QUIC library.
• The default encoding for ledger-tool has been changed from base58 to base64, and the ability to specify base58 for data encodings has been removed.

Near

nearcore v1.29.1 (11/16)

• Validator nodes will now exit if their version doesn't match the current epoch's version

Akash

Akash v0.18.0 (11/7)

• Integrates interchain accounts and makes a number of bug fixes

Osmosis

Osmosis v12.3.0 (11/10)

• Removes the Osmosis IAVL fork dependency, switches to cosmos/iavl v0.19.4 instead.

Persistence

v5 Upgrade (11/14)

• Add txn to re-open ibc channel for lscosmos
• Version updates for cosmos-sdk, IBC-go, pstake-native, and tendermint

Umee

price-feeder/v2.0.0 (11/15)

• Improves websocket handling
• Adds Crypto.com, Binance providers.
• Removes FTX provider
• Integrates osmosis-api provider into price-feeder