Network Update Highlights, 12.2.22

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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:
<Link to full release> (release date)
- Release highlight 1
- Release highlight 2
- ...
Note: Prerelease updates will be marked as "prerelease" between the link to the full release and the release date
- Release highlight 1
- Release highlight 2
- ...
Note: Prerelease updates will be marked as "prerelease" between the link to the full release and the release date
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Core 24.0 (11/24)
- Adds a new
mempoolfullrbf
config option that lets users change the policy their node uses for relaying and mining unconfirmed transactions. This option defaults to the existing policy, so no changes occur if the default is used. -deprecatedrpc=softforks
,-deprecatedrpc=exclude_coinbase
, anddeprecatedrpc=fees
config options have all been removed.- The
getpeerinfo
RPC has been updated with a newpresynced_headers
field. /headers/
and/blockfilterheaders/
endpoints now use a query parameter instead of a path parameter to specify result count. The count parameter is now optional, and defaults to 5 for both endpoints. Old endpoints remain functional.- Guix builds are now reproducible across all architectures.
- The replacable option for the
createrawtransaction
andcreatepsbt
RPCs now defaults to true. - The
listtransactions
,gettransaction
, andlistsinceblock
RPC methods now include a wtxid field for each transaction.
Solana
Testnet v1.14.9 (11/28)
- This is a testnet only release, due to prior mistakes the testnet is currently incompatible with mainnet-beta. This release is part of the solution.
- Cap accounts data a transaction can load by its requested limit
Umee
Umee v3.2.0 (11/27)
- This release is the final step for enabling Gravity Bridge. Slashing is enabled and validators must now run Peggo and must process claims to avoid being slashed.
- The
QueryLiquidationTargets
RPC is now available when the node is run with--enable-liquidator-query
. The Liquidator build flag has been removed. This query should not be enabled for nodes with a public API, as the query involves intensive computation that can impact node stability when used by an attacker. - IBC is updated to v5.1
Polkadot
Polkadot v0.9.33 (11/28)
- Makes the Multisig Pallet Bounded
Substrate Monthly 2022-12 (11/30)
- Support using
ed25519-dalek
for historical block tx verification.