This is a mandatory release of Lotus that upgrades the network to version 12, which introduces various performance improvements to the cron processing of the power actor. The network will upgrade at height 712320, which is 2021-04-29T06:00:00Z.
This is a mandatory release of Lotus that upgrades the network to version 11, which implements [FIP-0014](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0014.md). The network will upgrade at height 665280, which is 2021-04-12T22:00:00Z.
This release also expands the `lotus-miner sectors extend` CLI, with a new option that automatically extends all extensible v1 sectors. The option can be run using `lotus-miner sectors extend --v1-sectors`.
- The `tolerance` flag can be passed to indicate what durations aren't "worth" extending. It defaults to one week, which means that sectors whose current lifetime's are within one week of the maximum possible lifetime will not be extended.
- The `expiration-cutoff` flag can be passed to skip sectors whose expiration is past a certain point from the current head. It defaults to infinity (no cutoff), but if, say, 28800 was specified, then only sectors expiring in the next 10 days would be extended (2880 epochs in 1 day).
This is an hotfix release of Lotus that fixes a critical bug introduced in v1.5.1 in the miner windowPoSt logic. This upgrade is only affecting miner nodes.
## Changes
- fix window post rand check (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5773)
- wdpost: Always use head tipset to get randomness (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5774)
This is an optional release of Lotus that introduces an important fix to the WindowPoSt computation process. The change is to wait for some confidence before drawing beacon randomness for the proof. Without this, invalid proofs might be generated as the result of a null tipset.
This release also introduces the splitstore, a new optional blockstore that segregates the monolithic blockstore into cold and hot regions. The hot region contains objects from the last 4-5 finalities plus all reachable objects from two finalities away. All other objects are moved to the cold region using a compaction process that executes every finality, once 5 finalities have elapsed.
The splitstore allows us to separate the two regions quite effectively, using two separate badger blockstores. The separation
means that the live working set is much smaller, which results in potentially significant performance improvements. In addition, it means that the coldstore can be moved to a separate (bigger, slower, cheaper) disk without loss of performance.
The design also allows us to use different implementations for the two blockstores; for example, an append-only blockstore could be used for coldstore and a faster memory mapped blockstore could be used for the hotstore (eg LMDB). We plan to experiment with these options in the future.
Once the splitstore has been enabled, the existing monolithic blockstore becomes the coldstore. On the first head change notification, the splitstore will warm up the hotstore by copying all reachable objects from the current tipset into the hotstore. All new writes go into the hotstore, with the splitstore tracking the write epoch. Once 5 finalities have elapsed, and every finality thereafter, the splitstore compacts by moving cold objects into the coldstore. There is also experimental support for garbage collection, whereby nunreachable objects are simply discarded.
To enable the splitstore, add the following to config.toml:
```
[Chainstore]
EnableSplitstore = true
```
## Highlights
Other highlights include:
- Improved deal data handling - now multiple deals can be adding to sectors in parallel
- Rewriten sector pledging - it now actually cares about max sealing sector limits
- Better handling for sectors stuck in the RecoverDealIDs state
- lotus-miner sectors extend command
- Optional configurable storage path size limit
- Config to disable owner/worker fallback from control addresses (useful when owner is a key on a hardware wallet)
- A write log for node metadata, which can be restored as a backup when the metadata leveldb becomes corrupted (e.g. when you run out of disk space / system crashes in some bad way)
## Changes
- avoid use mp.cfg directly to avoid race (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5350)
- Show replacing message CID is state search-msg cli (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5656)
- Fix riceing by importing the main package (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5675)
- Remove sectors with all deals expired in RecoverDealIDs (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5658)
This is a mandatory release of Lotus that introduces the fifth upgrade to the Filecoin network. The network upgrade occurs at height 550321, before which time all nodes must have updated to this release (or later). At this height, [v3 specs-actors](https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors/releases/tag/v3.0.0) will take effect, which in turn implements the following two FIPs:
- [FIP-0007 h/amt-v3](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0007.md) which improves the performance of the Filecoin HAMT and AMT.
- [FIP-0010 off-chain Window PoSt Verification](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0010.md) which reduces the gas consumption of `SubmitWindowedPoSt` messages significantly by optimistically accepting Window PoSt proofs without verification, and allowing them to be disputed later by off-chain verifiers.
Note that the integration of v3 actors was already completed in 1.4.2, this upgrade simply sets the epoch for the upgrade to occur.
## Disputer
FIP-0010 introduces the ability to dispute bad Window PoSts. Node operators are encouraged to run the new Lotus disputer alongside their Lotus daemons. For more information, see the announcement [here](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/discussions/5617#discussioncomment-387333).
## Changes
- [#5341](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5341) Add a `LOTUS_DISABLE_V3_ACTOR_MIGRATION` envvar
- Setting this envvar to 1 disables the v3 actor migration, should only be used in the event of a failed migration
This is a large, and highly recommended, optional release with new features and improvements for lotus miner and deal-making UX. The release also integrates [v3 specs-actors](https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors/releases/tag/v3.0.0), which implements two FIPs:
- [FIP-0007 h/amt-v3](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0007.md) which improves the performance of the Filecoin HAMT and AMT.
- [FIP-0010 off-chain Window PoSt Verification](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0010.md) which reduces the gas consumption of `SubmitWindowedPoSt` messages significantly by optimistically accepting Window PoSt proofs without verification, and allowing them to be disputed later by off-chain verifiers.
- This is to support [FIP-0010 off-chian Window PoSt verification](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0010.md)
- See how to run a disputer [here](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5379#issuecomment-776482445)
- [#5309](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5309) Batch multiple deals in one `PublishStorageMessages`
- [#5411](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5411) Handle batch `PublishStorageDeals` message in sealing recovery
- [#5505](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5505) Exclude expired deals from batching in `PublishStorageDeals` messages
- Added `PublishMsgPeriod` and `MaxDealsPerPublishMsg` to miner `Dealmaking` [configuration](https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/lotus/miner-configuration/#dealmaking-section). See how they work [here](https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/lotus/miner-configuration/#publishing-several-deals-in-one-message).
- [#5538](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5538), [#5549](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5549) Added a command to list pending deals and force publish messages.
- Run `lotus-miner market pending-publish`
- [#5428](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5428) Moved waiting for `PublishStorageDeals` messages' receipt from markets to lotus
- [#5389](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5389) Show verified indicator for `./lotus-miner storage-deals list`
- [#5229](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5220) Show power for verified deals in `./lotus-miner setocr list`
- [#5407](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5407) Added explicit check of the miner address protocol
- [#5399](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5399) watchdog: increase heapprof capture threshold to 90%
- [#5398](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5398) storageadapter: Look at precommits on-chain since deal publish msg
- [#5470](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5470) Added `--no-timing` option for `./lotus state compute-state --html`
- [#5417](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5417) Storage Manager: Always unseal full sectors
- [#5393](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5393) Switched to [filecoin-ffi bls api ](https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-ffi/pull/159)for bls signatures
- [#5380](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5210) Refactor deals API tests
- [#5397](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5397) Fixed a flake in the sync manager edge case test
- [#5406](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5406) Added a test to ensure a correct window post cannot be disputed
- [#5294](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5394) Added jobs to build Lotus docker image and push it to AWS ECR
- [#5387](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5387) Added network info(mainnet|calibnet) in version
- [#5497](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5497) Export metric for lotus-gateaway
- [#5570](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5570) Added code CID to `StateReadState` return object
- [#5565](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5565) Added storageadapter.PublishMsgConfig to miner in testkit for lotus-soup testplan
- [#5571](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5571) Added `lotus-seed gensis car` to generate lotus block for devnets
- [#5613](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5613) Check format in client commP util
- [#5507](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5507) Refactored coalescing logic into its own function and take both cancellation sets into account
- [#5592](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5592) Verify FFI version before building
## Dependency Updates
- [#5296](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5396) Upgraded to [raulk/go-watchdog@v1.0.1](https://github.com/raulk/go-watchdog/releases/tag/v1.0.1)
- [#5425](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5425) Fixed stale imports in testplans/lotus-soup
- [#5535](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5535) Updated to [go-fil-markets@v1.1.7](https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-fil-markets/releases/tag/v1.1.7)
- [#5616](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5600) Updated to [filecoin-ffi@b6e0b35fb49ed0fe](https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-ffi/releases/tag/b6e0b35fb49ed0fe)
- [#5599](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5599) Updated to [go-bitfield@v0.2.4](https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-bitfield/releases/tag/v0.2.4)
- [#5614](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5614), , [#5621](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5621) Updated to [go-jsonrpc@v0.1.3](https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-jsonrpc/releases/tag/v0.1.3)
- [#5459](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5459) Updated to [spec-actors@v3.0.1](https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors/releases/tag/v3.0.1)
## Network Version v10 Upgrade
- [#5473](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5473) Merged staging branch for v1.5.0
- [#5603](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5603) Set nerpanet's upgrade epochs up to v3 actors
- [#5471](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5471), [#5456](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5456) Set calibration net actor v3 migration epochs for testing
This is an optional Lotus release that introduces various improvements to the sealing, mining, and deal-making processes. In particular, [#5341](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5341) introduces the ability for Lotus miners to terminate sectors.
## Changes
#### Core Lotus
- fix(sync): enforce ForkLengthThreshold for synced chain (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5182)
This is a MANDATORY hotfix release of Lotus that resolves a chain halt at height 336,459 caused by nondeterminism in specs-actors. The fix is to update actors to 2.3.3 in order to incorporate this fix https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors/pull/1334.
This is a mandatory release of Lotus that introduces the third post-liftoff upgrade to the Filecoin network. The network upgrade occurs at height 343200, before which time all nodes must have updated to this release (or later). The change that breaks consensus is an implementation of FIP-0009(https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0009.md).
## Changes
- Disable gas burning for window post messages (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5200)
This is an optional Lotus release that introduces various improvements to the mining logic and deal-making workflow, as well as several new UX features.
- miner info cli improvements (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5083)
- miner: Add slow mode to proving check (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5086)
- Error out deals that are not activated by proposed deal start epoch (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5061)
# 1.2.1 / 2020-11-20
This is a very small release of Lotus that fixes an issue users are experiencing when importing snapshots. There is no need to upgrade unless you experience an issue with creating a new datastore directory in the Lotus repo.
This is a mandatory release of Lotus that introduces the second post-liftoff upgrade to the Filecoin network. The network upgrade occurs at height 265200, before which time all nodes must have updated to this release (or later). This release also bumps the required version of Go to 1.15.
- Upgrading to sepcs-actors 2.3.2 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors/releases/tag/v2.3.2)
- Introducing proofs v5.4.0 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs/releases/tag/storage-proofs-v5.4.0), and switching between the proof types (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4873)
- Don't use terminated sectors for winning PoSt (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4770)
- Various small VM-level edge-case handling (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4783)
- Correction of the VM circulating supply calculation (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4862)
- Retuning gas costs (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4830)
- Avoid sending messages to the zero BLS address (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4888)
## Other Changes
- delayed pubsub subscribe for messages topic (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3646)
This is an optional release of Lotus that upgrades Lotus dependencies, and includes many performance enhancements, bugfixes, and UX improvements.
## Highlights
- Refactored much of the miner code (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3618), improving its recovery from restarts and overall sector success rate
- Updated [proofs](https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs) to v5.3.0, which brings significant performance improvements
- Updated [markets](https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-fil-markets/releases/tag/v1.0.4) to v1.0.4, which reduces failures due to reorgs (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4730) and uses the newly refactored fund manager (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4736)
## Changes
#### Core Lotus
- polish: add Equals method to MinerInfo shim (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4604)
This is a patch release of Lotus that builds on the fixes involving worker keys that was introduced in v1.1.1. Miners and node operators should update to this release as soon as possible in order to ensure their blocks are propagated and validated.
## Changes
- Handle worker key changes correctly in runtime (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4579)
This is a patch release of Lotus that addresses some issues caused by when miners change their worker keys. Miners and node operators should update to this release as soon as possible, especially any miner who has changed their worker key recently.
## Changes
- Miner finder for interactive client deal CLI (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4504)
This is a mandatory release that introduces the first post-liftoff upgrade to the Filecoin network. The changes that break consensus are an upgrade to specs-actors v2.2.0 at epoch 170000.
## Changes
- Introduce Network version 6 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4506)
It's 1.0.0! This is an optional release of Lotus that introduces some UX improvements to the 0.10 series.
This very small release is largely cosmetic, and intended to flag the code that the Filecoin mainnet was launched with.
## API changes
-`StateMsgGasCost` has been removed. The equivalent information can be gained by calling `StateReplay`.
- A `GasCost` field has been added to the `InvocResult` type, meaning detailed gas costs will be returned when calling `StateReplay`, `StateCompute`, and `StateCall`.
- The behaviour of `StateReplay` in response to an empty tipset key has been changed. Instead of simply using the heaviest tipset (which is almost guaranteed to be an unsuccessful replay), we search now search the chain for the tipset that included the message, and replay the message in that tipset (we fail if no such tipset is found).
This is an optional release of Lotus that updates markets to 0.9.1, which fixes an issue affecting deals that were mid-transfer when the node was upgraded to 0.9.0. This release also includes some tweaks to default gas values and minor performance improvements.
## Changes
- Use updated stored ask API (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4384)
- tvx: trace puts to blockstore for inclusion in CAR. (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4278)
This is an optional release of Lotus that updates markets to 0.9.0, which adds the ability to restart data transfers. This release also introduces Ledger support, and various UX improvements.
## Changes
- Test the tape upgrade (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4328)
- Adding in Ledger support (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4290)
- Improve the UX for lotus-miner sealing workers (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4329)
- Add a CLI tool for miner's to repay debt (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4319)
- Rename params_testnet to params_mainnet (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4336)
- Use seal-duration in calculating the earliest StartEpoch (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4337)
- Reject deals that are > 7 days in the future in the BasicDealFilter (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4173)
- Add an API endpoint to calculate the exact circulating supply (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4148)
- lotus-pcr: ignore all other market messages (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4341)
- Add message CID to InvocResult (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4382)
- types: Add CID fields to messages in json marshalers (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4338)
- fix(sync state): set state height to actual tipset height (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4347)
- Fix off by one tipset in searchBackForMsg (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4367)
- fix a panic on startup when we fail to load the tipset (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4376)
- Avoid having the same message CID show up in execution traces (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4350)
- feat(markets): update markets 0.9.0 and add data transfer restart (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4363)
This is a consensus-breaking hotfix that addresses an issue in specs-actors v2.0.3 that made it impossible to pledge new 32GiB sectors. The change in Lotus is to update to actors v2.1.0, behind the new network version 5.
## Changes
- make pledge test pass with the race detector (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4291)
- fix a race in tipset cache usage (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4282)
- add an api for removing multisig signers (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4274)
- cli: Don't output errors to stdout (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4298)
- Fix panic in wallet export when key is not found (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4299)
- Dump the block validation cache whenever we perform an import (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4287)
- Fix two races (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4301)
This release fixes an issue which may cause the actors v2 migration to compute the state incorrectly when more than one migration is running in parallel.
## Changes
- Make concurrent actor migrations safe (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4293)
This consensus-breaking release of Lotus upgrades the actors version to v2.0.0. This requires migrating actor state from v0 to v2. The changes that break consensus are:
- Introducing v2 actors and its migration (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3936)
- Runtime's Receiver() should only return ID addresses (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3589)
- Update miner eligibility checks for v2 actors (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4188)
- Add funds that have left FilReserve to circ supply (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4160)
- Set WinningPoStSectorSetLookback to finality post-v2 actors (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4190)
- fix: error when actor panics directly (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3697)
- Lotus-pcr: Limit the fee cap of messages we will process, refund gas fees for windowed post and storage deals (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4198)
This optional release of Lotus introduces a new version of markets which switches to CBOR-map encodings, and allows datastore migrations. The release also introduces several improvements to the mining process, a few performance optimizations, and a battery of UX additions and enhancements.
## Changes
#### Dependencies
- Markets 0.7.0 with updated data stores (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4089)
- Update ffi to code with blst fixes (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3998)
#### Core Lotus
- Fix GetPower with no miner address (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4049)
- Refactor: Move nonce generation out of mpool (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3970)
#### Performance
- Implement caching syscalls for import-bench (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3888)
- Fetch tipset blocks in parallel (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4074)
This consensus-breaking release of Lotus introduces an upgrade to the network. The changes that break consensus are:
- Upgrading to specs-actors v0.9.11, which reduces WindowPoSt faults per [FIP 0002](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0002.md) to reduce cost for honest miners with occasional faults (see https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors/pull/1181)
- Revisions to some cryptoeconomics and network params
This release also updates go-fil-markets to fix an incompatibility issue between v0.7.2 and earlier versions.
## Changes
#### Dependencies
- Update spec actors to 0.9.11 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4039)
- Update markets to 0.6.3 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4013)
This optional release of Lotus introduces a major refactor around how a Lotus node interacts with code from the specs-actors repo. We now use interfaces to read the state of actors, which is required to be able to reason about different versions of actors code at the same time.
- Add basic deal stats api server for spacerace slingshot (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3963)
- When doing `sectors update-state`, show a list of existing states if user inputs an invalid one (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3944)
This optional release of Lotus introduces some critical fixes to the window PoSt process. It also upgrades some core dependencies, and introduces many improvements to the mining process, deal-making cycle, and overall User Experience.
## Changes
#### Some notable improvements:
- Correctly construct params for `SubmitWindowedPoSt` messages (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3909)
- Skip sectors correctly for Window PoSt (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3839)
- Split window PoST submission into multiple messages (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3689)
This consensus-breaking release of Lotus is designed to test a network upgrade on the space race testnet. The changes that break consensus are:
- Upgrading the Drand network used from the test Drand network to the League of Entropy main drand network. This is the same Drand network that will be used in the Filecoin mainnet.
- Upgrading to specs-actors v0.9.8, which adds a new method to the Multisig actor.
This release introduces some critical fixes to message selection and gas estimation logic. It also adds the ability for nodes to mark a certain tipset as checkpointed, as well as various minor improvements and bugfixes.
## Changes
#### Messagepool
- Warn when optimal selection fails to pack a block and we fall back to random selection (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3708)
- Add basic command for printing gas performance of messages in the mpool (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3701)
- Adjust optimal selection to always try to fill blocks (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3685)
- Fix very minor bug in repub baseFeeLowerBound (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3663)
- Add an auto flag to mpool replace (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3676)
This consensus-breaking release of Lotus is designed to test a network upgrade on the space race testnet. The changes that break consensus are:
- Tweaking of some cryptoecon parameters in specs-actors 0.9.7 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors/releases/tag/v0.9.7)
- Rebalancing FIL distribution to make testnet FIL scarce, which prevents base fee spikes and sets better expectations for mainnet
This release also introduces many improvements to Lotus! Among them are a new version of go-fil-markets that supports non-blocking retrieval, various spam reduction measures in the messagepool and p2p logic, and UX improvements to payment channels, dealmaking, and state inspection.
- Make chain export ~1000x times faster (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3533)
- Chainwatch: Stop SyncIncomingBlocks from leaking into chainwatch processing; No panics during processing (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3526)
- Conformance: various changes (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3521)
This patch includes some bugfixes to the sector sealing process, and updates go-fil-markets. It also improves the performance of blocksync, adds a method to export chain state trees, and improves chainwatch.
## Changes
- Upgrade markets to v0.5.9 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3496)
- Improve blocksync to load fewer messages: (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3494)
- Fix a panic in the ffi-wrapper's `ReadPiece` (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3492/files)
- Fix a deadlock in the sealing scheduler (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3489)
- Add test vectors for tipset tests (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3485/files)
- Improve the advance-block debug command (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3476)
- Add toggle for message processing to Lotus PCR (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3470)
- Allow exporting recent chain state trees (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3463)
- Remove height from chain rand (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3458)
- Disable GC on chain badger datastore (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3457)
- Account for `GasPremium` in `GasEstimateFeeCap` (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3456)
- Update go-libp2p-pubsub to `master` (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3455)
- A new `GasFeeCap` field has been added, which controls the maximum cost
the sender incurs for the message
- A new `GasPremium` field has been added, which controls the reward a miner
earns for including the message
A sender will never be charged more than `GasFeeCap * GasLimit`.
A miner will typically earn `GasPremium * GasLimit` as a reward.
The `Blockheader` structure has one new field, called `ParentBaseFee`.
Informally speaking,the `ParentBaseFee`
is increased when blocks are densely packed with messages, and decreased otherwise.
The `ParentBaseFee` is used when calculating how much a sender burns when executing a message. _Burning_ simply refers to sending attoFIL to a dedicated, unreachable account.
A message causes `ParentBaseFee * GasUsed` attoFIL to be burnt.
#### Real gas values
This release also includes our first "real" gas costs for primitive operations.
The costs were designed to account for both the _time_ that message execution takes,
as well as the _space_ a message adds to the state tree.
## Deal-making changes
There are three key changes to the deal-making process.
#### Committed Capacity sectors
Miners can now pledge "Committed Capacity" (CC) sectors, which are explicitly
stated as containing junk data, and must not include any deals. Miners can do this
to increase their storage power, and win block rewards from this pledged storage.
They can mark these sectors as "upgradable" with `lotus-miner sectors mark-for-upgrade`.
If the miner receives and accepts one or more storage deals, the sector that includes
those deals will _replace_ the CC sector. This is intended to maximize the amount of useful
storage on the Filecoin network.
#### Fast-retrieval deals
Clients can now include a `fast-retrieval` flag when proposing deals with storage miners.
If set to true, the miner will include an extra copy of the deal data. This
data can be quickly served in a retrieval deal, since it will not need to be unsealed.
#### Multiple deals per sector
Miners can now pack multiple deals into a single sector, so long as all the deals
fit into the sector capacity. This should increase the packing efficiency of miners.
- Upgrades markets to v0.5.6 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3058)
- Upgrades specs-actors to v0.9.3 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3151)
#### Core protocol
- Introduces gas values, replacing placeholders (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/2343)
- Implements EIP-1559, introducing a network base fee, message gas fee cap, and message gas fee premium (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/2874)
- Implements Poisson Sortition for elections (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/2084)
We are very excited to release **lotus** 0.1.0. This is our testnet release. To install lotus and join the testnet, please visit [lotu.sh](lotu.sh). Please file bug reports as [issues](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/issues).
