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@jennijuju jennijuju released this 21 Oct 02:33
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1.18.0-rc4 / 2022-10-20

⚠️ Please note that from Lotus v1.17.2&^ will require a Go-version of v1.18.1&^

This is the fourth release canadiate of the upcoming MANDATORY release of Lotus that introduces Filecoin network v17,
codenamed the Shark upgrade
. Shark upgrade delivers a wave of protocol refinements that will allow for useful smart contracts to be written using the FVM (eg. programmable markets, lending contracts, etc.).

A full changelog will be published upon final release.

The Shark upgrade introduces the following FIPs, delivered in actors v9:

Calibration-net Upgrade

This release candidate sets the calibration-net upgrade at epoch 1407374, 2022-10-20T16:00:07Z, and the calibration network has successfully upgraded to Shark. The bundle the network will be using is v9.0.1(located at build/actors/v9.tar.zst ). Upon the migration, the manifest CID should be bafy2bzacec6w6i72o5tuhyrx4yy3o75vcgzhz7y3ht3lpw6xn43lv2jirxiww.

Snapshots

The #fil-infra team at PL has launched a brand new Lightweight Filecoin Chain Snapshots Service to support chain management needs for the node operators, check here for the full detail.
We are planning to switch the snapshot service listed in lotus docs to the new Lightweight Filecoin Chain Snapshots Service by EOY, and deprecate public support of the current snapshots production. We recommend all users to test and switch the new service ASAP, and if you run into any issue, please report them here and the team would be happy to support you! For the main differences between the old & the new service, checkout the FAQ section here

Migration

(TBC)

New Features

Improvements

Dependencies

Others

Contributors

Contributor Commits Lines ± Files Changed
Geoff Stuart 51 +8677/-19320 401
Aayush Rajasekaran 5 +1452/-166 34
Łukasz Magiera 5 +429/-135 45
Aayush 19 +281/-157 72
Shrenuj Bansal 3 +176/-61 10
Jennifer Wang 7 +19/-18 15
simlecode 1 +5/-5 4
Kevin Li 1 +7/-0 1
Rod Vagg 1 +3/-2 2
Peter Rabbitson 1 +3/-0 1
ZenGround0 1 +2/-0 1