Notable Updates

CAR files can be directly used as databases. This dramatically improves performance but is only used in forest-cli snapshot validate for now.

Fixed a state-root mismatch triggered by null-tipsets.

Forest v0.11.0 "Hypersonic"

Breaking

• #3048: Remove support for rocksdb
• #3047: Remove support for compiling with delegated consensus
• #3086: forest-cli snapshot validate no longer supports URLs. Download the snapshot and then run the command.

Added

• #2816: Support 2k devnet.
• #3026: Expose forest-cli state diff ...
• #3086: forest-cli snapshot validate is faster and uses less disk space, operating directly on the snapshot rather than loading through a database.
• #2983: Added state migration support for NV17.
• #3107: Introduced 'head' parameter for snapshot validation.

Fixed

• #3005: Fix incorrect progress reported when importing compressed snapshots.

• #3122: Fix state-root mismatch around null tipsets.