Release Notes

This is a release candidate and therefore not intended for deployment. ## What's Changed * feat(cel-shed): Add blob.Submit and blob.Retrieve latency monitor tool by @renaynay in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/4718 * chore(deps): bump github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p

## Upgrade Notice - This release is not intended for deployment. - This release is intended for consuming applications (e.g. celestia-node, lumina) to prepare for celestia-app v8.0.0. - v8.0.0 contains all of the CIPs in [CIP-047](https://github.com/celestiaorg/CIPs/blob/main/cip

# ev-node v1.1.0-rc.1 This is a release candidate for v1.1.0, focused on new features and stability improvements. It introduces: - AWS & GCP KMS signer backend support - Forced inclusion namespace event subscriptions - Several bug fixes addressing memory management, sync reliabil

## What's Changed * chore: update CODEOWNERS to use protocol team by @rootulp in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/pull/2879 * fix: enforce maxRequestsPerPeer on direct SeenTx path in CAT mempool by @rootulp in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/pull/2880 * f

This is a major release of celestia-core with several breaking changes, important security fixes, and performance improvements. It requires Go 1.26.1+. Breaking Changes - PebbleDB is now the only supported database backend (https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/pull/2867).

<img width="1376" height="550" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5baa6a7e-9e40-4c48-bca8-b7422d9c11a0" /> A major part of the [Evolve Stack](https://github.com/evstack) has been released. Introducing the v1.0.0 release of ev-node and execution/evm. Those

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for Mocha. If you are upgrading from v6 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). ## What's Changed * fix: warn and override non-CAT mempool type (

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for Arabica. If you are upgrading from v6 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). ## What's Changed * fix: warn and override non-CAT mempool type

This is a patch release on top of [v0.29.1-mocha](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/releases/tag/v0.29.1-mocha). Key highlights: fixes light node startup failure caused by syncer tail height overshooting the pruning window, bridge DASer gossip race fix, new delegation

This is a patch release on top of [v0.29.2-arabica](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/releases/tag/v0.29.2-arabica). Key highlight: fixes light node startup failure on long-running networks (mocha/arabica) caused by syncer tail height overshooting the pruning window, p

This is a patch release on top of [v0.29.1-arabica](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/releases/tag/v0.29.1-arabica). Key highlights: bridge DASer gossip fix that eliminates noisy WARN logs on bridge nodes, new delegation rewards API, core endpoint network verification

# ev-node v1.0.0-rc.4 This is a maintenance release that improves reliability when the execution client is unavailable. This is a safe upgrade with no breaking changes. **Tested upgrade paths** - ev-node v1.0.0-rc.3 -> ev-node v1.0.0-rc.4 --- ## Full Changelog For a complete list

⚠️ This release adds support for celestia-app v7 and is safe to run before the migration. Once the app-v7 migration takes place on mocha, upgrading to this version is required. ⚠️ Config upgdare is required for this release: `celestia bridge config-update --p2p.network mocha` Thi

This is a patch release on top of [v0.29.0-arabica](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/releases/tag/v0.29.0-arabica). - **store: close accessor in GetRow and GetRangeNamespaceData** ([#4575](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/4575)) — Accessors returned b

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for Mocha. If you are upgrading from v6 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). ## What's Changed * feat: add Docker Compose setup for Mocha cons

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for Arabica. If you are upgrading from v6 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). ## What's Changed * feat: add Docker Compose setup for Mocha co

## What's Changed * chore: gitignore claude local settings by @rootulp in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/pull/2787 * build(deps): Bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel from 1.39.0 to 1.40.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/pull/2786 * buil

⚠️ This release adds support for celestia-app v7 and is safe to run before the migration. Once the app-v7 migration takes place, upgrading to this version is required. ⚠️ This release notably introduces... - Shrex server enabled on Bridge Nodes ([#4288](https://github.com/celesti

## Upgrade Notice This release updates the default min-retain-blocks to `0` and fixes a bug in hyperlane-cosmos that caused certain message types to fail amino signing (e.g. Ledger signing). ## What's Changed * fix: poll for account availability after funding in txsim by @rootulp

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for Arabica. If you are upgrading from v6 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). ## What's Changed * test: module account addresses by @rootulp

## What's Changed * build(deps): Bump docker/login-action from 3.6.0 to 3.7.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/pull/2775 * chore: bump Go toolchain to 1.25 by @Olexandr88 in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/pull/2774 * build(deps): B

# ev-node v1.0.0-rc.3 This is new release candidate focused on improving cache handling, fixing critical bugs in block replay logic, and enhancing node synchronization with DA hints for P2P transactions. This release includes **one breaking change** related to cache persistence b

# ev-node v1.0.0-rc.2 This release candidate improves cache handling, storage efficiency, and metrics accuracy. This release reduces storage duplication by replacing the `go-header` store with the ev-node native store and improves performance when handling backlogs of pending blo

# ev-node v1.0.0-rc.1 This release candidate introduces forced inclusion and batch sequencing capabilities, adds new batching strategies, and includes several breaking changes that improve code clarity and metrics simplicity. Operators should carefully review the breaking changes

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for Mainnet. If you are upgrading from v5 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). This release fixes the issue with sentry nodes. Validators are

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for the Mocha testnet. If you are upgrading from v5 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). This release fixed the pruning issue. Validators are

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for the Arabica testnet. If you are upgrading from v5 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). This release fixes a pruning bug. Validators are re

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for the Mocha testnet. If you are upgrading from v5 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). This release contains a security fix. Validators are

## Upgrade Notice - This release is not intended for deployment. - This release is intended for consuming applications (e.g. celestia-node, lumina) to prepare for celestia-app v7.0.0. - v7.0.0 contains all of the CIPs in [CIP-047](https://github.com/celestiaorg/CIPs/blob/main/cip

## Upgrade Notice This release is intended for the Mocha testnet. If you are upgrading from v5 please read through the [release notes](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/blob/main/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md). This release contains a security fix. Validators are