Release Notes

# Mainnet Release After 2.5 years of work, the celestia-node mainnet release is here. To run a node against Celestia mainnet: ``` celestia [bridge || full || light] init celestia [bridge || full || light] start ``` This is a major milestone for the node team (@Wondertan @renaynay

# v0.11.0 This release contains 4 months of work moving towards a production-ready implementation of Celestia's data availability network. --- ## Notable changes Most notable changes (outside of general fixes) were focused around storage performance and API/RPC improvements and s

This RC contains several API + RPC breaking changes, most notably: * elevating public permissions to be read-level for all JSON-RPC client interactions * a few method signature changes * removal of some redundant methods * RPC CLI overhaul _**Note:** this release also breaks conf

This release contains stability changes backported from main. This RC is compatible with **`arabica-9`** **ONLY** and not compatible with `arabica-10` and `mocha-4`.

**_This RC contains experimental fixes, use with caution._** ## What's Changed ### BREAKING * deps!: bump nmt, breaking JSON RPC return types including nmt Proofs by @distractedm1nd in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2728 ### FEATURES * feat(share/eds): Rework a

Contains a fix for header sync on `arabica-10`. ## What's Changed * feat(headertest): Validate exact error types in header tests by @Manav-Aggarwal in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2644 * chore: bump celestia-app to v1.0.0-rc14 by @evan-forbes in https://githu

## What's Changed ### BREAKING * improvement!(blob/service): add options to submit by @vgonkivs in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2630 ### FEATURES * feat(nodebuilder/header): Bootstrap from previously seen peers by @renaynay in https://github.com/celestiaorg/c

## What's Changed ### BREAKING * refactor(share)!: have NamespacedShares fields use snake_case in JSON by @distractedm1nd in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2633 * chore!: bump celestia-app to v1.0.0-rc13 by @evan-forbes in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celesti

This RC contains an upgrade to `arabica-10` which incorporates several storage-related fixes and optimisations as well as an upgrade to the `shrex-nd` protocol such that it can now support getting blobs larger than 1mb. This RC is not compatible with `arabica-9`. _**Please note:*

# STORAGE-BREAKING RC -- ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH ARABICA-9 This is a cherry-picked RC containing **storage-breaking** fixes and improvements that will help full and bridge nodes sync more reliably. Node runners wishing to upgrade should **clear their datastores** using the instructi

This RC is **breaking** in two ways: 1. it contains several storage optimisations and breaks such that those wishing to upgrade will have to re-sync from scratch (please read the _Note_ below) 2. it contains an upgrade to the `shrex-nd` protocol All storage optimisations and brea

## What's Changed * share/befp: add benchmarks for fraud proof creation and validation by @vgonkivs in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2400 * deps: bump go-header by @Wondertan in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2436 * chore: bump celestia-app

## What's Changed * feat: update Go base alpine - add branch in makefile by @jrmanes in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2414 * doc(share/p2p/shrexnd): Improve accuracy of RequestND description by @musalbas in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/241

## What's Changed * tests(share/eds): add store basic benchmarks by @walldiss in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2407 * chore!: bump arabica-9 by @jrmanes in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2417 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/celestiaor

Most notable changes include: * introduction and integration of new Namespace type * adding support for non-inclusion proofs for getting data by namespace **Also please note that we will deprecate writes on the REST gateway soon** -- refer to [this PR description](https://github.

BSR-compatible patch bringing various fixes and improvements. Also, it contains breaking HTTP API/Gateway change per #2329: we now return all the information about sent PFB transactions, even if it fails. ## Breaking * !feat(api/gateway): return txdata from submitPFB if it is pre

Release candidate to run bootstrappers on Mocha ## What's Changed * feat!: bump app v1.0.0-rc0 by @evan-forbes in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2253 * refactor(misc): pretty print namespace.iD and peer.ID by @walldiss in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia

Contains several usability fixes to `BlobModule` ## What's Changed ### BUG FIXES * fix!(blob/module): fix api by changing variadic params to a slice by @vgonkivs in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2298 * fix(gateway): remove the GetByHeight hussle and rely on Mo

Patch release enabling fetching Headers from Gateway of the height the node hasn't caught up to yet. ## Fixes * fix(gateway): remove the GetByHeight hussle and rely on Module's logic by @Wondertan in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2302 ## Feature * feat(nodebui

## What's Changed * chore(deps): bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 by @dependabot in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2235 * chore(deps): bump alpine from 3.17.3 to 3.18.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2198 * ch

This release targets the discovery issue https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/issues/2258 and improves logging ## Fixes * fix(share/discovery): timeout FindPeers operation by @Wondertan in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2263 ## Dependencies * chore(deps

## BREAKING * feat!: bump app v1.0.0-rc0 by @evan-forbes in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2253 ## Features * feat!(blob): blob module by @vgonkivs in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2273 ## Fixes * fix(share/discovery): timeout FindPeers oper

Special patch release targeting multiple issues found by @jcstein ## Fixes * fix(share/shrex): return aggregated error if context Deadline reached by @walldiss in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2243 * fix(modheader): check err first in switch by @Wondertan in h

This release includes several fixes to stabilise ShrEx, as well as protocol-breaking change to fix ShrEx-ND. **This is a breaking release, meaning all node runners in the network must upgrade to support the breaking protocol changes.** ## What's Changed ### BREAKING * fix(share/p

Yet another patch release is targeting the stability of Shrex protocols. Notably, it fixes [metrics submission](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/issues/2188) and other issues caused by the deadlock #2190 :shipit: ## Fixes * fix(share/p2p/shrexeds): hotfix shrex contex

This patch release brings various fixes to the ShrEx EDS protocol. :shipit: ## BUG FIXES * fix(share/p2p/shrexeds): return correct err on context error by @derrandz in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2177 * fix(discovery): race in discovery tests by @walldiss in

For this release, node runners should run: 1. `git fetch --tags` 2. `make build` This will ensure that the build version is injected and reported properly as a metric for node runners on blockspacerace. **Please [update the config](https://docs.celestia.org/nodes/celestia-node/#r

This patch release brings a few stability improvements and bug fixes for our ShrEx protocols. This release also breaks config -- **please [update your configs](https://docs.celestia.org/nodes/celestia-node/#resetting-your-config)!** ## What's Changed ### BREAKING * fix(share/disc

This release contains stability improvements for bootstrapping onto the network as well as [two new config-related commands](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/2068): * `config-remove` -- removes the node's config * `config-update` -- updates the node's outdated co

This release contains a fix to address datastore bloat. **`full` and `bridge` node runners MUST clear their datastore via the new command `unsafe-reset-store` and re-sync from scratch.** Example: ``` celestia bridge unsafe-reset-store --p2p.network blockspacerace ``` This release