Release Notes

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

Thanks to detailed profiling of `full` and `bridge` nodes done by @distractedm1nd and @Wondertan, this release introduces a few fixes to prevent unnecessary disk reads and a fix to reduce memory consumption. In order to realise the benefits from the above changes, node runners (o

This patch brings a few bug fixes for issues reported from `blockspacerace` node runners. It also [disables certain `write` endpoints](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1991) from the REST gateway. More notably, this release introduces the ❤️ **[RPC CLI](https://g

This is the official release for Phase 2 of Blockspace Race. This release is **breaking** so all nodes running on `blockspacerace` must upgrade. Notably, this release contains fixes related to network stability and also bridge node syncing improvements. ## What's Changed ### BREA

## What's Changed * deps: bump go-header by @Wondertan in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1980 * fix(shrex/peer-manager): Temporarily disable blacklisting in peer manager by @walldiss in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1979 * fix(shrex/peer-man

## What's Changed * feat(core/exchange): parallelise GetRangeByHeight request by @walldiss in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1962 * fix(nodebuilder/share): Invoke pubsub for shrex by @renaynay in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1976 **Full Cha

Release candidate for Phase 2 ## What's Changed ### BREAKING * fix(shrex/peer-manager)!: hash validation on subjective node start by @walldiss in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1945 * refactoring(share/ipld)!: rework getLeavesByNamespace by @vgonkivs in https:/

## Please update your nodes! This patch release includes several bug fixes found during the first phase of incentivised testnet, including one that is [critical for network functionality](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1952). **Node runners on `blockspacerace`-

A patch release targeting various findings for the Blockspace Race ITN. It mainly fixes the issue where the required metric for uptime observability wasn't emitted and ensured the recoverability of accounts via mnemonic. ## Fixes * fix(nodebuilder): Also invoke header store head

This release is the culmination of a quarter of work from the celestia-node team. It contains a massive, breaking re-architecture of blocksync, among many other improvements and breaking changes. This release also introduces the `blockspacerace` testnet. It is only compatible wit

More bug fixes and improvements to ShrEx. ## What's Changed ### BREAKING * refactor(libhead): unify VerifyAdjacent and VerifyNonAdjacent into Verify by @Wondertan in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1777 ### FEATURE * feat: add libheader exchange metrics by @derr

## What's Changed ### BREAKING * fix!: fix protocolID representation by @vgonkivs in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1810 ### BUG FIXES * fix(modp2p): pass only resolved addresses to resource manager by @Wondertan in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/

This RC contains several bug fixes / hardenings for the new blocksync architecture (`ShrEx`) and also the extension of the header module. ## What's Changed ### BREAKING * feat(nodebuilder/header)!: Implement remainder of `header.Module` by @renaynay in https://github.com/celestia

Updates genesis hash ## What's Changed * chore(nodebuilder/p2p)!: Update genesis hash by @renaynay in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1772 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/compare/v0.7.0-rc6...v0.7.0-rc7

(For real this time). This RC fixes an issue found with light nodes' use of shrex.Getter. This issue will be resolved in later iterations. ## What's Changed * fix(nodebuilder/share): Revert providing `shrex.Getter` and its associated components to light node by @renaynay in https

This is a **breaking** RC that introduces ShrEx protocol for blocksync. As such, it also upgrades the chainID to `arabica-6` This RC is only compatible with celestia-app 0.12.0-rc7 and **not** compatible with the current `mocha`. ## What's Changed ### BREAKING * feat(share)!: blo

Bumps celestia-app version ## What's Changed * chore: bump celestia-app to v0.12.0-rc7 by @evan-forbes in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1723 * chore(libs/header/p2p): Fixing some debug logs by @renaynay in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1741

Updates `arabica` genesis hash. ## What's Changed * chore!: bump arabica-5 genesis-hash by @Bidon15 in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1735 * bugfix(libs/header): store incoming head in syncer by @vgonkivs in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/172

This pre-release upgrades the chain ID to `arabica-5` ## What's Changed * Add cel-key utility to Docker images by @jcstein in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1672 * chore(nodebuidler/p2p)!: Upgrade arabica to `arabica-5` by @renaynay in https://github.com/celest

This pre-release brings a lot of breaking changes, including an upgrade to a breaking version of celestia-app as well as the addition of versioning to our pubsub topics, meaning we have also upgraded the chain ID of arabica to `arabica-4`. The state from the previous arabica chai

Another patch release that fixes the DataRoot computation issue for when evidence is created on the core network and bugs when connection events are not read out correctly. ## BUG FIXES * fix(share/discovery): add loop to read events from the channel multiple times #1684 * fix(he

This patch release notably includes some fixes related to stabilising `mocha`. **Note**: this release includes a config change, so nodes running on `mocha` will need to re-initialise their configs. This release is **not** compatible with `arabica`. ## BREAKING * feat(header)!: in

## What's Changed In terms of features, implementing auth middleware on the RPC server as well as adding authentication to the RPC client are the biggest new feature introductions. Documentation on how to use an authenticated RPC client will come shortly. For now, using `client.N

This patch release candidate contains bug fixes found during debugging arabica testnet as well as the implementation of authorization for RPC. ## What's Changed ### BREAKING * fix(node/p2p)!: remove resource manager and it's API by @Wondertan in https://github.com/celestiaorg/cel

This release contains a configuration change for a bootstrapper's p2p resource manager. See [here](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1496) for more details. ## What's Changed ### Improvement * feat(nodebuilder/p2p): Enable `InfiniteLimits` for resource manager if

This release [upgrades](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases) celestia-node's dependency on celestia-app to incorporate a fix to a share splitting bug. The binary will also now point to `mocha` as the default network. Also, transaction methods have been extended t

This release contains several weeks-worth of progress in the direction of our three primary work streams: building out celestia-node's public API, hardening our `header-ex`, and refactoring blocksync storage (all of these epics can be viewed in more depth as they are pinned in ou

## What's Changed * chore!(nodebuilder/p2p): change genesis hash for upgraded arabica-2 by @Bidon15 in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1371 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/compare/v0.5.0-rc4...v0.5.0-rc5

## What's Changed * chore(deps): bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric from 0.32.1 to 0.33.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1267 * Update Docker image build pipelines by @jbowen93 in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1337 * chor

## What's Changed * docs(adr): Public API by @Wondertan in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/506 * fix(header): Extend `ValidateBasic` on `ExtendedHeader` to include data root check by @renaynay in https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/pull/1364 * fix(das):