2.4.0

Version 2.4.0 of the Chia reference client is now available for download! This release includes a soft fork, so we recommend upgrading.

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Added

• Soft fork 5: disallow infinity G1 points as public keys in AGG_SIG_* conditions
• DL: Added support for updating multiple datastores in a single batch update
• Add unfinished block to state change event (thanks @felixbrucker)
• CHIP-0026 Mempool Updates
• Preliminary support for observer mode. Ability to add public keys via CLI

Changed

• Remove tx_records from dl_update_multiple RPC (breaking change)
• DL: optimizations for autoinsert and upsert
• Increase farmer fill rate to 70%
• Use Rust types for RecentChainData, ProofBlockHeader and WeightProof
• Use Rust version of MerkleSet
• Remove unused files
• Make a couple of DAOWallet methods return lists of transaction records
• Simplify MerkleSet by making it immutable
• Add ability to profile the farmer process
• Remove unused current_inner from PoolState
• Optimize launcher_id_to_p2_puzzle_hash()
• Add genesis challenge to get_network_info RPC
• Puzzle hash optimizations
• Optimize key derivation in the wallet
• Add optional trusted CIDR list
• Make BLSCache a proper class
• Split capabilities for each service
• Use kv compressed in DL batch update
• Updated gui to electron 30.0.9
• Bump chia_rs to 0.9.0 and update G1Element handling
• Bump boto3 to 1.34.114
• Bump chiabip158 to 1.5.1
• Bump clvm to 0.9.10
• Bump aiohttp to 3.9.4
• Bump filelock to 3.14.0
• Bump importlib-resources to 6.4.0
• Bump keyring to 25.1.0
• Bump dnspython to 2.6.1
• Bump typing-extensions to 4.11.0,
• Bump packaging to 24.0
• Bump hsms to 0.3.1,

Fixed

• Add bytes type to DerivationRecord.pubkey
• Do not return unexpected coins from get_coin_state
• Fix memo plotid
• Filter out duplicate coins returned by RequestPuzzleState
• fix confusion between prompt and don't prompt in the plotnft CLI
• drop deprecated authentication_public_key from pool config
• Fixed some typos (thanks @wersfeds)
• Make sure to use no more than 61 cpus on windows (fixes #17967)
• Handle reorgs in data layer wallet
• Modify VerifiedCredential.launch to handle multiple source coins
• Add tx_config and extra_conditions to DID creation endpoint
• DL: Return exception and error from get_kv_diff when either of the hashes has no data
• Link trade cancellations with announcements
• Add coin id index to coin state batching
• Remove homebrew rpaths from _ssl.cpython.so on macOS during build (fixes #18099)
• Aligned lerna and nx versions
• Set permissions in DEB postinst.sh for chrome-sandbox (fixes #17956)

Deprecated

macOS 11 (Big Sur) is deprecated. This release (2.4.0) will be the last release to support macOS 11