mainnet-2024-nov-12

Notable changes:

• Improve piece cache sync performance and reliability with fallback mechanism
• Improve Snap sync state downloading with more retries
• Reduce bandwidth usage by node during sync by not gossiping transactions to such nodes
• Tune default plotting parameters primarily to improve GPU utilization
• x86-64-v2 and x86-64-v3 version of container images are now available
  • can be used with --platform linux/amd64/v2 or --platform linux/amd64/v3, the default is still Skylake build
• aarch64 standalone executable is now compiled with CUDA support enabled
• RPC improvements for object mappings + new CLI option for controlling object mappings creation (disabled by default)
• Initial implementation of Snap sync for domains

Build variants

There are two versions of x86-64 builds for Ubuntu and Windows:

• skylake: for Intel Skylake/AMD Ryzen processors and newer
• x86-64-v2: for older processors since ~2009 and some old VMs
• older processors/VMs are no longer supported by official releases, but can still be compiled manually if desired
• x86-64 container images are built for Skylake/AMD Ryzen processors and newer only

Farmer builds with -rocm suffix are for plotting with AMD GPUs.