gemini-3h-2024-feb-19

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

Two notable improvement:

• fix for plotting pausing when replotting starts
• plotting performance improvement by increasing internal concurrency that also increases memory usage (--record-encoding-concurrency 1 can be used to restore old behavior and decrease memory usage)
• Improved timestamps in metrics
• Newly added --disable-farm-locking can be used to disable farm locking for specific use cases (not recommended)

The rest of changes are internal.

Ubuntu and Windows x86-64 builds

There are two versions:

• 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

gemini-3h-2024-feb-15

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

Two notable improvement:

• farmer metrics now expose status of sectors: not plotted/plotted/about to expire/expired
• Proof-of-Space encoding is optimized for throughput rather than latency, which future farmer updates will take advantage of by increasing internal concurrency

The rest of changes are internal.

Ubuntu and Windows x86-64 builds

There are two versions:

• 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

gemini-3h-2024-feb-05

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

Two improvements:

• disable farming until it is enabled for everyone (no need to use --farm-during-initial-plotting false anymore)
• improve CLI defaults on node, removing the need to specify --blocks-pruning and --state-pruning for farmers

Ubuntu and Windows x86-64 builds

There are two versions:

• 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

gemini-3g-2024-feb-01

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3g.

Two improvements:

• improved DSN performance by tweaking internal connection limits
• fixed piece cache sync being triggered on restart (will still happen one more time after upgrade)

Ubuntu and Windows x86-64 builds

There are two versions:

• 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

gemini-3h-2024-feb-01

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few improvements:

• improved DSN performance by tweaking internal connection limits
• fixed piece cache sync being triggered on restart (will still happen one more time after upgrade)
• plotting is now happening in parallel to node syncing
• reduce domain logging verbosity during sync

Ubuntu and Windows x86-64 builds

There are two versions:

• 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

gemini-3g-2024-jan-31

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3g.

A bunch of improvements:

• quinn-udp warnings are suppressed for now
• NUMA_ALLOCATOR experimental environment variable support removed
• CPU utilization improvements for farmer:
  • if not enough farms present for number of L3 cache groups, CPU cores will be re-grouped more coarsely to be fully utilized even for smaller number of farms instead of printing warning
  • farming threads are capped to 32 by default, there should be no need to use more threads for any farm
• runtime API usage reduced in RPC layer, allowing to connect much larger number of farms
• faster initialization if partially filled piece cache on farmer, resulting in faster farmer startup
• graceful networking shutdown under load
• more graceful farmer shutdown without excessive warnings

Ubuntu and Windows x86-64 builds

There are two versions:

• 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

gemini-3h-2024-jan-31-2

Initial release of Gemini 3h software with PoT seed (hash of Bitcoin block 828258) baked in.

gemini-3h-2024-jan-31

Initial release of Gemini 3h software.

Note that this is note yet meant to be used by regular users and is primarily focused on Timekeepers for bootstrapping the network. There will be Proof of Time seed embedded in the next release that will make usage simpler. If you are interested in starting the network with us, join community call today, January 31st on Discord.

chain-spec-gemini-3h-2024-jan-31

This is chainspec release for upcoming Gemini 3h release

gemini-3g-2024-jan-29-2

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3g.

This is the same release as gemini-3g-2024-jan-29, but fixes compilation for macOS.

A few improvements:

• Non-fatal farming errors will not crash farmer and will instead shown as warnings in logs
• Corrupted sector metadata will be corrected on restart instead of crashing farmer
• NUMA enabling in BIOS is no longer necessary as farmer will check L3 cache topology instead, benefiting larger Ryzen/Threadripper/Epyc processors
• Some internal improvements with many new events exposed programmatically about farmer's operation

Ubuntu and Windows x86-64 builds

There are two versions:

• 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