Algorand BetaNet 3.4.0

IMPORTANT This release requires a protocol upgrade. This release contains a consensus protocol upgrade, which implements the following spec: https://github.com/algorandfoundation/specs/tree/85e6db1fdbdef00aa232c75199e10dc5fe9498f6

Highlights

• Contract to contract: Smart contracts can now call other smart contracts, using the new inner transaction type appl
• State Proof keys: online participants will now generate Post Quantum-secure Falcon keys when renewing online status. These keys will be used to generate Algorand State Proofs
• Batch Verification: nodes can now group signatures in batches for faster verification

Changelog

1. Agreement
   • New Features
     • Integrate State Proof keys (#2990)
     • Batch verification to speed up the process of verifying the digital signature of several transactions (#3031)
   • Enhancements
     • Verify VotingKeys run time (#3551)
     • Removed hard-coded constant in sortition.go. (#3558)
     • V31 consensus upgrade (#3553)
   • Bug Fix - add a fallback for missing state proof keys in participation file (#3619)
2. AVM
   • New Feature - contract to contract support (#3397)
3. Goal
   • Bug Fix - goal asset send does not respect fee set to 0 (#3592)
4. Ledger
   • Bug Fix - fix NextRewardsState() (#3403)
   • Bug Fix - fix a potential problem of committing non-uniform consensus versions (#3453)
5. Tx Sync
   • Bug Fix - tx sync was incorrectly validating transactions (#3554)
6. REST API
   • Remove unused DeleteParticipationIdResponse type (#3500)
   • Adding another field for lsig disassembly (#3577)
7. Tools
   • New Feature - add catchpointdump into tools package (#3590)
   • Enhancements
     • Optimize catchpointdump utility (#3561)
     • catchpointdump: allow print filters (#3566)
     • Add filter fields to catchpointdump net command (#3598)
   • Bug Fix - set genesis proto version in catchpointdump (#3596)
8. Tests
   • Bug Fix - rollback changes to ParticipationExpirationTest (#3611)
   • Bug Fix - fix bug in TestParticipationAccountsExpirationFuture/TestParticipationAccountsExpirationNonFuture (#3616)
   • Bug Fix - fix participation key expiration tests (#3621)
9. Logging
   • Enhancement - add Version KV to telemetry events (#3341)
     • Avoid generating log error on EnsureValidatedBlock / EnsureBlock (#3424)
     • Fix warning message on restore crash db (#3455)
10. Other
    • Enhancements
      • Adding new scenario for feature networks (#3451)
      • Add bandwidth testing to perf pipeline (#3487)
      • Fixing telemetry ports for feature networks (#3497)
      • Update ledger README reference to trackers (#3540)
      • Add comment to help explain txntest.Txn rationale (#3574)
      • Moving windows build to Github Actions (#3575)
      • update THANKS.md file (#3595)
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix typo Fulll to Full (#3456)
      • Revert fillBytes method to bigIntToBytes for lower golang version (#3498)
      • Revert "Changing golang version to 1.16.11 in go-algorand" (#3506)
      • Moving to centos stream 8 (#3560)
      • Revert golang1.16 arm32 changes (#3615)
      • Remove make gen from ci-build (#3617)

Note: Users running a local consensus private network with vFuture may need to rebuild the local network when upgrading their MainNet node.

Additional Resources

• Algorand Forum
• Developer Documentation