Governance Proposal v1.4.0 Successful
Vara’s developer community unveiled v1.4.0 and runtime 1400 for Gear, optimizing the user experience and improving the ecosystem.
See the original governance proposal and the results of the vote below:
With the successful tests of the v1.4.0 tag, a proposal was made to incorporate these updates. The proposal involved upgrading crates to “v1.4.0” and the runtime. Below are the highlights of this release:
- User-space improvements: refactored gtest structures, enabled compile-time address conversion, added Vara address support and implemented cargo-gbuild for optimized WASM builds.
- Runtime enhancements and bug fixes: improved stability, speed, and security with a redesigned engine, memory allocation bug fix and new WASM import/data size restrictions.
- Other notable improvements: removed waiting init list for uninitialized programs, optimized validator gas payouts and updated Substrate to v1.2.0.
The community voted and approved the updates through a governance proposal. The upgrade was activated at block number 12629500, integrating the new version onto the mainnet on Tue Jun 04 2024 16:25 GMT
About Vara Network
Vara Network is a stand-alone layer-1 decentralized network built and running on top of Gear Protocol. Vara is one of several environments facilitated by Gear Foundation for developers to build decentralized applications.
Whether you’re looking to build a new project or bring existing applications to the blockchain, the benefits of its optimizations and unique technology make Vara Network the ideal platform for developers looking to build the next generation of dApps.
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