Dear Idena community,
We plan to release a new version of the Idena node on November 12, 2021. It will be a seamless hard fork update.
Hard fork changes:
- Invitation reward bug fix
- Distribution of reporting rewards for newbies bug fix
- Shard id for Candidates calculation bug fix
- Finalizing validation ceremony bug fix
- Oracle voting smart contract: decreasing the minimum deposit for the whole network voting
Other changes:
- Shard id for non validated address calculation
- Changing priority for deferred transactions
- Providing disconnection reason for peers
- Adding peers for shared nodes (shared profile)
- Peering improvements
- Consensus engine improvements
- Updating bootstrap nodes list
How the hard fork will be activated
1. The new node version will support both the current blockchain protocol and the upcoming protocol changes.
2. Running the new version of the node with active mining status means that the validated address is voting for the upcoming protocol changes.
3. The hard fork update will be activated only when the following voting criteria are met:
- more than 80% of online mining nodes support the upcoming changes
- more than 60% of validated addresses support the upcoming changes
4. The hard fork update will be activated no earlier than November 15 or anytime after once the voting criteria are met. Otherwise, the hard fork update will be blocked on November 18.
