Release 2.5.3

This release adds support for byte-range content policies, including compatibility with the NSFW list produced by the shepherd program. You can load that list (or any others) by adding the following to your miner's start command:

transaction_blacklist_url http://shepherd-v.com/list.txt.

For more details, see the note in the mining guide.

Upgrade instructions

N.2.5.3 comes with the prebuilt binaries for the Linux and Darwin x86_64 platforms. arweave-2.5.3.linux-x86_64.tar.gz works at least on Ubuntu 20 and CentOS 8. To run on Ubuntu 18, grab arweave-2.5.3.ub18-x86_64.tar.gz. CentOS 7 is not supported.

Download the corresponding archive and unpack it:

tar -xzf arweave-2.5.3.0.linux-x86_64.tar.gz

It makes sense to unpack it inside a dedicated directory. You can always move this directory around, but the miner may not work if you move only some of the files. The weave data would, by default, be stored in this directory, too, but it can be overridden using the data_dir command-line argument.
The archive contents look like this:

bin/  data/  erts-10.3/  lib/  releases/

To run the miner, execute ./bin/start . See the mining guide for more details.

If your OS/platform architecture is not on the list, check README for how to build the miner from sources.

If you want to run the miner from the existing Git folder, upgrade Erlang to version 23 or 24 and execute the following command:

git fetch --all --tags && git checkout -f N.2.5.3

You can now run the miner using the arweave-server script.

Support

For more details on how to run a mining node, please see our mining guide - https://docs.arweave.org/info/mining/mining-guide. If you have any issues upgrading or would like to know more about the release, feel free to reach out to us in the Arweave Miners Discord (https://discord.gg/GHB4fxVv8B) or email us at team@arweave.org.