gemini-3h-2024-may-24

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few notable improvements:

• Same as gemini-3h-2024-may-23, but with farming fixed
• Initial farming cluster support (MVP, expect more things around metrics and performance improvements in the future)
• Improved plotting performance (and better CPU utilization)

The rest of the 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-may-23

⚠️ This release is problematic, please downgrade to gemini-3h-2024-may-15 or upgrade to the next release once it is out ⚠️

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few notable improvements:

• Initial farming cluster support (MVP, expect more things around metrics and performance improvements in the future)
• Improved plotting performance (and better CPU utilization)

The rest of the 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-may-15

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few notable improvements:

• Improved piece cache performance
• Plotting errors are now retried instead of erroring the whole farm

The rest of the 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-may-06

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few notable improvements:

• Reduced idle farmer memory usage
• Increased RPC timeout that should help a bit with pathological cases (though it doesn't really fix the root of the issue)
• Ability to specify sector record chunks reading mode, for example path=/path/to/farm,size=100G,record-chunks-mode=ConcurrentChunks
• Ability to prevent farmer from creating new farms with --create false, helpful in case disk failed to mount properly

The rest of the 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-may-01

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

This release fixes a security vulnerability from CVE-2024-32984 and update should be done ASAP.

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-apr-26-2

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

Hotfix for gemini-3h-2024-apr-26 release that couldn't create new farms.

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-apr-26

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few notable improvements:

• --farm-during-initial-plotting removed from farmer as unnecessary (always enabled now)
• Faster node startup
• Fix farmer errors after resizing

The rest of the 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-apr-24

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few notable improvements:

• Higher peak DSN download speed with libp2p upgrade
• Exact CPU cores used for plotting/replotting are not printed in logs on farmer startup (helpful as a baseline for customization)
• L3 cache groups now properly respected when --sector-encoding-concurrency is used without --[re|]plotting-thread-pool-size, improving performance for those using it
• Single farm can now encode any number of sectors concurrently (regrouping of CPU cores no longer happens)

The rest of the 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

runtime-gemini-3h-2024-apr-02

This is a runtime upgrade release for the consensus chain on Gemini 3h.

This release is primarily for increasing the bundle limit.

Applied to Gemini 3h at block 926644: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc-0.gemini-3h.subspace.network%2Fws#/explorer/query/0x61855974474c35004ca646706addac3d52b9db2f8aac132de64e83cbf2d3fc07

gemini-3h-2024-mar-29

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few notable improvements:

• Support for CPU core ranges in --plotting-cpu-cores and --replotting-cpu-cores farmer options
• Improved error handling on farmer, including not exiting if some farms crash, but others continue to work (--exit-on-farm-error can be used to restore previous behavior)
• Improved farmer caching
• --sector-encoding-concurrency is no longer required for --plotting-thread-pool-size and --replotting-thread-pool-size to have effect
• A few domain-specific fixes
• Fix for occasional temporary node de-sync caused by announcement of very old blocks (such blocks will now be ignored)
• QUIC protocol support removed that should address networking issues for some users (UDP ports are no longer used)

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