Devnet Pre-Release 1.3.0alpha1

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The O(1) Labs team is proud to announce that the compatible branch is ready for alpha testing on Devnet in the form of this 1.3.0alpha1 release. The scale of the changes since 1.2.2 is massive after months of work across most of our tooling and many different parts of the application. The 1,424 Commits and 1,589 changed files is a testament to the amount of hard work the team at O(1) Labs, along with contractors and community contributors have put in since even before Mainnet launch. Our internal testing has been very positive, and a large amount of that work was to improve our ability to ship quality, well-tested, maintainable code. Obviously with that much change there are bound to be new bugs that we have yet to discover but we invite you to try this new alpha out on our Devnet network.

If you run into any issues, please include Release: 1.3.0alpha1 in the name of any issues you create. Please report any issues you encounter here or join the Discussion with a comment below!

Highlighted New Features:

• This version supports both MINA_ environment variables and the old CODA_ prefix, but the 1.3.X will be the last releases to support CODA_. We recommend you take this opportunity to use MINA_ everywhere going forward (example: MINA_PRIVKEY_PASS, MINA_CLIENT_TRUSTLIST, etc.)
• Support for Debian Buster in addition to Ubuntu18.04/ Debian Stretch. Official support for 20.04 is coming soon, hopefully before 1.3.0 stable. To use the new buster-based package or images, replace stretch with buster in either the docker image tag or the debian repository setup command.

Archive Node:

Some important archive node changes, including a new database schema, are not yet included in this release, so we advise anyone that is waiting for the 1.3.0+ archive node to wait for a future alpha with the final database schema and more complete migration instructions.

Complete Changelog since 1.2.2:

The change set is far too large for github to display, but the github comparison still shows the immense scale of 1.3.0 and why we are so excited to get it out into your hands to test.
1.2.2...1.3.0alpha1
For more information about the changes included in 1.2.2, see the previous release notes

Upgrading & Connecting

Debian Packages:

Debian Repository:
First, Set up and update the alpha Debian Repository for your platform (stretch or buster, ubuntu 20.04 coming soon)

echo "deb [trusted=yes] http://packages.o1test.net stretch alpha" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mina-beta.list
sudo apt-get update

Then, install the package(s) that you need:
Mina Daemon: sudo apt-get install -y mina-devnet=1.3.0alpha1-98ec1bb
Mina Archive: NOT READY YET - see the note above for more details

Docker Images:

Mina Daemon: minaprotocol/mina-daemon:1.3.0alpha1-98ec1bb-stretch-devnet
or for a Debian Buster image: minaprotocol/mina-daemon:1.3.0alpha1-98ec1bb-buster-devnet
Mina Archive: NOT READY YET - see the note above for more details

Sandbox Node: For testing in an isolated, single-node network without snarks

As of 1.2.0, the demo functionality is built into the standard daemon container, via the environment variable RUN_DEMO=true.
Just docker run -it --name mina-demo -e RUN_DEMO=true minaprotocol/mina-daemon:1.3.0alpha1-98ec1bb-devnet and go!

Step by Step Guide:

Check out our documentation for complete instructions on using this version to connect to Devnet. Docker only Make sure to run with --peer-list-url https://storage.googleapis.com/mina-seed-lists/mainnet_seeds.txt.

If you are running the correct version on the correct network, mina client status will show:

Chain id:     b6ee40d336f4cc3f33c1cc04dee7618eb8e556664c2b2d82ad4676b512a82418
Git SHA-1:    98ec1bb9f01856d79171d4b7f2689ad17b1b751d

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