Forest v0.20.0 "Brexit"

Non-mandatory release including a number of new RPC methods, fixes, and other improvements. Be sure to check the breaking changes before upgrading.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Forest v0.19.2 "Eagle"

Non-mandatory release that includes a fix for the Prometheus-incompatible metric.

See full CHANGELOG for more details.

Forest v0.19.1 "Pathfinder"

Mandatory release for mainnet nodes that adds the NV23 Waffle migration at epoch 4154640 -> 2024-08-06T12:00:00Z. This release also adds support for new RPC methods and fixes a networking issue where Forest would not bootstrap a Lotus node.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Forest v0.19.0 "Pastel de nata"

This is a mandatory release for all calibration network node operators. It includes migration logic for the NV23 Waffle network upgrade. It also includes a number of new RPC methods, fixes to existing ones, and other improvements, most notably, garbage collection fix.

The calibration network has been scheduled for upgrade to epoch 1779094, which is 2024-07-11T12:00:00Z

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Forest v0.18.0 "Big Bang"

This is a non-mandatory release, including many new RPC methods and improvements to the Forest RPC API. The release also includes several bug fixes, as outlined below. Please note the breaking changes in this release.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Forest v0.17.2 "Dovakhin"

This is a mandatory release for all mainnet node operators. It changes the NV22 dragon network upgrade epoch to 3855360 (Wed Apr 24 02:00:00 PM UTC 2024). All mainnet node must be updated to this version before the network upgrade epoch to avoid being stuck on a fork.

See CHANGELOG for details.

Forest v0.17.1 "Villentretenmerth"

This is a mandatory release that includes scheduled migration for the NV22 Dragon network upgrade for mainnet and a fix for the calibration network. Various other fixes and improvements are included as well.

See CHANGELOG for details.

To ensure a smooth transition, Forest must be updated:

• for mainnet nodes, before April 11th, 14:00 UTC,
• for calibnet nodes, before April 3rd, 11:00 UTC.

Forest v0.17.0 "Smaug"

Mandatory release that includes:

• support for the NV22 Dragon network upgrade, together with the required state migration,
• important networking improvements that increase Forest resilience to network disruptions,
• various improvements and support for new RPC methods.

See CHANGELOG for details.

Forest v0.16.8 "English Channel"

Patch level release that includes support for the Filecoin.ChainNotify RPC method.

Forest v0.16.7 "Etaoin shrdlu"

Mandatory release that includes a fix for a bug in the libp2p usage. This is necessary after the PL-managed bootstrap nodes were decommissioned. Failure to upgrade will result in difficulty connecting to the mainnet network.

Check the CHANGELOG for details.