Advance Notice: aelf v1.5.0 Upgrade
We are thrilled to announce that an upgrade to aelf v1.5.0 is on schedule and will be carried out at 18:00 on July 19, 2023 (GMT+8). The upgrade is estimated to happen at block height around 160914583 on the MainChain and 152297810 on the SideChain, and it will be completed before July 25.
Below are the details of this upgrade:
- Raise the efficiency of transaction fee payment in multiple currencies
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3412
- Add secondary delegation to pay transaction fees
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3413
- Optimise the transaction fee exemption feature
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3420
- Optimise some system contracts to support virtual address
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3422
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3436
- Add events that involve balance changes to the token contract
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3415
- Optimise fees for token creation and issuance
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3425
- Optimise the random number generator algorithm
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3414
- Enable virtual addresses to create tokens on the MainChain and issue NFTs on the SideChains
Issue: https://github.com/AElfProject/AElf/issues/3434
Once aelf v1.5.0 is released, all the production nodes and full nodes will be required to upgrade to the latest version or its mirror version.
We appreciate the support and trust from our communities. aelf promises to constantly upgrade the code and optimize our content so as to provide the best blockchain services to all of our users, developers, and partners.