docs/CHANGELOG-2.6.md
Parity Ethereum v2.6.8-beta is a security release. Valid blocks with manipulated transactions (added/replaced) cause the client to stall.
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Parity Ethereum v2.6.7-beta is a patch release that adds Istanbul hardfork block numbers for POA and xDai networks, implements ECIP-1056 and implements EIP-2384/2387 - Muir Glacier.
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Parity Ethereum v2.6.6-beta is an emergency patch release that adds the missing eip1344_transition for mainnet - Users are advised to update as soon as possible to prevent any issues with the imminent Istanbul hardfork
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eip1344_transition for istanbul (#11301)Parity Ethereum v2.6.5-beta is a patch release that adds block numbers for activating the Istanbul hardfork on mainnet, as well as a large number of various bugfixes, QoL changes, some code cleanup/refactoring and other miscellaneous changes.
This release removes legacy aliases for the mainnet. If you specify --chain homestead, --chain frontier or --chain byzantium, this will need to be changed to one of: --chain eth, --chain ethereum, --chain foundation or --chain mainnet.
This release includes important changes to how snapshots are produced. The size of the Ethereum account state means that producing a snapshot takes a long while; most nodes today are not able to finish before the relevant state is pruned. Starting with v2.6.5, pruning is paused while a snapshot is underway, hopefully fixing the current dearth of recent snapshots. The downside to this is that memory usage goes up while a snapshot is produced.
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Parity Ethereum v2.6.4-stable is a patch release that adds the block numbers for activating the Istanbul hardfork on test networks: Ropsten, Görli, Rinkeby and Kovan.
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Parity Ethereum v2.6.3-stable is a patch release that improves security, stability and performance.
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Parity Ethereum v2.6.2-stable is a bugfix release that fixes a potential DoS attack in the trace_call RPC method. This is a critical upgrade for anyone running Parity nodes with RPC exposed to the public internet (and highly recommended for anyone else). For details see this blog post.
Parity-Ethereum 2.6.1-beta is a patch release that improves stability.
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Parity-Ethereum 2.6.0-beta is a minor release that stabilizes the 2.6 branch by marking it as a beta release.
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As of today, Parity-Ethereum 2.4 reaches end of life, and everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
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smallvec 0.6.10 to fix vulnerability (#10822)add invalid pool size test depending on processor (#10811)SystemTime::now() (#10720)rust-crypto (#10714)Notifier and TransactionsPoolNotifier (#10591)unix_time + ttl + work (#10587)parity_pendingTransactions (issue 8269) (#10506)