From 2f2de5b52abac4686067565b0ce4934ee1de1f8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: s3krit Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:42:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] update CHANGELOG.md (#11260) --- CHANGELOG.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index ea660ef93..28aaf2a1f 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ ## Parity-Ethereum [v2.6.5](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/releases/tag/v2.6.5) -Parity Ethereum v2.6.5-stable 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 miscellaenous changes. +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. The full list of included changes: