Latest Release Oct 14, 2025

[rusty.spork]

Announcement: Latest Release
Please follow these instructions to upgrade your nodes to the newest version to ensure the best performance and stability for @everyone! Check out the Github Release with changelog details. With the new ant client, gas costs on file uploads are reduced by up to 67% This will be introduced to DAVE soon

For Node Launchpad Users:

1. Open Node Launchpad v0.5.11 if you are not already on that version
2. Press O to access the Options screen.
3. Then, press Ctrl + U, and hit Enter. This will upgrade your nodes. Upgrading can take several minutes for each node. Please don’t close the app or stop your nodes during this process.
4. Your nodes will now stop
5. Press Ctrl + S to start your nodes again

For CLI Tool Users:

1. If you’re using the CLI tool, please update and upgrade. Run the update first: antup update
2. Then run the upgrade: antctl upgrade --interval 60000
3. Finally, start them again with antctl start --interval 60000

For ALL Users:

• Please start your nodes gradually — especially if you plan on running multiple nodes.
• Be conservative with CPU allocation to maintain stability
• You must be on 2025.7.1.3 or newer to earn rewards

Binary Versions:

• antnode: v0.4.5
• antctld: v0.13.3
• antctl: v0.13.3
• ant: v0.4.8
• evm-testnet: v0.1.16
• nat-detection: v0.2.22
• node-launchpad: v0.5.11

[loziniak]

• The analyze command now has an analyse alias for British English spelling preference.

I want Polish version as well!

Besides that, well done, thanks!

[neo]

@rusty.spork

• If you’re using the CLI tool, please update and upgrade. Run the update first: antup update
• Then run the upgrade: antctl upgrade --interval 60000

@rusty.spork Can you please ask whomever that the commands are made consistent

That is chooseupdateorupgraderather than being different for the 2 CLI tools

[Profess]

Network

Changed

• Nodes now use the Bootstrap struct to drive the initial bootstrapping process and the bootstrap cache.
• Nodes now evict peers immediately if they notice their peer ID has changed. This allows the network to flush out old peers much quicker. This should resolve some performance issues we’ve seen on the production network that have been the result of node operators who are over-provisioning and pulling large numbers of nodes in short time periods.

Well done!

[Toivo]

Just in case that everyone running nodes might not follow Discord:

[Mendrit]

Hotfix Oct 15, 2025

Announcement: Hotfix We’ve deployed a hotfix to address several node issues discovered after the last release. The problem was a bug that caused nodes to time out because they were waiting indefinitely to return from Bootstrap::new(). This has now been resolved in this hotfix by adding new timeouts for certain operations and ensured that the function always returns once it has at least 5 addresses. We have also pushed an update to Dave that reduces the gas costs…