Boulton RC#2 Released

Now Available for Testing on the Beta Network

The 2nd release candidate for the Boulton version of the Nano node software is now available for testing on the Nano beta network.

This highly anticipated release includes several major features, including Lazy Bootstrapping.

A full, detailed list of enhancements included in Boulton can be found here.

The release tag can be found here. To participate in testing on the beta network, visit https://beta.nano.org/ for information on starting a node and receiving Be-Nanos.

Thank you to everyone in the community for their assistance with testing.

Lazy bootstrap improvements (#1427)

Add confirmation stats and per block duration to confirmation_history (#1433)

Extend “bulk_pull” to have a count parameter (#1432)

Fix RPC shutdown in acceptor loop (#1426)

Differentiate between lazy and non-lazy bootstrap in stats (#1420)

Hashes

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code repository (/utils/gpg_keys)



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GPG Signature

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