Releases and Updates

👉 Horizon 1.0 is out! Read the blog post. On March 2, we will be upgrading the horizon.stellar.org cluster to Horizon v1.0.0, so if you’re using that, make sure to prepare. It contains some breaking changes, which you can check out in the changelog. Please make sure to update your code! We created a temporary beta public network server running v1.0.0-beta to help with that.

👉 I’d also like to echo a reminder from last week: upgrade your SDK of choice to avoid any issues when Horizon v1.0.0 gets deployed to the public network. These SDKs that are ready to go: Go, Javascript, Python, Qt, .NET, iOS, Scala.

Starting a full stellar core validator from scratch can take a while because the node needs to download and process a lot of data during the “Catch up” phase. Lobstr has released a script to make that process significantly shorter by allowing a node to perform the catch up of multiple ledger blocks in parallel. You can find it here.