Releases and Updates

The Beta version of Horizon 1.0.0 came out this week. We also deployed it to the SDF testnet Horizon instances. It’s more stable than the Alpha release, and while we still don’t recommend it for production deployments, it is ready for testing setups, staging servers, and developer use. In fact, we encourage you to try it out so you can see how it handles, get familiar with Horizon’s new features, and report any issues you come across so we can fix them before the production release.

In case you missed it, the new Horizon relies on a new ingestion engine that enables some sweet new features including:

A set of new endpoints, many of which were impossible under the previous ingestion architecture. The full list is in the release notes.

An in-memory order book graph for rapid querying.

The ability to run parallel ingestion over multiple Horizon hosts, which improves service availability for production deployments.

You can find the full release notes here.

Version 4.0.0 of the JavaScript Stellar SDK and version 4.0 of the Dotnet (.NET)—both of which support Horizon 1.0—came out this week, too. You can find the full release notes for the JavaScript SDK here and for the .NET SDK here.

Over the next few weeks, the rest of the Stellar SDKs will roll out new versions that support Horizon 1.0, so stayed tuned.