This release contains a major improvement for the mempool that reduce the amount of sent data by about 30%
(see some numbers below).
It also fixes a memory leak in the mempool and gives you the ability to run HTTPS RPC servers (over TLS) by providing a certificate and key in the config.
Special thanks to external contributors on this release:
@guagualvcha, @HaoyangLiu, @needkane
@ -15,7 +19,7 @@ Special thanks to external contributors on this release:
- [mempool] [\#2778](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/2778) No longer send txs back to peers who sent it to you and limit to 65536 active peers.
- [mempool] [\#2778](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/2778) No longer send txs back to peers who sent it to you.
Also, limit to 65536 active peers.
This vastly improves the the b bandwidth consumption of nodes.
E.g. 250bytes txs for 120 sec. at 500 txs/sec. rate, so total 15MB:
- total bytes received from 1st node in 4 node localnet
@ -39,7 +44,7 @@ E.g. 250bytes txs for 120 sec. at 500 txs/sec. rate, so total 15MB:
- total bytes sent to 1st node in 4 node localnet
- before: 30569339 (30MB)
- after: 19304964 (19MB)
- [p2p] [\#3475](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/3475) Simplify `GetSelectionWithBias` for addressbook
- [p2p] [\#3475](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/3475) Simplify `GetSelectionWithBias` for addressbook (@guagualvcha)
- [rpc/lib/client] [\#3430](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/3430) Disable compression for HTTP client to prevent GZIP-bomb DoS attacks (@guagualvcha)