TON Status:Mainnet full node and lite server owners Please update your node software to commit e1

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5 May 2024

TON Status:
Mainnet full nodeand lite server owners

Please update your node software to commit

e1197b1

if you haven't done it before:

— in mytonctrl run

upgrade

— if you don't use mytonctrl please manually rebuild code from master branch of https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton

Update your validators one by one, don't update all at the same time.

This update is mandatory.

TONdapps developers

The old method of communication between dapp and browser extension (

window.ton

) is completely deprecated. Please replace it with TON Connect if you haven't already.

Browser extensions will stop providing the

window.ton

interface in a month at September 15.

Please use the unified TON Connect UI SDK and guidelines to provide the best possible experience for The Open Network users.

Scheduled network update on October 25

We are asking validators to schedule a time on October 25 at 9:00 UTC for validator software update.

This update is mandatory and contains a series of additional security checks in node software to improve stability of the network.

Mainnet full nodeandlite server owners

Please update your node software.

Instructions for update.

This update is mandatory for validators. It is also recommended for lite servers and full nodes for better stability.

Update includes:

— A series of additional security checks in node:
    • special cells in action list
    • initstate in external messages
    • peers data prior to saving to disk.
— Human-readable timestamps in explorer

Scheduled network update on November 30

We are asking validators, full node and lite server owners to schedule a time on November 30 at 12:00 UTC for validator software update.

This update is mandatory and contains a series improvements
of node security and stability. It also contains new TVM functionality disabled by default: this functionality will be activated when the network is upgraded and validators vote to enable new TVM.

Mainnet full nodeandlite server owners

Please update your node software.

Instructions for update.

This update is mandatory for validators, lite servers and full nodes.

Target versions:

mytonctrl: 342bad2 (master)
validator: 51baec4 (master)

Update includes:

— New TVM Functionality. (Disabled by default)
— A series of emulator improvements: libraries support, higher max stack size, etc
— A series of tonlib and tonlib-cli improvements: wallet-v4 support, getconfig, showtransactions, etc
— Changes to public libraries: now contract can not publish more than 256 libraries (config parameter) and contracts can not be deployed with public libraries in initstate (instead contracts need explicitly publish all libraries)
— Changes to storage due payment: now due payment is collected in Storage Phase, however for bouncable messages fee amount can not exceed balance of account prior to message.

Mainnet Validators

Please be prepared to vote to enable TVM Update on December 12 at 9:00 UTC.

More info »

Please check that your node software is updated to the latest version (it should be on

51baec4

commits, both are fine). If your node is outdated, upgrade immediately.

If 75%+ of the positive votes of the validators are collected in two rounds of 6 rounds, then TVM Update will be enabled.

Mainnet Validators

To improve processing of recent payload please upgrade your validators, in MyTonCtrl:

upgrade

If you are on

queue_clearance3

and/or on

027338c

commit - you are fine, please do not switch to master branch right now, chose time in coming days.

If you are owner of LiteServer, no immediate update is needed.

Mainnet Validators
Mandatory action required

If your validator nodes have less than 15 vCPUs we ask you to not participate in next elections for some times.
To do it, use

set stake 0

command in MyTONCtrl. If, instead of MyTONCtrl you use your own election scripts and has less than 15 vCPU, please stop them.

Mainnet validators

Please update your validator software to commit

9b6d699

of master branch.

To do it run in mytonctrl:

upgrade master

If you have several validator nodes, update them one by one (updated, waited for synchronization, and moved on to the next one).

Critical bug detected and fixed thanks to bug bounty

It was found that no special check against "all bytes same" public keys in OpenSSL crypto.

Thus, due to the recent zeroing of the configuration key, a vulnerability has opened up.

Just now we have used this issue to yet another time update config contract storage - bytes of public key are replaced with

82b17caadb303d53c3286c06a6e1affc517d1bc1d3ef2e4489d18b873f5d7cd1

-
sha256 hash of

Not a valid curve point

phrase. This means that the
vulnerability is closed and no one can use the configuration key.

We thank everyone who participated in the TON bug bounty! This is an example of a bug that gets a top reward.

TON coped with minting activity!

What a week! Not without difficulty, but we did it.

Just for yesterday, TON has processed more than 21 million transactions (which is ~10% of all transactions over the entire previous period). At the same time, we have maintained the cheap fixed cost of transactions, as before. In total, more than 90K TON were spent on network commissions over the past week.

We have learned lessons, some of the fixes have already been made, and work on the remaining ones is planned.

What is next?

This stress test revealed points of further growth and improvement throughout the entire ecosystem: Liteservers network, Resilient indexing APIs, message delivery infrastructure. Recent days results reassured our confidence that we will solve huge challenge of truly mass-adoption and will bring the crypto to every pocket!

The upcoming updates are as follows:

• Next TON validator software upgrade is planned to December 14.

• Voting for TVM upgrade is moved for December 19.

• Tech report on events December 5 - December 12 is planned to the end of this week.

• New requirements and benchmarks for validator and lite-server hardware are planned to be released on next week.

Thanks to the community

We would like to note the well-coordinated and efficient work of community, in particular @Wallet, Tonkeeper, TON API, dTON, re:doubt, Tonhub and Orbs. Services have already begun eliminating detected bottlenecks.

Stay in touch!

Mainnet full nodeandlite server owners

Please update your node software.

Instructions for update.

This update is mandatory for validators.

Target versions:

mytonctrl: 342bad2 (master)
validator: 6897b56 (master)

This update includes:

— Optimized message queue handling, now queue cleaning speed doesn't depend on total queue size

If you have several validator nodes, update them one by one (update, waite for synchronization, move to the next one).

Mainnet Validators

Please vote for enabling new TVM features.

More info »

1) Please check that your node software is updated to the latest version (it should be on

6897b56

commit). If your node is outdated, upgrade immediately via

upgrade

command in MyTonCtrl.

2) To vote via mytonctrl you need to use the command:

vo 85710661254977802982316316252924652442954445780328502685001287213020431864656

If 75%+ of the positive votes of the validators are collected in two
rounds of next 6 rounds, then the proposal will be accepted.

New hardware requirements

Validators:
* 16 x Cores CPU
* 64GB Memory
* 1TB NVME SSD OR Provisioned 64+k IOPS storage
* 1 Gbit/s network connectivity

Full Nodes:
* 16 x Cores CPU
* 64GB Memory
* 1TB SSD OR Provisioned 32+k IOPS storage
* 1 Gbit/s network connectivity

Archival Nodes:
* 16 x Cores CPU
* 128GB ECC Memory
* 3.8TB SSD OR Provisioned 32+k IOPS storage (3.8TB assumes usage of ZFS volume with compression enabled).
* 1 Gbit/s network connectivity

Note that disk performance is important.

Guidelines for API clients

Public liteservers (from the global config) and free plans in TON API and Toncenter exist to get you started with TON quickly. It can be used for learning to program in TON, or for applications and scripts that do not require 100% uptime.

If you're a developer of a popular product you can use:

— More advanced plans in Toncenter or TON API, which provide more requests per second and better stability.

— Other APIs like dton, re:doubt, TON Access may also provide extended plans.

— Run your own node. In this case please pay attention to the hardware requirements.

BSC Bridge Mantainance

Toncoin transfers between the BSC and TON networks via bridge.ton.org have been suspended for unscheduled technical works. The work will take approximately one week. We apologize for any inconvenience.

All funds are safe and all unprocessed transfers will be processed after the technical work is completed.

Toncoin and token transfers between Ethereum and TON networks are operating as normal.

Recently a highload wallet of @wallet in mainnet was stuck because current gas limit (1M) is not enough to clean up old queries, thus locking funds inside. More technical details can be found in crypto/smartcont/highload-wallet-v2-code.fc.

While locked funds represent only a small part of the total user assets on platform, loss of access to it can undermine the trust and user experience in TON.

To restore access to funds we plan to propose to validators temporarily increase gas limit for account EQD_v9j1rlsuHHw2FIhcsCFFSD367ldfDdCKcsNmNpIRzUlu.

Next update planned to January 18 will contains (disabled by default) corresponding changes among other things and, once network will be upgraded, we will propose validators to vote for increased gas limits.

When developing node software, we strive for the best user experience. To this end, we collaborate with projects in the ecosystem, including exchanges and wallets. In particular, in situations where it is possible to correct problems without undermining monetary policy (without printing new money), we develop and invite validators to approve changes to the node like those mentioned above. In addition, contracts, guidelines, tools and documentation are being improved to prevent such situations from arising.

Scheduled network update on January 18

We are asking validators to schedule a time on January 18 at 9:00 UTC for validator software update.

This update is mandatory and contains optimization of node stability as well as disabled by default changes to gas_limit behavior.

Mainnet full node and lite server owners

Please update your node software (see "Target versions")

Instructions for update

Target versions:
mytonctrl

b9d5937

validator

9728bc6

This update is mandatory for validators and lite servers.

Update includes:

- Fixes in how gas in transactions on special accounts is accounted in block limit.
- Improvements in LS behavior
- Improvements in DHT work and storage, CellDb, config.json ammendment,
peer misbehavior detection, validator session stats collection,
emulator.

Update also includes conditional increase of gas limit which may be activated by validator voting.

Scheduled network update on January 26

We are asking validators to schedule a time on January 26 at 9:00 UTC for validator software update.

This update is mandatory and contains changes to gas_limit behavior that is more gentle for contracts and services. Technical details of upcoming updated and information for smart-contract developers is here.

Mainnet full node and lite server owners

Please update your node software (see "Target versions")

Instructions for update

Target versions:
mytonctrl

b9d5937

validator

8a9ff33

This update is mandatory for validators and lite servers.

Update includes:
- Improvement in how gas in transactions on special accounts is accounted in block limit.
- Solution for