Mainnet Beta Release 1.2.1beta1

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The O(1) Labs team is proud to announce that we're graduating the 1.2.1 alpha to Beta, with some additional UX improvements and some retry logic for the uptime service. 1.2.1beta1 includes the more comprehensive changes to improve graphQL/networking responsiveness as promised, as well as a new async VRF computation process to keep VRF evaluations off of the main thread (especially for block producers with many delegates). These changes have been very effective on Devnet thusfar and initial Mainnet testing looks equally positive.

If you run into any issues, please include Release: 1.2.1beta1 in the name of any issues you create. Please report any issues you encounter here or join the Discussion!

Stability Improvements and Bug Fixes:

• Async scheduler changes to improve responsiveness Fix async scheduler starvation #9416 and related metrics Add block validation acceptance time metric #9545
• Stop restarting the Verifier every 15 minutes Remove verifier auto-restart #9565 feature/rm-verifier-restart-1.2.0 #9568

New Features:

• Asynchronous VRF evaluation process VRF evaluation subprocess on 1.2.0 #9409 with improved ux fix next producing time in daemon status (1.2.1) #9792
• Change the docker entrypoint script so that the last few lines of log output are less likely to get cut off feature/rm-verifier-restart-1.2.0 #9568
• Properly tag releases in CI and push them directly to minaprotocol/ lk86/fix-docker-tags-minaprotocol  #9566
• Deprecate the setStaking graphql endpoint and mina client set-staking command deprecate setStaking command #9717
• 5 minutes of retries for sending snark work to the foundation delegation backend Uptime service, retry POST #9764

Archive Node:

• Update mina-extract-blocks to properly set the block_winner instead of always using creator_id lk86/port-extract-blocks-fix-to-1.2.0 #9567 (Thanks @kobigurk for making the change and @jrwashburn for bringing attention to this bug)

Complete Changelog since 1.2.0:

1.2.0...1.2.1beta1
For more information about the changes included in 1.2.0, see the previous release notes

Upgrading & Connecting

Debian Packages:

Debian Repository:
First, Set up and update the beta Debian Repository

echo "deb [trusted=yes] http://packages.o1test.net stretch beta" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mina-beta.list
sudo apt-get update

Then, install the package(s) that you need:
Mina Daemon: sudo apt-get install -y mina-mainnet=1.2.1beta1-45440dc
Mina Archive: sudo apt-get install -y mina-archive=1.2.1beta1-45440dc

Docker Images:

Mina Daemon: minaprotocol/mina-daemon:1.2.1beta1-45440dc-mainnet
Mina Archive: minaprotocol/mina-archive:1.2.1beta1-45440dc

Devnet:

This release does also improve the experience for nodes on devnet, simply replace mainnet with devnet in the package or docker image name above to use this beta on devnet.

Sandbox Node: For testing in an isolated, single-node network without snarks

As of 1.2.0, the demo functionality is built into the standard daemon container, via the environment variable RUN_DEMO=true.
Just docker run -it --name mina-demo -e RUN_DEMO=true minaprotocol/mina-daemon:1.2.1beta1-45440dc-devnet and go!

Step by Step Guide:

Check out our documentation for complete instructions on using this version to connect to Mainnet. Docker only Make sure to run with --peer-list-url https://storage.googleapis.com/mina-seed-lists/mainnet_seeds.txt.

If you are running the correct version on the correct network, mina client status will show:

Chain id:     5f704cc0c82e0ed70e873f0893d7e06f148524e3f0bdae2afb02e7819a0c24d1
Git SHA-1:    45440dc7e4c5dac480dd075357c1d369b893fbe1

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