About this release

As any of the previous, this release includes changes that improve compatibility with epoch nodes, more specifically:

Changed commitment hash calculations in naming system, to be Hash(NameHash(name) + name_salt) instead of Hash(Hash(name + name_salt)).
Added identifiers to name and name_commitment structures.
Changed base58 encoding delimiter from '$' to '_'.
Upgraded IDNA library to introduce character and label validation according to IDNA 2008.
Removed .aet from allowed naming registrars.
Added vm_version field to oracle and oracle_registration_tx structures.
Added response_ttl to oracle_response_tx.
Adjusted oracle serializations. Oracle query structure changes: added binary identifiers to senders and oracle owners.
Implemented functionality for garbage collecting of transactions in the pool. Transactions with an outdated ttl are removed from the transaction pool.
Added functionality to get base gas price for each transaction.
Introduced Delegates in Channels
Added ChannelSnapshot transaction
Adjusted Channel structures for compatibility with v0.25.0 epoch: ChannelMutalCloseTx, ChannelStateOnChain, ChannelCreateTx
Adjusted various Channels checks for compatibility with v0.25.0 epoch

Here you can find installation and configuration guides.

Retrieve the software for running a node

After unpacking the contents of elixir-node-0.2.0-ubuntu-x86_64.tar.gz, the node can then be started with the following commands:

Start the node in interactive mode - ./bin/elixir_node console
Start the node in the background - ./bin/elixir_node start
Connect to the console of the node running in the background - ./bin/elixir_node attach
Stop the node running in the background - ./bin/elixir_node stop