v1.8.5

⭐ Features

Avalanche CLI v1.8.5 enables conversion of an existing Subnet into a sovereign L1.

This release also enables custom validator manager address to be deployed on L1s.

Call avalanche blockchain convert to convert your Subnet into an L1!

What's Changed

• Fix links output by CLI by @aphexmunky in #2481
• Add err into some fmt error msgs by @felipemadero in #2502
• Deprecate subnet cmd by @arturrez in #2497
• Remove unnecessary err check by @arturrez in #2515
• Chore(pkg): fix comment by @polymaer in #2042
• Add validator: resume from any previous failed step by @felipemadero in #2506
• Nits on the messages during L1 creation by @meaghanfitzgerald in #2416
• Improve blockchain deploy ux by @sukantoraymond in #2521
• Public archive SDK by @arturrez in #2426
• Improve evm proposer vm activation error handling by @felipemadero in #2534
• Support contract owners for custom subnet evm binary by @felipemadero in #2536
• Improve change weight by @felipemadero in #2545
• Refactor: using slices.Contains to simplify the code by @dashangcun in #2552
• Use local machine to join as validator on any L1 by @sukantoraymond in #2548
• Remove acp 77 release CI by @sukantoraymond in #2567
• Auto Assign PR Author as the PR Assignee by @meaghanfitzgerald in #2563
• 2503 doc autogen w/ commit signature by @owenwahlgren in #2570
• Update markdown ci by @sukantoraymond in #2587
• Enable custom version of subnet evm in blockchain create by @sukantoraymond in #2583
• Modify bootstrap check to using P Chain by @sukantoraymond in #2584
• Convert Subnet To L1 by @sukantoraymond in #2589
• Change Fuji public archive link by @sukantoraymond in #2597
• Ubuntu 20.04 by @sukantoraymond in #2599
• Refactor node setup out of node create by @sukantoraymond in #2522

Dependency Upgrades

• Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config from 1.28.6 to 1.28.7 by @dependabot in #2491
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 by @dependabot in #2490
• Bump github.com/docker/docker from 27.4.0+incompatible to 27.4.1+incompatible by @dependabot in #2492
• Bump body-parser from 1.20.1 to 1.20.3 in /tests/e2e/hardhat by @dependabot in #2512
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.22.0 to 2.22.2 by @dependabot in #2513
• Bump google.golang.org/api from 0.184.0 to 0.214.0 by @dependabot in #2514
• Bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.12.0 to 5.13.1 by @dependabot in #2519
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 by @dependabot in #2524
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.33.0 to 0.34.0 by @dependabot in #2525
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.24.0 to 0.25.0 by @dependabot in #2530
• Bump google.golang.org/api from 0.214.0 to 0.215.0 by @dependabot in #2529
• Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.36.1 to 1.36.2 by @dependabot in #2540
• Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 from 1.32.7 to 1.32.8 by @dependabot in #2546
• Bump github.com/spf13/afero from 1.11.0 to 1.12.0 by @dependabot in #2547
• Bump google.golang.org/api from 0.215.0 to 0.216.0 by @dependabot in #2550
• Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config from 1.28.7 to 1.28.10 by @dependabot in #2551
• Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2 from 1.182.0 to 1.198.1 by @dependabot in #2517
• Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2 from 1.198.1 to 1.200.0 by @dependabot in #2564
• Bump github.com/docker/docker from 27.4.1+incompatible to 27.5.0+incompatible by @dependabot in #2554

New Contributors

• @aphexmunky made their first contribution in #2481
• @polymaer made their first contribution in #2042
• @dashangcun made their first contribution in #2552
• @owenwahlgren made their first contribution in #2570

Full Changelog: v1.8.4...v1.8.5