Tendermint Core Release v0.16.0

We hit a key milestone along the Cosmos Launch Roadmap. With the release of Tendermint Core v0.16.0, we can soon spin up the incoming iteration of the new testnet, Gaia-3, which will be using the current Tendermint release.

• Keep up with the latest releases here: (Tendermint Core Releases)

Notable Changes

Bug Fixes

We made major improvements and an enormous number of fixes on the p2p layer and expect much higher performance stability on the incoming testnet.

• Mempool. Reported memory leaks which caused zombie peers have been fixed.
• p2p. Old--p2p.seeds is now --p2p.persistent_peers, where persistent peers are what Tendermint will always connect to and --p2p.seeds is changed, only to be used for getting addresses (if addrbook is empty; not persistent).

Features

• Peer ID. Peers are now authenticated by ID using addresses like ID@IP:PORT

Specifications

• Brand new specification here: (Tendermint Protocol Spec)

Changelog

tendermint/tendermint