1.17.1 Release Planning

[TippyFlitsUK]

This is an optional release of Lotus. This release introduces the SplitStore public beta and features multiple small bug fixes, new features & improvements.

New features

• feat:chain:splitstore auto prune (filecoin-project/lotus#9123)
  • Trigger SplitStore chain prune on head events. Link to the documentation
• feat:chain:splitstore chain prune (filecoin-project/lotus#9056)
  • Adds chain prune command to trigger manual garbage collection. Link to the documentation
• feat: storage: Path type filters (filecoin-project/lotus#9013)
  • Adds new fields to sectorstore.json to allow file type filtering. Link to the documentation
• feat: sealing: storage redeclare/detach (filecoin-project/lotus#9032)
  • Adds new Lotus commands to detach and redeclare storage paths. Link to the documentation
• feat: worker: Add stop cmd for lotus worker (filecoin-project/lotus#9101)
  • Adds new lotus-worker stop command. Link to the documentation
• feat: market: Add lotus-shed cmd to get total active deal storage (filecoin-project/lotus#9113)
  • get-deals-total-storage - View the total storage available in all active market deals
• feat: wdpost: Envvar for limiting recovering sectors (filecoin-project/lotus#9106)
  • Adds new envvar to limit the number of sectors declared in the recover message

Improvements

• feat: sealing: Allow overriding worker hostname (filecoin-project/lotus#9116)
• feat: build: run fiximports on make actors-gen (filecoin-project/lotus#9114)
• feat: FVM: always enable tracing for user-triggered executions (filecoin-project/lotus#9036)
• feat: miner cli: proving deadline command enchantments (filecoin-project/lotus#9109)
• FVM: Use MaxInt64 for Implicit Message gas limits (filecoin-project/lotus#9037)
• lotus shed addr decode
• push lotus-gateway to docker hub (filecoin-project/lotus#8969)
• Review Response
• test: net: net and conngater tests (filecoin-project/lotus#8084)
• Update FFI (filecoin-project/lotus#9139)

Bug Fixes

• backport: 9153: detach storage on worker shutdown (filecoin-project/lotus#9127)
• fix makegen
• fix: build: use GOCC when building lotus-fountain (filecoin-project/lotus#9127)
• fix: ci: Forgot a .sh on the end of a the new publish script (filecoin-project/lotus#9088)
• fix: cli: ./lotus-miner actor control list, if the owner is not account (filecoin-project/lotus#9072)
• fix: deps: update FFI to fix a slow memory leak (filecoin-project/lotus#9042)
• fix: FVM: record message applied metrics (filecoin-project/lotus#9052)
• fix: gas: estimate gas with a zero base-fee (filecoin-project/lotus#8991)
• fix: post: restrict recoveries per deadline (filecoin-project/lotus#9111)
• fix: sealing: Workaround for sealing bug (filecoin-project/lotus#9043)
• fix: storage: don't panic in getCommitCutoff when precommit is not found (filecoin-project/lotus#9141)
• fix: test: deflake TestQuotePriceForUnsealedRetrieval (filecoin-project/lotus#9084)

Dependency Updates

• github.com/multiformats/go-multibase (v0.0.3 -> v0.1.1)

Others

• chore: ci: Update xcode version for macos builds (filecoin-project/lotus#9164))
• Merge branch 'docs/ysrotciv-desc'
• Merge branch 'feat/f8-worker-env'
• Merge branch 'LexLuthr-feat/minerWithdrawBalanceAPI'
• Merge branch 'LexLuthr-feat/SchedRemoveRequest'
• base256emoji (filecoin-project/lotus#9038))
• chore: interop: update interop assets (filecoin-project/lotus#9093))
• chore: merge: releases (v1.17.0) to master (filecoin-project/lotus#9146))
• chore: sealer: Fixup typos (filecoin-project/lotus#9040))
• chore:docs:remove readme reference to deprecated specs-actors (filecoin-project/lotus#8984))
• ci : Change default shell options for snapcraft publish (filecoin-project/lotus#9122))
• ci: More tweaks to snapcraft release process (filecoin-project/lotus#9090))
• ci: Publish to both lotus and lotus-filecoin for snap (filecoin-project/lotus#9119))
• ci: Run snap builds for lotus and lotus-filecoin in parallel (filecoin-project/lotus#9133))
• ci: Switches goreleaser notes back to default (keep-existing) (filecoin-project/lotus#9120))
• ci: update snapcraft and release flow logic (filecoin-project/lotus#8994))
• ci: Use goreleaser to build macos universal binaries (including M1 macs) (filecoin-project/lotus#9096))
• ci:testing:remove codecov (filecoin-project/lotus#9062))

[rjan90]

I think this can be closed now @TippyFlitsUK ?