We are pleased to announce the release of v0.17.0 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. This is a critical coordinated release containing the Earhart network upgrade. See this document for details.

Key halo Enhancements:

• 4_drake network upgrade
• The upgrade contains changes to halo's logic adding support EVM redenomination from OMNI to NOM, increasing the EVM account balances by 75x.

Note: This version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.13.

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0

We are pleased to announce the release of v0.16.0 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. This is a non-critical incremental release compatible with the 3_drake network upgrade.

Key halo Enhancements:

• Prevent theoretical array-out-of-bound #4283
• Support proxy EVM RPC requests #4251

Note: This version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.13.

Full Changelog: v0.15.0...v0.16.0

We are pleased to announce the release of v0.15.0 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. This is a critical coordinated release containing the Drake network upgrade. See this document for details.

Key halo Enhancements:

• 3_drake network upgrade
• Withdrawal of accrued rewards to EVM
• Withdrawal of delegated stake to EVM

Note: This version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.13.

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.15.0

We are pleased to announce the release of v0.14.1 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. This is a hotfix release compatible with the 2_magellan network upgrade and does not require a coordinated upgrade.

halo fixes (only applicable to validators):

• Prevent a deadlock in the ethclient (#3687)
• Add a http timeout to the ethclient (#3689)

Note: This version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.13.

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.14.1

We are pleased to announce the release of v0.14.0 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. This is a non-critical release compatible with the 2_magellan network upgrade and does not require a coordinated upgrade.

halo security fixes:

• Verify transaction signing info empty (#3538)
• Assert msg authority fields (#3330)

Note: This version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.13.
geth v1.15.* is not yet supported due to a regression affecting DNS bootnode support.

Full Changelog: v0.13.0...v0.14.0

We are pleased to announce the release of v0.13.0 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. This is a critical coordinated release containing the Magellan network upgrade. See here for more details.

Key halo Enhancements:

• 2_magellan network upgrade #3015
• Permissionless OMNI delegation with 11% staking rewards #1792
• Staking event buffer to prevent validator set thrashing #2525
• Protobuf encoding of EVM payloads in consensus blocks for improved performance and security #2533
• Simplified EVM event processing for better efficiency #2106
• Automatic staking withdrawals enqueuing to EVM (not processed yet) #2976

Note: This version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.13.
geth v1.15.* is not yet supported due to a regression affecting DNS bootnode support.

Full Changelog: v0.12.0...v0.13.0

We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.12.0 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. This is a non-urgent update focusing primarily on enhancing CLI functionality.

Key omni CLI enchancements include:

• Allow AVS operator deregistration #2578
• Add --halo-tag to the operator init-nodes command #2703
• Rename operator register|deregister commands to operator avs-register|avs-deregister #2772

Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.12.0

We are excited to announce the release of Omni Network CLI and Halo version 0.11.0! This update is a significant milestone, focusing on security enhancements in preparation for Omni’s Mainnet launch.

Key Fixes from the Cantina Audit Competition:

• Reject octane payloads with deposits (#2528).
• Ensure correct proposal transaction count (#2529).
• Prevent adding empty attestations (#2524).
• Fix next proposer algorithm (#2526).
• Support blob transactions (#2498).
• Gracefully handle post-finalization errors (#2508).
• Verify votes before proposing blocks (#2482).
• Handle engine application errors (#2469).
• Prevent ECDSA signature malleability (#2438).
• Always verify public keys (#2439).

Key halo Improvements:

• Upgraded CometBFT to version 0.38.15 (#2422).
• Persist cosmovisor current upgrade info (#2322).

Note: This version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.12.

Full Changelog:

Check out all the changes here.

A special shoutout to @raehat for their first contribution—welcome to the Omni Network community!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.10.0 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. This is a non-urgent update focusing primarily on enhancing the functionality and improving performance for operators.

Key halo enhancements:

• Add docker health /ready endpoint #2035, #2179,
• Reduce xchain RPC queries by 25% #2160
• Use gRPC to query Cosmos state #2002, #2216
• Low severity audit fixes #2071, #2094, #2086, #2030, #2140, #2121, #2120,

Key omni CLI enhancements:

• Fix missing cli errors #2088, #2177
• Add mainnet artifacts #2265, #2264

Note this version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.11.

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.10.0

We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.0 of the Omni Network CLI and Halo. It is a critical coordinated release containing the Uluwatu network upgrade, see here for more details.

Key halo enhancements:

• Uluwatu network upgrade #1983
• No panics when halo detects network upgrades #1996
• Fixed low-likelihood issue in voter persistence #1998
• Improved halo command errors #205
• Cosmos gRPC and REST APIs enabled by default #2036

Note this version of halo is compatible with geth v1.14.11.

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0