Axon Development Updates 10/13/2023

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Tugging at the leash, little pup is ready to play and full of energy!

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Axon's highly anticipated v0.2.0-beta.1 version is now officially released, marking a significant milestone that we're celebrating with great enthusiasm 🎉. We deeply appreciate your patience throughout the development process.

One outstanding feature of this release is the introduction of the inaugural Axon hardfork, aptly named Andromeda, inspired by constellation. All future Axon hardforks will follow this celestial theme by adopting names of prominent constellations.

For a detailed overview of the major changes in this release, please refer to our previous developer update here: Axon Development Updates 09/06/2023.

The Andromeda hardfork empowers developers to customize the contract_size_limit configuration, enabling the deployment of smart contracts of substantial size. The hardfork is now enabled by default.

Simultaneously, we've streamlined the genesis block construction process. The essential metadata required for chains is seamlessly integrated into the database before the genesis block execution, eliminating tedious transactions within the genesis block.

Now, we’re concentrating on boosting Axon’s performance and implementing important changes to further elevate Axon experience:

Improvements

Features:

• Support hardfork settings by command line feat: support set hardfork from command line #1422
• Modified serialization approach for extra_data feat: change serialization method for extra_data #1442

Refactors:

• Utilize Display for enhanced error message display refactor: better error message display #1405
• Enhance decentralization by removing the first genesis transaction and the associated private key to initialize the chain refactor: remove first genesis transaction #1443
• Convert the built-in Solidity contracts into interface definitions refactor: change metadata system contract and add annotation #1449
• Simplify chain initialization process refactor: initialize chain without user-provided genesis transactions file #1450
• Eliminate the need for generating genesis transactions refactor!: insert metadata directly and remove genesis transactions #1454, and check the genesis hash before its completion fix(test): check genesis before it completed #1466

Fixes:

• Redesign the process of eth_getReceiptByHash API fix(API): always return null when no receipt was found #1413
• Modify Signature V Display in Transaction fix(API): display of signature v in transaction #1431
• Enable CORS for Web-Based RPC Calls fix: set CORS to any to accept RPC calls from web-based apps #1459
• Update the concurrency strategy to resolve the unexpected cancellation of merge queue checks fix(ci): update the concurrency strategy #1461