Release engineering: cardano-node 8.7.0

[jasagredo]

Revisions

• Fork ekg packages (https://github.com/input-output-hk/ekg)
• Release ekg packages into CHaP (https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-haskell-packages/pull/563)
• Update threepenny-gui's dependency on aeson and template-haskell (asked @HeinrichApfelmus)
• Update ekg-forward dependency on ouroboros-network-framework (https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-haskell-packages/pull/566)
• Revise fs-sim for io-classes (https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-haskell-packages/pull/568)

Ledger

• Update index-states
• PParamsUpdate enactment fix cardano-ledger#3836
• (if it arrives in time) deposits for govActions never returned cardano-ledger#3826
  • Fix Proposal deposits and add deposit tests to imp tests cardano-ledger#3864
• Add governance related ledger events cardano-ledger#3856
• Clarify what other features we want in this release (@lehins)
• Tests passing
• Update nix
• Improve deposits refunds re-usability cardano-ledger#3863
• Final PR Integration work for node 8.7.0 cardano-ledger#3854 (needs rebase)
• Release to CHaP https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-haskell-packages/pull/560

Network

• Update index-states
• New CHaP release ouroboros-network#4712
• Clarify what other features we want in this release (@coot)
  Confirmed we want to release from IntersectMBO/ouroboros-network@bb6958e
• Tests passing
• Update nix
• Release to CHaP
• Fix imports in ouroboros-network ouroboros-network#4716
• Release to CHaP

Consensus

• Merge Updates ouroboros-network to fix PeerSharing ouroboros-consensus#383 (currently included in the integration branch)
• Clarify idleTimeout default value
• Update index-states
• Clarify what other features we want in this release (@dnadales)
• Expose NTN.ChainSyncTimeout for the node (Integration work for node 8.7.0 ouroboros-consensus#495)
• Tests passing
• Update nix
• Fixup ChainSyncTimeout argument (Make srnChainSyncTimeout monadic ouroboros-consensus#509)
• Release to CHaP (https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-haskell-packages/pull/565)

API

• Update index-states
• Use new ledger THKD
• Integrate ledger changes and update consensus (Integration work for node 8.7.0 cardano-api#359)
• Clarify what other features we want in this release (@Jimbo4350)
• Tests passing
• Update nix
• Release to CHaP

Cardano-node

• Update index-state
• Release for node 8.7.0 #5533
• Clarify what other features we want in this release (@Jimbo4350)
• Tests passing
• Update nix
• Release to CHaP
• Github release

Cardano-cli (IntersectMBO/cardano-cli#440)

• Update index-state
• Clarify what other features we want in this release (@newhoggy)
• Tests passing
• Update nix
• Release to CHaP

Other changes

• Update ekg-json dependency on aeson plus changes to the code (do we need a fork?)

[coot]

Clarify what other features we want in this release (@coot)

We don't need anything beside input-output-hk/cardano-haskell-packages#554.

[lehins]

This is the only bug fix I can think of that we would like to make in the next release, but it will depend if we can squash it soon enough: IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger#3826