[Mainnet][Testnet] Aptos Node Release v1.14.0

Release Hash: 17cfcf9

CLI Version this release is compatible with: v3.4.1+

Aptos Improvement Proposals (AIPs)

Check out all of our AIPs and discussions here on GitHub.

Breaking Changes

• [AIP-70] Parallelize Fungible Assets - opt-in parallel fungible balance
  • Ecosystem Impact: In order to track fungible asset balances correctly (for the accounts that opt-in to the new feature), now both old and new field needs to be summed up: FungibleStore.balance + ConcurrentFungibleBalance.balance. If using indexer, this change will make it transparently handled by provided processors. fungible_asset::balance view function will continue providing correct balance.
  • Dependencies: None
  • Feature Flag: CONCURRENT_FUNGIBLE_BALANCE

New features and enhancements

• [AIP-85] Improve APT FA performance

  • Ecosystem Impact: None
  • Dependencies: None
  • Feature Flag: OBJECT_NATIVE_DERIVED_ADDRESS

• [AIP-86] BN254 elliptic curve arithmetic in Move

  • Ecosystem Impact: New move Modules in Aptos framework
  • Dependencies: ark-bn254
  • Feature Flag: BN254_STRUCTURES

• [AIP-87] Introduce native API to evaluate aggregator value is greater or equal to given amount

  • Ecosystem Impact: None
  • Dependencies: None
  • Feature Flag: AGGREGATOR_V2_IS_AT_LEAST_API

• [AIP-89] Consensus latency reduction using order votes

  • Ecosystem Impact: Reduces the consensus latency by 100ms. There is no change in the execution, transaction output structure or indexer.
  • Dependencies: None
  • On chain consensus config flag: order_vote_enabled

• [AIP-90] Add Apple as a supported OIDC provider

  • Ecosystem Impact: Keyless accounts can now be backed by Apple accounts.
  • Dependencies: None
  • Feature Flag: None; but requires a governance proposal to activate

Aptos Blockchain

State sync

• Fixed warning log from latency monitor complaining about “unable to read the latest block timestamp”

Consensus

• Implemented a new “order votes” mechanism to reduce the consensus latency. Earlier, it takes for 4 hops of latency for a block to be ordered after the block is proposed. The new order votes mechanism reduces the latency to 3 hops. To achieve this, when a validator obtains the QC on a block r, the validator immediately signs the QC and broadcasts a new type of vote called “order vote”. This results in obtaining a 2-chain QC on the block r one hop earlier. The feature is added behind the new order_vote_enabled flag in onchain consensus config. The flag is currently disabled and will be enabled later on with an AIP approval.

Move

Framework

• Add CONCURRENT_FUNGIBLE_BALANCE

VM

• Add aggregator_v2::is_at_least API which can be used to check for minimal balance among other things.
• Add checks to the extended checker for safe usage of randomness.
• Consolidate production configs for VM