Forest NV22 🐉 support

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NV22 Dragon upgrade

Forest joins Lotus and Venus in supporting the NV22 upgrade. See the post for details regarding the upgrade. To keep Forest nodes running, the operators must upgrade Forest to supporting versions, as outlined in the timeline.

Timeline

timeline
    title NV22 Forest timeline
    March 8th : Forest v0.17.0 "Smaug" release, supporting NV22 for calibnet
    March 11th : Calibration network upgrade
    March 28th : Forest release, supporting NV22 for mainnet and calibration network fix
    April 3rd : Calibration network fix
    April 24th : Mainnet network upgrade

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The timeline is subject to changes, and there will likely be non-mandatory releases. Depending on external factors, the mainnet release will likely arrive faster to give plenty of time for an update.

Hardware requirements

The state migration for this upgrade is significant, and users should prepare for it accordingly:

• For calibnet, the requirements don't change - no action is required. The migration takes below one second.
• For mainnet, the state migration requires at least 64 GiB of memory. It will take 2-10 minutes, mostly depending on the available memory and disk write/read speed. If possible, prune the database a day before to ensure better DB write/read performance.

An alternative to the automatic state migration is downloading a snapshot from the ChainSafe snapshot service sometime after the upgrade (30m - 2h). Endpoints below:

• https://forest-archive.chainsafe.dev/latest/mainnet/
• https://forest-archive.chainsafe.dev/latest/calibnet/

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Forest v0.17.0 "Smaug" released. Please upgrade before the calibration network upgrade at epoch 1427974, 2024-03-11T14:00:00Z.

In addition to regular Docker image tags, the Forest team has introduced -fat suffix image. It contains proof parameter files, which can otherwise take a long time to download. They are available at:

• https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/pkgs/container/forest/188458174?tag=v0.17.0
• https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/pkgs/container/forest/188457595?tag=v0.17.0-fat

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"Forest v0.17.1 "Villentretenmerth" released. Please update Forest before the epoch 1493854 on calibnet (2024-04-03T11:00:00Z) and the epoch 3817920 on mainnet (2024-04-11T14:00:00Z).

Docker images:
https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/pkgs/container/forest/196933819?tag=v0.17.1
https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/pkgs/container/forest/196933555?tag=v0.17.1-fat

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Forest v0.17.2 "Dovakhin" released. Given it changes the previous Dragon upgrade epoch, please update Forest before the epoch 3817920 on mainnet (2024-04-11T14:00:00Z). It will re-set the upgrade to epoch 3855360 Wed Apr 24 02:00:00 PM UTC 2024.

⚠️ This is a mandatory patch for all mainnet nodes.
See here for official announcement and details regarding the upgrade epoch change.

Docker images:
https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/pkgs/container/forest/201313688?tag=v0.17.2
https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/pkgs/container/forest/201312406?tag=v0.17.2-fat

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NV22 Upgrade done.