Bugfix Release for Reliability Improvements

This 2020.08.11.0 release fixes another out of memory condition during elections, it also fixes an issue with transactions larger than 65kb and finally it improves restart behavior when certain essential processes crash.

Contents

• Reduce memory overhead during elections: PR:
  • blockchain-core/563
• Improve hbbft transaction encoding/decoding robustness: PR:
  • hbbft/58
• Rework miner supervisor tree: PR:
  • miner/450

Plan

We will beta 2020.08.11.0 this afternoon PST and release it to GA on an accelerated schedule because the transaction encoding fix is not backwards compatible.