Hive-Engine Witness Node, upgrade to v1.9.0

I am running a Hive-Engine witness node for a long time now. Today I took five minutes, maybe ten, to upgrade the node from v1.8.3 to v1.9.0. It was a mandatory upgrade since some breaking changes were introduced.

Here is the list of improvements and fixes in the latest release. Kudos to all the authors that contributed to it: @primersion, @rishi556, and @cryptomancer. Appreciated!

The process of upgrade was a very straightforward one. In fact, I didn't upgrade the node. I installed it anew and applied config and environment settings to the new installation.

The steps taken were:


-- the main directory for node app
cd /var/witness

-- clone main branch into he190 subdirectory
git clone --recursive https://github.com/hive-engine/hivesmartcontracts.git he190

-- step into directory and check branch
cd he190
git status

On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

-- compile node app
npm ci

-- backup the default config
cp config.json config.json-original

-- copy over config from old app
cp ../he183/config.json .

-- edit start block to 41967000
vim config.json

-- copy environment settings
cp ../he183/.env .

-- stop and delete current app, run the new version
pm2 stop app
pm2 delete app
pm2 start app.js
pm2 logs

-- that's it

Next steps? I need to edit the config since the light node settings were improved a bit.

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Thanks a lot!

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