CELESTIA-APP v7.0.2-mocha and CELESTIA-NODE v0.29.1-mocha - Mocha upgrade

Dear partners and node operators, We are pleased to announce a new version of celestia-app and celestia-node today. Please upgrade as soon as possible to benefit from the latest features.

Celestia-app: This is a consensus breaking release. If you are upgrading from v6 please read through the release notes. Some notable features:

• automatically enforces minimum commission rate to 20%

• automatically enforces maximum commission rate to 60%

• Horcrux is being deprecated for v7, please see release notes

• The minimum min-retain-blocks value is 3000 blocks. The default remains 0 (retain all blocks).

If you are an active validator:

• Please signal to upgrade to v6: celestia-appd tx signal signal 7 --from (validatorwallet) --chain-id celestia --fees 210000utia

• You can track the tally of signaling by validators using the following query celestia-appd query signal tally 7

• Once 5/6+ of the voting power have signaled, the upgrade will be ready.

• There is a hard coded delay between confirmation of the upgrade and execution to the new state machine.

• To view the upcoming upgrade height use the following query: celestia-appd query signal upgrade

• The upgrade delay is 2 days after 5/6+ voting power has signaled and the upgrade tx is submitted

Release notes: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/tag/v7.0.2-mocha

Celestia-node: ⚠️ This release adds support for celestia-app v7 and is safe to run before the migration. Once the app-v7 migration takes place, upgrading to this version is required. ⚠️

Release notes: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node/releases/tag/v0.29.1-mocha

Thank you,
Celestia Foundation