CELESTIA-APP v8.0.3 - Mainnet Beta 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 directly to v8. If you are upgrading from v6 please read through the release notes.

⚠️ This release requires OS Ubuntu 24.04 or later/equivalent  (glibc >= 2.38) ⚠️

Some notable features:

• minimum OS version required for v8 is Ubuntu 24.04 or later/equivalent  (glibc >= 2.38)

• automatically enforces minimum commission rate to 20%

• automatically enforces maximum commission rate to 60%

• Horcrux is being deprecated for v8, please see release notes

• min-retain-blocks has been reduced from 14 days to 3000 blocks

• node shutdown on consensus panic

• forwarding address derivation (breaking)

Please go through release notes for both v7 and v8 to read about the changes.

If you are an active validator:

• Please signal to upgrade to v8: celestia-appd tx signal signal 8 --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 8

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

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

• The upgrade delay is 7 days after 5/6+ voting power has signaled and the upgrade tx is submitted

Release notes: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/tag/v8.0.3

Thank you,

Celestia Foundation