v20.0.0

Gaia v20.0.0 Release Notes

🕐 Timeline

This is a mandatory upgrade for all validators and full node operators.

The upgrade height is 22443500 , which is approx. October 2nd 2024, 15:00 UTC.

📝 Changelog

Check out the changelog for a list of relevant changes or compare all changes from last release.

Refer to the upgrading guide when migrating from `v19.2.x` to `v20.x`.

🚀 Highlights

This release bumps Interchain Security (ICS) to v6.1.0 which brings the following major features:

• ICS with Inactive Validators (as per prop 930 ) enables validators from outside the Hub’s active set to validate on Consumer Chains.

• Permissionless ICS (as per prop 945 ) enables users to permissionlessly launch opt-in Consumer Chains on the Cosmos Hub.

It also bumps CosmWasm/wasmd to v0.53.0 and ibc-go to v8.5.1 .

🔨 Build from source

❗ You must use Golang v1.22 if building from source.

``` git clone https://github.com/cosmos/gaia cd gaia && git checkout v20.0.0 make install ```

⚡️ Download binaries

Binaries for linux, darwin, and windows are available below.