@blinklabs/dingo 0.27.3 → 0.27.5

package/RELEASE_NOTES.md

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 # Release Notes
 
 
+## v0.27.4 (March 18, 2026)
+
+**Title:** Reliability and usability refinements
+
+**Date:** March 18, 2026
+
+**Version:** v0.27.4
+
+Hi folks! Here’s what we shipped in v0.27.4.
+
+### ✨ What's New
+
+- **Rock-solid chain-sync recovery:** Sync stays more rock-solid because chain-sync recovers more reliably from stalled or unstable network connections.
+- **Solid chain selection:** Sync wastes less time on poor candidates because chain selection now takes peer suitability into account.
+
+### 💪 Improvements
+
+- **Simpler config loading:** Configuration stays under your control because config loading no longer fills in a default Cardano configuration path.
+- **Sleeker block downloads:** Block downloads are more consistent because header processing no longer gets blocked by duplicate headers.
+- **More robust intersections:** Synchronization starts from the right place more often because intersection point selection is now more robust.
+
+### 🔧 Fixes
+
+- **No missing boundary blocks:** Historical imports are more complete because older-era boundary blocks are no longer skipped during block loading.
+
+### 📋 What You Need to Know
+
+- **Inbound peers excluded from chain choice:** Chain selection behavior may change in mixed inbound/outbound topologies because inbound peers no longer influence which chain is selected.
+- **Documentation-only change:** This release includes a release-notes update with no runtime impact.
+
+### 🙏 Thank You
+
+Thank you for trying!
+
+---
+
+## v0.27.3 (March 17, 2026)
+
+**Title:** Safer rollbacks and steadier leader election
+
+**Date:** March 17, 2026
+
+**Version:** v0.27.3
+
+Hi folks! Here’s what we shipped in v0.27.3.
+
+### ✨ What's New
+
+- **Follow-tip reset and rollback:** Tip tracking is easier to manage because the follow-tip API now supports safe reset and rollback with clearer metadata about what changed.
+- **Leader election readiness:** Block producer readiness is easier to track because leader election now surfaces epoch-nonce readiness and carries schedule state more reliably across restarts.
+
+### 💪 Improvements
+
+- **More consistent cache sizing:** Sizing runs are easier to tune because cache defaults are more consistent and the BP/PI sizing script now supports explicit memory limits and optional cache overrides.
+- **Predictable KES period semantics:** Operational certificate (KES) periods are more predictable because KES endpoints now standardize on absolute periods while translating internally from the certificate start period.
+- **Preserved original block bytes:** Downstream tooling can retain exact block bytes because API block objects now include the original encoded bytes.
+- **Standard network identifiers from genesis:** Network identification is simpler because genesis reads now return a standard CAIP-2 network identifier derived from network magic.
+- **Smoother peer switching:** Sync stays more rock-solid because chain-sync now preserves its state while only swapping the active connection during a peer switch.
+- **More consistent Mithril imports:** Mithril snapshot imports are more consistent across epochs because imports now normalize snapshot types and centralize persistence and epoch-summary handling.
+- **Protocol dependency validation:** Modern-era transaction handling is more reliable because protocol dependencies were updated and regression tests now guard transaction size behavior.
+- **Safer default containers:** Default containers are safer because the main Docker image now runs as a non-root `dingo` user.
+
+### 🔧 Fixes
+
+- **Resilient background monitoring:** Long-running monitoring is more rock-solid because the stall checker now recovers from panics instead of crashing its background loop.
+- **Robust block fetch batching:** Block fetch serving is more robust because batching now handles iterator errors and connection closes correctly.
+- **Clearer unexpected event handling:** Event processing is easier to debug because chain-sync and block fetch now log unexpected event payload types instead of failing silently.
+- **Reliable shutdown error reporting:** Shutdowns are easier to troubleshoot because node and metrics server shutdown now propagates errors instead of exiting abruptly.
+- **Clear tx-submission failures:** Transaction submission fails more clearly because the tx-submission handlers now return an explicit error when no mempool consumer exists.
+
+### 📋 What You Need to Know
+
+- **Docker volume permissions:** If you run Dingo in Docker with mounted volumes, make sure the data directory is writable by the `dingo` user inside the container.
+- **API integrations:** If you integrate with follow-tip or KES APIs, give your client code a quick check for the updated reset/rollback and period semantics.
+
+### 🙏 Thank You
+
+Thank you for trying!
+
+---
+
 ## v0.27.2 (March 16, 2026)
 
 **Title:** Snapshot events and safer services

package/package.json

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 {
   "name": "@blinklabs/dingo",
-  "version": "0.27.3",
+  "version": "0.27.5",
   "description": "Dingo is a Cardano blockchain data node",
   "main": "index.js",
   "bin": {