trinity-v0.1.0-alpha.20
This is our seventh major alpha release of the Trinity Ethereum client. This release goes out under the name "Elpis Kesaratsian".
> With each release we like to highlight one of the amazing women from history and present day.
Meet [Elpis Kesaratsian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople#Women_in_Literature), who was a ground-breaking author and editor in Constantinople in the 1800s.
The most notable update in this release is full Constantinople support, including the mainnet transition to Constantinople on block 7080000.
Another significant new feature is support for genesis files following this [proposed format](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1085).
Included in this release is a variety of improvements to performance, testing, and documentation.
The research team continues to add significant code in preparation for the Beacon Chain protocol of Eth2.0, which is not available yet in `trinity`, but keep checking in.
See the [full release notes here](https://py-evm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes/trinity.html#alpha-20)
See the [quickstart guide here](https://py-evm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html) for information on how to install and run the Trinity client.
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You may note that we skipped a couple alpha version numbers. A release hiccup caused a broken genesis definition for mainnet/ropsten. Forgive us?
trinity-v0.1.0-alpha.17
This is our sixth major alpha release of the Trinity Ethereum client. This release goes out under the name "RBG", short for "Ruth Bader Ginsburg".
> With each release we like to highlight one of the amazing women from history and present day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg
I feel like a broken record but this is one more release focusing on improving sync reliability and performance. We continue to lay the necessary foundations necessary for Trinity to take full advantage of concurrently downloading both the VM and chain state.
This release greatly improves the terminal output during fast sync, providing better visibility into the sync performance. Errors and warnings are now also displayed in red/yellow respectively.
The plugin API continues to gather improvements. Preliminary documentation for writing plugins can be found [here](https://py-evm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/trinity/writing_plugins.html)
Trinity now ships with a built-in [EthStats](https://ethstats.net/) plugin which can be enabled with `--ethstats`. Check `trinity --help` for more information about command line options.
See the [full release notes here](https://py-evm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes/trinity.html)
See the [quickstart guide here](https://py-evm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html) for information on how to install and run the Trinity client.
trinity-v0.1.0-alpha.16
This is our fifth major alpha release of the Trinity Ethereum client. This release goes out under the name "Ada Lovelace".
> With each release we like to highlight one of the amazing women from history and present day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
This release continues our focus on improving sync reliability and performance, including a performance bump from intelligently delegating sync requests to peers, preferring more performative and reliable peers.
Further time went into data reliability, so that a shutdown in the middle of a sync won't leave your database in an inconsistent state.
Finally, we continued to squash warnings in the logs, so there is less noise during sync.
See the [full release notes here](https://py-evm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes/trinity.html)
See the [quickstart guide here](https://py-evm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html) for information on how to install and run the Trinity client.