Note: in this episode the faucet gives 500 instead of 100 coins. For stakers, you can buy 5 instead of 1 rolls.
Testnet version TEST.17.1 is live. Genesis has started on December 01, 00:01 AM UTC.
The episode will end on December 31, 6:00 PM UTC.
The faucet is already available, registration is open and scoring will start at cycle 229, on December 06, 10:16 AM UTC. The scoring will end at cycle 1199, on Thursday 29, 10:05 AM UTC.
New features in this release :
Refactored bootstrap module with significant speedup on node startup.- In parameters of functions in SC and storage we use bytearray instead of string.
- Concept of gas_price with fee has been merged . Now, only fee exists.
- Changed the main dependency used by CLI. Now, it’s easily usable and have a lot of new features.
- Added an ABI to get all datastore keys of an address.
- Stabilizing, cleaning and optimizing, using observations from testnet 16.
Refactored bootstrap module with significant speedup on node startup.Upgrade SC packages:
@massalabs/massa-web3: ~1.11.0
@massalabs/as: ~1.1.0
@massalabs/as-transformer: ~0.1.0
@massalabs/massa-as-sdk: ~1.2.0
We will keep this minor version for the whole Testnet and release patch version if necessary. 
Complete changelog on https://github.com/massalabs/massa/releases/ As always, please follow the installation instructions on https://docs.massa.net/en/latest/testnet/install.html Lets go
