Developer Testnet 6

Implements:

• Implicit Merit Removals.
• Increased BLS compliance.
• Defaulting.
• Multiple bug fixes.

This testnet launched on December 5th and was completed on the 10th. This tag was created after the fact for documentary purposes.

Developer Testnet 5.1

Successor to Developer Testnet 5.1, with feature parity yet several bug fixes.

Developer Testnet 5

Implements:

• Locked Merit.
• Every Block now creates a Data to always provide something to verify.
• Removes multi-Merit Holder Claims.
• Moves from Big Endian to Little Endian.
• Several bug fixes.

Developer Testnet 4S

Offers a stable version of DT4, which wasn't sustainable.

Moves from asyncnet to chronos for its networking stack.

Developer Testnet 4

Implements:

• Chain reorganizations.
• Stability fixes.
• Updated address format.
• Updated difficulty code. The new algorithm should produce much more accurate block times, although it starts out decently hard.

Developer Testnet 3

Commit initially used by the participants of the third Developer Testnet.

https://medium.com/@MerosCrypto/developer-testnet-3-f7ecf0b437c8

Compared to DT2, the networking code has been completely rebuilt. Merit Removals have also been worked on, and logging has been added.

Developer Testnet 2.1

Commit initially used by the participants of the second Developer Testnet.

https://medium.com/@MerosCrypto/developer-testnet-2-91fdd2b2ae65

The previous commit was made two days before the testnet was scheduled to launch. Since then, PeersRequest and Peers have been implemented. Handshake has also been modified (the server byte has been replaced with a services byte; nodes now include the port they're listening on).

Developer Testnet 2

Commit initially used by the participants of the second Developer Testnet.

https://medium.com/@MerosCrypto/developer-testnet-2-91fdd2b2ae65

Developer Testnet 1.1D

Fixes a bug within the Developer Testnet 1D release where the sync function wouldn't sync verifications if there was only one verification to sync for that Verifier.

Developer Testnet 1D

This is the release for a one day testnet to test the new Verifications Redo, which moved Verifications from being embedded on the blockchain to their own DAG.