Forest v0.12.0 "Carp"

Notable Updates

• Support for .forest.car.zst files.
• Support for diff snapshots.

What's changed?

Breaking

• #3189: Changed the database
  organisation to use multiple columns. The database will need to be recreated.
• #3220: Removed the
  forest-cli chain validate-tipset-checkpoints and
  forest-cli chain tipset-hash commands.

Added

• #3167: Added a new option
  --validate-tipsets for forest-cli snapshot validate.
• #3166: Add
  forest-cli archive info command for inspecting archives.
• #3159: Add
  forest-cli archive export -e=X command for exporting archives.
• #3150:
  forest-cli car concat subcommand for concatenating .car files.
• #3148: add save_to_file
  option to forest-cli state fetch command.
• #3213: Add support for
  loading forest.car.zst files.
• #3284: Add --diff flag to
  archive export.
• #3292: Add net info
  subcommand to forest-cli.

Changed

• #3126: Bail on database
  lookup errors instead of silently ignoring them.
• #2999: Restored --tipset
  flag to forest-cli snapshot export to allow export at a specific tipset.
• #3283: All generated car
  files use the new forest.car.zst format.

Removed

Fixed

• #3248: Fixed Forest being
  unable to re-create its libp2p keypair from file and always changing its
  PeerId.