Release Note

| IMPORTANT
 This release requires a protocol upgrade. 
 This release contains a consensus protocol upgrade, which implements the following spec: https://github.com/algorandfoundation/specs/tree/44fa607d6051730f5264526bf3c108d51f0eadb6 |
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| IMPORTANT
 The keys used to sign the release packages have been renewed. 
 See the instructions below on how to update for a specific system |
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What's New

AVM: box storage is now available. Apps can create an unlimited number of boxes for storing unstructured data.
AVM: switch, match, and frame pointer opcodes are now available. These enable more efficient TEAL programs in terms of program length and computation.
Bugfixes related to catchpoints, performance enhancements, and additional logging.

Changelog
New Features

AVM: match, pushints, and pushbytess opcodes (#4645)
AVM: Add support for Boxes (#4149)
Catchpoint Dump Utility: catchpointdump now supports tar.gz (#4743)

Enhancements

API: bump max size of teal source and dryrun (#4633)
Perf Test: Transaction group handle/verify (#4652)
Consensus: v36 upgrade (#4722)
Lint: enable go vet printf format arg checks for logging (#4679)
Logging: demote LeaseInLedgerError from warn to info level (#4685)
Netgoal: Update netgoal generate flags and variables (#4656)
Performance: Agreement state serialization using msgp (#4644)
Performance: don't create child cow in TestTransactionGroup (#4706)
Prefetcher: enable prefetcher for assets and apps (#4352)
Tests: 20221012 improvements (#4639)
Tools: Allow specification of Reward Pool Account Balance in Genesis (#4643)
API: Update oapi-codegen version to v1.12.0 of our fork (#4707)
Accountdb: add migration 8 for resetting accounthashes on betanet (#4822)
Algod: Consolidate models (#4714)
Algod: Delete v1 usage from client and remove V2 prefix from APIs (#4767)
Algod: Migrate internal uses of v1 algod API to v2 (#4684)
Alphanet: update vAlpha5 to point to v36 (#4729)
Catchpoints: Enrich catchpoint generation and status with KV metadata (#4808)
Ci: Notify when CircleCI build failures for master and rel branches only (#4789)
Ci: Notify when GHA workflow fails on master (#4791)
Docs: Update SECURITY.md (#4782)
Goal: Add URL to goal asset info. (#4731)
Metrics: add TransactionGroupTxSyncHandled (#4815)
Metrics: split out /Transaction/AssembleBlock metrics (#4795)
Netgoal: start with at least 20GB RootStorage (#4779)
Performance: turn cache misses during assembly into cache hits during eval (#4617)
Performance: Don't preallocate rarely used maps in MakeStateDelta (#4715)
Tech Debt: Reduce number of dependencies. (#4750)
Telemetry: add TCP RTT info collection (#4745)
Tests: Squelch macOS accept incoming network connections notifications (#4814)
Tests: large generated accountdb cluster test (#4772)
Tests: Fix txid-string comparison (#4792)
Tests: Move box test artifacts to a temp directory (#4771)
Tests: Lint for unparallelized tests without explicit reason (#4746)
Tools: update catchpointdump 'database' and 'database check' commands to handle staging tables and KVs (#4802)
Txhandler: add more metric (#4786)

Bugfixes

AVM: fix early eval exits for Debugger (#4719)
Bug-fix: Blank Import Needs Commenting for Indexer's Lint (#4720)
Bug-fix: return v2 spec from swagger endpoint (#4697)
Catchpoint: actualize limit constants and fix txtail table init (#4703)
Devops: update docker container for docker hub (#4723)
Dispenser: add input validation (#4713)
Network: align duplicateFilterCount to prevent panic on 32-bit platforms (#4702)
Catchpoints: Add the kv hashes into the trie (#4812)
Ci: Fix GHA failure notification trigger condition (#4810)
Cow: always process KvMods to add OldData to mods when building StateDeltas (#4804)
Daemon: pool error messages and old txn expiration (#4755)
Goal: Change asset commands to use AccountAssetInformation (#4758)
Tests: Fix resolver test endpoint (#4784)
Tests: Fix types in assertions and change to using libgoal client when getting PendingTransaction information (#4754)
Tests: disable TestWebsocketNetworkTelemetryTCP on CI (#4827)
Txhandler: service does not restart after node catching up (#4809)
Txsyncer: service does not start after node catching up (#4768)

Activations (previously in vFuture)

AVM: Switch opcode (#4458)

Additional Resources

Algorand Forum
Developer Documentation

How to Update Signing Key
Debian/Ubuntu
curl -o - https://releases.algorand.com/key.pub | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/algorand.asc

RHEL/RPM
curl -O https://releases.algorand.com/rpm/rpm_algorand.pub
sudo rpmkeys --import rpm_algorand.pub