Upgrade Node

Learn how to upgrade your full node to the latest software version

With every new software release, we strongly recommend validators to perform a software upgrade, in order to prevent double signing or halting the chain during consensus (opens new window).

You can upgrade your node by 1) upgrading your software version and 2) upgrading your node to that version. In this guide, you can find out how to automatically upgrade your node with Cosmovisor or perform the update manually.

Software Upgrade

These instructions are for full nodes that have ran on previous versions of and would like to upgrade to the latest testnet.

First, stop your instance of uptickd. Next, upgrade the software:

Copy cd uptick git fetch --all && git checkout <new_version> make install

If you have issues at this step, please check that you have the latest stable version of GO installed.

You will need to ensure that the version installed matches the one needed for th testnet. Check the Uptick release page (opens new window) for details on each release.

Verify that everything is OK. If you get something like the following, you've successfully installed Uptick on your system.

Copy $ uptickd version --long name: uptick server_name: uptickd version: 0.1.0 commit: d477e775a2596701ea215a4570e8ea9669d76edf build_tags: netgo,ledger go: go version go1.17 darwin/amd64 ...

If the software version does not match, then please check your $PATH to ensure the correct uptickd is running.

Upgrade Node

We highly recommend validators use Cosmovisor to run their nodes. This will make low-downtime upgrades smoother, as validators don't have to manually upgrade binaries during the upgrade. Instead users can preinstall new binaries, and cosmovisor will automatically update them based on on-chain Software Upgrade proposals.

You should review the docs for Cosmovisor located here (opens new window)

If you choose to use Cosmovisor, please continue with these instructions. If you choose to upgrade your node manually instead, skip to the the instructions without Cosmovisor

Upgrade with Cosmovisor

cosmovisor is a small process manager for Cosmos SDK application binaries that monitors the governance module for incoming chain upgrade proposals. If it sees a proposal that gets approved, cosmovisor can automatically download the new binary, stop the current binary, switch from the old binary to the new one, and finally restart the node with the new binary.

Install and Setup

To get started with Cosmovisor (opens new window) first download it

Copy go get github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/cosmovisor/cmd/cosmovisor

Set up the Cosmovisor environment variables. We recommend setting these in your .profile so it is automatically set in every session.

Copy echo "# Setup Cosmovisor" >> ~/.profile echo "export DAEMON_NAME=uptickd" >> ~/.profile echo "export DAEMON_HOME=$HOME/.uptickd" >> ~/.profile echo 'export PATH="$DAEMON_HOME/cosmovisor/current/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile source ~/.profile

After this, you must make the necessary folders for cosmosvisor in your daemon home directory (~/.uptickd).

Copy mkdir -p ~/.uptickd/cosmovisor/upgrades mkdir -p ~/.uptickd/cosmovisor/genesis/bin cp $(which uptickd) ~/.uptickd/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/ # Verify the setup # It should return the same version as uptickd cosmovisor version

Preparing an Upgrade

Cosmovisor will continually poll the $DAEMON_HOME/data/upgrade-info.json for new upgrade instructions. When an upgrade is ready, node operators can download the new binary and place it under $DAEMON_HOME/cosmovisor/upgrades/<name>/bin where <name> is the URI-encoded name of the upgrade as specified in the upgrade module plan.

It is possible to have Cosmovisor automatically download the new binary. To do this set the following environment variable.

Copy export DAEMON_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD_BINARIES=true

Download Genesis File

You can now download the "genesis" file for the chain. It is pre-filled with the entire genesis state and gentxs.

Copy curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UptickNetwork/uptick-testnet/main/uptick_7000-2/genesis.json > ~/.uptickd/config/genesis.json

We recommend using sha256sum to check the hash of the genesis.

Copy cd ~/.uptickd/config echo "2b5164f4bab00263cb424c3d0aa5c47a707184c6ff288322acc4c7e0c5f6f36f genesis.json" | sha256sum -c

Reset Chain Database

There shouldn't be any chain database yet, but in case there is for some reason, you should reset it. This is a good idea especially if you ran uptickd start on an old, broken genesis file.

Copy uptickd tendermint unsafe-reset-all

Ensure that you have set peers

In ~/.uptickd/config/config.toml you can set your peers. See the peers.txt (opens new window) file for a list of up to date peers.

See the Add persistent peers section (opens new window) in our docs for an automated method, but field should look something like a comma separated string of peers (do not copy this, just an example):

Copy persistent_peers = "5576b0160761fe81ccdf88e06031a01bc8643d51@195.201.108.97:24656,13e850d14610f966de38fc2f925f6dc35c7f4bf4@176.9.60.27:26656,38eb4984f89899a5d8d1f04a79b356f15681bb78@18.169.155.159:26656,59c4351009223b3652674bd5ee4324926a5a11aa@51.15.133.26:26656,3a5a9022c8aa2214a7af26ebbfac49b77e34e5c5@65.108.1.46:26656,4fc0bea2044c9fd1ea8cc987119bb8bdff91aaf3@65.21.246.124:26656,6624238168de05893ca74c2b0270553189810aa7@95.216.100.80:26656,9d247286cd407dc8d07502240245f836e18c0517@149.248.32.208:26656,37d59371f7578101dee74d5a26c86128a229b8bf@194.163.172.168:26656,b607050b4e5b06e52c12fcf2db6930fd0937ef3b@95.217.107.96:26656,7a6bbbb6f6146cb11aebf77039089cd038003964@94.130.54.247:26656"

You can share your peer with

Copy uptickd tendermint show-node-id

Peer Format: node-id@ip:port

Example: 3d892cfa787c164aca6723e689176207c1a42025@143.198.224.124:26656

If you are relying on just seed node and no persistent peers or a low amount of them, please increase the following params in config.toml:

Copy # Maximum number of inbound peers max_num_inbound_peers = 200 # Maximum number of outbound peers to connect to, excluding persistent peers max_num_outbound_peers = 100

Start your node

Now that everything is setup and ready to go, you can start your node.

Copy cosmovisor start

You will need some way to keep the process always running. If you're on linux, you can do this by creating a service.

Copy sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/uptickd.service > /dev/null <<EOF [Unit] Description=Uptick Daemon After=network-online.target [Service] User=$USER ExecStart=$(which cosmovisor) start Restart=always RestartSec=3 LimitNOFILE=infinity Environment="DAEMON_HOME=$HOME/.uptickd" Environment="DAEMON_NAME=uptickd" Environment="DAEMON_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD_BINARIES=false" Environment="DAEMON_RESTART_AFTER_UPGRADE=true" [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF

Then update and start the node

Copy sudo -S systemctl daemon-reload sudo -S systemctl enable uptickd sudo -S systemctl start uptickd

You can check the status with:

Copy systemctl status uptickd

Upgrade Manually

Upgrade Genesis File

If the new version you are upgrading to has breaking changes, you will have to export the state and restart your node.

If it is not breaking (eg. from v0.1.x to v0.1.<x+1>), you can skip to Restart after installing the new version.

To upgrade the genesis file, you can either fetch it from a trusted source or export it locally using the uptickd export command.

Fetch from a Trusted Source

If you are joining an existing testnet, you can fetch the genesis from the appropriate testnet source/repository where the genesis file is hosted.

Save the new genesis as new_genesis.json. Then, replace the old genesis.json with new_genesis.json.

Copy cd $HOME/.uptickd/config cp -f genesis.json new_genesis.json mv new_genesis.json genesis.json

Export State

Uptick can dump the entire application state to a JSON file. This, besides upgrades, can be useful for manual analysis of the state at a given height.

Export state with:

Copy uptickd export > new_genesis.json

You can also export state from a particular height (at the end of processing the block of that height):

Copy uptickd export --height [height] > new_genesis.json

If you plan to start a new network for 0 height (i.e genesis) from the exported state, export with the --for-zero-height flag:

Copy uptickd export --height [height] --for-zero-height > new_genesis.json

Then, replace the old genesis.json with new_genesis.json.

Copy cp -f genesis.json new_genesis.json mv new_genesis.json genesis.json

At this point, you might want to run a script to update the exported genesis into a genesis state that is compatible with your new version.

You can use the migrate command to migrate from a given version to the next one (eg: v0.X.X to v1.X.X):

Copy uptickd migrate [target-version] [/path/to/genesis.json] --chain-id=<new_chain_id> --genesis-time=<yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ>

Restart Node

To restart your node once the new genesis has been updated, use the start command:

Copy uptickd start