Go-Algorand 4.4.1 upgrades mainnet and testnet with Go 1.25, sha512 opcode, and relay performance improvements
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Go-Algorand 4.4.1 was released on November 10 as a stable update to both MainNet and TestNet. The release migrates the codebase to Go 1.25, improves relay networking performance, introduces stateful vote compression, and adds a sha512 opcode to the Algorand Virtual Machine. It was first published as 4.4.1-beta on November 6, then promoted to stable four days later.
The forum announcement also noted bug fixes across the network, database, and transaction layers. A new Go-based batch verifier ships with the release, replacing the prior implementation.
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