v0.2.5 focuses on node stability and network performance.

Features

• Add a get-state-info command to display current base node state (#1880)
• Message tracking for testnet troubleshooting (#1881)
• Added OSX section to README.md (#1888)
• Add the version command to base node CLI
• Add get_cancelled_transaction_by_id to FFI & update cancel callback
• Adding GetCalcTiming function to gRPC service (#1872)

Performance improvements and bug fixes

• Refactor the validators to ensure that each validation step only completes once (#1873).
• Add local pub key to the source and dest fields for cancelled txs in FFI (#1893)
• Switched the BlockEvent stream to Tokio broadcast (#1889). Reduce the memory footprint for block event broadcast channel by using a tokio broadcast channel.
• Chain metadata service not updating metadata on reorgs (#1890)
• Update sending of Tx Reply & Finalise msgs to send SAF if Direct fails (#1876)
• Limit unnecessary storage of messages with duplicate content. (#1862)
• Fixed block_forward sync to add blocks via local interface to ensure that events trigger correctly.
• Fixed a typo in mobile build script (#1875)
• Replace deprecated bigint with uint (#1874)