Release of Canton 3.5.14

Canton 3.5.14 has been released on August 19, 2026.

Summary

This is a maintenance release with improvements for CantonBFT.

Added a configuration option to override the view change timeout that is set via a topology transaction (SequencingParameters)
Improved the DB query that loads in-progress consensus state after a restart. Now, nodes only load minimum necessary messages for rehydration, rather than all messages from the most recent epoch.
Add check in mempool that local batches created are not too big.
Further fine tune what messages get loaded as part of rehydration
Add options in the SequencingParameters to make the view change timeout be dynamic.

The following Canton protocol versions are supported:

Dependency	Version
Canton protocol versions	34, 35

Canton has been tested against the following versions of its dependencies:

Dependency	Version
Java Runtime	OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0.12+2-nixos, mixed mode, sharing)
Postgres	Recommended: PostgreSQL 17.10 (Debian 17.10-1.pgdg13+1) – Also tested: PostgreSQL 14.24 (Debian 14.24-1.pgdg13+2), PostgreSQL 15.19 (Debian 15.19-1.pgdg13+2), PostgreSQL 16.15 (Debian 16.15-1.pgdg13+2), PostgreSQL 18.6 (Debian 18.6-1.pgdg13+2)

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