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We should increase range of upgrades that can be conducted as a "soft" upgrade rather than a "hard" upgrade (requiring a blockchain restart). The related RFC, which is now open at tendermint/spec#222, has more detail on the proposed solution.
Combined with upgrade tooling (tendermint/tendermint#5595), it will be much easier for users to upgrade Tendermint Core.
Version numbers will play a key role in this. Here are a few outstanding issues that deal with versioning across Tendermint Core:
- Add version to KMS handshake: KMS handshake with Version tendermint/tendermint#2665
- Converge on AppVersion: Convergence off AppVersion tendermint/tendermint#2448
- Version WAL: Improvements for WAL tendermint/tendermint#785
Originally: tendermint/tendermint#5680