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confidentiality.
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```admonish danger title="Discontinuation of Walrus Devnet"
The previous Walrus Devnet instance is now deprecated and **will be shut down after 2024-10-31**.
All data stored on Walrus Devnet (including Walrus Sites) will no longer be accessible at that
point. You need to re-upload all data to Walrus Testnet if you want it to remain accessible. Walrus
Sites also need to be migrated as described on the dedicated [migration
page](./walrus-sites/tutorial-migration.md).
```

## Features

- **Storage and retrieval:** Walrus supports storage operations to write and read blobs. It also
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# Announcing Testnet

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Published on: 2024-10-XX
Published on: 2024-10-17

Today, a community of operators launches the first public Walrus Testnet.
This is an important milestone in validating the operation of Walrus as a decentralized blob store,
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stake; efficient ways to sync state between storage nodes; as well as better ways for storage nodes
to follow Sui event streams.

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- Explore the [Walrus staking dApp](https://app.org)
- Look at recent activity on the [Walrus Explorer](https://app.org)
- Explore the [Walrus staking dApp](https://stake.walrus.site)
- Look at recent activity on the [Walrus Explorer](https://walruscan.com/testnet/home)

## New Move Contracts & documentation
## New Move contracts & documentation

As part of the Testnet release of Walrus the documentation and Move Smart contracts have been
updated, and can be found at the [Walrus-docs repository](https://github.com/MystenLabs/walrus-docs)
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specify client-side routing rules, and add custom HTTP headers to the portals' responses for their
site, expanding the possibilities for what Walrus Sites can do.

[Migrate now](../walrus-sites/tutorial-migration.md) to take advantage of these new features!
The old Walrus Sites, based on Walrus Devnet, will still be available for a short time. However,
Devnet will be wiped soon, so it is recommended to migrate as soon as possible.
[Migrate now](../walrus-sites/tutorial-migration.md) to take advantage of these new features! The
old Walrus Sites, based on Walrus Devnet, will still be available for a short time. However, Devnet
will be wiped soon (as described below), so it is recommended to migrate as soon as possible.

## Discontinuation of Walrus Devnet

The previous Walrus Devnet instance is now deprecated and **will be shut down after 2024-10-31**.
All data stored on Walrus Devnet (including Walrus Sites) will no longer be accessible at that
point. You need to re-upload all data to Walrus Testnet if you want it to remain accessible. Walrus
Sites also need to be migrated as described on the dedicated [migration
page](../walrus-sites/tutorial-migration.md).
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```admonish tip
Our latest Walrus binaries are also available on Walrus itself, namely on <https://bin.walrus.site>.
Note, however, that you can only access this through a web browser and not through CLI tools like
cURL due to the service-worker architecture (see the [Walrus Sites docs](../walrus-sites/portal.md)
for further insights).
Our latest Testnet Walrus binaries are also available on Walrus itself, namely on
<https://bin.blob.store>, for example, <https://bin.blob.store/walrus-testnet-latest-ubuntu-x86_64>.
```

### Previous versions (optional)
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If you are just uploading raw files without an `index.html`, you may want to use the
`--list-directory` flag, which will automatically create an index page to browse the files. See for
example <https://bin.walrus.site>.
example <https://bin.blob.store>.

The `publish` command will also respect the instructions in the `ws-resources.json` configuration
file. To know more, see the section on [specifying headers and routing](./routing.md).
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```admonish danger title="Walrus Sites Devnet being discontinued"
Since the Walrus Devnet will be shut down soon, all the Walrus Sites stored on it will be wiped. To
minimize the downtime, the Devnet Walrus Sites will be available after the Testnet upgrade for two
weeks (until **2024-10-31**), to ensure that everyone has enough time to update.
Since the Walrus Devnet will [be shut down
soon](../README.md#admonition-discontinuation-of-walrus-devnet), all the Walrus Sites stored on it will
be wiped. To minimize the downtime, the Devnet Walrus Sites will be available after the Testnet
upgrade for two weeks (until **2024-10-31**), to ensure that everyone has enough time to update.
Make sure to reupload your sites to the Walrus Tevnet before the shutdown to avoid downtime!
Make sure to reupload your sites to the Walrus Testnet before the shutdown to avoid downtime!
```

At a high level, here are some of the most exciting features:
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