We just released v1.15.1 which includes a few hotfixes for users using Besu as their execution client, using --blindedLocal and users with .lock file issues. For those users, we highly recommend updating to v1.15.1 to address these reported issues.

• For users running Besu, if you've received fork-choice invalidations if latestValidHash is not found, this fix more robustly handles an execution layer's return of null.
• Included a UX improvement for users who have interruptions with their validator client (e.g. power loss) where it may not properly cleanup .lock files and requires manual intervention to remove stale files. This fix marks .lock files as stale if the process is not running for more than 10 seconds.
• Included a fix for users using the --blindedLocal feature on their setups. This fix parses the CLI flag as boolean.

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Bug Fixes

• ignore forkchoice invalidations if latestValidHash not found (#6361) (@g11tech)
• ignore stale keystore lockfiles (#6363) (@nflaig)
• parse --blindedLocal flag value as boolean (#6403) (@nflaig)