Changelog

Full Changelog

Features

• modify fork digest to distinguish BPO forks (#8022) (@nflaig)
• increase default gas limit to 45M (#8024) (@nflaig)
• track on chain proposer rewards per block (#8018) (@twoeths)
• persist orphaned blocks to disk (#7946) (@mkermani144)
• switch to rust kzg for async proof verification (#7989) (@nflaig)
• add validator activity metrics (#7634) (@KatyaRyazantseva)
• replace fork with boundary in gossip topic (#7975) (@ensi321)
• replace fork with boundary in reqresp's outgoing chunk (#7978) (@ensi321)
• minimal changes to parallelize block building steps (#7814) (@nflaig)
• define SubscribeBoundary (#7968) (@ensi321)
• assert fork digest to match our current fork (#7950) (@ensi321)
• add endpoint to retrieve proposer lookahead from state (#7949) (@nflaig)
• validate blob schedule on startup (#7942) (@ensi321)
• add EIP-7917 deterministic proposer lookahead (#7902) (@ensi321)
• add metric to track consensus block value (#7921) (@nflaig)

Bug Fixes

• emit blob_sidecar event as soon as we receive BlobSidecars (#7967) (@nflaig)
• ignore statuses filter in validators api if null is passed (#7976) (@nflaig)
• enable attestation grouping for DVs (#7958) (@KaloyanTanev)
• parent slot of produced block (#7927) (@twoeths)

Refactoring

• add types for representing LC Merkle branches (#7889) (@0xChaddB)

Tests

• run against stable lighthouse release in sim tests (#7973) (@nflaig)

Maintenance

• make buckets required when defining histograms (#7979) (@nflaig)
• update query for attestations_per_committee metric (#7923) (@nflaig)
• proposer lookahead follow-up changes (#7948) (@nflaig)
• add panels to validator client dashboard to track aggregate participants (#7929) (@nflaig)
• add panels for IDONTWANT metrics to gossipsub dashboard (#7924) (@nflaig)
• do not create map entry if prev block root does not exist (#7928) (@nflaig)
• add panels for SyncContributionAndProofPool metrics (#7922) (@nflaig)
• add quic panels to libp2p dashboard (#7913) (@nflaig)
• add Uint8Array type check to bytesToBigInt (#7920) (@nflaig)
• change remaining package licenses from LGPL-v3 to Apache-2.0 (#7915) (@philknows)
• prepare for spec test v1.6.0-alpha.1 (#7919) (@ensi321)
• add panel to track aggregate cache misses (#7914) (@nflaig)
• remove stale comment about default max blobs limit (#7907) (@nflaig)
• track Packed Attestation metrics on Block Production dashboard (#7911) (@twoeths)
• merge v1.31.0 stable back to unstable (#7908) (@philknows)

Documentation

• add bindings error to common issues (#8038) (@spiral-ladder)