Consensys-Incorporated/teku 21.4.0

v21.4.0

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Upcoming Breaking Changes

• Teku currently publishes a head event on the REST API 4 seconds into a slot even if a block has not been received. In a future release this will be changed so head event is only published when a new
  chain head block is imported. The --Xvalidators-dependent-root-enabled option can be used to switch to the new behaviour now for testing.
  Note: this should be applied to both the beacon node and validator client if running separately.
• The /teku/v1/beacon/states/:state_id endpoint has been deprecated in favor of the standard API /eth/v1/debug/beacon/states/:state_id which now returns the state as SSZ when the Accept: application/octet-stream header is specified on the request.

Additions and Improvements

• Optimised validation of aggregate gossip messages to reduce CPU usage.

• Upgraded to use BLS implementation BLST version 0.3.3.

• Teku now waits for Eth1 nodes to finish syncing before requesting data from them. Thanks to Enrico Del Fante.

• Reduced CPU usage required when processing gossip message by optimising peer scoring.

• Added new metrics to Validators

  • validator_external_signer_requests with labels success, failed, timeout.
  • validator_duties_performed with labels type and result.
  • validator_event_stream_disconnections_total which has a reason label. The reason will be one of (disconnect, connect, error, timeout, invalidEvent).
  • validator_event_stream_invalid_events_total counts the number of invalid events found on the event stream.

• Early access: LevelDB based database to reduce native memory usage and disk space.

  Currently, can only be used from a new database by specifying --Xdata-storage-create-db-version leveldb2. This will become the default new database format in future releases.
  Migration for existing database will be added in a future release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed ProtoArray: Best node is not viable for head error.

Downloads

• Available as 21.4.0 on Dockerhub
• Download the binary distribution:
  • tar.gz (sha256: 44902d1f9783e98c1c0ca468576dc0fb64330a24453a24c60a5d63b4f63a7475)
  • zip (sha256: 2fd0731ca2bc524a3c26f83d3d4d27a1fb3ef2d5959b0f45d935fde2876e3149)