Breaking Changes
/eth/v1/beacon/{state}/committeesnow specifies the epoch as a query parameter instead of a part of the path- Discovery has been updated to discv5.1
Additions and Improvements
- Reduced memory usage when finalizing after a long period of non-finalization and provided progress messages while finalized blocks are stored
- New standard API endpoints:
- GET
/eth/v1/debug/beacon/heads
- GET
- Updated discovery to use discv5.1 standard
- Significantly reduced CPU usage, particularly during long periods of non-finalization by optimising the
get_ancestormethod in fork choice - Added
libp2p_gossip_messages_totalmetric to report the number of gossip messages processed by gossip topic - Apache license notice is now displayed on startup
Bug Fixes
- Handled retrieving states for
finalizedorheadwhen the actual slot is empty - Fixed issue where EIP2335 keystores without a
pathoruuidfield were rejected as invalid - Fixed error codes returned when validators were not found in standard API queries
- Skip loading the latest finalized state on startup as it is not required to recreate the memory store
- Fixed handling of empty responses from peers when requesting a single block that they do not have