This is a recommended upgrade with configuration updates and optimisations.
Downloads
- Available as
22.6.0on Dockerhub - Download the binary distribution:
Breaking Changes
- The command-line option
--validators-performance-tracking-enabledhas been removed in favour of--validators-performance-tracking-mode
Additions and Improvements
- Added configuration for Sepolia testnet.
- Reduced memory requirements for storing the deposit merkle tree.
- Enable spec change to ignore weightings from attestations from equivocating validators.
- Fork choice before proposals is now enabled by default for testnets. It can be disabled with
--Xfork-choice-before-proposing-enabled=falseif required. - Updated the Ropsten network configuration to include the correct terminal difficulty.
- Updated to BLST 0.3.8
- Reduced CPU usage when processing epoch transition.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where the REST API may return content as SSZ instead of JSON if the header
Accept: */*was specified. - Fixed issue where sync committee aggregations were skipped, but reported failed because there were no signatures to aggregate.
- Fixed division by zero when estimating time to TTD during a period with no new PoW blocks.
- Fixed issue where validator client could receive a 500 rather than 503 when getting duties if the beacon node was syncing.
Upcoming Breaking Changes
- The
/eth/v1/debug/beacon/states/:state_idendpoint has been deprecated in favor of the v2 Altair endpoint/eth/v2/debug/beacon/states/:state_id - The
/eth/v1/beacon/blocks/:block_idendpoint has been deprecated in favor of the v2 Altair endpoint/eth/v2/beacon/blocks/:block_id - The
/eth/v1/validator/blocks/:slotendpoint has been deprecated in favor of the v2 Altair endpoint/eth/v2/validator/blocks/:slot - The
/eth/v1/debug/beacon/headsendpoint has been deprecated in favor of the v2 Bellatrix endpoint/eth/v2/debug/beacon/heads