Release notes

⚠️ WARNING - This version is NOT downgradable - once your node is upgraded to this version or synced from scratch on it, you won’t be able to downgrade to lower versions.**

Major highlights

• Improvements to the headers database

  • Reduce IOPS and bandwidth requirement during sync by up to 200MBps or about 8% of overall bandwidth during sync.
  • Reduce IOPS and bandwidth requirement when serving headers to peers.
  • Require additional 800MB of metadata DB on mainnet.

• Optimism support adjustments

  • Added op-sepolia and base-sepolia support! Just run Your node using nethermind --config op-sepolia or nethermind --config base-sepolia command!
  • Added additional archive configs for easier archive node setup.
    New config names: base-goerli_archive.cfg,base-mainnet_archive.cfg, op-mainnet_archive.cfg, op-sepolia_archive.cfg , base-sepolia_archive.cfg
  • Ensure that networking is disabled on OP-Stack chains to reduce unnecessary hardware usage

Changelog

New features and Important changes

• Perf/prefix headers key with blocknumber by @asdacap in #6172

Optimism

• Remove syncing check from ReviewBlockTree step by @jmederosalvarado in #6332
• Disable networking on OpStack configs by @jmederosalvarado in #6334
• Fix / Add OP configs by @jmederosalvarado in #6364

Bug fixes and stability

• Skip signature only for TxType.DepositTx by @LukaszRozmej in #6349
• Use Kestrel on Windows for metrics by @benaadams in #6326

Full Changelog: 1.23.0...1.24.0