v0.18.0 - 2023-11-14

This release introduces general fixes and improvements including progress on great new features.

⚠️ This version of Charon is only backwards-compatible with version 0.17.0-series releases, so to run this v0.18.0 release, every node in the cluster must be running at least v0.17.0 or newer ⚠️

Full Changelog: v0.17.2..v0.18.0

Feature

• Add holesky fork version to charon #2399 (#2590)
• Batch aggregation and broadcast #2373 (#2523)
• Implement Launchpad URL Return for --publish Command #2423 (#2518)
• cluster hashes should match in manifest and lock #2335 (#2485)
• Fix charon with updated go-eth2-client #2646 (#2650)
• Add network flag to promrated #2571 (#2575)
• Fuzz charon with malicious charon node #2375 (#2504,#2426)
• upper bound checks for integer conversion #2658 (#2668)
• Implement deneb support #2597 (#2635)

Bug

• Soft shutdown not working #2435 (#2516)
• Possible race condition in DKG exchanger #2491 (#2496)
• Chain inclusion for builder_proposer is not working as expected #2661 (#2670)
• Incorrect delay duration in submitted validator registrations logs #2681 (#2675)
• Ensure the desired folder exists, before writing the combined keys #2536 (#2537)
• DKG network issues on shutdown #887 (#2509)
• Incorrect pre-gen builder registrations in create cluster ouput #2674 (#2673)
• Race in AggSigDB unit test #2546 (#2561)

Refactor

• implement a threshold-based recombination #2663 (#2664)
• eth2util: support legacy signed randao marshalling #2353 (#2558)
• update to new deneb changes #2659 (#2682)
• Update vmock to submit selections at the start of epoch for current and next epoch #2400 (#2545)
• Remove support for stream-delimited wire protocols #1934 (#2495)
• Remove keycast #2569 (#2684)

Docs

• Document config definition and lock change log #2307 (#2478)

Misc

• Tagged release versions not overwritten to app.Version. #2270 (#2482)
• Add beacon fuzz test to CI/CD #2180 (#2481)

What's Changed

• app/version: bump to v0.18-dev (#2479)

• app/promauto: support partial resets (#2487)

• dkg: increase bcast receive timeout (#2490)

• p2p: set default send timeout (#2494)

• dkg: wait for all validator key sigs (#2510)

• *: bump go version to 1.20.7 (#2511)

• dkg: lockstep success message (#2514)

• github: bump buildx action (#2522)

• log/loki: harden client test (#2525)

• docs: update v2 release process (#2539)

• testutil/trackpr: remove (#2541)

• gomod: upgrade libp2p to v0.29.2 (#2543)

• workflows: remove add issue to project workflow (#2553)

• *: bump dependencies (#2559)

• beaconmock: add MIN_EPOCHS_FOR_BLOCK_REQUESTS (#2574)

• eth2util/keystore: lower amount of loadStoreWorkers (#2584)

• eth2util/keymanager: dynamically set request timeout (#2586)

• eth2util: fix fork version (#2600)

• eth2util/deposit: bump deposit cli version (#2604)

• *: bump go version (#2638)

• go.mod: move to our Kryptology fork (#2641)

• testutil/genchangelog: force fetch tags (#2644)

• vmock: change start time of sync selections to start of slot (#2649)

• testutil/validatormock: remove pseudo code (#2651)

• testutil/genchangelog: ignore rc's, template changes (#2652)

• core/validatorapi: fix get validators method (#2680)

• *: update license (#2683)

• app/version: bump to v0.18-rc (#2687)

• *: cherry pick commits (#2696)