v1.10.0 - 2026-04-24

This is Charon's v1.10.0 release. Feedback is welcome and appreciated, please use github issues or discord if you have trouble with this release.

Mutable fee recipient addresses

A new command charon feerecipient allows users to edit the fee recipients of the newly built blocks and the gas limit.
Read more details about the feature and how to use it in our docs.

Read the rest of the release notes for more:

Full Changelog: v1.9.4..v1.10.0

Feature

• Mutable fee-recipient-addresses #4293 (#4407,#4401,#4341)
• Upgrade base Docker image of Charon from bookworm (Debian 12) to trixie (Debian 13)
• Upgrade go to v1.26

Testing

• Greatly improved e2e testing of Charon with other upstream and downstream clients via Kurtosis

Compatibility Matrix

This release of Charon is backwards compatible with Charon >= v1.0., though only v1.7. and newer are Fulu-ready.

The below matrix details a combination of beacon node (consensus layer) + validator clients and their corresponding versions the DV Labs team have tested with this Charon release. More validator and consensus client will be added to this list as they are supported in our automated testing framework.

Legend

• ✅: All duties succeed in testing
• 🟡: All duties succeed in testing, except non-penalised aggregation duties
• 🟠: Duties may fail for this combination
• 🔴: One or more duties fails consistently

What's Changed

• dkg: fixing processkey (#4261)

• dkg: threshold validation (#4268)

• dkg: cap p2p msg size (#4280)

• dkg: nodesigs peer idx check (#4281)

• dkg: better nonce (#4282)

• dkg: nodes count validation (#4298)

• dkg: frostp2p code quality (#4299)

• cluster: limit reader (#4300)

• dkg: bounds and shares checks (#4301)

• github: rename git release actions (#4312)

• core: 0-based index for parsig metric (#4322)

• *: bump go v1.26 (#4328)

• dkg: improved nodesigs sender id check (#4330)

• app: add HeadBlockNotFullyVerified condition fallback BN (#4332)

• app: bump version to v1.10-dev (#4336)

• github: change supported versions in different PR (#4338)

• docs: added charon audits (#4339)

• dkg: shutdown flow improvement (#4344)

• *: missed proposal debug skill (#4349)

• *: add sigagg and parsigex metrics (#4357)

• ci: group dependabot PRs by ecosystem (#4366)

• Comment out chain-split-halt (#4372)

• *: completely remove chain-split-halt (#4375)

• core: extra qbft logging (#4376)

• core: abundant QBFT logging (#4380)

• core/consensus: recv buffer debug (#4382)

• core: more logging in runInstance (#4384)

• core: new deadliner (#4386)

• app: improved loki client (#4389)

• core: revert debugging and chain-split-halt changes (#4390)

• core: clone using ssz (#4399)

• core: excessive logging fix (#4402)

• core/bcast: log submitted att and att_agg len (#4409)

• app/eth2wrap: trim requestedIdxs from cache (#4413)

• *: more unit tests for testing SSZ (#4416)

• *: add claude code settings and update memory (#4419)

• *: kurtosis smoke test workflow (#4420)

• Loop through each map; proper check for already requested idxs (#4422)

• *: switch kurtosis smoke test to iam role auth (#4426)

• dkg: enable testsyncflow (#4430)

• *: kurtosis smoke script fix (#4431)

• *: improve kurtosis smoke test reliability (#4432)

• app/*: report EL version metric (#4434)

• testutil/verifypr: fix verify pr (#4437)

• *: kurtosis smoke test cron (#4439)

• *: removed compose tests (#4440)

• app/log: fix race condition making the log test fail (#4441)

• .github/workflows: Add slack notifications to kurtosis report (#4442)

• app/health: improve healthcheck metric (#4444)

• app: bump minor version to v1.10-rc (#4448)

• Downgrade action-gh-release to v2.5.0 (#4452) (#4456)

• *: v1.10.0 rc3 (#4479)

• app/eth2wrap: fix mutation of pointer (#4486) (#4489)

• app: improved feerecipient behavior (#4491)

• app/version: bump v1.10 to stable (#4493)

• *: v1.10.0-rc6 (#4496)