Testnet Only

XDPoSChain Changelog Summary

Core Improvements

• Improved block report output format (#827)
• Fixed special transaction causing debug API failure after EIP-1559 (#874)
• Tidy up genesis allocation data (#868)

Consensus & EIPs

• Implemented EIP-5656 (MCOPY instruction) (#834)
• Implemented EIP-6780 (#837)
• Implemented EIP-7516 (#839)
• Implemented BLOBHASH opcode 0x49 (#843)
• Enabled Cancun instruction set (#861)
• Updated EIP-1559 block number for testnet (#869)

Parameters & Configurations

• Added Cancun blocks and improved chain config output (#826)
• Updated bootnodes (#857)
• Printed chain configuration in more detail (#860)
• Set networkID to chainId by default (#850)

Performance & Code Cleanup

• Removed extra hash and string conversions (#830)
• Cleaned up and properly abstracted database accesses (#841)
• Removed extra conversions for performance improvements (#858)
• Used types.EmptyRootHash instead of null (#836)
• Cleaned up network flags (#863)

Command-Line & Node Configurations

• Removed genesis file dependency for XDC init command (#849)
• Deprecated the --mine flag (#851)
• Deprecated --XDCx-datadir flag (#854)
• Changed default values of some flags to simplify sync (#855)
• Removed deprecated flags --fast and --light (#877)
• Warned users when using deprecated config/resource files (#875)

Networking & RPC

• Added backup RPC to CI/CD (#835)
• Added dial metrics in P2P discovery (#829)

Debugging & Logging

• Added more logs on countdown (#859)
• Fixed two bugs in eth/downloader (#842)

Database & Storage

• Added db inspect command (#876)
• Passed blobs by reference in crypto/kz4844 (#840)

Miscellaneous

• Updated genesis file for devnet (#867)
• Refactored constants (#846)
• Monthly development upgrade merge (#878)

Full Changelog: v2.5.0-beta1...v2.5.1-beta