v1.7.10

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

Networking

• Improved vertex and block gossiping for validators with low stake weight.
• Added peers metric by subnet.
• Added percentage of stake connected metric by subnet.

APIs

• Added support for specifying additional headers and query params in the RPC client implementations.
• Added static API clients for the platformvm and the avm.

PlatformVM

• Introduced time based windowing of accepted P-chain block heights to ensure that local networks update the proposer list timely in the proposervm.
• Improved selection of decision transactions from the mempool.

RPCChainVM

• Increased buf version to v1.3.1.
• Migrated all proto definitions to a dedicated /proto folder.
• Removed the dependency on the non-standard grpc broker to better support other language implementations.
• Added grpc metrics.
• Added grpc server health checks.

Coreth

• Fixed a bug where a deadlock on shutdown caused historical re-generation on restart.
• Added an API endpoint to fetch the current VM Config.
• Added AvalancheGo custom log formatting to the logs.
• Removed support for the JS Tracer.

Logging

• Added piping of subnet logs to stdout.
• Lazily initialized logs to avoid opening files that are never written to.
• Added support for arbitrarily deleted log files while avalanchego is running.
• Removed redundant logging configs.

Miscellaneous

• Updated minimum go version to v1.17.9.
• Added subnet bootstrapping health checks.
• Supported multiple tags per codec instantiation.
• Added minor fail-fast optimization to string packing.
• Removed dead code.
• Fixed typos.
• Simplified consensus engine Shutdown notification dispatching.
• Removed Sleep call in the inbound connection throttler.