v1.7.4

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

The first startup of the C-Chain will take a few minutes longer due to an index update.

Consensus

Removed deprecated Snowstorm consensus implementation that no longer aligned with the updated specification.
Updated bootstrapping logs to no longer reset counters after a node restart.
Added bootstrapping ETAs for fetching Snowman blocks and executing operations.
Renamed the MultiPut message to the Ancestors message to match other message naming conventions.
Introduced Whitelist conflicts into the Snowstorm specification that will be used in future X-chain improvements.
Refactored the separation between the Bootstrapping engine and the Consensus engine to support Fast-Sync.

Added an index mapping height to the list of accepted atomic operations at that height in a trie. Generating this index will cause the node to take a few minutes longer to startup the C-Chain for the first restart.
Updated Geth dependency to v1.10.15.
Updated networkID to match chainID.

Refactored platformvm rewards calculations to enable usage from an external library.
Fixed platformvm and avm UTXO fetching to not re-iterate the UTXO set if no UTXOs are fetched.
Refactored platformvm status definitions.
Added support for multiple address balance lookups in the platformvm.
Refactored platformvm and avm keystore users to reuse similar code.

Returned a 500 InternalServerError if an unexpected gRPC error occurs during the handling of an HTTP request to a plugin.
Updated gRPC server's max message size to enable responses larger than 4MiB from the plugin's handling of an HTTP request.

Added --stake-max-consumption-rate which defaults to 120,000.
Added --stake-min-consumption-rate which defaults to 100,000.
Added --stake-supply-cap which defaults to 720,000,000,000,000,000 nAVAX.
Renamed --bootstrap-multiput-max-containers-sent to --bootstrap-ancestors-max-containers-sent.
Renamed --bootstrap-multiput-max-containers-received to --bootstrap-ancestors-max-containers-received.
Enforced that --staking-enabled=false can not be specified on public networks (Fuji and Mainnet).

Improved corruptabledb error reporting by tracking the first reported error.
Updated CPU tracking to use the proper EWMA tracker rather than a linear approximation.
Separated health checks into readiness, healthiness, and liveness checks to support more fine-grained monitoring.
Refactored API client utilities to use a Context rather than an explicit timeout.