v1.7.7

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

Networking

• Refactored the networking library to track potential peers by nodeID rather than IP.
• Separated peer connections from the mesh network implementation to simplify testing.
• Fixed duplicate Connected messages bug.
• Supported establishing outbound connections with peers reporting different inbound and outbound IPs.

Database

• Disabled seek compaction in leveldb by default.

GRPC

• Increased protocol version, this requires all plugin definitions to update their communication dependencies.
• Merged services to be served using the same server when possible.
• Implemented a fast path for simple HTTP requests.
• Removed duplicated message definitions.
• Improved error reporting around invalid plugins.

Coreth

• Optimized FeeHistory API.
• Added protection to prevent accidental corruption of archival node trie index.
• Added capability to restore complete trie index on best effort basis.
• Rounded up fastcache sizes to utilize all mmap'd memory in chunks of 64MB.

Configs

• Removed --inbound-connection-throttling-max-recent
• Renamed --network-peer-list-size to --network-peer-list-num-validator-ips
• Removed --network-peer-list-gossip-size
• Removed --network-peer-list-staker-gossip-fraction
• Added --network-peer-list-validator-gossip-size
• Added --network-peer-list-non-validator-gossip-size
• Removed --network-get-version-timeout
• Removed --benchlist-peer-summary-enabled
• Removed --peer-alias-timeout

Miscellaneous

• Fixed error reporting when making Avalanche chains that did not manually specify a primary alias.
• Added beacon utils for easier programmatic handling of beacon nodes.
• Resolved the default log directory on initialization to avoid additional error handling.
• Added support to the chain state module to specify an arbitrary new accepted block.