ava-labs/avalanchego v1.8.6

Apricot Phase 6 - P2P Protobuf

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This version is backwards compatible to v1.8.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 16.

BLS

• Added BLS key file at --staking-signer-key-file
• Exposed BLS proof of possession in the info.getNodeID API
• Added BLS proof of possession to AddPermissionlessValidatorTxs for the Primary Network

The default value of --staking-signer-key-file is ~/.avalanchego/staking/signer.key. If the key file doesn't exist, it will be populated with a new key.

Networking

• Added P2P proto support to be activated in a future release
• Fixed inbound bandwidth spike after leaving the validation set
• Removed support for ChitsV2 messages
• Removed ContainerIDs from Put and PushQuery messages
• Added pending_timeouts metric to track the number of active timeouts a node is tracking
• Fixed overflow in gzip decompression
• Optimized memory usage in peer.MessageQueue

Miscellaneous

• Fixed bootstrapping ETA metric
• Removed unused unknown_txs_count metric
• Replaced duplicated code with generic implementations

Coreth

• Added failure reason to bad block API