ava-labs/avalanchego v1.9.9

Banff.9 - gRPC Plugin Protocol

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This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 23.

Note: The --whitelisted-subnets flag was deprecated in v1.9.6. This is the last release in which it will be supported. Use --track-subnets instead.

Monitoring

• Added warning when the P2P server IP is private
• Added warning when the HTTP server IP is potentially publicly reachable
• Removed merkledb.trieView#calculateIDs tracing when no recalculation is needed

Databases

• Capped the number of goroutines that merkledb.trieView#calculateIDsConcurrent will create
• Removed nodb package
• Refactored Batch implementations to share common code
• Added Batch.Replay invariant tests
• Converted to use require in all database interface tests

Cryptography

• Moved the secp256k1 implementations to a new secp256k1 package out of the crypto package
• Added rfc6979 compliance tests to the secp256k1 signing implementation
• Removed unused cryptography implementations ed25519, rsa, and rsapss
• Removed unnecessary cryptography interfaces crypto.Factory, crypto.RecoverableFactory, crypto.PublicKey, and crypto.PrivateKey
• Added verification when parsing secp256k1 public keys to ensure usage of the compressed format

API

• Removed delegators from platform.getCurrentValidators unless a single nodeID is requested
• Added delegatorCount and delegatorWeight to the validators returned by platform.getCurrentValidators

Documentation

• Improved documentation on the block.WithVerifyContext interface
• Fixed --public-ip and --public-ip-resolution-service CLI flag descriptions
• Updated README.md to explicitly reference SECURITY.md

Coreth

• Enabled state sync by default when syncing from an empty database
• Increased block gas limit to 15M for Cortina Network Upgrade
• Added back file tracer endpoint
• Added back JS tracer

Miscellaneous

• Added allowedNodes to the subnet config for validatorOnly subnets
• Removed the hashicorp/go-plugin dependency to improve plugin flexibility
• Replaced specialized bag implementations with generic bag implementations
• Added mempool package to the avm
• Added chain.State#IsProcessing to simplify integration with block.WithVerifyContext
• Added StateSyncMinVersion to sync.ClientConfig
• Added validity checks for InitialStakeDuration in a custom network genesis
• Removed unnecessary reflect call when marshalling an empty slice

Cleanup

• Renamed teleporter package to warp
• Replaced bool flags in P-chain state diffs with an enum
• Refactored subnet configs to more closely align between the primary network and subnets
• Simplified the utxo.Spender interface
• Removed unused field common.Config#Validators