Release notes

1. Based on release 2.40.1, not release 2.41.0, which contains multiple regressions.
2. Added configuration for Shanghai upgrade for Ethereum mainnet
3. Introduced banning of libp2p peers for sending bad gossip (CL light client).
4. Fixed database transaction leak in theEngineGetPayloadBodiesByHashV1 and EngineGetPayloadBodiesByRangeV1 methods.

Changelog

• beb9778 Error handling to beacon chain gossip (#7132)
• b8eaf78 Release transaction in EngineGetPayloadBodiesByRangeV1 (and by hash) (#7199)
• 8ad4870 Banning peers sending bad gossip (#7134)
• 5d0f778 Schedule mainnet Shapella. Fix BellatrixForkEpoch (#7145)
• 5c54138 Bump version