- Fixes to improve download speed of the block snapshot files - previous release had a limitation meaning that most users saw download speed limited to ~2Mb/s.
- Exposing UDP and TPC ports 42069 (bitTorrent) in docker image.
- Renamed syncmode fast to syncmode full in command line arguments, to avoid confusion.
- Added “ethstats” service.
- First version of “Observer” - p2p network crawler, which is a pre-cursor for an open source node explorer.
- Add ENR seq field according to EIP-868.
- RPC method
admin_peers
to collect information about connected peers, including when there are multiple p2p sentries. - Clean up of fork choice related tables - they are not used anymore.
- Fixes to pruning in the presence of block snapshost files.
- Fixes to header downloader getting stuck.