Geth v1.13.3 is a scheduled maintenance release with various small additions and an important Pebble database fix.
- Update Pebble to fix an occasional IO and CPU runaway, adding some debugging capabilities too (#28224, #28070).
- Support full syncing to a specific hash without a beacon client via a
--synctarget
(#28209). - Allow configuring websocket message limits via the Go RPC client (#27801).
- Drop support for
eth/66
(Cancun will requireeth/68
anyway) (#28239). - Lower
snap
missingeth
protocol warning to debug level (#28249). - Enforce transaction metadata announcements in
eth/68
(#28261).
Features related to the Cancun hardfork:
- Implement the
BLOBFEE
opcode for the upcoming Cancun hard fork (#28098). - Enable blob transaction propagation and mining in Cancun networks (#28243).
- Start throttling transaction retrievals to prepare for blobs in Cancun (#28304).
For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.13.3 release milestone.
As with all our previous releases, you can find the:
- Pre-built binaries for all platforms on our downloads page.
- Docker images published under
ethereum/client-go
. - Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA repository.
- OSX packages in our Homebrew Tap repository.