ethereum/go-ethereum v1.9.25

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Geth v1.9.25 is a maintenance release.

Notable changes in this release:

• Geth has a new subcommand, geth version-check, which displays known security issues (#21859)
• The geth --ws.origins flag now supports more expressive origin rules (#21481)
• Recording of trie key preimages can now be disabled using the --cache.preimages flag (#21402)
• The accounts/abi/bind package now offers replay-protected transaction signing (#21356)
• The GraphQL API now always returns status code 400 if there is an error processing the query (#21882)
• The devp2p nodeset filter command can now find snap-enabled nodes (#21950)
• The eth protocol test suite has been extended with tests for transaction announcements and malicious announce behavior (#21857, #21792)
• Support for 'retesteth' has been removed from geth since it is no longer used for tests. Its replacement, the evm t8n tool, was released in Geth v1.9.16 (#21861)
• We now offer signify/minisign signatures for Geth binary downloads as an alternative to PGP. This is experimental, and not yet advertised on the downloads page (#21798)

Bug fixes:

• A crash in LES server handling of the GetProofsV2 message is resolved. See CVE-2020-26264 advisory for more information (#21896)
• The LES server no longer locks up during geth shutdown (#21927)
• Clef now correctly derives accounts for Ledger Live devices (#21757)
• The faucet now ignores URL query parameters in Facebook post URLs (#21838)
• Light client peer discovery now uses DNS (#21906)
• go mod vendor of go-ethereum should now work (#21735)
• The peer connection acceptor doesn't hot-spin anymore when geth runs out of file descriptors (#21878)
• Using the reexec option for tracing RPC methods no longer crashes the RPC handler (#21830)
• common.Hash and common.Address now print as hex when using fmt.Println (#21834)
• A rare deadlock in Discovery v5 message dispatch is fixed (#21858)
• Failures in internal CPU metrics collection no longer crash geth (#21864)
• In Go contract bindings generated by abigen, the Raw field of parsed events is now set correctly (#21807)

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.9.25 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.