Bee v1.4.0 is finally here and it includes a major change to protocol behavior that will significantly improve the network resilience. From now on, your nodes will have to be accessible from public CIDRs for them to participate in our core protocols. We've introduced new visibility metrics through the topology endpoint to allow node operators to determine their connectivity state and make the necessary steps to rectify any NAT reachability problems. We've also improved node resilience on blockchain errors. Our bootnodes will flip to the new version on 9AM CET, 25th of November 2021. You are expected to follow with the new version thereafter. Please stay tuned for another release which will follow shortly!
Breaking changes
- Starting from
v1.4.0, only nodes which are reachable from the public CIDRs are used for core protocols. Old nodes are not interoperable with the new version due to a handshake protocol version bump (#2565, #2676) - The
/stampsendpoints on the normal API which have been deprecated three months ago have been finally removed in favor of the whole postage suite which is available on the debug API. Please see the OpenAPI specifications for more info (#2632)
Hardening
- The bee node will now wait up to ten minutes before forcing a restart due to a stalled blockchain backend (#2626)
New features
- The node will now display information about the eth backend client on startup (#2618)
- OpenAPI versions has been added to the health endpoint, so that clients could easily determine which features are supported by the node (#2638)
Bugfixes
- Fixed a panic on stewardship endpoints in dev mode (#2640)
- Fixed a panic in kademlia metrics (#2636)
- Fixed a bug where futile attempts to sync chunks with invalid postage stamps were made (#2637)
Performance improvements
- Kademlia buildups should now be faster due to prioritization of previously connected peers and non blocking attempts in topology buildups (#2613, #2627)
For a full PR rundown please consult the v1.4.0 milestone.
Docker images
docker pull ethersphere/bee:1docker pull ethersphere/bee:1.4docker pull ethersphere/bee:1.4.0docker pull ethersphere/bee:stabledocker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:1docker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:1.4docker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:1.4.0docker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:stabledocker pull ethersphere/bee:1-slimdocker pull ethersphere/bee:1.4-slimdocker pull ethersphere/bee:1.4.0-slimdocker pull ethersphere/bee:latest-slimdocker pull ethersphere/bee:stable-slimdocker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:1-slimdocker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:1.4-slimdocker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:1.4.0-slimdocker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:latest-slimdocker pull quay.io/ethersphere/bee:stable-slim