ethersphere/bee v1.9.0

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The Bee team is excited to announce the latest release which includes the second phase of the storage incentives! The release also includes a myriad of hardenings and bug fixes that can be found below.

The storage incentives can be previewed on the testnet, but as a feature it is not enabled on the mainnet.

Breaking changes

• Deprecated the gateway mode. #3265

Hardening

• Mined or new overlays are preserved on db nuke. #3384
• Enabled more linting rules on the codebase. (#3304, #3305, #3299)
• A lot of the unit tests are now refactored to conform with the new linters. (eg #3293 #3332 #3342 and more)
• Increased the retry count for chunk retrievals. #3419
• Removed the lower bound for the storage radius monitored by depthmonitor. #3382

New features

• Exposed readiness and health endpoints. #3248
• Users can now configure the gas limit for contract related APIs using HTTP headers. #3352
• Storage incentives
  • Added a new feature flag to enable the feature in testnet. #3358
  • Implemented the api and the the contracts calls to the staking contract. #3341
  • Implemented the agent for monitoring incentives phases. #3347
    • Openapi docs for staking endpoint
  • Implemented the contracts calls to the incentives smart contract. #3355
  • Added metrics for the agent. #3369
  • Implemented the reserve commitment sampler which produces a special hash of the reserve to be reported to the incentives contract by the agent. #3335

Bugfixes

• Fixed an invalid memory address bug by making chain-backend available before the technical debug is mounted. #3261
• Fixed a small sharky leak when context is canceled. #3274
• On start up, correct expired field is set based on if the batch exists in the batchstore. #3289 #3269
• Added not implemented error for topup and dilute APIs in devnode. #3131
• Make wallet endpoint avaiable only when swap-enabled is set to true. #3271
• Reserve size to only include chunks with proximity order greater than or equal to storage radius. #3322
• Fixed a bug where the API now sends the correct response if there is a slash in website index document. #3229
• Fixed a bug where a fethcing a newly purchaged batch returns an error. #3370

For a full PR rundown please consult the v1.9.0 milestone.