Changelog

22.1.0

Plugin API: BlockHeader.getBaseFee() method now returns an optional Wei instead of an optional Long #3065
Removed deprecated hash variable protected volatile Hash hash; which was used for private transactions #3110

Add support for additional JWT authentication algorithms #3017
Represent baseFee as Wei instead of long accordingly to the spec #2785
Implements EIP-4399 to repurpose DIFFICULTY opcode after the merge as a source of entropy from the Beacon chain. #3081
Re-order external services (e.g JsonRpcHttpService) to start before blocks start processing #3118
Stream JSON RPC responses to avoid creating big JSON strings in memory #3076
Ethereum Classic Mystique Hard Fork #3256
Genesis file parameter blockperiodseconds is validated as a positive integer on startup to prevent unexpected runtime behaviour #3186
Add option to require replay protection for locally submitted transactions #1975
Update to block header validation for IBFT and QBFT to support London fork EIP-1559 #3251
Move into SLF4J as logging facade #3285
Changing the order in which we traverse the word state tree during fast sync. This should improve fast sync during subsequent pivot changes.
Updated besu-native to version 0.4.3 #3331
Refactor synchronizer to asynchronously retrieve blocks from peers, and to change peer when retrying to get a block. #3326
Disable RocksDB TTL compactions #3356
add a websocket frame size configuration CLI parameter [3368][https://github.com//pull/3379]
Add --ec-curve parameter to export/export-address public-key subcommands #3333

Change the base docker image from Debian Buster to Ubuntu 20.04 #3171 fixes #3045
Make 'to' field optional in eth_call method according to the spec #3177
Update to log4j 2.17.1. Resolves potential vulnerability only exploitable when using custom log4j configurations that are writable by untrusted users.
Fix regression on cors-origin star value
Fix for ethFeeHistory accepting hex values for blockCount
Fix a sync issue, when the chain downloader incorrectly shutdown when a task in the pipeline is cancelled. #3319
add a websocket frame size configuration CLI parameter [3368][https://github.com//pull/3379]
Prevent node from peering to itself #3342
Fix an IndexOutOfBoundsException exception when getting block from peers. #3304
Handle legacy eth64 without throwing null pointer exceptions #3343