24.8.0
24.8.0 is a small but mighty release that is strongly recommended for all Mainnet users. It contains an important stack handling update as well as improvements to the RPC service, plug-in API, and support for tracing private transactions. There are some breaking changes upcoming, so carefully review the notes as usual. More details available below:
Upcoming Breaking Changes
- Receipt compaction will be enabled by default in a future version of Besu. After this change it will not be possible to downgrade to the previous Besu version.
- --Xbonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled is deprecated, use --bonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled instead
- --Xbonsai-trie-logs-pruning-window-size is deprecated, use --bonsai-trie-logs-pruning-window-size instead
besu storage x-trie-logsubcommand is deprecated, usebesu storage trie-loginstead- Allow configuration of Withdrawal Request Contract Address via genesis configuration #7356
Breaking Changes
- Remove long-deprecated
perm*whitelist*methods #7401
Additions and Improvements
- Expose set finalized/safe block in plugin api BlockchainService. These method can be used by plugins to set finalized/safe block for a PoA network (such as QBFT, IBFT and Clique).#7382
- In process RPC service #7395
- Added support for tracing private transactions using
priv_traceTransactionAPI. #6161 - Wrap WorldUpdater into EVMWorldupdater #7434
- Bump besu-native to 0.9.4 #7456
Bug fixes
- Correct entrypoint in Docker evmtool #7430
- Fix protocol schedule check for devnets #7429
- Fix behaviour when starting in a pre-merge network #7431
Release artifacts
9671157a623fb94005357bc409d1697a0d62bb6fd434b1733441bb301a9534a4 besu-24.8.0.tar.gz
9ee217d2188e8da89002c3f42e4f85f89aab782e9512bd03520296f0a4dcdd90 besu-24.8.0.zip
docker pull docker.io/hyperledger/besu:24.8.0