v1.4.0 Release Notes

New Features

• Storage trie optimization
  • calculating storage root hashes for every block, not every transaction.
  • concurrent computation for trie hash roots.
• Adjust state trie cache size
  • increased default cache size for better performance.
• Keystore V4
  • implemented a new keystore standard KIP-3 to support Klaytn accounts.

Fixes

• Fixed intermittent bad block occurrence caused by timing issue when updating stakingInfo.
• Fixed panic during execution of debug.traceBlock because of the timing issue between the API and garbage collection of trie nodes.
• Fixed a bug report during block synchronization.

Improvements

• Upgraded the version of Badger DB to v1.6.0.
• Replaced metrics package
• Added package description
• Increased test code coverage