maticnetwork/heimdall v0.3.0-beta

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We have released a new version of Bor and Heimdall - v0.3.0 with an incremented minor version. As explained in the previous post, we have added a new CLI in Bor and have also changed the way Bor and Heimdall are deployed to follow DevOps best practices and make it easier to manage the processes. This upgrade is backwards incompatible. Please ensure that all Mumbai nodes are upgraded soon, before the release of the next version v0.3.1 that will contain a hardfork which is scheduled to kick in on 7th Dec 2022 (tentative).

Important Note: For our next releases, v0.3.1 and onward, upgrading to version 0.3.0 is necessary.

Changes from deployment perspective

1. Provide a new approach to install heimdall binary with a shell script.
2. Remove bridge binary and add it as a subcommand in heimdalld.
3. Remove heimdalld-rest-server.service and heimdalld-bridge.service, and move heimdalld.service file from /etc/systemd/system to /lib/systemd/system.
4. Change default heimdall home from ~/.heimdalld to /var/lib/heimdall.
5. A new user named heimdall will be created during package installation if it doesn’t exist. This user will be running heimdall service.
6. Heimdall packaging installation is now simplified to sudo dpkg -i heimdalld-$version-$arch.deb
7. Heimdall profile installation for new hosts is accomplished by running sudo dpkg -i heimdalld-$network-$nodetype-config_$version-$arch.deb

Detailed changelog

• In v0.2.x, heimdalld and bridge are two separate binaries. In v0.3.0, bridge will become a subcommand of heimdalld.
• In v0.2.x, heimdalld, bridge, and rest-server are run in three different processes. In v0.3.0, they could be launched together in a single process with one CLI command.
• In v0.3.0, building different heimdalld binary for different network is no longer needed. heimdalld binary will support both mainnet and mumbai testnet.
• Log level of heimdall is changed from a single letter to a full word. Example:
  Before I[2022-09-22|19:11:42.896] Served RPC HTTP response
  After INFO [2022-09-22|19:11:42.896] Served RPC HTTP response
• heimdall no longer needs a genesis file. Instead, the genesis file will be embedded in the binary of heimdalld.
• Provide possibility to log in json format by setting the param logs_type = "json"
   in the heimdall-config.toml file.
• Change TaskDelayBetweenEachVal from 24s to 10s to reduce StateSynced event delays
• Log elapsed time for each method involved in the StateSynced flow.
• Add benchmark tests for the most time consuming functions involved in the StateSynced flow.

Full Changelog: v0.2.12...v0.3.0-beta