v2.0.5

This patch release includes several fixes, new functionality, progress on The Merge hardfork implementation, and an update to the Web UI.

Added

• Implement import keystores standard API #9924
• Added more fields to "Processed attestation aggregation" log #9937
• Incremental changes to support The Merge hardfork #9906 #9939 #9944 #9966 #9878 #9986 #9987 #9982
• Implement validator monitoring service in beacon chain node via flag --monitor-indices. #9933
• Added validator log to display "aggregated since launch" every 5 epochs. #9943
• Add HTTP client wrapper for interfacing with remote signer #9991 See #9994
• Update web UI to version v1.0.2 #10009.

Changed

• Refactor beacon state to allow for a single cached hasher #9922
• Default config name to "devnet" when not provided in the config yaml. #9949
• Alter erroneously capitalized error messages #9952
• Bump spec tests to version v1.1.6 #9955
• Improvements to Doppelganger check #9964
• Improvements to "grpc client connected" log. #9956
• Update libp2p to v0.15.1 #9960
• Resolve several checks from deepsource #9961
• Update go-ethereum to v1.10.13 #9967
• Update some flags from signed integer flags to unsigned flags. #9959
• Filter errored keys from slashing protection history in standard API. #9968
• Ensure slashing protection exports and key manager api work according to spec #9938
• Improve memory performance by properly allocating slice size #9977
• Typos fix #9980 #9979
• Remove unused imports #9983
• Use cashed finalized state when pruning deposits #9985
• Significant slasher improvements #9833 #9989
• Various code cleanups #9992
• Standard API improvements for keymanager API #9936 #9995
• Use safe sub64 for safer math #9993
• Fix CORS in middleware API #9999
• Add more fields to remote signer request object #10004
• Refactoring to support checkpoint or genesis origin. #9976

Deprecated

Please be advised that Prysm's package path naming will change in the next release. If you are a downstream user of Prysm (i.e. import prysm libraries into your project) then you may be impacted. Please see issue #10006.

Fixed

• Allow API requests for next sync committee. Issue #9940 fixed by #9945
• Check sync status before performing a voluntary exit. Issue #9950 fixed by #9951
• Fixed issue where historical requests for validator balances would time out by removing the 30s timeout limitation. Issue #9973 fixed by #9957.
• Add missing ssz spec tests #10003

Security

• Add justifications to gosec security finding suppression. #10005

Full Changelog: v2.0.4...v2.0.5