v2.0.6

Happy New Year Stakers!

v2.0.6 is a small patch release with a few features enabled, improvements to memory usage, JSON API fixes, and many other great changes.

Added

Bellatrix/Merge progress #10000 #9981 #10026 #10027 #10049 #10039 #10028 #10030 #10054 #10060 #10062 #10014 #10040 #10085 #10077 #10089 #10072
Light client support merkle proof retrieval for beacon state finalized root and sync committees #10029
Web3Signer support (work in progress) #10016 #10061 #10084 #10088
Implement state management with native go structs (work in progress) #10069 #10079 #10080 #10089
Added static analysis for mutex lock management #10066
Add endpoint to query eth1 connections #10073 #10103
Batch gossipsub verification enabled #10111
Get block optimizations enabled #10106
Batch decompression for signatures #10105
Balance trie feature enabled #10112

Use build time constants for field lengths. #10007 #10012 #10019 #10042
Monitoring service logging improvements / cleanup #10013
Renamed state v3 import alias #10022
Spec tests passing at tag 1.1.8 #10033 #10071
Bazel version updated to 4.2.2
Renamed github.com/eth2-clients -> github.com/eth-clients #10057
p2p reduce memory allocation in gossip digest calculation #10055
Allow comma separated formatting for event topics in API requests #10052
Update builder image from buster to bullseye #10025
Renaming "merge" to "bellatrix" #10044
Refactoring / code dedupication / general clean up #10081 #10090 #10074 #10093 #10101 #10065 #10104
Update libp2p #10082
Reduce state copy in state upgrades #10102
Deduplicate sync committee messages from pool before retrieval #10106

Sync committee API endpoint can now be queried for future epochs #10015
Initialize merkle layers and recompute dirty fields in beacon state proofs #10032
Fixed data race in API calls #10050

Clean variable filepaths in validator wallet back up commands, e2e tests, and other tooling (gosec G304) #10115