v3.1.2

Welcome to another patch release for Prysm! This release includes a number of bug fixes and improvements to the beacon node, validator client, and prysmctl. We recommend upgrading to this release at your earliest convenience.

Added

• Timestamp field to forkchoice node json responses #11394 #11403
• Further tests to non-trivial functions of the builder service #11214
• Support for VotedFraction in forkchoice #11421
• Metrics for reorg distance and depths #11435
• Support for optimistic sync spectests #11391
• CLI flag for customizing engine endpoint timeout --engine-endpoint-timeout-seconds #11489
• Support for lodestar identification in p2p monitoring #11536
• --enable-full-ssz-data-logging to display debug ssz data on gossip messages that fail validation #11524
• Progress on capella and withdrawals support #11552 #11563 #11141 #11569
• Validator exit can be performed from prysmctl #11515 #11575
• Blinded block support through the json API #11538

Changed

• Refactoring / cleanup of keymanager #11331
• Refactoring / improvements in initial sync #11344
• Forkchoice hardening #11397 #11402
• Improved log warnings when fee recipient is not set #11395
• Changed ready for merge log frequency to 1 minute #11410
• Move log Unable to cache headers for execution client votes to debug #11398
• Rename field in invalid pruned blocks log #11411
• Validate checkpoint slot #11396
• Return an error if marshaling invalid Uint256 #11347
• Fallback to uncached getPayload if timeout #11404
• Update bazel to 5.3.0 #11427
• godocs cleanup and other cleanups #11428
• Forkchoice track highest received root #11434
• Metrics updated block arrival time histograms #11424
• Log error and continue when proposer boost roots are missing #11459
• Do not return on error during on_tick #11463
• Do not return on error after update head #11470
• Update default RPC HTTP timeout to 30s #11487
• Improved fee recipient UX. #11307
• Produce block skips mev-boost #11488
• Builder getPayload timeout set to 3s #11413
• Make stategen aware of forkchoice #11439
• Increase verbosity of warning to error when new head cannot be determined when receiving an attestation #11514
• Provide justified balances to forkchoice #11513
• Update head continues without attestations #11503
• Migrate historical states in another goroutine to avoid blocking block execution #11501
• Made API middleware structs public #11547
• Updated web UI to v2.0.2 #11559
• Default value for --block-batch-limit-burst-factor changed from 10 to 2. #11546
• Vendored leaky bucket implementation with minor modifications #11560

Deprecated

• --disable-native-state flag and associated feature #11268

Removed

• Unused WithTimeout for builder client #11420
• Optimistic sync candidate check #11453
• Cleans up proto states #11445 #11561
• Protoarray implementation of forkchoice #11455

Fixed

• Block fields to return a fixed sized array rather than slice #11375
• Lost cancel in validator runner #11429
• Release held lock on error #11412
• Properly submit blinded blocks #11483
• Unwanted wrapper of gRPC status errors #11486
• Sync tests fixed and updated spectests to 1.2.0 #11498 #11492
• Prevent timeTillDuty from reporting a negative value #11512
• Don't mark /healthz as unhealthy when mev-boost relayer is down #11506
• Proposer index cache and slot is used for GetProposerDuties #11521
• Properly retrieve values for validator monitoring flag from cli #11537
• Fee recipient fixes and persistence #11540
• Handle panic when rpc client is not yet initialized #11528
• Improved comments and error messages #11550
• SSL support for multiple gRPC endpoints #11556
• Addressed some tool feedback and code complaints #11555
• Handle unaggregated attestations in the event feed #11558
• Prune / expire payload ID cache entries when using beacon json API #11568
• Payload ID cache may have missed on skip slots due to incorrect key computation #11567

Security

• Libp2p updated to v0.22.0 #11309