This is v1.13.8 of the Smart Node.
It is a recommended update for all users as it contains client updates and bug fixes.
If your voting power is uninitialized, this update will automatically initialize voting power. It'll be self-delegated to your own node. Read more about it here.
Client Updates
- Lodestar updated to v1.21.0 - introduces significant performance improvements, including switching to Debian for the Docker image, exposing execution layer client info by default, and using napi-rs BLST bindings for better epoch state transition times;
- Reth updated to v1.0.3 - performance improvements and bug fixes;
- Besu updated to v24.8.0 - contains an important stack handling update as well as improvements to the RPC service, plug-in API, and support for tracing private transactions;
- Nimbus updated to v24.8.0 - is a low-urgency release with performance and spec compliance robustness fixes;
- Node Exporter updated to v1.8.2 - Fix CPU pressure metric collection;
- MEV Boost updated to v1.8 - Includes minor changes, a bit of cleanup and dependency updates;
- Teku updated to v24.8.0 - Updated counter metrics to incorporate the suffix
_total. This is a breaking change and users would need to update the Grafana dashboard to v1.3.2; - Lighthouse updated to v5.3.0 - This medium-priority release contains performance optimisations, bug fixes and new features;
- Geth updated to v1.14.8 - This is a maintenance release with bug fixes only;
- Nethermind updated to v1.28.0 - Contains multiple performance improvements and bug fixes;
- Prysm updated to v5.1.0 - This release contains 171 new changes and many of these are related to Electra! Along side the Electra changes, there are nearly 100 changes related to bug fixes, feature additions, and other improvements to Prysm. Updating to this release is recommended at your convenience
Smart Node Changes
- Added contribution guidelines;
- Marked bloXroute Max Profit relay as censoring (Thanks Darkmessage for the contribution!).
- Updated Nethermind config to support the user-configuring the
PruningMaxDegreeOfParallelismparameter (Thanks SolezOfScience for the contribution!). - Added new feature: Auto initialize voting power.
- Removed the Eden Relay. Check out this announcement.
- Updated the
rocketpool initialize votingcommand text to provide more context. - Added a warning for users with uninitialized voting power during stake and deposit, which will be shown after the hotfix is deployed.