rocket-pool/smartnode-install v1.6.4

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This is v1.6.4 of the Smartnode stack, which includes high-priority client updates, new MEV-Boost relays, and a few community-contributed improvements.

This is strongly recommended for Nimbus, Prysm, and Teku users, and for everyone using MEV-boost on Mainnet.
It is medium priority for other users.

⚠️ NOTE: The Besu team will be delivering a high priority update to Besu in 2 days. If you are a Besu user, please follow their Discord announcements and our own announcements carefully; you will have to upgrade manually to this release when it is published. Instructions will be provided in our Discord announcement.

Client Updates

• Updated Geth to v1.10.25.
• Updated Nethermind to v1.14.2.
• Updated Nimbus to v22.9.1 - a medium priority update.
• Updated Prysm to v3.1.1 - a high priority update.
• Updated Teku to v22.9.1 - a high priority update.
• Updated MEV-boost to v1.3.1 - a high priority update.
• Updated Grafana to v8.5.13.

Smartnode Changes

• Added two new MEV-Boost relays: Blocknative and Eden Network.

  • These have the same properties as the Flashbots and bloXroute Regulated relays, so if you're using those, you should enable these as well.

• Hybrid mode users that use an externally-managed MEV-boost instance no longer need to enter a URL; they simply need to enable MEV-Boost support.

• rocketpool minipool status now shows each minipool's position in the queue while it's still in the initialized state (waiting for an rETH deposit).

  • Thanks to @RomiRand for adding this!

• New command: rocketpool wallet purge will delete your node wallet and password, as well as all of your Validator Client artifacts (i.e. your validator keys and its slashing database).

  • This is useful for people that want to remove the node from their wallet to prevent attesting, but want to preserve the chain data; essentially turning an active node into a passive fallback-ready node.
  • Thanks to @0xfornax for adding this!

• The file permissions of validator keys and your fee recipient file have been relaxed (0640 instead of 0600) so Native mode users have an easier time accessing them.

  • This does not affect Docker mode or Hybrid mode users.

• The gas limit on transactions has been increased to 30 million, up from 12 million.

• The Oracle DAO will now include the Smoothing Pool and all Fee Distributors in its calculation of the rETH:ETH ratio.

• The Graffiti Wall Writer will now ignore pixels that should be white but are unsubmitted, since they're already white by default.

Bug Fixes

• rocketpool wallet recover now restores an unlimited number of validator keys instead of just the first 100.

• rocketpool node status will no longer error out if it can't retrieve information about governance votes.

  • Thanks to @jshufro for adding this!

Misc Changes

• Removed the TTD override setting as it's no longer necessary now that we have Merged!
• Removed some obsolete flags from the Besu start script.
• Besu's active HTTP connection limit has been reduced from 65536 to 1024, which should help in rare situations that caused it to stop responding to the metrics collector.