⚠️ This is a beta release and is meant to be run on the Prater Testnet by Smartnode beta testers. Please do not try to run this on Mainnet unless you have been specifically instructed to do so. ⚠️
This is a special rolling beta release of the Smartnode.
v1.8.0-b2 is the same as v1.7.3, but it has the following experimental features enabled:
Client Updates
- Updated Nimbus to v23.1.0.
- Updated Lodestar to a dev build of v1.3.1.
Nimbus Split Mode
Nimbus now uses the split client mode (i.e., the Beacon Node and Validator Client run in separate processes, the same way all of the other clients are run). This has the following benefits:
- Nimbus now supports fallback clients. It is compatible with any fallback Beacon Node.
- Creating new minipools will now just restart the Validator Client instead of the entire Nimbus Beacon Node as it formerly did, which is much faster.
- ❗ : WARNING: your node will automatically move the slashing database from the
eth2container to thevalidatorcontainer. It will stopeth2during this process, but if you are using a custom setup and have your validator keys loaded in the Nimbus BN, you will need to manually remove them and restart the Nimbus BN before runningrocketpool service startto prevent getting slashed.
Lodestar
This release also adds support for Lodestar - the fifth Consensus Client to join Rocket Pool's stack!
If you are a beta tester and have a Prater node, please help both us and the client development teams test these out!
To install it, please download the CLI:
Example for x64 Linux systems:
wget https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode-install/releases/download/v1.8.0-b2/rocketpool-cli-linux-amd64 -O ~/bin/rocketpool
Example for ARM Linux systems:
wget https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode-install/releases/download/v1.8.0-b2/rocketpool-cli-linux-arm64 -O ~/bin/rocketpool
Then run rocketpool service install on a fresh system or rocketpool service install -d on a system with an existing configuration to install it.