Overview

This release provides a number of syncing improvements and stability updates. The majority of the updates are focused towards syncing and participating in the Medalla testnet along with adding support to migrate Prysm keystores into Lighthouse.

Notes

When syncing Medalla, there are a few large forks in existence. You may find your node shifting its view of the head slot quite a bit and sync may appear stalled. The node will sync all the forks and eventually find the true head. This can take up to 30-40 mins after it may look like sync has stalled. Once the network finalizes again, this will not be an issue.

Changes

• Patch sync bugs leading to potential sync stalls (#1528)
• Reduce the parallelism of syncing head chains. Makes syncing to head more efficient (#1527)
• Prevent re-searching for failed forked chains (#1534)
• Improve head syncing by removing potentially out-dated head sync chains (#1538)
• Allow importing of Prysm keystores into lighthouse (#1535)
• Add Lodestar as a known client (#1536)
• Improve logging (#1541)
• Set the default max-skip-slots to 700 to match observed chain on Medalla (#1542)