This release contains a fix to a known deadlock condition (#1562) and should provide significant stability improvements for nodes which run high validator counts (>= 64).
Changes
- Remove rayon from rest_api (#1562)
- Prevents deadlock.
- Shift HTTP server heavy-lifting to blocking executor (#1518)
- Avoids locking the core executory.
- reuse beacon_node methods for initializing network configs in boot_node (#1520)
- Docs: Fix reference to incorrect password file. (#1556)
- ban IP addresses if too many banned peers for this IP address (#1543)
Known Issues
There is a known issue with database pruning, causing failures during syncing and high disk usage. This is a major priority and a fix will be released ASAP.
Binaries
Binaries are supplied for two platforms:
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu: AMD/Intel 64-bit processors (most desktops, laptops, servers)aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu: 64bit ARM processors (Raspberry Pi 4)
Additionally there is also a -portable suffix which indicates if the portable feature is used:
- Without
portable: uses modern CPU instructions to provide the fastest signature verification times (may causeIllegal instructionerror on older CPUs) - With
portable: approx. 20% slower, but should work on all modern 64-bit processors.