🧑🔧 Release Candidate: Not for Production Use 🧑🔧
This is a release candidate. It is not production-ready and not recommended for mainnet use.
Whilst we do not recommend this release for critical and/or mainnet use, we would appreciate help testing this release on testnets.
For more information on release candidates, see: https://lighthouse-book.sigmaprime.io/advanced-release-candidates.html
Summary
This release candidate introduces support for the Ropsten Beacon Chain, among other changes.
The Ropsten Beacon Chain will launch on Monday, May 30th, 2022 3:00:00 PM +UTC. The long-standing Ropsten testnet is expected to undergo "the merge" in early June 2022. Any user that wishes to participate in the Ropsten merge must use this release candidate (or any following release).
Ropsten
Use the --network ropsten flag to join the Ropsten testnet.
Breaking Changes
❗ Database Schema Upgrade ❗
This release contains a backwards-incompatible database schema migration for any network that has undergone "the merge" (see #3157). At the time of writing, this includes Kiln and Kintsugi but excludes Prater and Mainnet. For clarity:
- Prater, Mainnet: users who upgrade to
v2.3.0-rc.0are able to downgrade tov2.2.xandv2.1.xreleases. - Kiln, Kinstugi: users who upgrade to
v2.3.0-rc.0are not able to downgrade to any prior release
All Changes
- v2.3.0-rc.0 (#3218)
- Avoid parallel fork choice runs during sync (#3217)
- Document database migrations (#3203)
- Decrease proposer boost to 40% (#3201)
- Call per_slot_task from a blocking thread (v2) (#3199)
- Remove build status badge from README (#3195)
- Fix Rust 1.61 clippy lints (#3192)
- Add Ropsten configuration (#3184)
- Run fork choice before block proposal (#3168)
- Log out response status when we hit
PayloadIdUnavailable(#3190) - Tiny improvement: PeerManager and maximum discovery query (#3182)
- Add client authentication to Web3Signer validators (#3170)
- Avoid unnecessary slashing protection when publishing blocks (#3188)
- Fix http header accept parsing problem (#3185)
- Remove DB migrations for legacy database schemas (#3181)
- Prevent attestation to future blocks from early attester cache (#3183)
- Allow
TaskExecutorto be used inasynctests (#3178) - [refactor] Refactor Option/Result combinators (#3180)
- Remove lcli block packing analysis (#3179)
- Separate execution payloads in the DB (#3157)
- Exclude EE build dirs from Docker context (#3174)
- Add remotekey API support (#3162)
- Fix: no version info in homebrew package (#3167)
- Don't panic in forkchoiceUpdated handler (#3165)
- Fix Execution Engine integration tests (#3163)
- Change the url of the blog post (#3161)
- Poll shutdown timeout in rpc handler (#3153)
- log upgrades + prevent dialing of disconnecting peers (#3148)
- Disallow attesting to optimistic head (#3140)
- keep failed finalized chains to avoid retries (#3142)
Binaries
See pre-built binaries documentation.
The binaries are signed with Sigma Prime's PGP key: 15E66D941F697E28F49381F426416DC3F30674B0
| System | Architecture | Binary | PGP Signature |
|---|---|---|---|
| x86_64 | lighthouse-v2.3.0-rc.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz | PGP Signature | |
| x86_64 | lighthouse-v2.3.0-rc.0-x86_64-apple-darwin-portable.tar.gz | PGP Signature | |
| x86_64 | lighthouse-v2.3.0-rc.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | PGP Signature | |
| x86_64 | lighthouse-v2.3.0-rc.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-portable.tar.gz | PGP Signature | |
| aarch64 | lighthouse-v2.3.0-rc.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | PGP Signature | |
| aarch64 | lighthouse-v2.3.0-rc.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-portable.tar.gz | PGP Signature | |
| x86_64 | lighthouse-v2.3.0-rc.0-x86_64-windows.tar.gz | PGP Signature | |
| x86_64 | lighthouse-v2.3.0-rc.0-x86_64-windows-portable.tar.gz | PGP Signature | |
| System | Option | - | Resource |
| Docker | v2.3.0-rc.0 | sigp/lighthouse |