A release with a number of important fixes and optimisations.
Please update at your earliest convenience.
In order to minimise downtime, we recommend updating and rebuilding the beacon node before restarting.
New additions:
- More conservative Eth1 syncing requests to reduce the likelihood of going over the maximum allowed burst rates under the Infura free plan (predominantly aimed at those running Nimbus on resource-restricted device like Raspberry Pi's) + more resiliency in case of errors.
We've fixed:
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A "Only one concurrent read allowed" crash reported by multiple users.
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An error in the default configuration preventing the node from discovering peers on mainnet unless the
--network=mainnetflag was passed (note, this did not affect users starting their node with the./run-mainnet-beacon-nodecommand). -
The fractional part of the ETH balance in the Nimbus status bar (the value displayed should now be correct).
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An issue that occasionally caused the Eth1 syncing process to get stuck before reaching the head of the chain.
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Unnecessary network traffic related to GossipSub
IHAVE. -
Incorrect gossipsub pruning which occasionally resulted in messages getting lost.
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An issue where an excessively long graffiti string could cause a crash on startup.
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A Linux-only issue that resulted in the
deposits importcommand ignoring its supplied arguments.
Stay Updated 🙏
If you're building Nimbus from source, to update (from master) run:
git pull && make update
Followed by
make nimbus_beacon_node
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