status-im/nimbus-eth2 v22.5.1

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Notes

Nimbus v22.5.1 is a low-urgency maintenance release addressing a Web3 compatibility regression and introducing Ropsten testnet support.

Improvements:

• More spec-compliant handling of JSON fields in REST, for better compatibility with added and optional fields
  #3647

• Support for the Ropsten testnet, intended for merge testing
  #3648

Fixes:

• Restore compatibility with certain Web3 endpoints
  #3645

Nimbus v22.5.1 builds on Nimbus v22.5.0, itself a low-urgency maintenance release implementing the proposer boosting fork-choice policy and compliant with the latest Bellatrix specifications. It also provides an early preview of our built-in support for BLS threshold signatures (via regular Web3Signer instances): this marks the first step of our long-term secret-shared validators roadmap which enables node operators and staking pools to deploy Nimbus in secure high availability setups.

Improvements (v22.5.0):

• A safer fork-choice algorithm which implements the proposer boosting policy
  ethereum/consensus-specs#2353
  #3565

• A completely revamped snappy implementation which brings significant speed-ups
  #3564

• Support for the latest Bellatrix specifications (a.k.a. The Merge) + all Kiln testnets
  #3590

• An initial release fеaturing a preview of built-in support for distributed keystores, (part of our secret-shared validators roadmap)
  #3616

• Reduced CPU usage when serving blocks to other syncing clients
  #3598

• A more spec-compliant implementation of the /eth/v1/config/spec REST end-point (implementing the v1.1.10 version of the spec)
  #3614

• Improved compatibility with all versions of Web3Signer
  #3640

Fixes (v22.5.0):

• The potential for missed block proposals in the case where an invalid deposit is submitted to the deposit contract
  #3607
  #3639

• A crash triggered by the use of Web3Signer remote keystores
  #3616

• A rare crash triggered when Nimbus is performing a large number of concurrent HTTP requests
  status-im/nim-chronos#272
  status-im/nim-chronos#273

Urgency guidelines

low-urgency: update at your own convenience, sometime within our normal update cycle of two weeks

medium-urgency: may contain an important stability fix, it is better to update sooner rather than later

high-urgency: update as soon as you can, this is a critical update required for Nimbus to function correctly

Binaries

Scroll to the bottom of this release and click on the tar.gz which corresponds to your OS and architecture: unpack the archive, read the README and run the binary directly (or through one of our provided wrapper scripts).

We've designed the build process to be reproducible. In practice, this means that anyone can verify that these exact binaries were produced from the corresponding source code commits. For more about the philosophy and importance of this feature see reproducible-builds.org.

For instructions on how to reproduce the build, see the included README.md file. See pre-built binaries documentation for more.

SHA512 checksums

# Linux AMD64
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# Linux ARM64
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# Linux ARM
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# Windows AMD64
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# macOS AMD64
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# macOS ARM64
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