Notes
Nimbus v23.7.0 is a low-urgency upgrade, bringing advanced profit optimisation capabilities to the Nimbus validator client and addressing risk factors that can contribute to poorer validator performance.
Improvements
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The Nimbus validator client now uses a scoring algorithm capable of selecting the most optimal attestation data when working with multiple beacon nodes:
#5101 -
The Nimbus validator client now synchronizes its clock with the Nimbus beacon node in order to eliminate any risks for poor validator performance stemming from de-synchronized clocks:
#4846 -
The
/eth/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/*family of REST end-points now support queries by state root as long as the state is within the most recent 8192 slots (approximately 27 hours):
#5155 -
Improved validation of blocks during syncing allows Nimbus to optimize the initial syncing target of the execution layer node:
#5169 -
The Nimbus light client is now available a C library for easy reuse and embedding in other software (alpha release):
#5122
Fixes
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Due to multiple reports of slow start-up times on certain hardware configurations, caused by the one-time initial pruning performed by Nimbus v23.6.0 and v23.6.1, this functionality has been temporarily disabled:
#5191 -
The block monitoring performed by the Nimbus validator client was permanently interrupted in certain situations after a timed out request to the beacon node:
#5109 -
Nimbus now uses the most up-to-date bootstrap nodes for the Gnosis chain:
#5175 -
Nimbus has addressed a minor risk for missed block proposals at epoch boundaries due to multiple compounding risk factors:
#5195
#5196
#5194
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
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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