status-im/nimbus-eth2 v23.9.0

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Notes

Nimbus v23.9.0 is a low-urgency upgrade providing full support for the upcoming Holešky testnet and simplifying the required configuration for using remote signers.

We've been hard at work researching and developing a GossipSub protocol upgrade, designed to vastly improve bandwidth and latency, especially when dealing with the upcoming larger EIP-4844 blob messages. This release introduces the initial steps towards this upgrade, along with CPU optimizations and enhanced DDoS protection.

Improvements

• The GossipSub implementation of Nimbus now consumes less bandwidth and CPU cycles, while improving upon the existing DoS protections through better peer scoring:
  #5229

• The new --web3-signer-url command-line option can be used to connect Nimbus to one or more remote signers without requiring any remote keystore files to be created. The list of validators attached to each remote signer is obtained automatically through the /api/v1/eth2/publicKeys Web3Signer API endpoint:
  #5366
  #5385
  #5389

• Nimbus now supports the upcoming Holešky testnet:
  https://nimbus.guide/holesky.html
  #5337

• Faster validator registry processing reduces the time spent by Nimbus in state transitions and replays:
  #5412

Fixes

• The deposits exit command was failing due to incorrect parsing of certain fields in the response of the /eth/v1/config/spec endpoint:
  #5370
  #5371

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

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