Notes
Nimbus v24.2.1 is a medium-urgency release that includes full support for the upcoming Ethereum mainnet Deneb hard-fork that will be executed on 13th of March. The same support is also provided for Gnosis Chain where the hard-fork will be executed on 11th of March. Other stability and performance improvements make this release a compelling upgrade for all Nimbus users.
Improvements
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The Deneb hard-fork has been scheduled for Mainnet and Gnosis Chain:
#5868 -
The Nimbus validator client now uses the
/eth/v3/validator/blocks/{slot}Beacon API endpoint when the configured beacon node supports it:
#5842 -
The list of bootstrap nodes for Mainnet has been updated:
#5848 -
Improved use of buffering reduces the risk of EL request timeouts:
#5893
Fixes
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A regression in the implementation of
eth_getLogswas preventing Nimbus from syncing deposits correctly:
#5857 -
A performance regression was causing high CPU load during the backfill process after checkpoint sync:
#5869 -
Under certain conditions, the backfill process after checkpoint sync could fail to persist the starting checkpoint block:
#5863 -
Under certain conditions, valid blocks with blobs that are not observed yet were permanently considered unviable for inclusion in the blockchain:
#5858 -
The Nimbus validator client was not tracking DNS record changes when dynamic host names are used instead of IP addresses:
#5846 -
The REST server was becoming unresponsive under certain rare conditions:
#5892
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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# Linux ARM64
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# Linux ARM
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# Windows AMD64
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# macOS AMD64
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