This release focuses on performance improvements.
Notice: Don't forget that full resynchronization is required if upgrading from versions earlier than v1.7.0.
Changes:
- Replace big.Int with uint256.Int for VM stack and operands (#519)
- Global blake2b hash method optimized (#520)
- Skip known-block check when no conflicts (#521)
- Jump opcodes optimized (the new code analysis imported from Geth codebase) (#522)
- VM tracer optimized (native tracer imported from Geth codebase) (#523)
- Upgrade go-ecvrf which is optimized a lot (#526)
- Upgrade directcache (#528)
- Simplify leafbank record cache and fix root node not resolved when commit (#527, #529)