Nimbus v23.5.1

[zahary]

Dear node runners,

We have a new release out!

Nimbus v23.5.1 is a medium-urgency point release improving the compatibility of Nimbus with 3rd party validator clients and beacon nodes and introducing the support for incremental pruning. If you are still not taking advantage of the --history:prune option, we recommend testing it in a non-production environment, as it will be enabled by default in our next release.

See the full release notes for more:
https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v23.5.1

The Nimbus team has also developed an extremely efficient and uncompromising mitigation to the performance issues that have lead to the recent Mainnnet non-finalization accidents and we are planning to ship it in the first half of June with the 23.6.0 release. You can already test the fix in our `unstable` branch and learn more about our approach here:

https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/4911

In the meantime, the hotfix releases shipped by other client teams should be enough to prevent further similar episodes in the short-term.

Happy Staking!