Prysm v2.1.3 Release Available

[Preston Van Loon]

This release contains many fixes, additions, and improvements found in preparation for the Merge.

Added

• Many fuzz test additions #10682 #10668 #10757 #10798
• Support bellatrix blocks with web3signer #10590
• Support for the Sepolia testnet with --terminal-total-difficulty-override 17000000000000000. The override flag is required in this release. #10700 #10868 #10880 #10886
• Support for the Ropsten testnet. No override flag required #10762 #10817
• JSON API allows SSZ-serialized blocks in publishBlock #10663
• JSON API allows SSZ-serialized blocks in publishBlindedBlock #10679
• JSON API allows SSZ-serialized requests in produceBlockV2 and produceBlindedBlock #10697
• Progress towards Builder API and MEV boost support (not ready for testing in this release) #10724 #10785 #10789 #10749 #10825 #10882 #10883
• Support for DOMAIN_APPLICATION_MARK configuration #10740
• Ignore subset aggregates if a better aggregate has been seen already #10674
• Reinsertion of reorg'd attestations #10767
• Command beacon-chain generate-auth-secret to assist with generating a hex encoded secret for engine API #10733
• Return optimistic status to ChainHead related grpc service #10842
• TTD log and prometheus metric #10851
• Panda ascii art banner for the merge! #10773

Fixed

• /eth/v1/beacon/blinded_blocks JSON API endpoint #10673
• SSZ handling of JSON API payloads #10687 #10760
• Config registry fixes #10694 fixed by #10683
• Withdrawal epoch overflows #10739
• Race condition with blockchain service Head() #10741
• Race condition with validator's highest valid slot accessor #10722
• Do not update cache with the result of a cancelled request #10786
• validator_index should be a string integer rather than a number integer per spec. #10814
• Use timestamp heuristic to determine deposits to process rather than simple calculation of follow distance #10806
• Return IsOptimistic in ValidateSync responses #10692

Changed

• Improvements to forkchoice #10675 #10651 #10705 #10658 #10702 #10659 #10768 #10776 #10783 #10801 #10774 #10784 #10831 #10823
• Invalid checksummed (or no checksum) addresses used for fee recipient will log a warning. #10664 fixes #10631, #10684
• Use cache backed getBlock method in several places of blockchain package #10688
• Reduced log frequency of "beacon node doesn't have a parent in db with root" error #10689
• Improved nil checks for state management #10701
• Enhanced debug logs for p2p block validation #10698
• Many helpful refactoring and cosmetic changes #10686 #10710 #10706 #10726 #10729 #10707 #10731 #10736 #10732 #10727 #10756 #10816 #10824 #10841 #10874 #10704 #10862
• Move WARN level message about weak subjectivity sync and improve message content #10699
• Handle connection closing for web3/eth1 nil connection #10714
• Testing improvements #10711 #10728 #10665 #10753 #10756 #10775
• E2E test improvements #10717 #10715 #10708 #10696 #10751 #10758 #10769 #10778 #10808 #10849 #10836 #10878
• Increase file descriptor limit up to the maximum by default #10650
• Improved classification of "bad blocks" #10681
• Updated engine API error code handling #10730
• Improved "Synced new block" message to include minimal information based on the log verbosity. #10724 #10792
• Add nil checks for nil finalized checkpoints #10748 #10881
• Change weak subjectivity sync to use the most recent finalized state rather than the oldest state within the current period. #10723
• Ensure a finalized root can't be all zeros #10791
• Improved db lookup of HighestSlotBlocksBelow to start from the end of the index rather than the beginning. #10772 #10802
• Improved packing of state balances for hashtreeroot #10830
• Improved field trie recomputation #10884

Removed

• Removed handling of INVALID_TERMINAL_BLOCK response from engine API #10646