Prysm release v6.0.4 is out!

[Preston Van Loon]

v6.0.4

This release has more work on PeerDAS, and light client support. Additionally, we have a few bug fixes:

• Blob cache size now correctly set at startup.
• A fix for slashing protection history exports where the validator database was in a nested folder.
• Corrected behavior of the API call for state committees with an invalid request.
• /bin/sh is now symlinked to /bin/bash for Prysm docker images.

In the Hoodi testnet, the default gas limit is raised to 60M gas.

Added

• Add light client mainnet spec test. [PR]
• Add support for light client req/resp domain. [PR]
• Added /bin/sh simlink to docker images. [PR]
• Added Prysm build data to otel tracing spans. [PR]
• Add light client minimal spec test support for update_ranking tests. [PR]
• Add fulu operation and epoch processing spec tests. [PR]
• Updated e2e Beacon API evaluator to support more endpoints, including the ones introduced in Electra. [PR]
• Data column sidecars verification methods. [PR]
• Implement data column sidecars filesystem. [PR]
• Add blob schedule support from ethereum/consensus-specs#4277. [PR]
• random forkchoice spec tests for fulu. [PR]
• Add ability to download nightly test vectors. [PR]
• PeerDAS: Validation pipeline for data column sidecars received via gossip. [PR]
• PeerDAS: Implement P2P. [PR]
• PeerDAS: Implement the blockchain package. [PR]

Changed

• Update spec tests to v1.6.0-alpha.0. [PR]
• PeerDAS: Refactor the reconstruction pipeline. [PR]
• PeerDAS: DataColumnStorage.Get - Exit early no columns are available. [PR]
• Default hoodi testnet builder gas limit to 60M. [PR]

Fixed

• Fix cyclical dependencies issue when using testing/util package. [PR]
• Set seen blob cache size correctly based on current slot time at start up. [PR]
• Fix slashing-protection-history export failing when validator.db is in a nested folder like data/direct/. (#14954). [PR]
• Made /eth/v1/beacon/states/{state_id}/committees endpoint return 400 when slot does not belong to the specified epoch, aligning with the Beacon API spec (#15355). [PR]
• Removed eager validator context cancellation that was causing validator builder registrations to fail occasionally. [PR]