Prysm v2.0.6 release available

[Preston Van Loon]

v2.0.6

Happy New Year Stakers!

v2.0.6 is a small patch release with a few features enabled, improvements to memory usage, JSON API fixes, and many other great changes.

Added

• Bellatrix/Merge progress #10000 #9981 #10026 #10027 #10049 #10039 #10028 #10030 #10054 #10060 #10062 #10014 #10040 #10085 #10077 #10089 #10072
• Light client support merkle proof retrieval for beacon state finalized root and sync committees #10029
• Web3Signer support (work in progress) #10016 #10061 #10084 #10088
• Implement state management with native go structs (work in progress) #10069 #10079 #10080 #10089
• Added static analysis for mutex lock management #10066
• Add endpoint to query eth1 connections #10073 #10103
• Batch gossipsub verification enabled #10111
• Get block optimizations enabled #10106
• Batch decompression for signatures #10105
• Balance trie feature enabled #10112

Changed

• Use build time constants for field lengths. #10007 #10012 #10019 #10042
• Monitoring service logging improvements / cleanup #10013
• Renamed state v3 import alias #10022
• Spec tests passing at tag 1.1.8 #10033 #10071
• Bazel version updated to 4.2.2
• Renamed github.com/eth2-clients -> github.com/eth-clients #10057
• p2p reduce memory allocation in gossip digest calculation #10055
• Allow comma separated formatting for event topics in API requests #10052
• Update builder image from buster to bullseye #10025
• Renaming "merge" to "bellatrix" #10044
• Refactoring / code dedupication / general clean up #10081 #10090 #10074 #10093 #10101 #10065 #10104
• Update libp2p #10082
• Reduce state copy in state upgrades #10102
• Deduplicate sync committee messages from pool before retrieval #10106

Removed

• tools/deployContract: removed k8s specific logic #10075

Fixed

• Sync committee API endpoint can now be queried for future epochs #10015
• Initialize merkle layers and recompute dirty fields in beacon state proofs #10032
• Fixed data race in API calls #10050

Security

• Clean variable filepaths in validator wallet back up commands, e2e tests, and other tooling (gosec G304) #10115