Prysm Release v2.0.3 Available

[Preston Van Loon]

v2.0.3

This release is recommended for all users. As of October 27, 2021, you MUST run v2 or later to support the Altair hardfork.

This release also includes a major update to the web UI. Please review the v1 web UI notes here

Added

• Web v1 released #9858
• Updated Beacon API to v2.1.0 #9797
• Add validation of keystores via validator client RPC endpoint to support new web UI #9799
• GitHub actions: errcheck and gosimple lint #9729
• Event API support for contribution_and_proof and voluntar_exit events. #9779
• Validator key management standard API schema and some implementation #9817 #9886 #9863
• Add helpers for The Merge fork epoch calculation #9879
• Add cli overrides for certain constants for The Merge #9891
• Add beacon block and state structs for The Merge #9887 #9888 #9908 #9914
• Validator monitoring improvements #9898 #9899 #9901 #9921
• Cache deposits to improve deposit selection/processing #9885
• Emit warning upon empty validator slashing protection export #9909 #9919
• Add balance field trie cache and optimized hash trie root operations. --enable-balance-trie-computation #9793

Changed

• Updated to spectests v1.1.5 #9875
• Refactor web authentication #9740
• Added uint64 overflow protection #9807
• Sync committee pool returns empty slice instead of nil on cache miss #9808
• Improved description of datadir flag #9809
• Simplied web password requirements #9814
• Web JWT tokens no longer expire. #9813
• Updated keymanager protos #9827
• Watch and update jwt secret when auth token file updated on disk. #9810
• Update web based slashing protection export from POST to GET #9838
• Reuse helpers to validate fully populated objects. #9834
• Rename interop-cold-start to deterministic-genesis #9841
• Validate password on RPC create wallet request #9848
• Refactor for weak subjectivity sync implementation #9832
• Update naming for Atlair previous epoch attester #9840
• Remove duplicate MerkleizeTrieLeaves method. #9847
• Add explict error for validator flag checks on out of bound positions #9784
• Simplify method to check if the beacon chain client should update the justified epoch value. #9837
• Rename web UI performance endpoint to "summary" #9855
• Refactor powchain service to be more functional #9856
• Use math.MaxUint64 #9857
• Share / reused finalized state on prysm start up services #9843
• Refactor slashing protection history code packages #9873
• Improve RNG commentary #9892
• Use next slot cache in more areas of the application #9884
• Improve context aware p2p peer scoring loops #9893
• Various code clean up #9903
• Prevent redundant processing of blocks from pending queue #9904
• Enable Altair tests on e2e against prior release client #9920
• Use lazy state balance cache #9822

Deprecated

• Web UI login has been replaced. #9858
• Web UI bar graph removed. #9858

Fixed

• Allow submitting sync committee subscriptions for next period #9798
• Ignore validators without committee assignment when fetching attester duties #9780
• Return "version" field for ssz blocks in beacon API #9801
• Fixed bazel build transitions for dbg builds. Allows IDEs to hook into debugger again. #9804
• Fixed case where GetDuties RPC endpoint might return a false positive for sync committee selection for validators that have no deposited yet #9811
• Fixed validator exits in v1 method, broadcast correct object #9819
• Fix Altair individual votes endpoint #9825 #9829 #9831
• Validator performance calculations fixed #9828
• Return correct response from key management api service #9846
• Check empty genesis validators root on slashing protection data export #9849
• Fix stategen with genesis state. #9851 #9852 #9866
• Fixed multiple typos #9868
• Fix genesis state registration in interop mode #9900
• Fix network flags in slashing protection export #9905 #9907

Removed

• Prysmatic Labs' go-ethereum fork removed from build tooling. Upstream go-ethereum is now used with familiar go.mod tooling. #9725
• Removed duplicate aggergation validation p2p pipelines. #9830
• Metrics calculation removed extra condition #9836
• Removed superflous errors from peer scoring parameters registration #9894

Security

• Added another encryption key to security.txt. #9896

Full Changelog: v2.0.2...v2.0.3