dcrd v1.7.7

This is a patch release of dcrd that includes the following changes:

• Use the latest network protocol version
• Reduce bandwidth usage in certain scenarios by avoiding requests for inventory that is already known
• Mitigate excessive CPU usage in some rare scenarios specific to the test network
• Improve best address candidate selection efficiency

Changelog

This patch release consists of 19 commits from 3 contributors which total to 92 files changed, 1357 additional lines of code, and 1191 deleted lines of code.

All commits since the last release may be viewed on GitHub here.

Protocol and network:

• peer: Use latest pver by default (decred/dcrd#3083)
• peer: Correct known inventory check (decred/dcrd#3083)

Documentation:

• peer: Go 1.19 doc comment formatting (decred/dcrd#3083)
• addrmgr: Go 1.19 doc comment formatting (decred/dcrd#3084)
• multi: Go 1.19 doc comment formatting (decred/dcrd#3087)
• docs: Update README.md to required Go 1.19/1.20 (decred/dcrd#3087)

Developer-related package and module changes:

• peer: Support module graph prune and lazy load (decred/dcrd#3083)
• main: Use backported peer updates (decred/dcrd#3083)
• addmrgr: Use TempDir to create temp test dirs (decred/dcrd#3084)
• addrmgr: Support module graph prune and lazy load (decred/dcrd#3084)
• addrmgr: Break after selecting random address (decred/dcrd#3084)
• addrmgr: Set min value and optimize address chance (decred/dcrd#3084)
• main: Use backported addrmgr updates (decred/dcrd#3084)
• main: Update to use latest sys module (decred/dcrd#3087)

Testing and Quality Assurance:

• build: Enable run_tests.sh to work with go.work (decred/dcrd#3087)
• build: Update to latest action versions (decred/dcrd#3087)
• build: Update golangci-lint to v1.51.1 (decred/dcrd#3087)
• build: Test against Go 1.20 (decred/dcrd#3087)

Misc:

• release: Bump for 1.7.7 (decred/dcrd#3085)

Code Contributors (alphabetical order):

• Dave Collins
• Eng Zer Jun
• Jonathan Chappelow