23.1.0-RC1

23.1.0-RC1

Breaking Changes

• Default configurations for the deprecated Ropsten, Kiln, Shandong, and Astor networks have been removed from the CLI network list. These networks can currently be accessed but will require a user-provided genesis configuration. #4869

Additions and Improvements

• Improve SLOAD and SSTORE performance by caching empty slots #4874
• RPC methods that lookup block by hash will now return an error response if no block found #4582
• Added support for safe and finalized strings for the RPC methods using defaultBlock parameter #4902

22.10.3

22.10.3

Breaking Changes

• Added --rpc-max-logs-range CLI option to allow limiting the number of blocks queried by eth_getLogs RPC API. Default value: 1000 #4597
• The graalvm docker variant no longer meets the performance requirements for Ethereum Mainnet. The openjdk-11 and openjdk-latest variants are recommended in its place.

Additions and Improvements

• Implement Eth/68 sub-protocol #4715
• Increase the speed of modexp gas execution and execution. #4780
• Added experimental CLI options --Xeth-capability-max and --Xeth-capability-min to specify a range of capabilities to be supported by the Eth protocol. #4752
• Set the default curve in the EVMTool, like is done in production operations #4790

Bug Fixes

• Fix storage key format for eth_getProof so that it follows the EIP-1474 spec #4564

22.10.1

22.10.1

Breaking Changes

• Fields publicKey and raw removed from RPC API Transaction result object #4575

Additions and Improvements

• Explain and improve price validation for London and local transactions during block proposal selection #4602
• Support for ephemeral testnet Shandong, for EOF testing. #4599
• Improve performance of block processing by parallelizing some parts during the "commit" step #4635
• Upgrade RocksDB version from 7.6.0 to 7.7.3
• Added new RPC endpoints debug_setHead & `debug_replayBlock 4580
• Upgrade OpenTelemetry to version 1.19.0 #3675
• Implement Eth/67 sub-protocol #4596
• Backward sync log UX improvements #4655
• Enable RocksDB Bloom filters to improve read performance #4682
• Backward sync: use retry switching peer when fetching data from peers #4656
• Shanghai implementation of EIP-3651 Warm coinbase #4620
• Shanghai implementation of EIP-3855 Push0 #4660
• Shanghai implementation of EIP-3540 and EIP-3670 Ethereum Object Format and Code Validation #4644
• Remove some log statements that are keeping some objects live in heap for a long time, to reduce the amount of memory required during initial sync #4705
• Add field type to Transaction receipt object (eth_getTransactionReceipt) #4505
• Print an overview of configuration and system information at startup #4451
• Do not send new payloads to backward sync if initial sync is in progress #4720
• Improve the way transaction fee cap validation is done on London fee market to not depend on transient network conditions #4598
• Preload and cache account and storage data from RocksDB to improve performance #4737

Bug Fixes

• Restore updating chain head and finalized block during backward sync #4718

22.10.0

22.10.0

Breaking Changes

• Flexible Privacy Groups (early access) support to Tessera's EC encryptor (contracts modified) #4282
  • Before this change, the bytes32 type was used for the enclave public keys, just supporting encryptors with public keys of that length (like the default NaCl)
  • For the EC encryptor, the encoded public key length is 91
• --tx-pool-hashes-max-size option removed (deprecated in 22.1.3)
• --Xmerge-support option remove (deprecated in 22.4.2) #4518
• Breaking API changes in the OperationTracer interface to enable performance work.
  • The traceExecution method has been replaced with tracePreExecution and tracePostExecution methods, called just before and just after operation execution.
  • See DebugOperationTracer and StandardJsonTracer for migration examples.

Additions and Improvements

• Updated jackson-databind library to version 2.13.4.2 addressing CVE-2022-42003
• Update snapsync feature to avoid restarting the download of the world state from scratch when restarting Besu #4381
• Added worldstate snapshot isolation to improve the stability of bonsai (--Xbonsai-use-snapshots=true) #4351
• Reduce the number of runtime exceptions (SecurityModuleException) and unnecessary executions during ECIES handshake, by trying to decrypt EIP-8 formatted messages first #4508.
• Improved RLP processing of zero-length string as 0x80 #4283 #4388
• Increased level of detail in JSON-RPC parameter error log messages #4510
• New unstable configuration options to set the maximum time, in milliseconds, a PoS block creation jobs is allowed to run #4519
• Tune EthScheduler thread pools to avoid recreating too many threads #4529
• RocksDB snapshot based worldstate and plugin-api addition of Snapshot interfaces #4409
• Continuously try to build better block proposals until timeout or GetPayload is called #4516
• Upgrade RocksDB database version from 6.29.5 to 7.6.0 #4517
• Avoid connecting to self when using static-nodes #4521
• EVM performance has increased 20%-100% depending on the particulars of the contract. #4540
• Improve calculateRootHash method performance during Block processing #4568
• Bring GraphQL into compliance with execution-api specs #4112
• Refactor unverified forkchoice event #4487
• Improve UX of initial sync logs, pushing not relevant logs to debug level #4486
• Optimize pivot block selector on PoS networks #4488
• Optimize Snap sync on PoS networks #4462

Bug Fixes

• Fixed default fromBlock value and improved parameter interpretation in eth_getLogs RPC handler #4513
• Fix for NoSuchElementException for missing invalid reason when rejecting a local sent transaction #4569
• Corrects treating a block as bad on internal error during either validation or processing #4512
• Corrects emission of blockadded events when rewinding during a re-org. Fix for #4495
• Always return a transaction type for pending transactions #4364
• Avoid a cyclic reference while printing EngineExchangeTransitionConfigurationParameter #4357
• Corrects treating a block as bad on internal error #4512
• In GraphQL update scalar parsing to be variable friendly #4522
• Initiate connection to maintained peers soon after startup. #4469
• Update apache-commons-text to 1.10.0 to address CVE-2022-42889 #4542

22.10.0-RC2

22.10.0-RC2

Breaking Changes

• Flexible Privacy Groups (early access) support to Tessera's EC encryptor (contracts modified) #4282
  • Before this change, the bytes32 type was used for the enclave public keys, just supporting encryptors with public keys of that length (like the default NaCl)
  • For the EC encryptor, the encoded public key length is 91
• --tx-pool-hashes-max-size option removed (deprecated in 22.1.3)
• --Xmerge-support option remove (deprecated in 22.4.2) #4518
• Breaking API changes in the OperationTracer interface to enable performance work.
  • The traceExecution method has been replaced with tracePreExecution and tracePostExecution methods, called just before and just after operation execution.
  • See DebugOperationTracer and StandardJsonTracer for migration examples.

Additions and Improvements

• Reduce the number of runtime exceptions (SecurityModuleException) and unnecessary executions during ECIES handshake, by trying to decrypt EIP-8 formatted messages first #4508.
• Improved RLP processing of zero-length string as 0x80 #4283 #4388
• Increased level of detail in JSON-RPC parameter error log messages #4510
• New unstable configuration options to set the maximum time, in milliseconds, a PoS block creation jobs is allowed to run #4519
• Tune EthScheduler thread pools to avoid recreating too many threads #4529
• RocksDB snapshot based worldstate and plugin-api addition of Snapshot interfaces #4409
• Continuously try to build better block proposals until timeout or GetPayload is called #4516
• Upgrade RocksDB database version from 6.29.5 to 7.6.0 #4517
• Avoid connecting to self when using static-nodes #4521
• EVM performance has increased 20%-100% depending on the particulars of the contract. #4540

Bug Fixes

• Corrects emission of blockadded events when rewinding during a re-org. Fix for #4495
• Always return a transaction type for pending transactions #4364
• Avoid a cyclic reference while printing EngineExchangeTransitionConfigurationParameter #4357
• Corrects treating a block as bad on internal error #4512
• In GraphQL update scalar parsing to be variable friendly #4522
• Initiate connection to maintained peers soon after startup. #4469
• Update apache-commons-text to 1.10.0 to address CVE-2022-42889 #4542

22.7.7

22.7.7

Additions and Improvements

• Tune EthScheduler thread pools to avoid recreating too many threads #4529
• Reduce the number of runtime exceptions (SecurityModuleException) and unnecessary executions during ECIES handshake, by trying to decrypt EIP-8 formatted messages first #4508.
• The block variable was keeping too much memory while waiting for future to finish #4489

Bug Fixes

• Corrects treating a block as bad on internal error #4512
• update appache-commons-text to 1.10.0 to address CVE-2022-42889 #4542
• In GraphQL update scalar parsing to be variable friendly #4522

22.10.0-RC1

22.10.0-RC1

Additions and Improvements

• Bring GraphQL into compliance with execution-api specs #4112
• Refactor unverified forkchoice event #4487
• Optimize pivot block selector on PoS networks #4488
• Improve UX of initial sync logs, pushing not relevant logs to debug level #4486
• Refactor unverified forkchoice event #4487
• Optimize pivot block selector on PoS networks #4488
• Optimize Snap sync on PoS networks #4462

Bug Fixes

22.7.6

22.7.6

Hotfix release of the 22.7.x series to address #4495 which could result in failed block proposals on merge networks.

Additions and Improvements

• Bring GraphQL into compliance with execution-api specs #4112

Bug Fixes

• Corrects emission of blockadded events when rewinding during a re-org. #4497

22.7.3

22.7.3

Additions and Improvements

• Allow free gas networks in the London fee market #4061
• Upgrade besu-native to 0.6.0 and use Blake2bf native implementation if available by default #4264
• Resets engine QoS timer with every call to the engine API instead of only when ExchangeTransitionConfiguration is called #4411
• ExchangeTransitionConfiguration mismatch will only submit a debug log not a warning anymore #4411
• Upgrade besu-native to 0.6.1 and include linux arm64 build of bls12-381 #4416
• Create a new flag on RocksDB (--Xplugin-rocksdb-high-spec-enabled) for high spec hardware to boost performance
• Transaction pool improvements to avoid filling the pool with not executable transactions, that could result in empty or semi-empty block proposals #4425
• Limit Transaction pool consumption by sender to a configurable percentage of the pool size #4417

Bug Fixes

• Retry block creation if there is a transient error and we still have time, to mitigate empty block issue #4407
• Fix StacklessClosedChannelException in Besu and resulted timeout errors in CL clients (#4398, #4400)
• Return JSON-RPC error code instead of INVALID in engine api when certain storage exceptions are encountered (#4349)

22.7.2

22.7.2

Besu 22.7.2 is a recommended release for the Merge and Mainnet users. 22.7.1 remains Merge-ready. This release provides additional robustness before the Merge with some fixes and improvements in sync, peering, and logging.

Additions and Improvements

• Better management of jemalloc presence/absence in startup script #4237
• Retry mechanism when getting a broadcasted block fail on all peers #4271
• Filter out disconnected peers when fetching available peers #4269
• Updated the default value of fast-sync-min-peers post merge #4298
• Log imported block info post merge #4310
• Pandas! Pandas now appear in 3 phases: The black bear and polar bear that are preparing? Those will appear when
  your client has TTD configured (which is setup by default for mainnet), is in sync, and processing Proof of Work blocks. In the second phase you will see them powering up when the Terminal Total Difficulty block is added to the blockchain.
  The final form of the Ethereum Panda will appear when the first finalized block is received from the Consensus Layer.

Bug Fixes

• Accept wit/80 from Nethermind #4279
• Properly shutdown the miner executor, to avoid waiting 30 seconds when stopping #4353