v7.2.0

What's Changed

Features

• Automatically migrate configuration files if detected as using an older version. (#3432)
• Add workflow for pushing published releases to pypi. (#3433)

Bugfixes

• Incorrect use of INTERVAL class variable for SimpleTask - it affected the interval for the EventScannerTask. (#3435)
• Properly update SSL contexts to use updated CA cert data for a node which has been restarted. (#3440)

Deprecations and Removals

• Removes the /node_metadata GET endpoint. (#3410)

Misc

• Peer TLS certificates are no longer stored on the node's disk. (#3307)
• Optimizes blockchain reads for dkg coordination and artifacts for call data volume. (#3419)
• Improve caching of data needed for threshold decryption by the node - reduces RPC calls and decryption time. (#3428)
• Optimize EventScanner chunking for Polygon given its blocktime. (#3434)
• Update EventScanner to obtain events of different types as part of the same RPC call to reduce the volume of rpc calls. (#3444)

Internal Development Tasks

• #3387, #3414, #3420, #3445
• Reintroduce simple_cache_middleware to cache some RPC calls like eth_chainId. (#3436)

Full Changelog: v7.1.1...v7.2.0