2021.09.05-alpha

Changelog

• add decoding incarnation function (thanks to enriavil1)
• cleanup old Whisper code (thanks to Zachinquarantine)
• improvements and fixes to --txpool.v2 (now can re-calculate and re-sort 200K mainnet transactions within 50ms)
• --mdbx.augment.limit flag for fine-tuning the DB performance
• healthcheck for the node that returns 500 if the node is considered unhealthy
• improve EIP1898 compliance for RPC methods
• downgrade mdbx v0.10.1 due to a possible (unconfirmed) bug found
• --txpool.globalbasefeeeslots command-line flag
• increase websocket frame size (to support RPC calls with heavier responses) (thanks to gelfand)

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2021.09.04-alpha

Changelog

• TxPool v2 is Ready for Users Tests: --txpool.v2, see txpool.v2 documentation and design doc
• TxPool v2 can run inside Erigon or on another server
• --prune.*.before=N flags to prune all blocks before block N (useful for Eth2 validators) (thanks to Cript)
• fix for crashes on Ropsten, Goerli
• fix for dynamicfee tx is not supported by signer when using Erigon as a library (thanks to Jaanek)

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2021.09.03-alpha

Changelog

• fix bad.block nil-pointer panic
• increase fdlimit for all erigon binaries
• print goroutines on SIGUSR1 w/o having to quit the app
• fix for Geth dropping Erigon peers
• fix race conditions for enode db,
• fix for eth_callBundle
• tx pool improvements
• store Erigon version in the DB (for future debugging purposes)

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2021.09.02-alpha

Changelog

• fix a race condition in RPC daemon
• fix for bad.block parsing
• pre-verified hashes update for Mainnet and Ropsten
• experimental txpool.v2 flag for external grpc-based transaction pool
• update mdbx to 0.10.13
• fixes for traces with precompiles
• prune tx senders table (even more reduces the footprint on the pruned node)

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2021.09.01-alpha

Changelog

• call tracing pruning is using ETL now (should speed up execution pruning)
• include info about running eth2 clients with Erigon (thanks to The-Coomer)
• update libraries (roaring bitmaps, go 1.17)
• --bad.block now expects the block hash instead of the block number
• fix for Ropsten chain diversion

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2021.08.05-alpha

Changelog

• fix for the heavy disk I/O regressions by MDBX (fixes a couple of issues with RPC daemon with --datadir being slow or completely unresponsive)

• increase node db file limit (fixes mdbx_cursor_put: operation not permitted" log warnings)

• tx pool improvements

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2021.08.04-alpha

Security Fix

This release contains a high-severity security fix, found by the Go Ethereum team.

Please, upgrade.

Changelog

• ‼️ high-severity security issue fixup ‼️

• multiple RPC optimisations

• fix in a sentry to reduce block delivery delay

• increase the default gas limit for eth_call (to 50M gas)

• maintenance upgrade of Grafana, Prometheus

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2021.08.03-alpha

--datadir parameter is not backward-compatible

❗ chaindata folder was moved from <datadir>/erigon/chaindata into <datadir>/chaindata. Please, move manually before starting the new version, otherwise you will get an error like the following

EROR[08-19|09:30:24.913] Old data directory found                 path=/Users/<>/rinkeby/erigon/chaindata please move to new path=/Users/<>/rinkeby/chaindata
Fatal: Could not open database: safety error, see log message

Changelog

• trace_call and trace_callMany gas prices set to basefee if 0 is provided

• eth_feeHistory better compatibility with the specs

• trace_filter crash fixup

• trace_filter: fix for after and count parameters

• improved docs for building your own RPC daemon (thanks to Eugene)

• preserve streaming of batch RPC requests (fix for #2540)

• newHeads subscribe now returns baseFeePerGas (fix for #2549)

• parametric the location of go executable with the env variable

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2021.08.02-alpha

Changelog

• add txpool_status api (kudos to Richard Patel)

• improved Grafana metrics

• add eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas and eth_feeHistory

• add support for vmTrace into trace_ RPC methods

• reduce commit frequency to Sentry DBs

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2021.08.01-alpha

Changelog

• better licensed logger (Apache) and metrics (MIT) dependencies

• fix for "err after streaming started" #2464

• mdbx v0.10.2 #2449

• allow to run all sync stages once when --nodiscover is set and there is no network connection

• better log messages for pruning misconfiguration

• fix eth_gasPrice for London-style fees

• more fixes for tracing APIs #2485

• improved documentation of Staged Sync (kudos to The-Coomer)

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