Version Update (1.14.7)

Release Highlights

We’re pleased to announce the latest update incorporating changes from Go-Ethereum v1.14.7. This update brings important improvements, fixes, and optimizations tailored for enhanced network performance and reliability.

Key Features and Updates:

Performance Enhancements:

Optimized transaction pool management, reducing memory usage and improving transaction propagation efficiency.
Improved sync performance, ensuring faster and more reliable peer connectivity.

Bug Fixes:

Resolved issues related to uncle handling and block propagation under certain network conditions.
Addressed edge cases in JSON-RPC interactions for better API reliability.

Security Improvements:

Integrated essential security patches from Go-Ethereum v1.14.7 to fortify network resilience against vulnerabilities.
Improved safeguards against potential DoS attack vectors.

Developer Experience:

Enhanced logging and diagnostics for easier debugging and network monitoring.
Updated API behaviors to improve compatibility with tooling and frameworks.

Developer Notes:

This release is fully backwards-compatible with earlier versions. However, upgrading is recommended to leverage the latest improvements.
Developers utilizing JSON-RPC or custom APIs should verify changes for compatibility with their integrations.

Upgrade Instructions:

To upgrade your client:

1. Safely stop your node using the recommended shutdown procedures.
2. Download the latest binary for your operating system.
3. Replace the existing binary with the new version.
4. Restart the node and monitor logs to ensure proper functionality.

For additional support, please visit our Discord Server.

Changes:

• 18d17e3 Increased payload generation timeout
• ad6afa0 Stratis related fixes
• 8e48f67 Merge tag 'v1.14.7' into upgrade
• aa55f5e Merge branch 'master' into release/1.14
• 0aafbb3 params: go-ethereum v1.14.7 stable
• 803dc6b core/txpool/blobpool: revert ethereum#29989, WLock on Nonce (ethereum#30142)
• 37590b2 eth/catalyst: fix params in failure log (ethereum#30131)
• 10467ac go.mod: update uint256 to 1.3.0 (ethereum#30134)
• c4b4d05 crypto: remove hardcoded value for secp256k1.N (ethereum#30126)
• 2d9d423 build: upgrade -dlgo version to Go 1.22.5 (ethereum#30112)

See More

• c6cae0f Merge remote-tracking branch 'gballet/release-1.14.6'
• aadddf3 params: release Geth v1.14.6
• 640e0f1 params: begin v1.14.7 release cycle
• 6f2e1cf params: release Geth v1.14.6
• de366fd accounts/abi: embed Go template instead of string literal (ethereum#30098)
• 0905660 core/state: fix inconsistent verkle test error messages (ethereum#29753)
• 41abab9 build: add check for stale generated files (ethereum#30037)
• a4e338f accounts/usbwallet/trezor: upgrade to generate with protoc 27.1 (ethereum#30058)
• 7cfff30 rpc: truncate call error data logs (ethereum#30028)
• 06f1d07 all: replace division with right shift if possible (ethereum#29911)
• 4939c25 cmd/evm/internal/t8ntool: log writeTraceResult error message (ethereum#30038)
• 36d67be core/txpool/blobpool: improve newPriceHeap function (ethereum#30050)
• 19c3c1e triedb/pathdb: fix flaky test in pathdb (ethereum#29901)
• 045b971 trie: relocate state execution logic into pathdb package (ethereum#29861)
• 269e80b eth/tracers,trie: remove unnecessary check (ethereum#30071)
• 9298d2d trie/trienode: remove unnecessary check in Summary (ethereum#30047)
• 98b5930 core/txpool/blobpool: avoid use *map as parameter. (ethereum#30048)
• ed8fd0a all: stateless witness builder and (self-)cross validator (ethereum#29719)
• 73f7e7c internal/debug: remove unnecessary log level assignment (ethereum#30044)
• fe0c0b0 accounts/keystore: use t.TempDir in test (ethereum#30052)
• 0a651f8 .github: add lightclient as codeowner to relevant packages (ethereum#30062)
• d8ea7ac cmd/blsync: use debug.Setup for logging configuration (ethereum#30065)
• a71f6f9 p2p/discover: improve flaky revalidation tests (ethereum#30023)
• c10ac4f Revert "core/state/snapshot: tiny fixes" (ethereum#30039) [ ethereum#29995 ]
• e0e45db core/state/snapshot: tiny fixes (ethereum#29995)
• 27654d3 p2p/rlpx: 2KB maximum size for handshake messages (ethereum#30029)
• 00675c5 trie/trienode: avoid unnecessary copy (ethereum#30019)
• 2700840 core/txpool/blobpool: change rw-lock to r-lock (ethereum#29989)
• c11aac2 common: using ParseUint instead of ParseInt (ethereum#30020)
• 0e3a0a6 trie: don't reset tracer at the end of Commit (ethereum#30024)
• 67a862d cmd/geth, ethdb/pebble: improve database statistic (ethereum#29948)
• 7cf6a63 core/state/snapshot: acquire the lock on Release (ethereum#30011)
• d866449 common/math: fix out of bounds access in json unmarshalling (ethereum#30014)
• c736b04 triedb/pathdb: use maps.Clone and maps.Keys (ethereum#29985)
• 115d154 trie, triedb/pathdb: prealloc capacity for map and slice (ethereum#29986)
• b78d235 log: fix some functions comments (ethereum#29907)
• a58e4f0 go.mod: update Pebble to sort out a deleted upstream dependency (ethereum#30010)
• 34b46a2 core/state/snapshot: add a missing lock (ethereum#30001)
• fd5078c trie/triedb: add Reader to backend interface (ethereum#29988)
• 86150af beacon/light: fix shutdown issues (ethereum#29946)
• 69351e8 core/state, eth/protocols, trie, triedb/pathdb: remove unused error from trie Commit (ethereum#29869)
• 3687c34 accounts: avoid duplicate regex compilation (ethereum#29943)
• 1e97148 all: fix inconsistent receiver name and add lint rule for it (ethereum#29974)
• b6f2bbd p2p/simulations: update doc of HTTP endpoints (ethereum#29894)
• c732039 .github: disable cache in actions run (ethereum#29926)
• caa066d cmd/devp2p: fix log output (ethereum#29972)
• ffb29be ethconfig: regenerate config (ethereum#29970)
• 3aa874b core/state: rename all the AccessList receivers to 'al' (ethereum#29921)
• 85587d5 cmd, core: prefetch reads too from tries if requested (ethereum#29807)
• 2eb185c core, rlp: remove duplicated words (ethereum#29964)
• db273c8 core: initialize developer genesis beacon root contract with 0 balance (ethereum#29963)
• 8bda642 p2p: use package slices to sort in PeersInfo (ethereum#29957)
• 349fcdd p2p/discover: add missing lock when calling tab.handleAddNode (ethereum#29960)
• 1098d14 cmd/geth: remove unused param (ethereum#29952)
• deaf109 cmd/clef, cmd/evm: fix markdown issues in README (ethereum#29954)
• 6a49d13 go.mod : tidy
• 4405f18 cmd/evm/internal/t8ntool: remove unused parameter (ethereum#29930)
• 4461c1f params: begin v1.14.6 release cycle
• 0dd173a params: release Geth v1.14.5
• 85459e1 p2p/discover: unwrap 4-in-6 UDP source addresses (ethereum#29944)
• 0750cb0 p2p/netutil: fix comments (ethereum#29942)
• cbbfa3e rlp: no need to repeat called len method (ethereum#29936)
• 6c518fe build: upgrade -dlgo version to Go 1.22.4 (ethereum#29938)
• bc65694 p2p: use netip.Addr where possible (ethereum#29891)
• d09ddac core/rawdb: remove unused deriveLogFields (ethereum#29913)
• e85e21c core/state, eth/tracers: fix typos (ethereum#29932)
• fc40d68 params: begin v1.14.5 release cycle
• 5550d83 params: release Geth v1.14.4
• 125fb1f core/state: avoid data race (ethereum#29924)
• 682ae83 internal/ethapi: recap higher args.Gas with block GasLimit in DoEstimateGas (ethereum#29738)
• 68c0ec0 trie: iterate values pre-order and fix seek behavior (ethereum#27838)
• adbbd8c core/state: prefetch account trie while starting a prefetcher (ethereum#29919)
• a6751d6 core/rawdb,eth/protocols,p2p: prealloc slice size (ethereum#29893)
• 7270cba log: fix a typo (ethereum#29883)
• b36c738 beacon/engine: prealloc capacity for map and slice (ethereum#29903)
• 50405e2 cmd/evm/internal/t8ntool: fix a typo (ethereum#29887)
• d38b88a core/state: introduce stateupdate structure (ethereum#29530)
• c9e0b31 Supply delta live tracer (ethereum#29347)
• d4b81f0 CODEOWNERS: @s1na owns core/tracing (ethereum#29899)
• 2613523 miner: lower default min miner tip from 1 gwei to 0.001 gwei (ethereum#29895)
• bdc62f9 common/math: rename variable name int to n (ethereum#29890)
• 5d7d48f eth/gasprice: add comment to constant (ethereum#29892)
• 2262bf3 crypto/secp256k1: change receiver variable name to lowercase (ethereum#29889)
• e015c11 ethdb: remove unnecessary function wrapper (ethereum#29888)
• 6bb13e8 eth/catalyst: ensure TxPool is synced in Fork (ethereum#29876)
• 2f06c1e cmd/devp2p: fix node.TCP -> node.UDP (ethereum#29879)
• 3fef534 build: upgrade to golangci-lint v1.59.0 (ethereum#29875)
• 94a8b29 p2p/discover: refactor node and endpoint representation (ethereum#29844)
• e26fa9e core/state: fix typo in comment (ethereum#29639)
• 2f0e63e eth/downloader, eth/tracer: fix typos in comments (ethereum#29707)
• 06263b1 all: fix typos in comments (ethereum#29873)
• b8cf163 accounts: fix TestUpdateKeyfileContents (ethereum#29867)
• 153f8da p2p/nodestate: remove unused package (ethereum#29872)
• daf4f72 p2p/simulations: remove stale information about docker adapter (ethereum#29874)
• 5534c84 go.mod: update a number of dependencies (ethereum#29763)
• cc22e0c p2p/discover: fix update logic in handleAddNode (ethereum#29836) [ ethereum#29572 ]
• 171430c core/state: remove unused error from prefetcher trie method (ethereum#29768)
• e517183 eth, eth/downloader: remove references to LightChain, LightSync (ethereum#29711)
• af0a327 p2p/discover: fix crash when revalidated node is removed (ethereum#29864) [ ethereum#29572 ]
• b88051e core/rawdb, triedb/pathdb: fix freezer read-only option (ethereum#29823)
• 61932e4 cmd/geth: update testdata (vulncheck) (ethereum#29714)
• 871e55d core/state: fix typos in comments (ethereum#29767)
• 42471d7 core/vm/runtime: set random to enable merge-opcodes (ethereum#29799)
• caafa93 all: improve some error strings (ethereum#29842)
• ea6c160 eth/tracers: clear error for non-reverting pre-homestead fail (ethereum#29824)
• 5132768 eth/downloader: fix flaky test (ethereum#29852)
• 1a4e4a4 miner: fix TestBuildPayload sporadic failure (ethereum#29853)
• 7224576 core, eth/protocols/snap, internal/ethapi: remove redundant types (ethereum#29841)
• 7f5cc02 metrics: fix function comment (ethereum#29843)
• d1d9f34 core/types: clarify set inclusion in comments (ethereum#29839)
• b6474e9 metrics: add test for SampleSnapshot.Sum (ethereum#29831)
• 64b1cd8 p2p: fix typos (ethereum#29828)
• 08fe6a8 metrics: fix flaky testTestExpDecaySampleNanosecondRegression (ethereum#29832)
• 61b3d93 p2p/enode: fix TCPEndpoint (ethereum#29827)
• cc9e2bd p2p/enode: fix endpoint determination for IPv6 (ethereum#29801)
• 6a9158b p2p/discover: improved node revalidation (ethereum#29572)
• 70bee97 metrics: fix out of range error message (ethereum#29821)
• b779e46 Makefile: add fmt, update help (ethereum#29777)
• fa58176 eth/tracers: fix json logger for evm blocktest (ethereum#29795)
• 0d4cdb3 internal/ethapi: fix typos (ethereum#29784)
• 7fd7c1f eth/tracers: fix basefee context for traceBlock (ethereum#29811)
• be5df74 trie: update the valid function comments (ethereum#29809)
• 473ee8f trie, eth/protocols/snap: sanitize the committed node data (ethereum#29485)
• 7ed52c9 core: move balanceCheck addition in buyGas (ethereum#29762)
• d2f00cb .github: upgrade to action versions with node20 (ethereum#29776)
• 8919c5c core: deploy EIP-4788 contract in dev mode genesis (ethereum#29655)
• be32843 core/state: remove useless operation (ethereum#29769)
• 5b3e3cd tests: update tests (ethereum#29730)
• 2ac83e1 core/state: blocking prefetcher on term signal, parallel updates (ethereum#29519)
• 44a50c9 cmd, core, params, trie: add verkle access witness gas charging (ethereum#29338)
• 47af69c core, beacon, ethdb: fix typos (ethereum#29748)
• 603fd89 event: fix typo (ethereum#29749)
• e5f5eae core/state: remove slot dirtyness if it's set back to origin value (ethereum#29731)
• 74edc93 params: gofmt
• 0e456d9 .travis.yml: disable normal unit tests in cron job (ethereum#29746)
• 6d51c1f params: begin v1.14.4 release cycle
• ab48ba4 params: release go-ethereum v1.14.3 stable
• 804afb8 .travis.yml: restore PPA condition and bump timeouts (ethereum#29742)
• faff03c .travis.yml: enable PPA upload on push and fix apt-get command (ethereum#29741)
• 1a79f8f params: begin v1.14.3 release cycle
• 35b2d07 params: release go-ethereum v1.14.2 stable
• eeb2208 .travis.yml: fix package install on PPA builder
• 14f4228 params: begin v1.14.2 release cycle
• dd09f7e params: release go-ethereum v1.14.1 stable
• 6154f87 .travis.yml: fix apt-get options (ethereum#29734)
• dd4afb9 .travis.yml: fix install of gcc-multilib (ethereum#29733)
• 9ec5008 core: use in-memory freezer for tests (ethereum#29720)
• e96de64 build: upgrade to go 1.22.3 (ethereum#29725)
• 71aa15c travis: use ubuntu noble (24.04) instead of bionic (18.04) (ethereum#29723)
• d6e91e2 eth/gasestimator: include blobs in virtual balance computation (ethereum#29703) [ ethereum#29702 ]
• e4b8058 eth/gasprice: add query limit for FeeHistory to defend DDOS attack (ethereum#29644)
• 3e896c8 ethdb/pebble: fix pebble metrics registration (ethereum#29699)
• 43cbcd7 core, core/state: move TriesInMemory to state package (ethereum#29701)
• a09a610 core/tracing: add system call callback when performing ProcessBeaconBlockRoot (ethereum#29355)
• 905e325 p2p/discover/v5wire: add tests for invalid handshake and auth data size (ethereum#29708)
• 86a1f0c core/rawdb: fix ancient root folder (ethereum#29697)
• 2c67fab trie/pathdb: preallocate map capacity (ethereum#29690)
• fbf6238 params: fix misleading comments (ethereum#29684)
• bc609e8 core/vm: remove redundant error checks (ethereum#29692)
• 682ee82 core/state: parallelise parts of state commit (ethereum#29681)
• 9f96e07 core/rawdb, trie: improve db APIs for accessing trie nodes (ethereum#29362)
• f8820f1 accounts, cmd/geth, core: close opened files (ethereum#29598)
• 45baf21 eth/downloader: purge pre-merge sync code (ethereum#29281)
• 2e8e35f all: refactor so NewBlock, WithBody take types.Body (ethereum#29482)
• 5e07054 internal/ethapi: listen to ctx cancellation in access list (ethereum#29686)
• bd6bc37 core/vm: add subgroup checks for mul/mulexp for G1/G2 (ethereum#29637)
• 7c7e3a7 eth/tracers/native: fix flatCallTracer Stop() bug (ethereum#29623)
• ea89f9a core/vm: remove a redundant zero check in opAddmod (ethereum#29672)
• 242b24a trie/trienode: minor speedup in nodeset merging (ethereum#29683)
• f46c878 core/rawdb: implement in-memory freezer (ethereum#29135)
• c04b8e6 cmd/utils: require TTD and difficulty to be zero at genesis for dev mode (ethereum#29579)
• 69f815f params: print time value instead of pointer in ConfigCompatError (ethereum#29514)
• fecc8a0 cmd/evm/internal/t8ntool, core: prealloc map sizes where possible (ethereum#29620)
• 8c3fc56 p2p/simulations/adapters: use maps.Clone (ethereum#29626)
• 4bdbaab params: clarify consensus engine config Strings (ethereum#29643)
• 4253030 core/state: move metrics out of state objects (ethereum#29665)
• 8d42e11 core/state: revert pending storage updates if they revert to original (ethereum#29661)
• ad4fb2c build: drop trusty from PPA builds, EOL and incompatible (ethereum#29651)
• 634d037 travis: revert the PPA fix hot-build, it works (ethereum#29649)
• a0282fc travis: temporarilly enable PPA builds for testing (ethereum#29648)
• 1f628d8 build: build all the builders to build all the builders (ethereum#29647)
• 243cde0 core/state: better randomized testing (postcheck) on journalling (ethereum#29627)
• a13b925 eth/protocols/eth,p2p/discover: remove unnecessary checks (ethereum#29590)
• 2f6ff49 internal/ethapi: typo (ethereum#29636)
• 4f4f9d8 core/state: storage journal entry should revert dirtyness too (ethereum#29641)
• 7362691 trie, consensus/clique: use maps.Clone (ethereum#29616)
• ac21f9b trie: preallocate capacity for fields slice (ethereum#29614)
• 0d4c388 core/state: remove account reset operation v2 (ethereum#29520)
• 938734b params: begin 1.14.1 release cycle
• 87246f3 params: release Geth v1.14.0
• 5f3c58f eth/downloader: fix case where skeleton reorgs below the filled block (ethereum#29358)
• ade7515 eth, eth/tracers: process beacon root before transactions (ethereum#29402)
• fb08fd3 core/tracing: Add OnClose Trace Hook (ethereum#29629)
• 882d1e2 cmd/geth, cmd/utils: rename config and flag to VMTraceJsonConfig (ethereum#29573)
• 9457993 core/vm: fix Prague contracts (ethereum#29612)
• 256d4b0 beacon/light: request finality update explicitly when necessary (ethereum#29567)
• b2b0e1d all: fix various typos (ethereum#29600)
• 709e0b3 metrics: remove librato (ethereum#29624)
• 0e380dd miner: fix typos (ethereum#29625)
• 853e0c2 eth/catalyst, trie/pathdb: fix flaky tests (ethereum#29571)
• acd1eaa core: remove bad block checks (ethereum#29609)
• e6689fe beacon/light/sync: print error log if checkpoint retrieval fails (ethereum#29532)
• 1ec7af2 eth: Add eth_blobBaseFee RPC and blob fields to eth_feeHistory (ethereum#29140)
• c2dfe7a go.mod: update golang/x repos (ethereum#29604)
• 82b0dec eth/filters: remove support for pending logs (ethereum#29574)
• ad3d8cb cmd/geth: remove unused parameter (ethereum#29602)
• 28ccb2b build: fix string compare for SortFunc (ethereum#29595)
• 98f504f p2p/discover: fix test error messages (ethereum#29592)
• 2e06fbd core/vm: add KZG benchmark (ethereum#29583)
• cce879b tests: define cancun-to-prague at 15K chainconig (ethereum#29557)
• 81349ff eth/catalyst: fix typo (ethereum#29580)
• 823719b core/vm: enable bls-precompiles for Prague (ethereum#29552)
• b5902cf core: remove unused fields (ethereum#29569)
• 5f95145 eth/ethconfig: regenerate autogen files (ethereum#29559)
• 0da69e8 beacon/blsync: proceed with empty finalized hash if proof is not expected soon (ethereum#29449)
• 1e9bf2a core/state: fix bug in statedb.Copy and remove unnecessary preallocation (ethereum#29563)
• 74e8d2d trie/utils: simplify codeChunkIndex (ethereum#29480)
• 27de7de ethdb/pebble: print warning log if pebble performance degrades (ethereum#29478)
• 92da96b core/vm: refactor push-functions to use min builtin (ethereum#29515)
• 0a51028 all: fix various typos (ethereum#29542)
• 5ffd940 core: go fmt (ethereum#29544)
• 65e32d4 go.mod: clean up indirection (ethereum#29553)
• 72f6936 c.d/utils: rename vmtrace.config to vmtrace.jsonconfig (ethereum#29554)
• fadd9d8 eth/catalyst: fix log (ethereum#29549)
• f437307 core/vm: update gascosts for BLS12-381 + use gnark instead of kilic (ethereum#29441)
• 71c78bf rpc: close Clients in tests (ethereum#29512)
• e4ecaf8 rpc: implement Unwrap() for wsHandshakeError (ethereum#29522)
• d3c4466 core, eth/protocols/snap, trie: fix cause for snap-sync corruption, implement gentrie (ethereum#29313)
• ef5ac3f eth/filters: enforce topic-limit early on filter criterias (ethereum#29535)
• 67422e2 p2p/nat: fix typos in comments (ethereum#29536)
• 84b12df core/rawdb: add sanity-limit to header accessor (ethereum#29534)
• 3705acd cmd/utils: fix typo in comment (ethereum#29528)
• b179b7b all: remove duplicate word in comments (ethereum#29531)
• bd91810 cmd: fix some typos in readmes (ethereum#29405)
• b9010f3 rpc: fix comment grammar (ethereum#29507)
• 9dcf8aa eth/protocols/snap: skip retrieval for completed storages (ethereum#29378)
• 34aac1d all: use big.Sign to compare with zero (ethereum#29490)
• f202dfd core/tracing: add changelog (ethereum#29388)
• 0bbd88b all: use timer instead of time.After in loops, to avoid memleaks (ethereum#29241)
• 1126c6d core: add txlookup lock (ethereum#29343)

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