RELEASES.md

Release Notes

v0.13.8

• Update geth dependency to v1.13.14
• eupgrade: lowering the base fee to 1 nAVAX
• eupgrade/cancun: verify no blobs in header
• Supports ACP-118 message types
• Gets network upgrade timestamps from avalanchego
• Remove cross-chain handlers

v0.13.7

• Add EUpgrade base definitions
• Remove Block Status
• Fix and improve "GetBlockIDAtHeight"
• Bump golang version requirement to 1.21.12
• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.11.10-prerelease

v0.13.6

• rpc: truncate call error data logs
• logging: remove path prefix (up to coreth@version/) from logged file names.
• cleanup: removes pre-Durango scripts

v0.13.5

• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.11.7
• Bump golang version requirement to 1.21.12
• Switches timestamp log back to "timestamp" (as was before v0.13.4)
• Add missing fields to "toCallArg"
• Fix state sync ETA overflow
• Fix state sync crash bug

v0.13.4

• Fixes snapshot use when state sync was explicitly enabled
• Fixes v0.13.3 locking regression in async snapshot generation
• Update go-ethereum to v1.13.8
• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.11.6
• Bump golang version requirement to 1.21.10
• "timestamp" in logs is changed to "t"

v0.13.3

• Update go-ethereum to v1.13.2
• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.11.5
• Bump golang version requirement to 1.21.9
• Respect local flag in legacy tx pool
• Disable blobpool
• Testing improvements

v0.13.2

• Integrate stake weighted gossip selection
• Update go-ethereum to v1.12.2
• Force precompile modules registration in ethclient
• Bump Avalanchego to v1.11.3

v0.13.1

• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.11.2
• Remove Legacy Gossipper
• Tune default gossip parameters

v0.13.0

• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.11.1
• Bump minimum Go version to 1.21.7
• Add more error messages to warp backend

v0.12.10

• Add support for off-chain warp messages
• Add support for getBlockReceipts RPC API
• Fix issue with state sync for large blocks
• Migrating Push Gossip to avalanchego network SDK handlers

v0.12.9

• Add concurrent prefetching of trie nodes during block processing
• Add skip-tx-indexing flag to disable transaction indexing and unindexing
• Update acceptor tip before sending chain events to subscribers
• Add soft cap on total block data size for state sync block requests

v0.12.8

• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.10.15
• Fix crash in prestate tracer on memory read

v0.12.7

• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.10.14

v0.12.6

• Remove lock options from HTTP handlers
• Fix deadlock in eth_getLogs when matcher session hits a missing block
• Replace Kurtosis E2E tests with avctl test framework

v0.12.5

• Add P2P SDK Pull Gossip to mempool
• Fix hanging requests on shutdown that could cause ungraceful shutdown
• Increase batch size writing snapshot diff to disk
• Migrate geth changes from v1.11.4 through v1.12.0
• Bump AvalancheGo dependency to v1.10.10

v0.12.4

• Fix API handler crash for lookupState in prestate tracer
• Fix API handler crash for LOG edge cases in the callTracer
• Fix regression in eth_getLogs serving request for blocks containing no Ethereum transactions
• Export CalculateDynamicFee

v0.12.3

• Migrate go-ethereum changes through v1.11.4
• Downgrade API error log from Warn to Info

v0.12.2

• Increase default trie dirty cache size from 256MB to 512MB

v0.12.1

• Bump AvalancheGo dependency to v1.10.1
• Improve block building logic
• Use shorter ctx while reading snapshot to serve state sync requests
• Remove proposer activation time from gossiper
• Fail outstanding requests on shutdown
• Make state sync request sizes configurable

v0.12.0

• Increase C-Chain block gas limit to 15M in Cortina
• Add Mainnet and Fuji Cortina Activation timestamps

v0.11.9

• Downgrade SetPreference log from warn to debug

v0.11.8

• Fix shutdown hanging during state sync
• Add pre-check for imported UTXOs
• Fix bug in BadBlockReason output to display error string correctly
• Update golangci-lint version to v1.51.2

v0.11.7

• Enable state sync by default when syncing from an empty database
• Increase block gas limit to 15M for Cortina Network Upgrade
• Add back file tracer endpoint
• Add back JS tracer

v0.11.6

• Bump AvalancheGo to v1.9.6

v0.11.5

• Add support for eth_call over VM2VM messaging
• Add config flags for tx pool behavior

v0.11.4

• Add config option to perform database inspection on startup
• Add configurable transaction indexing to reduce disk usage
• Add special case to allow transactions using Nick's Method to bypass API level replay protection
• Add counter metrics for number of accepted/processed logs
• Improve header and logs caching using maximum accepted depth cache

v0.11.3

• Add counter for number of processed and accepted transactions
• Wait for state sync goroutines to complete on shutdown
• Bump go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.26
• Increase soft cap on transaction size limits
• Add back isForkIncompatible checks for all existing forks
• Clean up Apricot Phase 6 code

v0.11.2

• Add trie clean cache journaling to disk to improve processing time on restart
• Fix regression where snapshot could be marked as stale by async acceptor during block processing
• Add fine-grained block processing metrics

v0.11.1

• Add cache size config parameters for trie-clean-cache, trie-dirty-cache, trie-dirty-commit-target, and snapshot-cache
• Increase default trie-clean-cache size from 256 MB to 512 MB
• Increase default snapshot-cache size from 128 MB to 256 MB
• Add optional flag to skip chain config upgrade check on startup (allows VM to start after missing a network upgrade)
• Make Avalanche blockchainID (separate from EVM ChainID) available within the EVM
• Record block height when performing state sync
• Add support for VM-to-VM messaging
• Move eth_getChainConfig under the BlockChainAPI
• Simplify block builder timer logic to a simple retry delay
• Add Opentelemetry support
• Simplify caching logic for gas price estimation

v0.11.0

• Update Chain Config compatibility check to compare against last accepted block timestamp
• Bump go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.25
• Add Banff activation times for Mainnet and Fuji for October 18 4pm UTC and October 3 2pm UTC respectively
• Banff cleanup

v0.10.0

• Deprecate Native Asset Call and Native Asset Balance
• Deprecate Import/Export of non-AVAX Avalanche Native Tokens via Atomic Transactions
• Add failure reason to bad block API

v0.9.0

• Migrate to go-ethereum v1.10.23
• Add API to fetch Chain Config

v0.8.16

• Fix bug in codeToFetch database accessors that caused an error when starting/stopping state sync
• Bump go-ethereum version to v1.10.21
• Update gas price estimation to limit lookback window based on block timestamps
• Add metrics for processed/accepted gas
• Simplify syntactic block verification
• Ensure statedb errors during block processing are logged
• Remove deprecated gossiper/block building logic from pre-Apricot Phase 4
• Add marshal function for duration to improve config output

v0.8.15

• Add optional JSON logging
• Bump minimum go version to v1.18.1
• Add interface for suppporting stateful precompiles
• Remove legacy code format from the database
• Enable expensive metrics by default
• Fix atomic trie sync bug that could result in storing incorrect metadata
• Update state sync metrics to use counter for number of items received

v0.8.14

• Bump go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.20
• Update API names used to enable services in eth-api config flag. Prior names are supported but deprecated, please update your configuration accordingly
• Optimizes state sync by parallelizing trie syncing
• Adds eth_syncing API for compatibility. Note: This API is only accessible after bootstrapping and always returns "false", since the node will no longer be syncing at that point.
• Adds metrics to atomic transaction mempool
• Adds metrics for incoming/outgoing mempool gossip

v0.8.13

• Bump go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.18
• Parallelize state sync code fetching
• Deprecated CB58 format for API calls

v0.8.12

• Add peer bandwidth tracking to optimize state sync message routing
• Fix leaf request handler bug to ensure the handler delivers a valid range proof
• Remove redundant proof keys from leafs response message format
• Improve state sync request retry logic
• Improve state sync handler metrics
• Improve state sync ETA

v0.8.11

• Improve state sync leaf request serving by optimistically reading leaves from snapshot
• Add acceptor queue within core/blockchain.go
• Cap size of TrieDB dirties cache during block acceptance to reduce commit size at 4096 block interval
• Refactor state sync block fetching
• Improve state sync metrics

v0.8.10

• Add beta support for fast sync
• Bump trie tip buffer size to 32
• Fix bug in metrics initialization

v0.8.9

• Fix deadlock bug on shutdown causing historical re-generation on restart
• Add API endpoint to fetch running VM Config
• Add AvalancheGo custom log formatting to C-Chain logs
• Deprecate support for JS Tracer

v0.8.8

• Reduced log level of snapshot regeneration logs
• Enabled atomic tx replacement with higher gas fees
• Parallelize trie index re-generation

v0.8.7

• Optimize FeeHistory API
• Add protection to prevent accidental corruption of archival node trie index
• Add capability to restore complete trie index on best effort basis
• Round up fastcache sizes to utilize all mmap'd memory in chunks of 64MB

v0.8.6

• Migrate go-ethereum v1.10.16 changes
• Increase FeeHistory maximum historical limit to improve MetaMask UI on C-Chain
• Enable chain state metrics

v0.8.5

• Add support for offline pruning
• Refactor VM networking layer
• Enable metrics by default
• Mark RPC call specific metrics as expensive
• Add Abigen support for native asset call precompile
• Fix bug in BLOCKHASH opcode during traceBlock
• Fix bug in handling updated chain config on startup