v1.1.1-rc1

v1.1.1-rc1 - 2024-09-17

This is a non-urgent, patch release, which introduces a fix for Gnosis/Chiado chains, as well as a few minor fixes for the CI pipeline.

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1-rc1

Features

• core/validatorapi: workaround for Gnosis proposals
• *: enable gnosis hotfix automatically

Bugfixes

• *: fix flaky testpeers test #3267
• cmd: increase testpeers tests timeouts #3268
• cmd: fix test peers out of range #3280
• testutil: update docker-compose command to docker compose

Compatibility Matrix

This release of Charon is backwards compatible with Charon v1.0.0 - v1.1.0. DKGs need to be completed with clients on the same minor release.

The below matrix details a combination of beacon node + validator clients and their corresponding versions the DV Labs team have tested with this Charon release. More validator and consensus client will be added to this list as they are supported in our automated testing framework.

Legend

• ✅: All duties succeed in testing
• 🟡: All duties succeed in testing, except non-penalised aggregation duties
• 🟠: Duties may fail for this combination
• 🔴: One or more duties fails consistently

Consensus 👇 Validator 👉	Teku v24.8.0	Lighthouse v5.3.01	Lodestar v1.20.2	Nimbus v24.7.0	Prysm 5.1.0	Remarks
Teku v24.8.0	🟡	🟡	✅	✅	🟠	Teku bn needs the --validators-graffiti-client-append-format=DISABLED flag in order to produce blocks properly. Teku vc are only failing aggregation duties 50% of the time, which are not directly penalised but impact network density at high scale.
Lighthouse v5.3.0	🟡	🟡	✅	✅	🟠	Lighthouse vc are only failing aggregation duties, which are not directly penalised but impact network density at high scale.
Nimbus v24.7.0	🟡	🟡	✅	✅	✅	Nimbus beacon nodes requires that you add the following flag to charon run: charon run --feature-set-enable=json_requests
Prysm v5.1.0	🟡	🟡	✅	✅	✅
Lodestar v1.20.2	🟡	🟡	✅	✅	🔴

1. sync committee and aggregator duties are not yet supported in a DV setup by Lighthouse, all other duties work as expected. ↩