release: prepare for release v1.5.5 #2875
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Description
It is a hard fork release to support BSC Pascal on BSC testnet, which includes 5 BEPs:
Most of these BEPs are compatible with Ethereum Praque hard fork. The behavior of EIP-2537, EIP-2935, EIP-7702, EIP-7623 on BSC would be same as Ethereum. And for EIP-7685, as BSC does not have the consensus layer, it reserves the new element in block header.
It is only for BSC testnet, so mainnet node can skip this version. And it is quite easy to upgrade to v1.5.5 from v1.4.x or v1.5.x, simply do binary replacement would be enough.
Changes
v1.5.5 mainly did a upstream code sync, it catches up to Geth of date around 5th-Feb-2025 to sync the latest Praque hard fork changes, see: #2856
Besides the code sync, there are a few improvement PRs of BSC:
IMPROVEMENT