v1.5.1

This is a maintenance release.

Changes:

• Add storage barrier to avoid dirty storage states(#472).
• Set soft-limit for block gaslimit(#473).

v1.5.0

This release will activate the hardfork named ETH_IST, in order to maintain compatibility with the latest Ethereum virtual machine.

All nodes are required to be upgraded ASAP.

The hardfork ETH_IST activation time:

• Testnet: at block # 9146700 ~ Thu, 20 May 2021 08:00:00 GMT
• Mainnet: at block # 9254300 ~ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:00:00 GMT

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Changes:

• add blake2F precompiled contract
• add OP_CHAINID & OP_SELFBALANCE opcodes
• fix ecrecover precompiled contract to not modify input data
• use BIP39 mnemonic for solo accounts

v1.4.0

This is a maintenance release that contains performance improvement and bug fixes.

• Add API subscriptions/beat2 to support variable-length bloom filter(#430)
• Update bn256, fix building failure on architecture ARM64 (#426)
• Update continuous integration system configurations (#427, #431)

v1.3.7

This is a maintenance release that contains performance improvement and bug fixes.

• improve js tracer, add CREATE2 support, return revert reason and others(#397).
• improve the re-schedule condition of packing process(#409)
• cover all branches in VM tracer(#405)
• periodically ping WebSocket client to prevent connection drop in subscription module(#413)

v1.3.6

This release mainly improves performance.

• upgrade leveldb (#383), which greatly increases the mean write speed and reduces the chance of stuck during high write load
• logdb: upgrade go-sqlite (#377)
• logdb: cache query statements (#377)

v1.3.5

This is a maintenance release that contains several features and performance improvements.

• isolate the full-archived instance dir from state-pruned (#371)
• increase the default trie cache size to 2GB (#373)
• asynchronously commit event/transfer logs to speedup block processing (#375)
• upgrade goleveldb and improve trie read performance when state-pruner disabled (#376)

v1.3.4

Notice: Still don't forget that full resynchronization is required if upgrading from versions earlier than v1.3.0.

This is a maintenance release that contains performance improvement and bug fixes.

• Special treatment for locally submitted txs, which will not be dropped in the case of congestion.
• Improve tx broadcast in p2p network.
• Fix: memory leak in p2p/discovery.

v1.3.3

Notice: Still don't forget that full resynchronization is required if upgrading from versions earlier than v1.3.0.

This is a maintenance release.

Changes:

• for customnet: accept bigint in hexadecimal string
• fix a minor bug that in rare cases the master node will ignore better block when receives two or more blocks with the same number almost at the same time
• improve solo in on-demand mode
• allow to query pending tx via GET /transactions/{id}?pending=true
• bump API version to 1.3.2

v1.3.2

Notice: Still don't forget that full resynchronization is required if upgrading from versions earlier than v1.3.0.

This release mainly enhances the API GET /blocks/{rev} by introducing the query option expanded, which allows querying detailed blocks with transactions and receipts embedded.

Additionally, the gas-limit-oracle algorithm is improved.

Get expanded block example

curl http://localhost:8669/blocks/5362401?expanded=true

gives

{
  "number": 5362401,
  ...
  "transactions": [
    {
      "id": "0x1394889a4d736f30fc3e3557aab8d90565161ddf001d908ed5bf708863866a3a",
      ...
      "clauses": [
         ...
      ],
      ...
      "reverted": false,
      "outputs": [
        {
          "events": [
            ...
          ],
          ...
}

v1.3.1

Notice: Don't forget that full resynchronization is required if upgrading from versions earlier than v1.3.0.

This is a maintenance release, which includes performance improvements:

• Upgrade leveldb to avoid getting stuck under heavy workload
• Adjust leveldb options to reduce the number of table files