24.3.0
24.3.0
24.3.0 is Dencun-fork-ready for Ethereum Mainnet, which happens on March 13th! Please make sure to upgrade your node to at least version 24.1.2 before that time, or your node will no longer follow the chain. This is a large release with many breaking changes to Besu configurations. Please carefully read the following notes before you update your node.
Besu now has new, sensible defaults for public networks. BONSAI and SNAP are now default, so check your configuration if you are NOT using these as you upgrade. The database also more gracefully exits when starting up with the other storage format.
Bonsai is also getting an upgrade to reduce overall storage usage! With a new option to limit accumulation of trie logs, you should save 3GB on state growth per week, with an option to remove old trie logs from your database. See this PR for more details #5390. There are a few other improvements to reduce Besu's size on disk when using Bonsai.
With this version, QBFT now supports Shanghai OpCodes and contracts! Besu now also includes an option to restrict downgrades. This can be enabled in your config.
Lastly, this version includes several performance improvements to the EVM and execution performance, as well as memory usage improvements in the high-spec flag. There are new APIs for Dencun and several bug fixes. See the notes below for more details.
Breaking Changes
- SNAP - Snap sync is now the default for named networks #6530
- if you want to use the previous default behavior, you'll need to specify
--sync-mode=FAST
- if you want to use the previous default behavior, you'll need to specify
- BONSAI - Default data storage format is now Bonsai #6536
- if you had previously used the default (FOREST), at startup you will get an error indicating the mismatch
Mismatch: DB at '/your-path' is FOREST (Version 1) but config expects BONSAI (Version 2). Please check your config.
- to fix this mismatch, specify the format explicitly using
--data-storage-format=FOREST
- if you had previously used the default (FOREST), at startup you will get an error indicating the mismatch
- Following the OpenMetrics convention, the updated Prometheus client adds the
_total
suffix to every metrics of type counter, with the effect that some existing metrics have been renamed to have this suffix. If you are using the official Besu Grafana dashboard (available here), just update it to the latest revision, that accepts the old and the new name of the affected metrics. If you have a custom dashboard or use the metrics in other ways, then you need to manually update it to support the new naming. - The
trace-filter
method in JSON-RPC API now has a default block range limit of 1000, adjustable with--rpc-max-trace-filter-range
(thanks @alyokaz) #6446 - Requesting the Ethereum Node Record (ENR) to acquire the fork id from bonded peers is now enabled by default, so the following change has been made #5628:
--Xfilter-on-enr-fork-id
has been removed. To disable the feature use--filter-on-enr-fork-id=false
.--engine-jwt-enabled
has been removed. Use--engine-jwt-disabled
instead. #6491
Deprecations
- X_SNAP and X_CHECKPOINT are marked for deprecation and will be removed in 24.6.0 in favor of SNAP and CHECKPOINT #6405
--Xp2p-peer-lower-bound
is deprecated. #6501
Upcoming Breaking Changes
- In a future release,
--Xbonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled
will be renamed to--bonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled
instead. Additionally, this limit will change to be enabled by default.- If you do not want the limit enabled (eg you have
--bonsai-historical-block-limit
set < 512), you need to explicitly disable it using--Xbonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled=false
or increase the limit.
- If you do not want the limit enabled (eg you have
Additions and Improvements
eth_call
andeth_feeHistory
add blob fields #6681- Improves block processing performance by precalculating transactions' sender #6375 and optimizing Keccak hash calculations for account storage slots during the commit phase#6452.
- Upgrade Prometheus and Opentelemetry dependencies #6422
- Add
OperationTracer.tracePrepareTransaction
, where the sender account has not yet been altered#6453 - Improve the high spec flag by limiting it to a few column families #6354
- Log blob count when importing a block via Engine API #6466
- Introduce
--Xbonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled
experimental feature which by default will only retain the latest 512 trie logs, saving about 3GB per week in database growth #5390- See https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/BESU/Limit+Trie+Logs+for+Bonsai for more info
- Introduce
besu storage x-trie-log prune
experimental offline subcommand which will prune all redundant trie logs except the latest 512 #6303- See https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/BESU/Limit+Trie+Logs+for+Bonsai for more info
- Improve flat trace generation performance #6472
- SNAP and CHECKPOINT sync - early access flag removed so now simply SNAP and CHECKPOINT #6405
- X_SNAP and X_CHECKPOINT are marked for deprecation and will be removed in 24.6.0
- Github Actions based build.
- Introduce caching mechanism to optimize Keccak hash calculations for account storage slots during block processing #6452
- Added configuration options for
pragueTime
to genesis file for Prague fork development #6473 - Moving trielog storage to RocksDB's blobdb to improve write amplications #6289
- Support for
shanghaiTime
fork and Shanghai EVM smart contracts in QBFT/IBFT chains #6353 - Change ExecutionHaltReason for contract creation collision case to return ILLEGAL_STATE_CHANGE #6518
- Experimental feature
--Xbonsai-code-using-code-hash-enabled
for storing Bonsai code storage by code hash #6505 - More accurate column size
storage rocksdb usage
subcommand #6540 - Adds
storage rocksdb x-stats
subcommand #6540 - New
eth_blobBaseFee
JSON-RPC method #6581 - Upgrade reference tests to version 13.1 #6574
- Extend
BesuConfiguration
service #6584 - Add
ethereum_min_gas_price
andethereum_min_priority_fee
metrics to track runtime values ofmin-gas-price
andmin-priority-fee
#6587 - Option to perform version incompatibility checks when starting Besu. In this first release of the feature, if
--version-compatibility-protection
is set to true it checks that the version of Besu being started is the same or higher than the previous version. 6307 - Moved account frame warming from GasCalculator into the Call operations #6557
Bug fixes
- Fix the way an advertised host configured with
--p2p-host
is treated when communicating with the originator of a PING packet #6225 - Fix
poa-block-txs-selection-max-time
option that was inadvertently reset to its default after being configured #6444 - Fix for tx incorrectly discarded when there is a timeout during block creation #6563
- Fix traces so that call gas costing in traces matches other clients traces #6525
New Contributors
- @alyokaz made their first contribution in #6446
- @Brindrajsinh-Chauhan made their first contribution in #6587
Full Changelog: 24.1.2...24.3.0
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