github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 19.

Tracing

• Added context.Context to all VM interface functions
• Added context.Context to the validators.State interface
• Added additional message fields to tracedRouter#HandleInbound
• Added tracedVM implementations for block.ChainVM and vertex.DAGVM
• Added tracedState implementation for validators.State
• Added tracedHandler implementation for http.Handler
• Added tracedConsensus implementations for snowman.Consensus and avalanche.Consensus

Fixes

• Fixed incorrect NodeID used in registered AppRequest timeouts
• Fixed panic when calling encdb#NewBatch after encdb#Close
• Fixed panic when calling prefixdb#NewBatch after prefixdb#Close

Configs

• Added proposerMinBlockDelay support to subnet configs
• Added providedFlags field to the initializing node for easily observing custom node configs
• Added --chain-aliases-file and --chain-aliases-file-content CLI flags
• Added --proposervm-use-current-height CLI flag

Coreth

• Added metric for number of processed and accepted transactions
• Added wait for state sync goroutines to complete on shutdown
• Increased go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.26
• Increased soft cap on transaction size limits
• Added back isForkIncompatible checks for all existing forks
• Cleaned up Apricot Phase 6 code

Linting

• Added unused-receiver linter
• Added unused-parameter linter
• Added useless-break linter
• Added unhandled-error linter
• Added unexported-naming linter
• Added struct-tag linter
• Added bool-literal-in-expr linter
• Added early-return linter
• Added empty-lines linter
• Added error-lint linter

Testing

• Added scripts/build_fuzz.sh and initial fuzz tests
• Added additional Fx tests
• Added additional messageQueue tests
• Fixed vmRegisterer tests

Documentation

• Documented Database.Put invariant for nil and empty slices
• Documented avalanchego's versioning scheme
• Improved vm.proto docs

Miscellaneous

• Added peer gossip tracker
• Added avalanche_P_vm_time_until_unstake and avalanche_P_vm_time_until_unstake_subnet metrics
• Added keychain.NewLedgerKeychainFromIndices
• Removed usage of Temporary error handling after listener#Accept
• Removed Parameters from all Consensus interfaces
• Updated avalanche-network-runner to v1.3.0
• Added ids.BigBitSet to extend ids.BitSet64 for arbitrarily large sets
• Added support for parsing future subnet uptime tracking data to the P-chain's state implementation
• Increased validator set cache size
• Added avax.UTXOIDFromString helper for managing UTXOIDs more easily

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 19.

Coreth

• Added trie clean cache journaling to disk to improve processing time after restart
• Fixed regression where a snapshot could be marked as stale by the async acceptor during block processing
• Added fine-grained block processing metrics

RPCChainVM

• Added validators.State to the rpcchainvm server's snow.Context
• Added rpcProtocolVersion to the output of info.getNodeVersion
• Added rpcchainvm protocol version to the output of the --version flag
• Added version.RPCChainVMProtocolCompatibility map to easily compare plugin compatibility against avalanchego versions

Builds

• Downgraded ubuntu release binaries from jammy to focal
• Updated macos github runners to macos-12
• Added workflow dispatch to build release binaries

BLS

• Added bls proof of possession to platform.getCurrentValidators and platform.getPendingValidators
• Added bls public key to in-memory staker objects
• Improved memory clearing of bls secret keys

Cleanup

• Fixed issue where the chain manager would attempt to start chain creation multiple times
• Fixed race that caused the P-chain to finish bootstrapping before the primary network finished bootstrapping
• Converted inbound message handling to expect usage of types rather than maps of fields
• Simplified the validators.Set implementation
• Added a warning if synchronous consensus messages take too long

This version is backwards compatible to v1.9.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 18.

Features

• Added cross-chain messaging support to the VM interface
• Added Ledger support to the Primary Network wallet
• Converted Bionic builds to Jammy builds
• Added mock.gen.sh to programmatically generate mock implementations
• Added BLS signer to the snow.Context
• Moved base from rpc.NewEndpointRequester to be included in the method in SendRequest
• Converted UnboundedQueue to UnboundedDeque

Observability

• Added support for OpenTelemetry tracing
• Converted periodic bootstrapping status update to be time-based
• Removed duplicated fields from the json format of the node config
• Configured min connected stake health check based on the consensus parameters
• Added new consensus metrics
• Documented how chain time is advanced in the PlatformVM with chain_time_update.md

Cleanup

• Converted chain creation to be handled asynchronously from the P-chain's execution environment
• Removed SetLinger usage of P2P TCP connections
• Removed Banff upgrade flow
• Fixed ProposerVM inner block caching after verification
• Fixed PlatformVM mempool verification to use an updated chain time
• Removed deprecated CLI flags: --dynamic-update-duration, --dynamic-public-ip
• Added unexpected Put bytes tests to the Avalanche and Snowman consensus engines
• Removed mockery generated mock implementations
• Converted safe math functions to use generics where possible
• Added linting to prevent usage of assert in unit tests
• Converted empty struct usage to nil for interface compliance checks
• Added CODEOWNERs to own first rounds of PR review