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This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 15.

LevelDB

• Fix rapid disk growth by manually specifying the maximum manifest file size

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged. The supported plugin version is 15.

PlatformVM

• Replaced copy-on-write validator set data-structure to use tree diffs to optimize validator set additions
• Replaced validation transactions with a standardized representation to remove transaction type handling
• Migrated transaction execution to its own package
• Removed child pointers from processing blocks
• Added P-chain wallet helper for providing initial transactions

Coreth

• Bumped go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.20
• Updated API names used to enable services in eth-api config flag. Prior names are supported but deprecated, please update configurations accordingly
• Optimized state sync by parallelizing trie syncing
• Added eth_syncing API for compatibility. Note: This API is only accessible after bootstrapping and always returns "false", since the node will no longer be syncing at that point
• Added metrics to the atomic transaction mempool
• Added metrics for incoming/outgoing mempool gossip

Fixes

• Updated Snowman and Avalanche consensus engines to report original container preferences before processing the provided container
• Fixed inbound message byte throttler context cancellation cleanup
• Removed case sensitivity of IP resolver services
• Added failing health check when a whitelisted subnet fails to initialize a chain

Miscellaneous

• Added gRPC client metrics for dynamically created connections
• Added uninitialized continuous time averager for when initial predictions are unreliable
• Updated linter version
• Documented various platform invariants
• Cleaned up various dead parameters
• Improved various tests

This version is backwards compatible to v1.7.0. It is optional, but encouraged.

APIs

These API format changes are breaking changes. https://api.avax.network and https://api.avax-test.network have been updated with this format. If you are using AvalancheGo APIs in your code, please ensure you have updated to the latest versions. See https://docs.avax.network/apis/avalanchego/cb58-deprecation for details about the CB58 removal.

• Removed CB58 as an encoding option from all APIs
• Added HexC and HexNC as encoding options for all APIs that accept an encoding format
• Removed the Success response from all APIs
• Replaced containerID with id in the indexer API

PlatformVM

• Fixed incorrect P-chain height in Snowman++ when staking is disabled
• Moved platformvm transactions to be defined in a sub-package
• Moved platformvm genesis management to be defined in a sub-package
• Moved platformvm state to be defined in a sub-package
• Standardized platformvm transactions to always be referenced via pointer
• Moved the platformvm transaction builder to be defined in a sub-package
• Fixed uptime rounding during node shutdown

Coreth

• Bumped go-ethereum dependency to v1.10.18
• Parallelized state sync code fetching

Networking

• Updated Connected and Disconnected messages to only be sent to chains if the peer is tracking the subnet
• Updated the minimum TLS version on the p2p network to v1.3
• Supported context cancellation in the networking rate limiters
• Added ChitsV2 message format for the p2p network to be used in a future upgrade

Miscellaneous

• Fixed --public-ip-resolution-frequency invalid overwrite of the resolution service
• Added additional metrics to distinguish between virtuous and rogue currently processing transactions
• Suppressed the super cool avalanchego banner when stdout is not directed to a terminal
• Updated linter version
• Improved various comments and documentation
• Standardized primary network handling across subnet maps