Description

Release v1.1.12 is a performance release. the following two features are introduced in this release.

1. Separate Processing and State Verification.
2. Pruning AncientDB inline at runtime.

Separate Processing and State Verification

Separate Processing and State Verification is introduced in #926. it introduces two type nodes to make full use of different storage, one is named fast node, and the other is named verify node. The fast node will do block processing with snapshot, it will do all verification against blocks except state root. The verify node receives diffhash from the fast node and then responds MPT root to the fast node.

If you want to use this feature, See more details here

Pruning AncientDB inline at runtime

A new flag is introduced to prune ancient undesired block data at runtime, it will discard block, receipt, header in the ancient DB to save space.

Example: geth --config ./config.toml --datadir ./node --cache 8000 --rpc.allow-unprotected-txs --txlookuplimit 0 --puneancient.

Note: once turned on, the ancient data will not be recovered again

Command Changes

After merging the Ethereum version, some Flag parameters have changed, please refer to the following list.

Removed

1. --yolov3
2. --vm.ewasm
3. --vm.evm
4. --rpc (use --http)
5. --rpcaddr (use --http.addr)
6. --rpccorsdomain (use --http.port)
7. --rpcvhosts(use --http.corsdomain)
8. --rpcapi (use --http.vhosts)

Added

1. --dev.gaslimit Initial block gas limit
2. --sepolia Sepolia network: pre-configured proof-of-work test network
3. --override.arrowglacier Manually specify Arrow Glacier fork-block, overriding the bundled setting
4. --override.terminaltotaldifficulty Manually specify TerminalTotalDifficulty, overriding the bundled setting
5. --rpc.evmtimeout Sets a timeout used for eth_call (0=infinite)
6. --gpo.ignoreprice Gas price below which gpo will ignore transactions
7. --metrics.influxdbv2 Enable metrics export/push to an external InfluxDB v2 database
8. --metrics.influxdb.token Token to authorize access to the database (v2 only)
9. --metrics.influxdb.bucket InfluxDB bucket name to push reported metrics to (v2 only)
10. --metrics.influxdb.organization InfluxDB organization name (v2 only)

Changed

1. --syncemode removed the fast mode

Rationale

N/A

Example

N/A

Changes

FEATURE

• #862 Pruning AncientDB inline at runtime
• #926 Separate Processing and State Verification on BSC

IMPROVEMENT

• #816 merge go-ethereum v1.10.15
• #950 code optimizations for state prefetcher
• #972 redesign triePrefetcher to make it thread safe
• #998 update dockerfile with a few enhancement
• #1015 disable noisy logs since system transaction will cause gas capping

BUGFIX

• #932 fix account root was not set correctly when committing mpt during pipeline commit
• #953 correct logic for eip check of NewEVMInterpreter
• #958 define DiscReason as uint8
• #959 update some packages' version
• #983 fix nil pointer issue when stopping mining new block
• #1002 Fix pipecommit active statedb
• #1005 freezer batch compatible offline prunblock command
• #1007 missing contract upgrades and incorrect behavior when miners enable pipecommit
• #1009 resolve the concurrent cache read and write issue for fast node
• #1011 Incorrect merkle root issue when enabling pipecommit with miner
• #1013 tools broken because of writting metadata when open a readyonly db
• #1014 fast node can not recover from force kill or panic
• #1019 memory leak issue with diff protocol
• #1020 remove diffhash patch introduced from separate node
• #1024 verify node is not treated as verify node