This is a major release, containing over 300 PRs. Our original intention was to release 1.11 with path-based storage, but eventually we decided it was time to make the release without waiting for PBSS to be merged, so we can get back to a steady release schedule.
We hope to soon follow up the 1.11 release with 1.12, including PBSS.
Shanghai Upgrade Support
Most of the code for the Shanghai fork is merged into 1.11, but activation of the fork is not configured. The Shanghai protocol upgrade will contain the ability to make withdrawals from the consensus-layer (beacon chain). Withdrawals are specified in EIP-4895: Beacon chain push withdrawals as operations.
Pebble was added as a database backend to replace good old LevelDB.
LevelDB has served us very well over the years, alas, it is a one-person project where the maintainer has signaled that the project is not a priority. We have been forced to consider three options:
Stick with goleveldb as long as we can, don't worry about it,
Fork goleveldb (or some other database), and maintain it ourselves.
Pick a different database, actively maintained by a dedicated team.
Since option one is not really a long-term solution, the choice was between two and three. Maintaining a database is a huge effort, and is not a burden we want to carry. Hence, we have been aiming for option 3, and eventually settled on Pebble.
Pebble is actively maintained by a dedicated team, and is used by other projects. We hope that this is a good long-term bet. It has performed well in our benchmark tests, we are very interested in getting feedback from actual production systems. In order to use pebble,
You need to be on a 64-bit system,
You also need to resync from scratch (with or without ancients) -- there is no migration functionality,
And you need to specify --db.engine=pebble initially. For subsequent runs, geth should discover pebble automatically.
Removed Features
We have removed support for the ropsten and kiln test networks. We have also removed libraries for mobile development and the puppeth tool.
The personal RPC namespace is now deprecated. In order to interact with personal APIs, you need to specifically allow it via the --rpc.enabledeprecatedpersonal command-line flag.
Support for certain legacy files configuration files was dropped. geth now will ignore these datadir files:
static-nodes.json
trusted-nodes.json
If any these are found, an error will be printed to the log. Setups using such files should use to the TOML configuration-file instead.
Backwards-Incompatible Changes
When using geth for mining or as a clique sealer, the --miner.etherbase flag now has to be be set explicitly. Previously, Geth would use the 'first' local account as etherbase automatically, but this possibility has been removed in Geth 1.11.
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Bumps github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum from 1.10.26 to 1.11.0.
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18b641bparams: go-ethereum v1.11.0 stable7fb42e6eth/downloader: handle missing withdrawals if empty list is expected (#26675)5967a22ethdb/pebble: FixMemTableStopWritesThreshold(#26692)dbd6c13eth/catalyst: return error if withdrawals are nil post-shanghai (#26691)101587bp2p/dnsdisc: fix tests with Go 1.20 (#26690)ff38c9eeth/filters: replace atomic pointer with value (#26689)f44ebc4params: update mainnet + rinkeby CHT (#26677)1c5fa40cmd/devp2p: reduce output of node crawler (#26674)03585edtests/fuzzers: supply gnark multiexp config, fixes #26669 (#26670)7d29fffeth/tracers: more fork overrides in traceBlockToFile (#26655)Dependabot will resolve any conflicts with this PR as long as you don't alter it yourself. You can also trigger a rebase manually by commenting
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