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Helios 0.9.0 Release Notes

Overview

Helios 0.9.0 brings significant improvements to monitoring capabilities, performance optimizations, architectural enhancements, and modernized tooling support. This release includes a new terminal user interface, pluggable historical block provider system, parallel transaction processing, and comprehensive TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem improvements.

New Features

Terminal User Interface (TUI) #631

  • Introduced a comprehensive terminal user interface accessible with the --tui flag
  • Real-time monitoring of current block numbers (latest, safe, finalized where applicable)
  • Sync status visualization with progress indication
  • Block production metrics including rate and age
  • Recent block history with timestamps in local timezone
  • Detailed block information panel showing block details
  • Network-aware display that adapts based on chain type
  • Auto-refreshing display with 1-second intervals

Pluggable Historical Block Provider System #625

  • New HistoricalBlockProvider trait for pluggable historical block sources
  • EIP-2935 provider for Ethereum/OpStack using verified storage access
  • Linea historical provider moved to linea crate with shared verification logic
  • Enhanced security by removing dependency on untrusted RPC calls
  • Support for block retrieval by both number and hash
  • WASM32 compatibility with conditional async_trait annotations

Block Consistency Validation #624

  • Added block consistency validation to BlockCache
  • Improved reliability of cached block data
  • Enhanced error detection and recovery mechanisms

Nightly Installation Support #638

  • Added --nightly flag to heliosup for installing pre-release builds
  • Enhanced installer to fetch most recent releases including pre-releases
  • Clear indication of stable vs nightly version during installation
  • Maintained backward compatibility with default stable releases

TypeScript/JavaScript Ecosystem Improvements

  • Migration to Vite #616

    • Replaced Webpack with Vite for better developer experience
    • Added ESM bundle support alongside existing UMD
    • Node.js support for both UMD and ESM modules
    • Simplified build configuration

  • NPM Publishing Support #620

    • Prepared helios-ts package for NPM distribution
    • Added automated GitHub workflows for release and publishing
    • Created comprehensive README for the NPM package
    • Updated package.json with proper metadata and configuration

Improved TypeScript Initialization API #635

  • Refactored TypeScript initialization API for better usability
  • Enhanced type safety and developer experience
  • Streamlined configuration options

Custom VM Support #621

  • Refactored architecture to support custom virtual machines
  • Enhanced flexibility for different execution environments
  • Improved modularity and extensibility

Improved Internals #608

  • Various internal improvements for better code organization
  • Enhanced maintainability and performance

Performance Improvements

Parallel Transaction Signature Recovery #634

  • Parallelized CPU-intensive signature recovery operations using rayon
  • Significantly reduced sync delays and block conversion time
  • Dedicated thread pool with 4MB stack size for signature recovery
  • Maintained compatibility with WASM targets using sequential processing

Refactored RPC Equivalence Tests #626

  • Improved test performance and error handling
  • Better organization and maintainability of test suite
  • Enhanced reliability of integration tests

Bug Fixes

WASM Build Fixes

  • Fixed interval import for WASM targets #618
  • Removed spawn_blocking for payload_to_block conversions #636
  • Fixed unused import warnings in WASM builds #637

Infrastructure Updates

Alloy Library Upgrade to v1.0 #628

  • Upgraded Alloy from 0.14.0 to 1.0.3 across all crates
  • Updated related dependencies (alloy-rlp, op-alloy-*)
  • Migrated deprecated methods to new APIs
  • Ensured compatibility across all modules

Dependency Updates #604

  • Bumped alloy, revm, and other core crates
  • Updated to latest stable versions for improved performance and security

Improved Logging System #630

  • Enhanced logging for block updates
  • Better debugging capabilities
  • More informative log messages

URL Type Consistency #629

  • Refactored to use Url type consistently for URL representation
  • Improved type safety and reduced potential errors

Network Support

New Network Support

  • Added Hoodi testnet support #615
  • Enhanced Linea documentation with setup instructions #619

Documentation

  • Added Linea instructions to README #619
  • Fixed broken documentation links #623
  • Updated JSONRPC spec link to latest official documentation #606
  • Fixed general documentation link issues #600

Development Improvements

  • Updated deprecated GitHub Actions from v1 to v4 #613
  • Enhanced CI/CD pipelines for automated releases
  • Improved build processes and tooling

Breaking Changes

  • Alloy v1.0 upgrade may require code updates for projects using deprecated APIs
  • TypeScript initialization API changes may require updates to existing integrations

Migration Guide

For Alloy v1.0:

  • Replace on_client with connect_client
  • Replace on_http with connect_http
  • Add import for SignerRecoverable trait where needed

For TypeScript/JavaScript:

  • Update imports to use new ESM modules if desired
  • Review initialization API changes in #635

Contributors

Thank you to all contributors who made this release possible: Noah Citron, Karen Sarkisyan, Dhruv Agarwal, Aurélien, Joseph Bao, Ragnar, GarmashAlex, MozirDmitriy, David Klank, and Oisín Kyne.

For a complete list of changes, see the comparison between v0.8.8 and v0.9.0.

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