Release v4.3.0-beta.0

What's Changed

• votor: adjust FirstShred modulo gate to account for unaligned migration by @AshwinSekar in #14228
• deps: update wincode to 0.6 and bump interface crates to match by @kskalski in #14214
• bls_sigverify: tightly bound admitted votes to current window + 40 by @AshwinSekar in #14337
• use a custom pool for async verification by @alessandrod in #14128
• votor: fix bug where we can vote skip on the genesis block by @AshwinSekar in #14358
• accounts-db: batch account lt-hashes during index generation by @kskalski in #13773
• bls-sigverify: removes reallocations for datagrams by @akhi3030 in #14373
• rpc: Make Bigtable open failure a fatal error by @steviez in #14363
• bls-sigverifier: adds some stats by @akhi3030 in #14374
• votor: account for group identity in base 4 certificates by @AshwinSekar in #14390
• Sets default incremental snapshot interval to 200 slots by @brooksprumo in #14350
• block id repair: enforce strict proof size check for FecSetRoot by @AshwinSekar in #14359
• Default Minimal index mode to threshold by @roryharr in #14354
• bls sigverify: reduce ban timeout to 10 secs by @AshwinSekar in #13524
• Adding tombstones during flush by @roryharr in #14322
• accounts-db: Removes SortedStorages by @brooksprumo in #14398
• block id repair: only compare the first 20 bytes of fec set roots by @AshwinSekar in #14360
• core: parallelize banking stage ingress checks by @apfitzge in #14129
• votor-transport: make set_identity block until success by @alexpyattaev in #14391
• votor: robust exit by @alexpyattaev in #14389
• votor-transport: close conn when data is sent wrong direction by @gregcusack in #14407
• validator: remove deprecated --tpu-connection-pool-size cli argument by @alexpyattaev in #14366
• Refactor EntryBytesBudget::reserve by @plafer in #14172
• ag: fix startup replay rooting by @AshwinSekar in #14418
• Fake future parent by @bw-solana in #14408
• bls-sigverify: verify batches of votes in parallel by @akhi3030 in #14380
• votor: reject staked to staked set-identity by @gregcusack in #14396
• feat(accountsdb): use wincode (through StateMutWincode) for account serialization by @kskalski in #14429
• UpdateParent boundary dead by @bw-solana in #14443
• alpenglow: do not advance credits_observed for inactive stakes by @2501babe in #14441
• votor: clear stale state on set-identity by @AshwinSekar in #14450
• Do not accept AG reward certs for tower slots by @akhi3030 in #14430
• bcl: reset entry bytes budget on sad FLH by @AshwinSekar in #14449
• bcl: fix sad handover when switching between duplicate blocks by @AshwinSekar in #14447
• migration: fix hashes per tick bug by @AshwinSekar in #14451
• votor: only write bank hash details if block was finalized by @AshwinSekar in #14456
• votor: bump prealloc limit for vote history by @AshwinSekar in #14459
• feat: use wincode (through StateMutWincode) for account serialization by @kskalski in #14415
• Revert - #13894 (Global program cache entry pruning) by @Lichtso in #14442
• feat(svm): use wincode (through StateMutWincode) for account serialization by @kskalski in #14411
• Adds a manager thread for the async accounts lt hash updates by @brooksprumo in #14073
• Sets Clock::epoch_start_timestamp correctly on epoch boundaries by @akhi3030 in #14469
• replay: defer switch bank during leader window by @AshwinSekar in #14481
• transaction types: prep for ALT relaxation by @2501babe in #14446
• program-runtime: increase program cache depth to 1024 by @buffalojoec in #14482
• Remove minimal index option by @roryharr in #14437
• Defer tombstoning zero lamport entries to clean by @roryharr in #14431
• repair: reuse pinnable slices by @alessandrod in #14470
• votor-transport: allow more inflight handshakes by @alexpyattaev in #14464
• Solana SBPF v0.23.0 by @Lichtso in #14487
• blockstore: only mark slot dead for Original column by @AshwinSekar in #14488
• gossip purge duration by @bw-solana in #14455
• votor-transport: scale MAX_INCOMING with number of endpoints by @alexpyattaev in #14439
• svm: slot-based criteria for program cache extract by @buffalojoec in #14484
• blockstore: avoid allocations/page faults by reusing pinnable slices by @alessandrod in #14489
• Revert "replace reserve/refund with track-with-actual-cost in banking-stage (#12986)" by @apfitzge in #14504
• votor-transport: allow unstaked participation by @alexpyattaev in #14440
• xdp: support per-module transmit queue subsets by @efagerho in #14364
• rpc: update health check for alpenglow by @AshwinSekar in #14483
• progress-tracker: alpenglow compatibility by @apfitzge in #14323
• streamer: evict QUIC connections from peers that lost their stake by @stablebits in #14466
• Remove zero lamport single ref by @roryharr in #14495
• rm TCP server in BanksServer by @alexpyattaev in #12056

New Contributors

• @SashaMIT made their first contribution in #14336
• @plafer made their first contribution in #14172

Full Changelog: v4.3.0-alpha.3...v4.3.0-beta.0