v1.33

[rotilho]

1.33 Release Notes

Highlights

• Upgraded to Java 25, Spring Boot 4.1.0, Gradle 9.5.1, GraalVM build tools 1.1.2, Ktor 3.5.1, Springdoc 3.0.3, and commons 6.8.1.
• POST /transactions now waits for confirmation and returns the confirmed transaction.
• Added deduplicate support for transaction publishing.
• Improved transaction, signer, election, and native-image observability.
• Hardened peer admission, handshake callbacks, peer URI validation, and protocol ingress validation.
• Reworked election/vote persistence to reduce deadlocks, retry bounded failures, and clean stale votes.

API And Runtime

• POST /transactions and /transactions/stream now share the same confirmation flow.
• Publish responses now distinguish confirmed, rejected, dropped, and expired transactions.
• ALREADY_CONFIRMED is treated as a successful publish result.
• Transaction rebroadcasting now still happens when validation completes before sender tracking is available.

Election, Votes, And DB

• Added bounded retry/backoff for election processing.
• Prevented duplicate pending elections and ignored votes while consensus persistence is pending.
• Improved vote freshness tracking with persisted last_vote_timestamp.
• Added stale vote block recording, startup reconciliation, stale vote deletion, and stale marker cleanup.
• Added migrations:
  • V7: enforce non-null transaction timestamps
  • V8: add/backfill transaction block_type
  • V9: rebuild weights with last_vote_timestamp
  • V10: add stale_vote_block

Network And Protocol

• Added stricter peer URI validation for scheme, host, path/query/fragment, loopback/private hosts, and allowlisted default nodes.
• Routed inbound handshakes/websockets through Guardian admission.
• Banned peers now get 403; rate-limited peers get 429.
• Tightened validation for keep-alive neighbours, transaction requests, and transaction stream ranges.
• Added broader protocol ingress tests.

Observability

• Added signer latency metric: signer.signature.latency.
• Added transaction pipeline latency by stage/type: transactions.pipeline.latency.
• Added transaction rejected/dropped counters.
• Added active election and election processor buffer/batch metrics.

Build, CI, Docs

• CI now uses GraalVM Java 25.
• Native image builds use committed reachability metadata.
• Native image min heap is set to 400m.
• Added README instructions for regenerating native metadata.
• Added NETWORK.md and TRANSACTION-PROCESSING.md.
• Removed the old image cleanup workflow.

Full Changelog: v1.32...v1.33

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