Release v1.37.0

Happy December Lodestar users! We just published a recommended maintenance release v1.37.0 for all networks. This release includes a performance fix seen in other Fusaka testnets and also includes a validator client option to disable slot skipping for Obol users (enabled by default when using the --distributed flag).

Both versions, v1.36.0 and v1.37.0 remain compatible for the Fusaka mainnet hard fork on December 3rd.

See you in Fusaka! 🦓

Changelog

Full Changelog

Features

• add validator client option to disable skipping slots (#8631) (@nflaig)
• cache serialized data column sidecars (#8627) (@wemeetagain)
• add Era File Reading and Writing (#8035) (@guha-rahul)
• enable gloas spec tests (#8609) (@ensi321)
• add proposer duties v2 endpoint (#8597) (@nflaig)

Bug Fixes

• compare signature bytes in proposer signature cache check (#8636) (@nflaig)
• verify proposer signatures once per slot (#8620) (@twoeths)

Refactoring

• introduce safe-block to fork-choice (#8618) (@nazarhussain)

Tests

• update web3signer e2e tests to fulu (#8635) (@nflaig)
• improve type check performance (#8611) (@nazarhussain)
• update to vitest 4 to use builtin bun support (#8599) (@nazarhussain)

Maintenance

• v1.37.0 release (#8640) (@philknows)
• ai disclosure on PR template (#8614) (@philknows)
• remove bun:ffi usage across all packages (#8613) (@nazarhussain)
• merge v1.36.0 back to unstable (#8608) (@philknows)
• deps: bump node-forge from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2 in /docs (#8633) (@dependabot[bot])