24.3.3

24.3.3 - P2P Blob Transaction Hotfix

24.3.3 is a recommended hotfix for mainnet, sepolia and holesky users, especially if your peer numbers are currently low.

• Fix to avoid broadcasting full blob txs which can cause peers to disconnect (particularly Geth) (#6835)

Full Changelog: 24.3.0...24.3.3

Note: 24.3.1 and 24.3.2 were skipped due to a bug in the release process.
Release 24.4.0 is still being worked on.

Download Info

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Docker

docker pull docker.io/hyperledger/besu:24.3.3

24.3.1 - 24.3.2 - SKIPPED

24.3.1 and 24.3.2 were scrapped due to a bug in the release process

Download Info

No sha for 24.3.1 because binaries were deleted. The docker tags still exist since Rockpool pulled in 24.3.1 before we noticed the mistake.

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24.3.0

24.3.0

24.3.0 is Dencun-fork-ready for Ethereum Mainnet, which happens on March 13th! Please make sure to upgrade your node to at least version 24.1.2 before that time, or your node will no longer follow the chain. This is a large release with many breaking changes to Besu configurations. Please carefully read the following notes before you update your node.

Besu now has new, sensible defaults for public networks. BONSAI and SNAP are now default, so check your configuration if you are NOT using these as you upgrade. The database also more gracefully exits when starting up with the other storage format.

Bonsai is also getting an upgrade to reduce overall storage usage! With a new option to limit accumulation of trie logs, you should save 3GB on state growth per week, with an option to remove old trie logs from your database. See this PR for more details #5390. There are a few other improvements to reduce Besu's size on disk when using Bonsai.

With this version, QBFT now supports Shanghai OpCodes and contracts! Besu now also includes an option to restrict downgrades. This can be enabled in your config.

Lastly, this version includes several performance improvements to the EVM and execution performance, as well as memory usage improvements in the high-spec flag. There are new APIs for Dencun and several bug fixes. See the notes below for more details.

Breaking Changes

• SNAP - Snap sync is now the default for named networks #6530
  • if you want to use the previous default behavior, you'll need to specify --sync-mode=FAST
• BONSAI - Default data storage format is now Bonsai #6536
  • if you had previously used the default (FOREST), at startup you will get an error indicating the mismatch
    Mismatch: DB at '/your-path' is FOREST (Version 1) but config expects BONSAI (Version 2). Please check your config.
  • to fix this mismatch, specify the format explicitly using --data-storage-format=FOREST
• Following the OpenMetrics convention, the updated Prometheus client adds the _total suffix to every metrics of type counter, with the effect that some existing metrics have been renamed to have this suffix. If you are using the official Besu Grafana dashboard (available here), just update it to the latest revision, that accepts the old and the new name of the affected metrics. If you have a custom dashboard or use the metrics in other ways, then you need to manually update it to support the new naming.
• The trace-filter method in JSON-RPC API now has a default block range limit of 1000, adjustable with --rpc-max-trace-filter-range (thanks @alyokaz) #6446
• Requesting the Ethereum Node Record (ENR) to acquire the fork id from bonded peers is now enabled by default, so the following change has been made #5628:
• --Xfilter-on-enr-fork-id has been removed. To disable the feature use --filter-on-enr-fork-id=false.
• --engine-jwt-enabled has been removed. Use --engine-jwt-disabled instead. #6491

Deprecations

• X_SNAP and X_CHECKPOINT are marked for deprecation and will be removed in 24.6.0 in favor of SNAP and CHECKPOINT #6405
• --Xp2p-peer-lower-bound is deprecated. #6501

Upcoming Breaking Changes

• In a future release, --Xbonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled will be renamed to --bonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled instead. Additionally, this limit will change to be enabled by default.
  • If you do not want the limit enabled (eg you have --bonsai-historical-block-limit set < 512), you need to explicitly disable it using --bonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled=false or increase the limit. #6561

Additions and Improvements

• eth_call and eth_feeHistory add blob fields #6681
• Improves block processing performance by precalculating transactions' sender #6375 and optimizing Keccak hash calculations for account storage slots during the commit phase#6452.
• Upgrade Prometheus and Opentelemetry dependencies #6422
• Add OperationTracer.tracePrepareTransaction, where the sender account has not yet been altered#6453
• Improve the high spec flag by limiting it to a few column families #6354
• Log blob count when importing a block via Engine API #6466
• Introduce --Xbonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled experimental feature which by default will only retain the latest 512 trie logs, saving about 3GB per week in database growth #5390
  • See https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/BESU/Limit+Trie+Logs+for+Bonsai for more info
• Introduce besu storage x-trie-log prune experimental offline subcommand which will prune all redundant trie logs except the latest 512 #6303
  • See https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/BESU/Limit+Trie+Logs+for+Bonsai for more info
• Improve flat trace generation performance #6472
• SNAP and CHECKPOINT sync - early access flag removed so now simply SNAP and CHECKPOINT #6405
• X_SNAP and X_CHECKPOINT are marked for deprecation and will be removed in 24.6.0
• Github Actions based build.
• Introduce caching mechanism to optimize Keccak hash calculations for account storage slots during block processing #6452
• Added configuration options for pragueTime to genesis file for Prague fork development #6473
• Moving trielog storage to RocksDB's blobdb to improve write amplications #6289
• Support for shanghaiTime fork and Shanghai EVM smart contracts in QBFT/IBFT chains #6353
• Change ExecutionHaltReason for contract creation collision case to return ILLEGAL_STATE_CHANGE #6518
• Experimental feature --Xbonsai-code-using-code-hash-enabled for storing Bonsai code storage by code hash #6505
• More accurate column size storage rocksdb usage subcommand #6540
• Adds storage rocksdb x-stats subcommand #6540
• New eth_blobBaseFeeJSON-RPC method #6581
• Upgrade reference tests to version 13.1 #6574
• Extend BesuConfiguration service #6584
• Add ethereum_min_gas_price and ethereum_min_priority_fee metrics to track runtime values of min-gas-price and min-priority-fee #6587
• Option to perform version incompatibility checks when starting Besu. In this first release of the feature, if --version-compatibility-protection is set to true it checks that the version of Besu being started is the same or higher than the previous version. 6307
• Moved account frame warming from GasCalculator into the Call operations #6557

Bug fixes

• Fix the way an advertised host configured with --p2p-host is treated when communicating with the originator of a PING packet #6225
• Fix poa-block-txs-selection-max-time option that was inadvertently reset to its default after being configured #6444
• Fix for tx incorrectly discarded when there is a timeout during block creation #6563
• Fix traces so that call gas costing in traces matches other clients traces #6525

New Contributors

• @alyokaz made their first contribution in #6446
• @Brindrajsinh-Chauhan made their first contribution in #6587

Full Changelog: 24.1.2...24.3.0

Download Info

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41ea2ca734a3b377f43ee178166b5b809827084789378dbbe4e5b52bbd8e0674 besu-24.3.0.zip

docker pull docker.io/hyperledger/besu:24.3.0

24.1.2

24.1.2 - Besu is Dencun Ready

This release is the minimum version that is required for the upcoming Ethereum Mainnet Dencun upgrade on March 13th. You must upgrade to this version (or greater) before then, or your node will no longer follow the chain. This is also a required version for Besu nodes on Ethereum Classic. This release does not contain other fixes or improvements. We plan on releasing more fixes, improvements, and features in our next release.

• Fix ETC Spiral upgrade breach of consensus #6524
• Adds timestamp to enable Cancun upgrade on mainnet #6545

Full Changelog: 24.1.1...24.1.2

Download Links
https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/24.1.2/besu-24.1.2.zip sha256 9033f300edd81c770d3aff27a29f59dd4b6142a113936886a8f170718e412971

https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/24.1.2/besu-24.1.2.tar.gz sha256 082db8cf4fb67527aa0dd757e5d254b3b497f5027c23287f9c0a74a6a743bf08

Release 24.1.1

24.1.1

Breaking Changes

• New EXECUTION_HALTED error returned if there is an error executing or simulating a transaction, with the reason for execution being halted. Replaces the generic INTERNAL_ERROR return code in certain cases which some applications may be checking for #6343
• The Besu Docker images with openjdk-latest tags since 23.10.3 were incorrectly using UID 1001 instead of 1000 for the container's besu user. The user now uses 1000 again. Containers created from or migrated to images using UID 1001 will need to chown their persistent database files to UID 1000 #6360 - thanks @h4l
• The deprecated --privacy-onchain-groups-enabled option has now been removed. Use the --privacy-flexible-groups-enabled option instead. #6411
• The time that can be spent selecting transactions during block creation is not capped at 5 seconds for PoS and PoW networks, and for PoA networks, at 75% of the block period specified in the genesis, this to prevent possible DoS in case a single transaction is taking too long to execute, and to have a stable block production rate, but it could be a breaking change if an existing network used to have transactions that takes more time to executed that the newly introduced limit, if it is mandatory for these network to keep processing these long processing transaction, then the default value of block-txs-selection-max-time or poa-block-txs-selection-max-time needs to be tuned accordingly. #6423

Deprecations

Additions and Improvements

• Optimize RocksDB WAL files, allows for faster restart and a more linear disk space utilization #6328
• Disable transaction handling when the node is not in sync, to avoid unnecessary transaction validation work #6302
• Introduce TransactionEvaluationContext to pass data between transaction selectors and plugin, during block creation #6381
• Upgrade dependencies #6377
• Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson dependencies #6378
• Upgrade Guava dependency #6396
• Upgrade Mockito #6397
• Upgrade tech.pegasys.discovery:discovery #6414
• Options to tune the max allowed time that can be spent selecting transactions during block creation are now stable #6423

Bug fixes

• INTERNAL_ERROR from eth_estimateGas JSON/RPC calls #6344
• Fix Besu Docker images with openjdk-latest tags since 23.10.3 using UID 1001 instead of 1000 for the besu user #6360 - thanks @h4l
• Fluent EVM API definition for Tangerine Whistle had incorrect code size validation configured #6382
• Correct mining beneficiary for Clique networks in TraceServiceImpl #6390
• Fix to gas limit delta calculations used in block production. Besu should now increment or decrement the block gas limit towards its target correctly (thanks @arbora) #6425
• Ensure Backward Sync waits for initial sync before starting a session #6455
• Silence the noisy DNS query errors #6458

Download Links

https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/24.1.1/besu-24.1.1.zip / sha256 e23c5b790180756964a70dcdd575ee2ed2c2efa79af00bce956d23bd2f7dc67c
https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/24.1.1/besu-24.1.1.tar.gz / sha256 4b0ddd5a25be2df5d2324bff935785eb63e4e3a5f421614ea690bacb5b9cb344

Errata

Note, due to a CI race with the release job, the initial published version of 24.1.1 were overwritten by artifacts generated from the same sources, but differ in their embedded timestamps. The initial SHAs are noted here but are deprecated:
https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/24.1.1/besu-24.1.1.zip / sha256 b6b64f939e0bb4937ce90fc647e0a7073ce3e359c10352b502059955070a60c6
https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/24.1.1/besu-24.1.1.tar.gz / sha256 cfcae04c30769bf338b0740ac65870f9346d3469931bb46cdba3b2f65d311e7a

24.1.0

24.1.0 Quarterly

This release is a strongly recommended update for all Mainnet users. 24.1.0 is a required release for the upcoming Ethereum testnet forks, the first of which is Goerli on the 17th of January. This release supports Sepolia and Holesky forks as well. This is also a required update for all ETC node operators as it contains the configurations for the Spiral hard fork. 24.1.0 contains some optional, but useful features for private networks.

This release includes the latest hotfix for the Mainnet halt Besu experienced on January 6th. A post-mortem of that bug can be found here. This release contains many related Bonsai fixes.

Deprecations

• Forest pruning (pruning-enabled options) is deprecated and will be removed soon. To save disk space consider switching to Bonsai data storage format #6230

Additions and Improvements

• Add error messages on authentication failures with username and password #6212
• New Sequenced transaction pool. The pool is an evolution of the legacy pool and is likely to be more suitable to enterprise or permissioned chains than the layered transaction pool. Select to use this pool with --tx-pool=sequenced. Supports the same options as the legacy pool #6274
• Set Ethereum Classic mainnet activation block for Spiral network upgrade #6267
• Add custom genesis file name to config overview if specified #6297
• Update Gradle plugins and replace unmaintained License Gradle Plugin with the actively maintained Gradle License Report #6275
• Cancun forkids for non-mainnets #6322

Bug fixes

• Hotfix for selfdestruct preimages on bonsai #6359
• Fix trielog shipping issue during self destruct #6340
• Mitigation for trielog failure #6315

Download Links

https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/24.1.0/besu-24.1.0.zip / sha256 d36c8aeef70f0a516d4c26d3bc696c3e2a671e515c9e6e9475a31fe759e39f64
https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/24.1.0/besu-24.1.0.tar.gz / sha256 602b04c0729a7b17361d1f0b39f4ce6a2ebe47932165add666560fe594d9ca99

23.10.3-hotfix

23.10.3-hotfix

This is a hotfix for a selfdestruct defect that occurred on mainnet at block 18947893

• Hotfix for selfdestruct preimages on bonsai [#6359]((#6359)
• mitigation for trielog failure [#6315]((#6315)

This release fixes the root of the problem, but Besu needs to be resynced in order to repair the state. The fastest way to do this is to trigger a backward sync in Besu. After installing the hotfix, your CL client will need to have its beacon state reset and restored using checkpoint sync. Recovering from a deleted beacon chain is much faster if you have Checkpoint Sync setup, which is CL client specific.

Instructions on how to delete the beacon db, depends on your client. For example for Teku, you need to remove the beacon folder in the Teku data path. For other clients, refer to their documentation.

Most users should be good to go. If this doesn't work, please try the below instructions and report your problem to the Hyperledger Discord at https://discord.gg/hyperledger

Try the same process again, but force Besu to set its head back to a block prior to the problem block. This will require API access, and for this to work you have to enabled the DEBUG API with the following startup options:

--rpc-http-api=ETH,NET,WEB3,DEBUG

See RPC APIs for more details, changes to that param will require Besu to be restarted.

Once Besu is up and you have access to DEBUG apis, you can shutdown your CL client and clear its database. With Besu still up, set its head back to block 18947892 (0x1211F34 in hex) using the following API call:

curl -X POST --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"debug_setHead","params":["0x1211F34"],"id":1}' http://localhost:8545

Then restart your CL. Your CL should optimistically sync the beacon chain using a checkpoint from the network, and this will trigger a backward sync in Besu.

If your client still isn't progressing, you can try to resync only the world state. It can take hours, but it is faster from a resync from scratch

curl -X POST --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"debug_resyncWorldState","params":[],"id":1}' http://localhost:8545

Download Links

https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/23.10.3-hotfix/besu-23.10.3-hotfix.zip / sha256 1c37762909858a40eca749fb85b77fb4d1e918f247aff56d518144828bd85378
https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/23.10.3-hotfix/besu-23.10.3-hotfix.tar.gz / sha256 8e38e9fd0c16e049aa324effc96f9ec31dc06e82ea4995e9dd75d571394667af

23.10.3

23.10.3

Additions and Improvements

• Implement debug_traceCall #5885
• Transactions that takes too long to evaluate, during block creation, are dropped from the txpool #6163
• New option tx-pool-min-gas-price to set a lower bound when accepting txs to the pool #6098
• Update OpenJDK latest Docker image to use Java 21 #6189
• Allow a transaction selection plugin to specify custom selection results #6190
• Add rpc-gas-cap to allow users to set gas limit to the RPC methods used to simulate transactions#6156
• Fix the unavailability of address field when returning an Account entity on GraphQL in case of unreachable world state #6198
• Update OpenJ9 Docker image to latest version #6226
• Add error messages on authentication failures with username and password #6212
• Add rocksdb usage to the storage subcommand to allow users and dev to check columns families usage #6185
• Ethereum Classic Spiral network upgrade #6078

Bug fixes

• Fix Docker image name clash between Besu and evmtool #6194
• Fix logIndex in eth_getTransactionReceipt JSON RPC method #6206

Download Links

https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/23.10.3/besu-23.10.3.zip / sha256 da7ef8a6ceb88d3e327cacddcdb32218d1750b464c14165a74068f6dc6e0871a
https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/23.10.3/besu-23.10.3.tar.gz / sha256 73c834cf32c7bbe255d7d8cc7ca5d1eb0df8430b9114935c8dcf3a675b2acbc2

23.10.2

Hyperledger Besu 23.10.2

23.10.2 is an optional upgrade for Ethereum public and private networks. It is a required update for Ethereum Classic Mordor network users (not for ETC mainnet yet), as it contains the configuration for the Spiral network upgrade (#6078). It is recommended for Mainnet and private networks as there are several patches to vulnerable dependencies.

Upcoming Changes

• After we made the new layered TX pool default for all nodes in 23.10.0, it caused some confusion and configuration issues among private network users. We know many of you are currently using the legacy pool, as it is better suited for larger nonce-gaps and gas free networks. This is a formal announcement of an upcoming naming change from this pool to better reflect its usage in private networks. This will have accompanying configuration changes as well, so stay tuned for the 24.1.0 release notes. Thank you for your patience as we update the two transaction pool implementations.

Breaking Changes

• TX pool eviction in the legacy TX pool now favours keeping oldest transactions (more likely to evict higher nonces, less likely to introduce nonce gaps) #6106 and #6146

Additions and Improvements

• Ethereum Classic Spiral upgrade for the Mordor network #6078
• Add a method to read from a Memory instance without altering its inner state #6073
• Accept input and data field for the payload of transaction-related RPC methods #6094
• Add APIs to set and get the min gas price a transaction must pay for being selected during block creation #6097
• TraceService: return results for transactions in block #6087
• New option --min-priority-fee that sets the minimum priority fee a transaction must meet to be selected for a block. #6080 #6083
• Implement new miner_setMinPriorityFee and miner_getMinPriorityFee RPC methods #6080
• Clique config option createemptyblocks to not create empty blocks #6082
• Upgrade EVM Reference Tests to v13 (Cancun) #6114
• Add yParity to GraphQL and JSON-RPC for relevant querise. 6119
• Force tx replacement price bump to zero when zero base fee market is configured or --min-gas-price is set to 0. This allows for easier tx replacement in networks where there is not gas price. #6079
• Introduce the possibility to limit the time spent selecting pending transactions during block creation, using the new experimental option Xblock-txs-selection-max-time on PoS and PoW networks (by default set to 5000ms) or Xpoa-block-txs-selection-max-time on PoA networks (by default 75% of the min block time) #6044
• Remove LowestInvalidNonceCache from legacy transaction pool to make it more private networks friendly #6148
• Optimization: Delete leftPad when capturing the stack before and after a frame execution #6102

Bug fixes

• Upgrade netty to address CVE-2023-44487, CVE-2023-34462 #6100
• Upgrade grpc to address CVE-2023-32731, CVE-2023-33953, CVE-2023-44487, CVE-2023-4785 #6100
• Fix blob gas calculation in reference tests #6107
• Limit memory used in handling invalid blocks #6138

Download Links

https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/23.10.2/besu-23.10.2.zip
597ab71898d379180106baf24878239ed49acefea5772344fd359b0ff13fe19f
https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/23.10.2/besu-23.10.2.tar.gz
255818a5c6067a38aa8b565d8f32a49a172a7536a1d370673bbb75f548263c2c

23.10.1

23.10.1

Additions and Improvements

• New option --tx-pool-priority-senders to specify a list of senders, that has the effect to prioritize any transactions sent by these senders from any source #5959
• Cache last n blocks by using a new Besu flag --cache-last-blocks=n #6009
• Optimize performances of RPC method eth_feeHistory #6011 #6035
• Logging summary of plugins at Info as part of the config overview #5964 #6049
• Layered tx pool memory improvements #5985 #5974
• Update Bouncy Castle to 1.76, and force the use of the jdk18on variant #5748
• Add GraphQL support for new fields in Cancun #5923 #5975
• Add new configuration options to the EVM Fluent APIs #5930

Deprecations

• --tx-pool-disable-locals has been deprecated for removal in favor of --tx-pool-no-local-priority, no semantic change, only a renaming #5959

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression with t8n tool filling #5979
• Fix EOF and EIP-4788 regressions in reference tests #6060

Download Links

23.10.1 build was updated during a build of 23.10.2.RC, which is on the way. Existing artifacts are correct at those URLs, but their SHAs have changed.

https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/23.10.1/besu-23.10.1.tar.gz / sha256: e27645f345583f3ee447e5418302382c6f8335d2da8707bdd20033aabd86ce4c
498afb6cb4d8e5cdeae0a00db000bd2f4ed97aa833b0467ffed9668ad326f335

https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-binaries/besu/23.10.1/besu-23.10.1.zip / sha256: fb173acb93c72fbb74a6542051691ca2d3d5f54ea2f51026467a512f3a22106b
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