Prysm Beta!

(2020-10-26)

Notice: Beta.0 & beta.0-rc include several breaking changes if you are upgrading from an alpha release.
Please also review the beta.0-rc notes carefully.

Notable features since beta.0-rc include:

• Discovering peers before broadcasting attestation. (80% to 100% improvement on "lost" attestations!)
• Saving intermittent non-finalized states to improve data access in long periods of non-finality.
• Prysm web UI is working again. Run with --web.
• Several CPU and memory improvements.
• Terms of Service flags now working in validator account subcommands.
• Several fixes, including many security recommended fixes.

New breaking changes since beta.0-rc.

• Metrics removed: total_eligible_balances and total_voted_target_balances. Use beacon_prev_epoch_active_gwei and beacon_prev_epoch_target_gwei respectively.

Full list of changes below.

1.0.0-beta.0 (2020-10-24)

• Forkchoice: update read only lock to regular lock (#7633) (a73c539), closes #7633
• Add Accept Terms of Use Flags to Accounts Commands (#7584) (78ca8c9), closes #7584
• Add journald to log-format help (#7572) (9a6a70e), closes #7572
• Add lighthouse p2p Good Bye codes (#7601) (b4c1c1d), closes #7601
• Add span for AncestorRoot (#7595) (42b7a37), closes #7595
• Amend Cross Compile README (#7615) (be6481e), closes #7615
• Better Logging When Using Head Sync (#7626) (ff50ea2), closes #7626
• Change log level from panicf to errorf so that all services can be shutdown (#7600) (70d923c), closes #7600
• Check ListValidatorBalances response length (#7583) (544dac2), closes #7583
• Checking ToS cli flag in subcommands (#7588) (9bd3ced), closes #7588
• Clarify No Wallet Found Error Messages (#7609) (113b2cd), closes #7609
• Clean Up Block Retrieval Methods (#7593) (6eb022f), closes #7593
• Context Cancelation Handling for Hot States (#7596) (d2f7240), closes #7596
• Deep Source Security Issues (#7617) (e54ac48), closes #7617
• Do Not Recommend --ssl-no-revoke When Downloading Prysm Scripts (#7618) (075f145), closes #7618
• Exit early if there's no validator slashing (#7587) (9554ad3), closes #7587
• Explicit Password Requirements (#7607) (4a78071), closes #7607
• Fatal If No TLS Found in RPC Service (#7614) (ca081e8), closes #7614
• Fix attestation broadcast recovery metric (#7629) (9ea69a0), closes #7629
• Fix BestFinalized method (#7619) (6a2bb65), closes #7619
• Fix Gossip Message ID (#7624) (92efe64), closes #7624
• Fix InitWithReset - rely on previously updated flags (#7598) (483f7f8), closes #7598
• Fix Nil Pointer in RPC List Peers (#7612) (ff15621), closes #7612
• Fix panic issues on beacon node shutdown (#7625) (7e2112b), closes #7625
• Fix Powchain Error In Startup (#7621) (e776eb5), closes #7621
• Fix pregenesis countdown msg wording (#7477) (cdbbf66), closes #7477
• Fix Range Request Responses (#7531) (ddbece5), closes #7531
• Fix w3endpoint file relative path (#7557) (ff658ba), closes #7557
• Fix Web UI Integration With Prysm Beta (#7591) (e4e8dd4), closes #7591
• Handle voting ties in BestFinalized() (#7622) (e5e51e6), closes #7622
• Ignore PreGenesis Messages Instead Of Rejecting Them (#7550) (7131cd9), closes #7550
• Miscellaneous Docs Improvements (#7606) (a688b9e), closes #7606
• More verbose output on init-sync (#7578) (0b53a89), closes #7578
• Move IsCanonical implementation to forkchoice package (#7602) (e07a12e), closes #7602
• Move voluntary exit logging to accounts_exit (#7603) (17a08a7), closes #7603
• Prevent Panics in Field Trie Helpers (#7613) (b1c047b), closes #7613
• Release and remove feature flag --enable-att-broadcast-discovery-attempts (#7610) (ecc25d2), closes #7610
• Remove Deprecated Participation Metrics (#7616) (e7723c4), closes #7616
• Remove Unusued Base Parameter in SubscribeWithBase (#7608) (13af8a7), closes #7608
• Revert "Use validator protection datadir" (#7627) (c59edb3), closes #7627
• Save state to DB during long non-finality (#7597) (840ffc8), closes #7597
• Update participation metrics (#7582) (a5ce6db), closes #7582
• Update TERMS_OF_SERVICE.md (#7590) (553492e), closes #7590
• Use validator protection datadir (#7355) (ab76bda), closes #7355
• VerifyFinalizedConsistency - return early when canonical (#7628) (ebb3fa7), closes #7628