- Fix race on startup sync. #3162
- Strict raft state. #3167
- Retry fetching the timestamp on error in da-client #3166
- Subscribe to forced inclusion namespace events #3146
- Persist cache snapshot only once at shutdown to avoid Badger vlog increase. #3153
- Add disaster recovery for sequencer
- Node pruning support. #2984
- Two different sort of pruning implemented:
Classic pruning (
all): prunes givenHEAD-nblocks from the databases, including store metadatas. Auto Storage Optimization (metadata): prunes only the state metadatas, keeps all blocks. By using one or the other, you are losing the ability to rollback or replay transactions earlier thanHEAD-n. When using classic pruning, you aren't able to fetch blocks prior toHEAD-n.
- Two different sort of pruning implemented:
Classic pruning (
- Fix block timer to account for execution time. Previously, the block timer reset to the full
block_timeduration afterProduceBlockcompleted, making the effective intervalblock_time + execution_time. Now the timer subtracts elapsed execution time so blocks are produced at the configured cadence.
- Store pending blocks separately from executed blocks key. #3073
- Fixes issues with force inclusion verification on sync nodes. #3057
- Add flag to
local-dato produce empty DA blocks (closer to the real system). #3057 - Validate P2P DA height hints against the latest known DA height to prevent malicious peers from triggering runaway catchup. #3128
- Replace syncer DA polling system by DA subscription via websockets. #3131
- Skip draining when exec client unavailable. #3060
- Add DA Hints for P2P transactions. This allows a catching up node to be on sync with both DA and P2P. (#2891)
- Improve
cache.NumPendingDatato not return empty data. Automatically bumpsLastSubmittedHeightto reflect that. (#3046) - BREAKING Make pending events cache and tx cache fully ephemeral. Those will be re-fetched on restart. DA Inclusion cache persists until cleared up after DA inclusion has been processed. Persist accross restart using store metadata. (#3047)
- Replace LRU cache by standard mem cache with manual eviction in
store_adapter. When P2P blocks were fetched too fast, they would be evicted before being executed #3051 - Fix replay logic leading to app hashes by verifying against the wrong block #3053.
- Improve cache handling when there is a significant backlog of pending headers and data. (#3030)
- Decrease MaxBytesSize to
5MBto increase compatibility with public nodes. (#3030) - Proper counting of
DASubmitterPendingBlobsmetrics. #3038 - Replace
go-headerstore byev-nodestore. This avoid duplication of all blocks ingo-headerandev-nodestore. Thanks to the cached store from #3030, this should improve p2p performance as well. #3036
- Added OpenTelemetry tracing support with OTLP export for distributed tracing across ev-node components including block
production, syncing, DA submission/retrieval, sequencer, store operations, and RPC layer. Configurable via
instrumentation.tracing,instrumentation.tracing_endpoint,instrumentation.tracing_service_name, andinstrumentation.tracing_sample_ratesettings. (#2956) - BREAKING: Implement forced inclusion and batch sequencing (#2797)
This change requires adding a
da_epoch_forced_inclusionfield to the node'sgenesis.jsonfile. The recommended value is100. Full support for this feature will be available in a future release. - Added
post-txcommand and force inclusion server to submit transactions directly to the DA layer. (#2888) Additionally, modified the core package to support marking transactions as forced included transactions. The execution client ought to perform basic validation on those transactions as they have skipped the execution client's mempool. - Added batching strategies (default stay time-based, unchanged from previous betas). Currently available strategies are
time,size,immediateandadaptive. Full documentation can be found here. - Added
FilterTxsmethod to the execution interface. This method is meant to filter txs by size and if the execution clients allows it, by gas. This is useful for force included transactions, as those aren't filtered by the sequencer's mempool. - Added
GetExecutionInfomethod to the execution interface. This method returns some execution information, such as the maximum gas per block.
- BREAKING: Renamed
evm-singletoevmandgrpc-singletoevgrpcfor clarity. #2839. You may need to manually modify your evnode.yamlsigner.signer_pathif your $HOME folder is changed. - Split cache interface into
CacheManagerandPendingManagerand createddaclient to easy DA handling. #2878 - Improved startup DA retrieval height when cache is cleared or empty. #2880
- BREAKING: Removed unused and confusing metrics from sequencers and block processing, including sequencer-specific metrics (gas price, blob size, transaction status, pending blocks), channel buffer metrics, overly granular error metrics, block production categorization metrics, and sync lag metrics. Essential metrics for DA submission health, block production, and performance monitoring are retained. #2904
- BREAKING: Removed
core/dapackage and replaced DAClient with internal implementation. The DA client is exposed asblock.FullDAClient,block.DAClient,block.DAVerifierwithout leaking implementation details. #2910
- Loosen syncer validation for allowing swapping sequencer and full node state #2925
- Enhanced health check system with separate liveness (
/health/live) and readiness (/health/ready) HTTP endpoints. Readiness endpoint includes P2P listening check and aggregator block production rate validation (5x block time threshold). (#2800) - Added
GetP2PStoreInfoRPC method to retrieve head/tail metadata for go-header stores used by P2P sync (#2835) - Added protobuf definitions for
P2PStoreEntryandP2PStoreSnapshotmessages to support P2P store inspection
- Improved EVM execution client payload status validation with proper retry logic for SYNCING states in
InitChain,ExecuteTxs, andSetFinalmethods. The implementation now follows Engine API specification by retrying SYNCING/ACCEPTED status with exponential backoff and failing immediately on INVALID status, preventing unnecessary node shutdowns during transient execution engine sync operations. (#2863) - Remove GasPrice and GasMultiplier from DA interface and configuration to use celestia-node's native fee estimation. (#2822)
- Use cache instead of in memory store for reaper. Persist cache on reload. Autoclean after 24 hours. (#2811)
- Improved P2P sync service store initialization to be atomic and prevent race conditions (#2838)
- Enhanced P2P bootstrap behavior to intelligently detect starting height from local store instead of requiring trusted hash
- Relaxed execution layer height validation in block replay to allow execution to be ahead of target height, enabling recovery from manual intervention scenarios
- BREAKING: Removed
evnode.v1.HealthServicegRPC endpoint. Use HTTP endpoints:GET /health/liveandGET /health/ready. (#2800) - BREAKING: Removed
TrustedHashconfiguration option and--evnode.node.trusted_hashflag. Sync service now automatically determines starting height from local store state (#2838) - BREAKING: Removed unused and confusing metrics from sequencers and block processing, including sequencer-specific metrics (gas price, blob size, transaction status, pending blocks), channel buffer metrics, overly granular error metrics, block production categorization metrics, and sync lag metrics. Essential metrics for DA submission health, block production, and performance monitoring are retained. #2904
- Fixed sync service initialization issue when node is not on genesis but has an empty store
- Added automated upgrade test for the
evmapp that verifies compatibility when moving from v1.0.0-beta.8 to HEAD in CI (#2780) - Added execution-layer replay mechanism so nodes can resynchronize by replaying missed batches against the executor (#2771)
- Added cache-pruning logic that evicts entries once heights are finalized to keep node memory usage bounded (#2761)
- Added Prometheus gauges and counters that surface DA submission failures, pending blobs, and resend attempts for easier operational monitoring (#2756)
- Added gRPC execution client implementation for remote execution services using Connect-RPC protocol (#2490)
- Added
ExecutorServiceprotobuf definition with InitChain, GetTxs, ExecuteTxs, and SetFinal RPCs (#2490) - Added new
grpcapp for running EVNode with a remote execution layer via gRPC (#2490)
- Hardened signer CLI and block pipeline per security audit: passphrases must be provided via
--evnode.signer.passphrase_file, JWT secrets must be provided via--evm.jwt-secret-file, data/header validation enforces metadata and timestamp checks, and the reaper backs off on failures ( BREAKING) (#2764) - Added retries around executor
ExecuteTxscalls to better tolerate transient execution errors (#2784) - Increased default
ReadinessMaxBlocksBehindfrom 3 to 30 blocks so/health/readystays true during normal batch sync (#2779) - Updated EVM execution client to use new
txpoolExt_getTxsRPC API for retrieving pending transactions as RLP-encoded bytes
- Removed
LastCommitHash,ConsensusHash, andLastResultsHashfrom the canonical header representation in favor of slim headers (BREAKING; legacy hashes now live underHeader.Legacy) (#2766)