24.8.0

24.8.0

24.8.0 is a small but mighty release that is strongly recommended for all Mainnet users. It contains an important stack handling update as well as improvements to the RPC service, plug-in API, and support for tracing private transactions. There are some breaking changes upcoming, so carefully review the notes as usual. More details available below:

Upcoming Breaking Changes

• Receipt compaction will be enabled by default in a future version of Besu. After this change it will not be possible to downgrade to the previous Besu version.
• --Xbonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled is deprecated, use --bonsai-limit-trie-logs-enabled instead
• --Xbonsai-trie-logs-pruning-window-size is deprecated, use --bonsai-trie-logs-pruning-window-size instead
• besu storage x-trie-log subcommand is deprecated, use besu storage trie-log instead
• Allow configuration of Withdrawal Request Contract Address via genesis configuration #7356

Breaking Changes

• Remove long-deprecated perm*whitelist* methods #7401

Additions and Improvements

• Expose set finalized/safe block in plugin api BlockchainService. These method can be used by plugins to set finalized/safe block for a PoA network (such as QBFT, IBFT and Clique).#7382
• In process RPC service #7395
• Added support for tracing private transactions using priv_traceTransaction API. #6161
• Wrap WorldUpdater into EVMWorldupdater #7434
• Bump besu-native to 0.9.4 #7456

Bug fixes

• Correct entrypoint in Docker evmtool #7430
• Fix protocol schedule check for devnets #7429
• Fix behaviour when starting in a pre-merge network #7431

Release artifacts

9671157a623fb94005357bc409d1697a0d62bb6fd434b1733441bb301a9534a4 besu-24.8.0.tar.gz
9ee217d2188e8da89002c3f42e4f85f89aab782e9512bd03520296f0a4dcdd90 besu-24.8.0.zip

docker pull docker.io/hyperledger/besu:24.8.0