Arbitrum Nitro v2.0.7

This release is available as a Docker image on Docker Hub at offchainlabs/nitro-node:v2.0.7-10b845c

What's Changed

This release contains various validator improvements and fixes, along with IPC RPC support for easy local RPC access.

User-facing Improvements

• Allow for an EOA validator wallet (has config changes): #1161
• Allow validator smart contract wallet to be specified: #1151
• Validator shouldn't require deprecated parameter: #1181
• Improve validator logging around invalid assertions and whitelisting: #1196
• Add ipc rpc support: #1156
• Fix jit validator shutdown cancellation: #1179
• Testnode updates and fixes: #1164

Internal Highlights

• Jit path: #1192
• Orderly sequencer shutdown: #1163
• Don't assume validator succeeded: #1195
• Ensure feed ping gets sent regardless of other traffic: #1159
• No live sequencer log should be error: #1169
• Add sequencer backlog gauge metric: #1168
• Life cycle controlled by node: #1166

Config Changes

• Validators using a smart contract wallet (the previous behavior) will now need to specify --node.validator.use-smart-contract-wallet as the new default is to use an EOA wallet.

Full Changelog: v2.0.6...v2.0.7

Arbitrum Nitro v2.0.6

This release is available as a Docker image on Docker Hub at offchainlabs/nitro-node:v2.0.6-92bc70d

What's Changed

This release fixes Prometheus metrics, and fixes the JIT validator in docker networking.

User-facing Improvements

• Fix metric name: #1143
• If running validator, require archive mode: #1144

Internal Highlights

• Listen for JIT on IPv4: #1145
• Only listen on localhost for the jit validator: #1150

Full Changelog: v2.0.5...v2.0.6

Arbitrum Nitro v2.0.5

What's Changed

This release provides a number of improvements to the sequencer and validator systems as well as adding support for consensus v7. It also contains a number of minor bug fixes and an extension of the hot config reloading mechanism.

User-facing Improvements

• Use JIT validator by default: #1113
• use cranelift by default: #1124
• Have sequencer sign each feed message and nodes validate signatures: #986
• more hot reloadable config options and on-config-reload hook: #1057
• Add consensus v7 WASM machine to docker: #1131
• Smart arbdebug interval: #1101

Internal Highlights

• Add modular data poster to allow batch poster to queue up txs: #877
• simple redis lock for batch poster: #958
• Recover latest state if missing in transaction streamer: #1106
• Add basic feed metrics for server and client: #1118
• Allow enabling sequencer without delayed sequencer: #1116
• Refactor sync monitor component: #980
• log when StopWaiter takes too long to stop: #1095

Full Changelog: v2.0.4...v2.0.5

Consensus V7

This release signifies a consensus version, and is not necessarily a good version to run a node on

WAVM Module Root: 0x53dd4b9a3d807a8cbb4d58fbfc6a0857c3846d46956848cae0a1cc7eca2bb5a8

This contains the following consensus changes from consensus v6:

• Use two's complement in StorageBackedBigInt: #1112

Full Changelog: consensus-v6...consensus-v7

Arbitrum Nitro v2.0.4

What's Changed

This release fixes the JIT validator introduced in v2.0.3 when used in docker. Previously, the replay.wasm file was missing.

User-facing Improvements

• Download replay binary for wasm machines in docker (fixes JIT validator in docker): #1109
• Find docker machines: #1110

Full Changelog: v2.0.3...v2.0.4

Arbitrum Nitro v2.0.3

What's Changed

This release adds support for a new genesis db which will fix the sender of unsigned classic transactions as returned in the RPC. In addition, it adds a much faster block validator, and adds an arm64 docker build.

User-facing Improvements

• Add support for a new genesis db tx field which will fix the sender of unsigned classic transactions: OffchainLabs/go-ethereum#160
• JIT block validator: #1079
• Add arm64 docker build: #1087
• Get rid of sequencer "queue full" error: #1082
• Add version to web3_clientVersion response: #1074
• Add instructions on how to do graceful docker shutdown: #1068

Internal Highlights

• Don't wait for the next block interval if no block was produced: #1080
• Improve TxPreChecker: #894

Full Changelog: v2.0.2...v2.0.3

Arbitrum v2.0.2

What's Changed

This release fixes an issue syncing which results in the error:

error creating blocks err="missing trie node ..."

User-facing Improvements

• Fix delayed messages being replayed causing a sequencer batch reorg: #1064
• Support non-clean shutdown: #1039
• Method for estimating just l1 costs: #1065
• adding the nitro seed db url to the docs: #1060

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.0.2

Arbitrum Nitro v2.0.1

What's Changed

This release contains a fix to gas estimation for some transactions with very compressible data, along with the start of config hot reloading which is currently only supported for changing the log level.

User-facing Improvements

• Improve data cost estimation when full tx hurts compression ratio (fixes gas estimation in uncommon circumstances): #1058
• Add config hot reloading (for limited fields for now): #973
• Assume current validator stake is valid in the block validator: #1032
• Separate stateless block validation (allows you to validate a particular block without being a full validator): #1034
• Lots of documentation updates in various PRs!

Internal Highlights

• Add configurable interval to create assertions at: #1027
• Add a gas margin to the batch poster: #951
• Add clarity to sequencer batch error logging: #1038
• Verify contracts with circular dependency: #1031
• Contract changes for the data poster: #1048
• Make sequencer pending tx queue size configurable: #1056

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1

Arbitrum Nitro v2.0.0

What's Changed

This is the initial non-beta release of nitro node software and the first version compatible with the Nitro upgraded Arbitrum One chain which will shift to nitro on August 31, 2022

User-facing Improvements

• Setup default configs for arb1: #1024
• Fix handling of zero RPC gas cap meaning unlimited: #1020
• Add consensus v6 WAVM machine to docker by: #1017
• Configurable delayed sequencer finality: #1005
• Configurable merge finality: #1015

Internal Highlights

• Improve Node lifecycle management: #998
• Aggregator error logging metrics: #992
• Merge in upstream geth v1.10.21: #999
• Merge Finality: #996
• init: create tx lookup entries in parallel: #991
• Tx lookup init : #1000
• Parallelize tx lookup index generation by keeping failed txs in memory: #1014
• Fix race condition on program exit: #1009
• Setup rollup production config: #1018
• Fix relay issue printing help message: #1023

Full Changelog: v2.0.0-beta.10...v2.0.0

Consensus V6

This release signifies a consensus version, and is not necessarily a good version to run a node on

WAVM Module Root: 0x3848eff5e0356faf1fc9cafecb789584c5e7f4f8f817694d842ada96613d8bab

This contains the following consensus changes from consensus v5:

• Error instead of panicking on new cert versions: https://github.com/OffchainLabs/nitro/pull/993/files
• Set better arbos defaults for new chains: #978
• Fix expired retryable deletion on migration: #965
• Fix GetInfraFeeAccount getter in ArbOwnerPublic: #926
• Precompile Aliasing Changes: #918

Full Changelog: consensus-v5...consensus-v6