1.5.2

1.5.2

Additions and Improvements

• Experimental offline backup and restore has been added via the operator x-backup-state and operator x-restore-state CLI commands. Data formats will be fluid for as long as the x- prefix is present in the CLI so it is advised not to rely on these backups for disaster recovery. #1235
• Experimental ethstats support added via the Xethstats and Xethstats-contact CLI commands. #1239
• Peers added via the JSON-RPC admin_addPeer and admin_removePeer will be shared or no longer shared via discovery respectively. Previously they were not shared. #1177 contributed by br0tchain.
• New Docker Images (see below). #1277
• Reworked static peer discovery handling. #1292

New Java VMs in Docker Image

• New docker images are being generated to use the latest version of OpenJDK (currently 14.0.1) with the tag suffix of -openjdk-latest, for example 1.5.2-openjdk-latest.
• New docker images are being generated to use GraalVM with the tag suffix of -graalvm, for example 1.5.2-graalvm.
• The existing images based on Java 11 are also being tagged with the suffix -openjdk-11, for example 1.5.2-openjdk-11, as well as 1.5.2.

The intent is that the major Java VM version or Java VM type shipped with the default docker images (latest, 1.5.x, etc.) may be changed during future quarterly releases but will remain consistent within quarterly releases.

Bug Fixes

• Offchain permissioning - fixed bug where sync status check prevented peering if static nodes configured. #1252

• GraphQL queries of miner in IBFT networks will no longer return an error. PR #1282 issue #1272.

Previously identified known issues

• Logs queries missing results against chain head
• Eth/65 loses peers
• Fast sync when running Besu on cloud providers
• Privacy users with private transactions created using v1.3.4 or earlier
• Permissioning issues on Kubernetes
• Restarts caused by insufficient memory can cause inconsistent private state

New and Old Maintainer

• David Mechler has been added as a new maintainer.
• Edward Evans voluntarily moved to emeritus status.

Download link

https://dl.bintray.com/hyperledger-org/besu-repo/besu-1.5.2.zip
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