From b21bc1d478028e45a28ffbb40f6e0ad70ff75754 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tersec <tersec@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:23:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Version v24.3.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md             | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 beacon_chain/version.nim |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f78dc8b1eb..92bbe399e3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,40 @@
+2024-03-28 v24.3.0
+==================
+
+Nimbus `v24.3.0` is a `low-urgency` upgrade bringing additional beacon API support and resilience to suboptimal network conditions.
+
+### Improvements
+
+* Add keymanager API graffiti endpoints:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6054
+
+* Remember gossip messages longer to avoid potentially slow handling of irrelevant messages:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6098
+
+* Nimbus processes blocks with deposits in a more optimized way:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/5982
+
+* Fork choice performance during periods of nonfinality has been improved:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6076
+
+* Nimbus will continue validating even without external chain progression:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6101
+
+* Locally built blocks via the engine API are preferentially selected by default over similarly valuable builder API blocks:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6103
+
+### Fixes
+
+* Add required header `eth-consensus-block-value` in produceBlockV3 REST beacon API call in beacon node:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/5873
+
+* Restore usage of certain mainnet bootstrap nodes to enable faster and more reliable node connectivity at startup:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6052
+
+* The network configuration `INACTIVITY_SCORE_RECOVERY_RATE` can now be overridden:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6091
+
+
 2023-02-27 v24.2.2
 ==================
 
diff --git a/beacon_chain/version.nim b/beacon_chain/version.nim
index 5693635168..1f18709ef2 100644
--- a/beacon_chain/version.nim
+++ b/beacon_chain/version.nim
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ const
     "Copyright (c) 2019-" & compileYear & " Status Research & Development GmbH"
 
   versionMajor* = 24
-  versionMinor* = 2
-  versionBuild* = 2
+  versionMinor* = 3
+  versionBuild* = 0
 
   versionBlob* = "stateofus" # Single word - ends up in the default graffiti