CHANGELOG

v0.2.1

Emerald v0.2.1 comes with Fusaka support and a few UX and performance improvements.

Please check out the CHANGELOG for a detailed list of changes.

We want to thank Noble for their contribution in turning Emerald into a library.

[reth] Use Reth 1.9.3.(#138)
[state] App state contains info on the chain configuraton loaded from genesis. Requires path to eth genesis file in config.(#138)

[state/app/engine] Emerald supports Fusaka and activates it by default from genesis. Replaces ENGINE_GET_PAYLOAD_V4 with ENGINE_GET_PAYLOAD_V5(#138)
[app] Height replay mechanism automatically recovers when Reth is behind Emerald's stored height after a crash, eliminating the need for --engine.persistence-threshold=0 (#126)
[config] Command to perform a bulk update to malachite and emerald config (#143)
[config] Scripts can now generate setup for more than 4 nodes (#136)
[state] App state contains info on the chain configuraton loaded from genesis. Requires path to eth genesis file in config.(#138)

[engine] Use ExecutionPayloadEnvelopeV4 for Prague instead of ExecutionPayloadEnvelopeV3 (#173)
[state/app] Validator set state is now height-related and can raise a new error when the validator set for a given height is not found in the application state (#142)

Allow nodes to sync to higher heights (#13)
CLI to manipulate validator set (#79)
Config flags to enalbe reth pruning and emerald pruning support (#76)
Contract for validator management. (#12)
Fee address recepient is now configurable (#134)
Reth is forced to persist every block (#125)
Reth validation is adapted to accept multiple blocks with the same timestamp (#109)
Use secp256k1 for signing (#36)