Release v1.27.0

Good day Lodestar users! Our Pectra testnet-ready release is here with v1.27.0! This update is mandatory for all users on the Ephemery, Holesky and Sepolia networks. It includes fixes to Electra and the hard fork parameters required to enable Pectra on Holesky at epoch 115968 (Feb 24) and Sepolia at epoch 222464 (Mar 5).

For other users, if you had issues with utilizing our binaries with systemd where the exit signal was not properly shutting down the node, v1.27 fixes this.

Happy Pectra forking 🍴🦒!

Changelog

Full Changelog

Features

• schedule electra on ephemery (#7443) (@nflaig)
• rename pre/post fork designations and fork guards (#7441) (@matthewkeil)
• revert "feat: asyncAggregateWithRandomness (#7204) (#7435)" (#7450) (@wemeetagain)
• revert "feat: use snappy-wasm (#6483)" (#7451) (@wemeetagain)
• add --chain.pruneHistory flag (#7427) (@wemeetagain)
• asyncAggregateWithRandomness (#7204) (#7435) (@wemeetagain)
• use snappy-wasm (#6483) (@wemeetagain)
• schedule electra on holesky and sepolia (#7402) (@nflaig)
• eip-6110 deprecate eth1 data poll (#7414) (@ensi321)

Bug Fixes

• duplicated block attestations (#7455) (@ensi321)
• improve sync committee updates (#7456) (@twoeths)
• properly handle exit signal if binary is used with systemd (#7453) (@nflaig)
• increase block production timeouts to account for event loop lag (#7420) (@nflaig)

Maintenance

• v1.27.0 release (#7461) (@philknows)
• fix prune history panels (#7442) (@nflaig)
• hide --chain.pruneHistory until feature is more stable (#7448) (@nflaig)
• bump CL spec version to beta.2 (#7440) (@nflaig)
• unhide --chain.archiveStateEpochFrequency flag (#7433) (@nflaig)
• revert back to previous getPendingBalanceToWithdraw implementation (#7419) (@nflaig)
• deps: bump nanoid from 3.3.7 to 3.3.8 (#7452) (@dependabot[bot])