Description

Release v1.1.8 is a performance release. Verification && Commit Pipeline, Go Native Tracer and Block Prune are introduced in this release.

Change log

FEATURES

• #668 implement State Verification && Snapshot Commit pipeline
• #581 implement geth native trace
• #543 implement offline block prune tools

IMPROVEMENT

• #704 prefetch state by applying the transactions within one block
• #713 add ARM binaries for release pipeline

BUGFIX

• #667 trie: reject deletions when verifying range proofs
• #643 add timeout for stopping p2p server to fix can not gracefully shutdown issue
• #740 update discord link which won't expire

Changes

State Verification && Commit Pipeline

State verification and storage commit pipeline is introduced in https://github.com/binance-chain/bsc/pull/668. It is an experimental feature that is expected to improve the performance, enable it by appending --pipecommit to the process command.

Ancient Data Prune

A new tool is introduced to prune ancient undesired block data, it will discard block, receipt, header in the ancient db to save space. Example: ./geth snapshot prune-block --datadir ./node --datadir.ancient ./chaindata/ancient --block-amount-reserved 1024.

Note: 1. Stop the client before pruing; 2. datadir.ancient is based on datadir, ./chaindata/ancient means ${datadir}/geth/chaindata/ancient actually

Go Native Tracer

The default tracer is now based Golang implementation rather than Js implementation.

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