The focus of this release is bugfixes.

Bugfixes

• Block tracing via debug.traceBlockByHash has sometimes produced inconsistent/corrupt results. Fixed via (#24286).
• The --whitelist CLI parameter functionality was broken in v1.10.14, and is fixed in this release (#24210).
• A bug was introduced, and subsequently fixed, which could cause data corruption during mining (#24349).
• When signing complex datatypes in EIP712-type data, the signing-hash was incorrect. Fixed via (#24220).
• Evm execution times exported via metrics, were sometimes incorrect. Fixed in (#24304).
• Range prover edgecases found and fixed (#24266, #24257).
• Fix an error related to HTTP2 handling (#24292).
• A lot of spleling-mistkaes and issues related to correctness were fixed (#24194, #24196, #24198, #24205, #24207, #24244, #24270, #24271, #24224, #24372, #24323, #24289, #24263 and #24211).

New features

• Work on The Merge includes support for RANDOM opcode (#24141) and various other internal refactorings (#24328, #24280, #24236, #23256).
• The devp2p binary now supports doing snap/v1 protocol testing against a remote node, which can be used for Hive-testing (#24276).
• New diagnostic command to show database metadata (#23900)
• ethclient support for CallContractAtHash (#24355).
• Support chainId for GnosisSafeTx (#24231).

Performance

• Tracing was improved by making the prestate tracer be a native tracer (#24320, #24268).
• Potentially reduce database allocations in some cases (#24117).
• Add a set of cross-client external benchmarks (#24050).
• Improve transaction indexing performance (#24197).

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.10.16 release milestone.

As with all our previous releases, you can find the:

• Pre-built binaries for all platforms on our downloads page.
• Docker images published under ethereum/client-go.
• Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA repository.
• OSX packages in our Homebrew Tap repository.