CryptoDevs News #27

Jan 13, 2024

What are some interesting news in this week?

📅 Events and Conventions

What are some interesting news in this week?

Geth (still) with a dangerous, highly dominant ~84% market shares across execution layer clients.
Lido has near 32% in consensus power.

Anything new with Ethereum?

Prysm v4.2.0: Upgrading / Downgrading Validators, Deneb Goerli Support, Networking Parameter Changes, Profile Guided Optimization, ARM Supported Docker Images.
Teku v24.1.0: Configuration for the Deneb upgrade in Goerli.
Nimbus:
- v24.1.0: Full support for the upcoming Cancun-Deneb hard-fork on the Goerli testnet, introducing the /eth/v3/validator/blocks/{slot} Beacon API end-point.
- v24.1.1: Hotfix: Nimbus was crashing immediately after being connected to an execution layer node which is not fully synced.

Erigon:
- v2.56.0: This release schedules Dencun for Görli (17 Jan).
- v2.56.1: Add Amoy bootnodes.
- v2.56.2: Fixes Erigon's failure to stop gracefully, introduced in v2.56.0.
Besu v24.1.0: Required release for the upcoming Ethereum testnet forks.
Nethermind v1.25.0: Goerli Dencun hard fork, Optimism Canyon hard fork, improved JSON serialization, JavaScript tracers, improved concurrency and reduced lock contention, new JSON-RPC methods, downloading all historical bodies and receipts by default, performance improvements.
Geth:
- v1.13.9: Fixes a few issues and enables the Cancun upgrade for the Goerli network at block timestamp 1705473120.
- v1.13.10: Equivalent to v1.13.9, just contains a version bump.

aztec-packages v0.17.0: BIG release, reading full changelog is recommended if you are interested.

Remix v0.40.0: A lot of changes, see full changelog.
Ape:
- v0.7.2: Multiple fixes and refactors.
- v0.7.3: Fix an issue with fee history for some nodes and an issue where Ape no longer worked AT ALL when using custom contracts folder.
- v0.7.4: Allow contracts-folder (with hyphen) in ape-config.yaml and multiple fixes.
ethers.js v6.9.2: Fix Base58 padding for string representation of binary data.
Viem:
- v2.0.0: Low-level OP Stack extensions, enhanced types, miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
- v2.0.1: Added proxy packages for viem/op-stack, viem/celo, viem/zksync, fixed formatting of zkSync transaction request with customSignature.
- v2.0.2: Fixed proxy packages types.
- v2.0.3: Fixed issue where Viem would throw in environments that don't support the WebSocket API.
- v2.0.5: Added Taiko Katla chain, exported parseEventLogs (and types), added multicall3 to Taiko Jolnir, fixed extreme edge-case where decoding a malformed payload against a nested array type could cause decodeAbiParameters to enter an infinite loop.
- v2.0.6: Removed Celo Cannoli testnet which is deprecated.

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