CHANGELOG

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BREAKING CHANGES

[proto] Renamed the packages from tendermint.* to cometbft.* and introduced versioned packages to distinguish between proto definitions released in 0.34.x, 0.37.x, 0.38.x, and 1.0.x versions. Prior to the 1.0 release, the versioned packages are suffixed with .v1beta1, .v1beta2, and so on; all definitions describing the protocols as per the 1.0.0 release are in packages suffixed with .v1. Relocated generated Go code into a new api folder and changed the import paths accordingly. (#495 #1504)
[crypto/merkle] The public Proof.ComputeRootHash function has been deleted. (#558)
[rpc/grpc] Remove the deprecated gRPC broadcast API (#650)
[proto] The names in the cometbft.abci.v1 versioned proto package are changed to satisfy the buf guidelines (#736, #1504, #1530):
- Names of request and response types used in gRPC changed by making Request/Response the suffix instead of the prefix, e.g. RequestCheckTx ⭢ CheckTxRequest.
- The Request and Response multiplex messages are redefined accordingly.
- CheckTxType values renamed with the CHECK_TX_TYPE_ prefix.
- MisbehaviorType values renamed with the MISBEHAVIOR_TYPE_ prefix.
- Result enum formerly nested in ResponseOfferSnapshot replaced with the package-level OfferSnapshotResult, its values named with the OFFER_SNAPSHOT_RESULT_ prefix.
- Result enum formerly nested in ResponseApplyShapshotChunk replaced with the package-level ApplySnapshotChunkResult, its values named with the APPLY_SNAPSHOT_CHUNK_RESULT_ prefix.
- Status enum formerly nested in ResponseProcessProposal replaced with the package-level ProcessProposalStatus, its values named with the PROCESS_PROPOSAL_STATUS_ prefix.
- Status enum formerly nested in ResponseVerifyVoteExtension replaced with the package-level VerifyVoteExtensionStatus, its values named with the VERIFY_VOTE_EXTENSION_STATUS_ prefix.
- New definition of Misbehavior using the changed MisbehaviorType.
- The gRPC service is renamed ABCIService and defined using the types listed above.
[proto] In the cometbft.state.v1 package, the definition for ABCIResponsesInfo is changed, renaming response_finalize_block field to finalize_block.
[abci] Changed the proto-derived enum type and constant aliases to the buf-recommended naming conventions adopted in the abci/v1 proto package. For example, ResponseProcessProposal_ACCEPT is renamed to PROCESS_PROPOSAL_STATUS_ACCEPT (#736).
[abci] The Type enum field is now required to be set to a value other than the default CHECK_TX_TYPE_UNKNOWN for a valid CheckTxRequest (#736).
[rpc] The endpoints broadcast_tx_* now return an error when the node is performing block sync or state sync. (#785)
[mempool] When the node is performing block sync or state sync, the mempool reactor now discards incoming transactions from peers, and does not propagate transactions to peers. (#785)
[consensus] Handshaker.Handshake now requires context.Context (cometbft/cometbft#857)
[node] NewNode now requires context.Context as the first parameter (cometbft/cometbft#857) [mempool] Change the signature of CheckTx in the Mempool interface to CheckTx(tx types.Tx) (*abcicli.ReqRes, error). Also, add new method SetTxRemovedCallback. (#1010)
[state] The state.Store interface has been expanded to accommodate the data pull companion API of ADR 101 (#1096)
[proxy] Expand ClientCreator interface to allow for per-"connection" control of client creation (#1141)
[mempool] Remove mempoolIDs for internally storing peer ids as p2p.ID instead of uint16. (#1146)
[cmd] Remove replay and replay-console subcommands and corresponding consensus file replay code, such as consensus.RunReplayFile, and consensus.State.ReplayFile (#1170)
[state/indexer/block] BlockIndexer now has additional method Prune, GetRetainHeight, SetRetainHeight (#1176)
[state/txindex] TxIndexer now has additional methods: Prune, GetRetainHeight, SetRetainHeight (#1176)
[node] Change the signature of GenesisDocProvider to return the checksum of JSON content alongside the parsed genesis data (#1287).
[node] Go-API breaking: Change the signature of LoadStateFromDBOrGenesisDocProvider to accept an optional operator provided hash of the genesis file (#1324).
[version] Bumped the P2P version from 8 to 9, as this release contains new P2P messages. (#1411)
[rpc/client] Hard-code the /websocket endpoint path such that it is no longer configurable, removing the related client constructor parameter (#1412)
[libs/os] Move to internal (#1485)
[store] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/autofile] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/tempfile] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/clist] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/net] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/strings] Move to internal (#1485)
[state] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/rand] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/flowrate] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/async] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/timer] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/sync] Move to internal (#1485)
[statesync] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/bits] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/progressbar] Move to internal (#1485)
[blocksync] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/protoio] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/events] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/cmap] Move to internal (#1485)
[inspect] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/service] Move to internal (#1485)
[evidence] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/pubsub] Move to internal (#1485)
[libs/fail] Move to internal (#1485)
[consensus] Move to internal (#1485)
[abci] Renamed the alias types for gRPC requests, responses, and service instances to follow the naming changes in the proto-derived api/cometbft/abci/v1 package (#1533):
- The prefixed naming pattern RequestFoo, ReponseFoo changed to suffixed FooRequest, FooResponse.
- Each method gets its own unique request and response type to allow for independent evolution with backward compatibility.
- ABCIClient renamed to ABCIServiceClient.
- ABCIServer renamed to ABCIServiceServer.
[store] Make the LoadBlock method also return block metadata (#1556)
Made /api a standalone Go module with its own go.mod (#1561)
[comet] Version variables, in version/version.go, have been renamed to reflect the CometBFT rebranding. (cometbft/cometbft#1621)
[state/store] go-API breaking change in PruneStates: added parameter to pass the number of pruned states and return pruned entries in current pruning iteration. (#1972)
[state/store] go-API breaking change in PruneABCIResponses: added parameter to force compaction. (#1972)
[proto] Remove stateful block data retrieval methods from the data companion gRPC API as per RFC 106 (#2230):
- GetLatest from cometbft.services.block.v1.BlockService;
- GetLatestBlockResults from cometbft.services.block_results.v1.BlockResultsService.
[rpc/grpc] Remove support for stateful block data retrieval methods from the data companion APIs as per RFC 106
- GetLatestBlock method removed from the BlockServiceClient interface.
- GetLatestBlockResults method removed from the BlockResultServiceClient interface.
- GetLatest endpoint is no longer served by BlockServiceServer instances.
- GetLatestBlockResults endpoint is no longer served by BlockResultServiceServer instances.
[p2p] Rename IPeerSet#List to Copy, add Random, ForEach methods. Rename PeerSet#List to Copy, add Random, ForEach methods. (#2246)
[abci] Deprecates ABCIParams field of ConsensusParam and introduces replacement in FeatureParams to enable Vote Extensions. (#2322)
[internal/state] Moved function MedianTime to package types, and made it a method of Commit so it can be used by external packages. (#2397)

BUG FIXES

[consensus] Fix for "Validation of VoteExtensionsEnableHeight can cause chain halt" (ASA-2024-001)

[mempool] Fix data races in CListMempool by making atomic the types of height, txsBytes, and notifiedTxsAvailable. (#642)
[consensus] Consensus now prevotes nil when the proposed value does not match the value the local validator has locked on (#1203)
[consensus] Remove logic to unlock block on +2/3 prevote for nil (#1175: @BrendanChou)
[state/indexer] Respect both height params while querying for events (#1529)
[state/pruning] When no blocks are pruned, do not attempt to prune statestore (#1616)
[mempool] The calculation method of tx size returned by calling proxyapp should be consistent with that of mempool (#1687)
[evidence] When VerifyCommitLight & VerifyCommitLightTrusting are called as part of evidence verification, all signatures present in the evidence must be verified (#1749)
[crypto] SupportsBatchVerifier returns false if public key is nil instead of dereferencing nil. (#1825)
[blocksync] wait for poolRoutine to stop in (*Reactor).OnStop (#1879)
[p2p/pex] gracefully shutdown Reactor (#2010)
[privval] Retry accepting a connection (#2047)
[state] Fix rollback to a specific height (#2136)

DEPENDENCIES

Bump cometbft-db to v0.9.0, providing support for RocksDB v8 (#1725)

FEATURES

[rpc/grpc] Add gRPC server to the node, configurable via a new [grpc] section in the configuration file (#816)
[rpc/grpc] Add gRPC version service to allow clients to establish the software and protocol versions of the node (#816)
[rpc/grpc] Add gRPC client with support for version service (#816)
[grpc] Add BlockService with client to facilitate fetching of blocks and streaming of the latest committed block height (#1094)
[config] Add [grpc.block_service] section to configure gRPC BlockService (#1094)
[grpc] Add BlockResultsService with client to fetch BlockResults for a given height, or latest. (#1095)
[config] Add [grpc.block_results_service] gRPC configuration BlockResultsService (#1095)
[proto] Add definitions and generated code for ADR-101 PruningService in the cometbft.services.pruning.v1 proto package (#1097).
[rpc/grpc] Add privileged gRPC server and client facilities, in server/privileged and client/privileged packages respectively, to enable a separate API server within the node which serves trusted clients without authentication and should never be exposed to public internet (#1097).
[rpc/grpc] Add a pruning service adding on the privileged gRPC server API to give an ADR-101 data companion control over block data retained by the node. The WithPruningService option method in server/privileged is provided to configure the pruning service (#1097).
[rpc/grpc] Add PruningServiceClient interface for the gRPC client in client/privileged along with a configuration option to enable it (#1097).
[config] Add [grpc.privileged] section to configure the privileged gRPC server for the node, and [grpc.privileged.pruning_service] section to control the pruning service (#1097).
[metrics] Add metrics to monitor pruning and current available data in stores: PruningServiceBlockRetainHeight, PruningServiceBlockResultsRetainHeight, ApplicationBlockRetainHeight, BlockStoreBaseHeight, ABCIResultsBaseHeight. (#1234) [rpc/grpc] Add gRPC endpoint for pruning the block and transaction indexes (#1327)
[state] Add TxIndexer and BlockIndexer pruning metrics (#1334)
[metrics] Add metric for mempool size in bytes SizeBytes. (#1512)

[mempool] Add nop mempool (#1643)

If you want to use it, change mempool's type to nop:

[mempool]

# The type of mempool for this node to use.
#
# Possible types:
# - "flood" : concurrent linked list mempool with flooding gossip protocol
# (default)
# - "nop"   : nop-mempool (short for no operation; the ABCI app is responsible
# for storing, disseminating and proposing txs). "create_empty_blocks=false"
# is not supported.
type = "nop"

[config] Add configuration parameters to tweak forced compaction. (#1972)
[store] When pruning force compaction of the database. (#1972)
[metrics] Added metrics to monitor state store access. (#1974)
[metrics] Added metrics to monitor block store access. (#1974)
[test] Added monitoring tools and dashboards for local testing with localnet. (#2107)
Add pebbledb. To use, build with pebbledb tag (go build -tags pebbledb) (#2132)
[light/store] Added support for a different DB key representation within the light block store (#2327)
[store] Added support for a different DB key representation to state and block store (#2327)
[evidence/store] Added support for a different DB key representation within the evidence store (#2327)
[e2e] Add block_max_bytes option to the manifest file. (#2362)
[e2e] Add new --testnet-dir parameter to set a custom directory for the generated testnet files. (#2433)
[docs] Add report on storage improvements and findings. (#2569)
[consensus] add a new synchrony field to the ConsensusParameter struct for controlling the parameters of the proposer-based timestamp algorithm. (@williambanfield) (tendermint/tendermint#7354)
[consensus] Update the proposal logic per the Propose-based timestamps specification so that the proposer will wait for the previous block time to occur before proposing the next block. (@williambanfield) (tendermint/tendermint#7376)
[consensus] Update block validation to no longer require the block timestamp to be the median of the timestamps of the previous commit. (@anca) (tendermint/tendermint#7382)
[consensus] Use the proposed block timestamp as the proposal timestamp. Update the block validation logic to ensure that the proposed block's timestamp matches the timestamp in the proposal message. (@williambanfield) (tendermint/tendermint#7391)
[consensus] Update proposal validation logic to Prevote nil if a proposal does not meet the conditions for Timeliness per the proposer-based timestamp specification. (@anca) (tendermint/tendermint#7415)
[consensus] Use the proposer timestamp for the first height instead of the genesis time. Chains will still start consensus at the genesis time. (@anca) (tendermint/tendermint#7711)

IMPROVEMENTS

[state/indexer] Add transaction and block index pruning (#1176)
[mempool] Add a metric (a counter) to measure whether a tx was received more than once. (#634)
[docs/references] Added ADR-102: RPC Companion. (#658)
[consensus] New metrics (counters) to track duplicate votes and block parts. (#896)
[consensus] Optimize vote and block part gossip with new message HasProposalBlockPartMessage, which is similar to HasVoteMessage; and random sleep in the loop broadcasting those messages. The sleep can be configured with new config peer_gossip_intraloop_sleep_duration, which is set to 0 by default as this is experimental. Our scale tests show substantial bandwidth improvement with a value of 50 ms. (#904)
Update Apalache type annotations in the light client spec (#955)
[node] Remove genesis persistence in state db, replaced by a hash (cometbft/cometbft#1017, cometbft/cometbft#1295)
[consensus] Log vote validation failures at info level (#1022)
[config] Added [storage.pruning] and [storage.pruning.data_companion] sections to facilitate background pruning and data companion (ADR 101) operations (#1096)
[state] ABCI response pruning has been added for use by the data companion (#1096)
[state] Block pruning has been moved from the block executor into a background process (#1096)
[node] The node.Node struct now manages a state.Pruner service to facilitate background pruning (#1096)
[abci/client] Add fully unsynchronized local client creator, which imposes no mutexes on the application, leaving all handling of concurrency up to the application (#1141)
[abci/client] Add consensus-synchronized local client creator, which only imposes a mutex on the consensus "connection", leaving the concurrency of all other "connections" up to the application (#1141)
[consensus] When prevoting, avoid calling PropocessProposal when we know the proposal was already validated by correct nodes. (#1230)
[node] On upgrade, after #1296, delete the genesis file existing in the DB. (cometbft/cometbft#1297
[cli/node] The genesis hash provided with the --genesis-hash is now forwarded to the node, instead of reading the file. (#1324).
[rpc] The RPC API is now versioned, with all existing endpoints accessible via /v1/* as well as /* (#1412)
[consensus] Reduce the default MaxBytes to 4MB and increase MaxGas to 10 million (#1518)
[mempool] Add experimental feature to limit the number of persistent peers and non-persistent peers to which the node gossip transactions. (#1558) (#1584)
[config] Add mempool parameters experimental_max_gossip_connections_to_persistent_peers and experimental_max_gossip_connections_to_non_persistent_peers for limiting the number of peers to which the node gossip transactions. (#1558) (#1584)
[e2e] Allow latency emulation between nodes. (#1559)
[e2e] Allow latency emulation between nodes. (#1560)
[e2e] Allow disabling the PEX reactor on all nodes in the testnet (#1579)
[rpc] Export MakeHTTPDialer to allow HTTP client constructors more flexibility. (#1594)
[types] Validate Validator#Address in ValidateBasic (#1715)
[abci] Increase ABCI socket message size limit to 2GB (#1730: @troykessler)
[state] Save the state using a single DB batch (#1735)
[store] Save block using a single DB batch if block is less than 640kB, otherwise each block part is saved individually (#1755)
[rpc] Support setting proxy from env to DefaultHttpClient. (#1900)
[p2p] Export p2p package errors (#1901) (contributes to #1140)
[rpc] Use default port for HTTP(S) URLs when there is no explicit port (#1903)
[light] Export light package errors (#1904) (contributes to #1140)
[crypto/merkle] faster calculation of hashes (#1921)
Removed undesired linting from Makefile and added dependency check for codespell.
[blocksync] Avoid double-calling types.BlockFromProto for performance reasons (#2016)
[state] avoid double-saving FinalizeBlockResponse for performance reasons (#2017)
[e2e] Add manifest option VoteExtensionsUpdateHeight to test vote extension activation via InitChain and FinalizeBlock. Also, extend the manifest generator to produce different values of this new option (#2065)
[consensus] Add chain_size_bytes metric for measuring the size of the blockchain in bytes (#2093)
[e2e] Add manifest option load_max_txs to limit the number of transactions generated by the load command. (#2094)
Optimized the PSQL indexer (#2142) thanks to external contributor @k0marov !
[e2e] Add new targets fast and clean to Makefile. (#2192)
[rpc] Export RPC package errors (#2200) (contributes to #1140)
[p2p] make PeerSet.Remove more efficient (Author: @odeke-em) #2246
[jsonrpc] enable HTTP basic auth in websocket client (#2434)
[e2e] Introduce the possibility in the manifest for some nodes to run in a preconfigured clock skew. (#2453)
[blocksync] make the max number of downloaded blocks dynamic. Previously it was a const 600. Now it's peersCount * maxPendingRequestsPerPeer (20) #2467
[blocksync] Request a block from peer B if we are approaching pool's height (less than 50 blocks) and the current peer A is slow in sending us the block #2475
[blocksync] Request the block N from peer B immediately after getting NoBlockResponse from peer A #2475
[blocksync] Sort peers by download rate (the fastest peer is picked first) #2475
[privval] DO NOT require extension signature from privval if vote extensions are disabled. Remote signers can skip signing the extension if skip_extension_signing flag in SignVoteRequest is true. #2496
[proto] Add skip_extension_signing field to the SignVoteRequest message in cometbft.privval.v1 (#2522). The cometbft.privval.v1beta2 package is added to capture the protocol as it was released in CometBFT 0.38.x (#2529).

MINIMUM GO VERSION

Bump minimum Go version to v1.21 (#1244)

v0.38.2

November 27, 2023

This release provides the nop mempool for applications that want to build their own mempool. Using this mempool effectively disables all mempool functionality in CometBFT, including transaction dissemination and the broadcast_tx_* endpoints.

Also fixes a small bug in the mempool for an experimental feature.

BUG FIXES

[mempool] Avoid infinite wait in transaction sending routine when using experimental parameters to limiting transaction gossiping to peers (#1654)

FEATURES

[mempool] Add nop mempool (#1643)

If you want to use it, change mempool's type to nop:

[mempool]

# The type of mempool for this node to use.
#
# Possible types:
# - "flood" : concurrent linked list mempool with flooding gossip protocol
# (default)
# - "nop"   : nop-mempool (short for no operation; the ABCI app is responsible
# for storing, disseminating and proposing txs). "create_empty_blocks=false"
# is not supported.
type = "nop"

v0.38.1

November 17, 2023

This release contains, among other things, an opt-in, experimental feature to help reduce the bandwidth consumption associated with the mempool's transaction gossip.

BUG FIXES

[state/indexer] Respect both height params while querying for events (#1529)

FEATURES

[metrics] Add metric for mempool size in bytes SizeBytes. (#1512)

IMPROVEMENTS

[mempool] Add experimental feature to limit the number of persistent peers and non-persistent peers to which the node gossip transactions. (#1558) (#1584)
[config] Add mempool parameters experimental_max_gossip_connections_to_persistent_peers and experimental_max_gossip_connections_to_non_persistent_peers for limiting the number of peers to which the node gossip transactions. (#1558) (#1584)

v0.38.0

September 12, 2023

This release includes the second part of ABCI++, called ABCI 2.0. ABCI 2.0 introduces ABCI methods ExtendVote and VerifyVoteExtension. These new methods allow the application to add data (opaque to CometBFT), called vote extensions to precommit votes sent by validators. These vote extensions are made available to the proposer(s) of the next height. Additionally, ABCI 2.0 coalesces BeginBlock, DeliverTx, and EndBlock into one method, FinalizeBlock, whose Request* and Response* data structures contain the sum of all data previously contained in the respective Request* and Response* data structures in BeginBlock, DeliverTx, and EndBlock. See the specification for more details on ABCI 2.0.

BREAKING CHANGES

[mempool] Remove priority mempool. (#260)
[config] Remove Version field from MempoolConfig. (#260)
[protobuf] Remove fields sender, priority, and mempool_error from ResponseCheckTx. (#260)
[crypto/merkle] Do not allow verification of Merkle Proofs against empty trees (nil root). Proof.ComputeRootHash now panics when it encounters an error, but Proof.Verify does not panic (#558)
[state/kvindexer] Remove the function type from the event key stored in the database. This should be breaking only for people who forked CometBFT and interact directly with the indexers kvstore. (#774)
[rpc] Removed begin_block_events and end_block_events from BlockResultsResponse. The events are merged into one field called finalize_block_events. (#9427)
[pubsub] Added support for big integers and big floats in the pubsub event query system. Breaking changes: function Number in package libs/pubsub/query/syntax changed its return value. (#797)
[kvindexer] Added support for big integers and big floats in the kvindexer. Breaking changes: function Number in package libs/pubsub/query/syntax changed its return value. (#797)
[mempool] Application can now set ConsensusParams.Block.MaxBytes to -1 to have visibility on all transactions in the mempool at PrepareProposal time. This means that the total size of transactions sent via RequestPrepareProposal might exceed RequestPrepareProposal.max_tx_bytes. If that is the case, the application MUST make sure that the total size of transactions returned in ResponsePrepareProposal.txs does not exceed RequestPrepareProposal.max_tx_bytes, otherwise CometBFT will panic. (#980)
[node/state] Add Go API to bootstrap block store and state store to a height. Make sure block sync starts syncing from bootstrapped height. (#1057) (@yihuang)
[state/store] Added Go functions to save height at which offline state sync is performed. (#1057) (@jmalicevic)
[p2p] Remove UPnP functionality (#1113)
[node] Removed ConsensusState() accessor from Node struct - all access to consensus state should go via the reactor (#1120)
[state] Signature of ExtendVote changed in BlockExecutor. It now includes the block whose precommit will be extended, an the state object. (#1270)
[state] Move pruneBlocks from node/state to state/execution. (#6541)
[abci] Move app_hash parameter from Commit to FinalizeBlock (#8664)
[abci] Introduce FinalizeBlock which condenses BeginBlock, DeliverTx and EndBlock into a single method call (#9468)
[p2p] Remove unused p2p/trust package (#9625)
[rpc] Remove global environment and replace with constructor (#9655)
[node] Move DBContext and DBProvider from the node package to the config package. (#9655)
[inspect] Add a new inspect command for introspecting the state and block store of a crashed tendermint node. (#9655)
[metrics] Move state-syncing and block-syncing metrics to their respective packages. Move labels from block_syncing -> blocksync_syncing and state_syncing -> statesync_syncing (#9682)

BUG FIXES

[kvindexer] Forward porting the fixes done to the kvindexer in 0.37 in PR #77 (#423)
[consensus] Unexpected error conditions in ApplyBlock are non-recoverable, so ignoring the error and carrying on is a bug. We replaced a return that disregarded the error by a panic. (#496)
[consensus] Rename (*PeerState).ToJSON to MarshalJSON to fix a logging data race (#524)
[light] Fixed an edge case where a light client would panic when attempting to query a node that (1) has started from a non-zero height and (2) does not yet have any data. The light client will now, correctly, not panic and keep the node in its list of providers in the same way it would if it queried a node starting from height zero that does not yet have data (#575)
[abci] Restore the snake_case naming in JSON serialization of ExecTxResult (#855).
[consensus] Avoid recursive call after rename to (*PeerState).MarshalJSON (#863)
[mempool/clist_mempool] Prevent a transaction to appear twice in the mempool (#890: @otrack)
[docker] Ensure Docker image uses consistent version of Go. (#9462)
[abci-cli] Fix broken abci-cli help command. (#9717)

DEPRECATIONS

[rpc/grpc] Mark the gRPC broadcast API as deprecated. It will be superseded by a broader API as part of #81 (#650)

FEATURES

[node/state] Add Go API to bootstrap block store and state store to a height (#1057) (@yihuang)
[proxy] Introduce NewConnSyncLocalClientCreator, which allows local ABCI clients to have the same concurrency model as remote clients (i.e. one mutex per client "connection", for each of the four ABCI "connections"). (tendermint/tendermint#9830 and #1145)
[proxy] Introduce NewUnsyncLocalClientCreator, which allows local ABCI clients to have the same concurrency model as remote clients (i.e. one mutex per client "connection", for each of the four ABCI "connections"). (#9830)
[abci] New ABCI methods VerifyVoteExtension and ExtendVote allow validators to validate the vote extension data attached to a pre-commit message and allow applications to let their validators do more than just validate within consensus (#9836)

IMPROVEMENTS

[blocksync] Generate new metrics during BlockSync (#543)
[jsonrpc/client] Improve the error message for client errors stemming from bad HTTP responses. (cometbft/cometbft#638)
[rpc] Remove response data from response failure logs in order to prevent large quantities of log data from being produced (#654)
[pubsub/kvindexer] Numeric query conditions and event values are represented as big floats with default precision of 125. Integers are read as "big ints" and represented with as many bits as they need when converting to floats. (#797)
[node] Make handshake cancelable (cometbft/cometbft#857)
[mempool] Application can now set ConsensusParams.Block.MaxBytes to -1 to gain more control on the max size of transactions in a block. It also allows the application to have visibility on all transactions in the mempool at PrepareProposal time. (#980)
[node] Close evidence.db OnStop (cometbft/cometbft#1210: @chillyvee)
[state] Make logging block_app_hash and app_hash consistent by logging them both as hex. (#1264)
[crypto/merkle] Improve HashAlternatives performance (#6443)
[p2p/pex] Improve addrBook.hash performance (#6509)
[crypto/merkle] Improve HashAlternatives performance (#6513)
[pubsub] Performance improvements for the event query API (#7319)

v0.37.4

November 27, 2023

Also fixes a small bug in the mempool for an experimental feature, and reverts the change from v0.37.3 that bumped the minimum Go version to v1.21.

BUG FIXES

[mempool] Avoid infinite wait in transaction sending routine when using experimental parameters to limiting transaction gossiping to peers (#1654)

FEATURES

[mempool] Add nop mempool (#1643)

If you want to use it, change mempool's type to nop:

[mempool]

# The type of mempool for this node to use.
#
# Possible types:
# - "flood" : concurrent linked list mempool with flooding gossip protocol
# (default)
# - "nop"   : nop-mempool (short for no operation; the ABCI app is responsible
# for storing, disseminating and proposing txs). "create_empty_blocks=false"
# is not supported.
type = "nop"

v0.37.3

November 17, 2023

This release contains, among other things, an opt-in, experimental feature to help reduce the bandwidth consumption associated with the mempool's transaction gossip.

BREAKING CHANGES

[p2p] Remove unused UPnP functionality (#1113)

BUG FIXES

[state/indexer] Respect both height params while querying for events (#1529)

FEATURES

[node/state] Add Go API to bootstrap block store and state store to a height (#1057) (@yihuang)
[metrics] Add metric for mempool size in bytes SizeBytes. (#1512)

IMPROVEMENTS

[crypto/sr25519] Upgrade to go-schnorrkel@v1.0.0 (#475)
[node] Make handshake cancelable (cometbft/cometbft#857)
[node] Close evidence.db OnStop (cometbft/cometbft#1210: @chillyvee)
[mempool] Add experimental feature to limit the number of persistent peers and non-persistent peers to which the node gossip transactions (only for "v0" mempool). (#1558) (#1584)
[config] Add mempool parameters experimental_max_gossip_connections_to_persistent_peers and experimental_max_gossip_connections_to_non_persistent_peers for limiting the number of peers to which the node gossip transactions. (#1558) (#1584)

v0.37.2

June 14, 2023

Provides several minor bug fixes, as well as fixes for several low-severity security issues.

BUG FIXES

[state/kvindex] Querying event attributes that are bigger than int64 is now enabled. We are not supporting reading floats from the db into the indexer nor parsing them into BigFloats to not introduce breaking changes in minor releases. (#771)
[pubsub] Pubsub queries are now able to parse big integers (larger than int64). Very big floats are also properly parsed into very big integers instead of being truncated to int64. (#771)

IMPROVEMENTS

[rpc] Remove response data from response failure logs in order to prevent large quantities of log data from being produced (#654)

SECURITY FIXES

[rpc/jsonrpc/client] Low severity - Prevent RPC client credentials from being inadvertently dumped to logs (#787)
[cmd/cometbft/commands/debug/kill] Low severity - Fix unsafe int cast in debug kill command (#793)
[consensus] Low severity - Avoid recursive call after rename to (*PeerState).MarshalJSON (#863)
[mempool/clist_mempool] Low severity - Prevent a transaction from appearing twice in the mempool (#890: @otrack)

v0.37.1

April 26, 2023

This release fixes several bugs, and has had to introduce one small Go API-breaking change in the crypto/merkle package in order to address what could be a security issue for some users who directly and explicitly make use of that code.

BREAKING CHANGES

[crypto/merkle] Do not allow verification of Merkle Proofs against empty trees (nil root). Proof.ComputeRootHash now panics when it encounters an error, but Proof.Verify does not panic (#558)

BUG FIXES

[consensus] Unexpected error conditions in ApplyBlock are non-recoverable, so ignoring the error and carrying on is a bug. We replaced a return that disregarded the error by a panic. (#496)
[consensus] Rename (*PeerState).ToJSON to MarshalJSON to fix a logging data race (#524)
[light] Fixed an edge case where a light client would panic when attempting to query a node that (1) has started from a non-zero height and (2) does not yet have any data. The light client will now, correctly, not panic and keep the node in its list of providers in the same way it would if it queried a node starting from height zero that does not yet have data (#575)

IMPROVEMENTS

[jsonrpc/client] Improve the error message for client errors stemming from bad HTTP responses. (cometbft/cometbft#638)

v0.37.0

March 6, 2023

This is the first CometBFT release with ABCI 1.0, which introduces the PrepareProposal and ProcessProposal methods, with the aim of expanding the range of use cases that application developers can address. This is the first change to ABCI towards ABCI++, and the full range of ABCI++ functionality will only become available in the next major release with ABCI 2.0. See the specification for more details.

In the v0.34.27 release, the CometBFT Go module is still github.com/tendermint/tendermint to facilitate ease of upgrading for users, but in this release we have changed this to github.com/cometbft/cometbft.

Please also see our upgrading guidelines for more details on upgrading from the v0.34 release series.

Also see our QA results for the v0.37 release.

We'd love your feedback on this release! Please reach out to us via one of our communication channels, such as GitHub Discussions, with any of your questions, comments and/or concerns.

See below for more details.

BREAKING CHANGES

The TMHOME environment variable was renamed to CMTHOME, and all environment variables starting with TM_ are instead prefixed with CMT_ (#211)
[p2p] Reactor Send, TrySend and Receive renamed to SendEnvelope, TrySendEnvelope and ReceiveEnvelope to allow metrics to be appended to messages and measure bytes sent/received. (#230)
Bump minimum Go version to 1.20 (#385)
[abci] Make length delimiter encoding consistent (uint64) between ABCI and P2P wire-level protocols (#5783)
[abci] Change the key and value fields from []byte to string in the EventAttribute type. (#6403)
[abci/counter] Delete counter example app (#6684)
[abci] Renamed EvidenceType to MisbehaviorType and Evidence to Misbehavior as a more accurate label of their contents. (#8216)
[abci] Added cli commands for PrepareProposal and ProcessProposal. (#8656)
[abci] Added cli commands for PrepareProposal and ProcessProposal. (#8901)
[abci] Renamed LastCommitInfo to CommitInfo in preparation for vote extensions. (#9122)
Change spelling from British English to American. Rename Subscription.Cancelled() to Subscription.Canceled() in libs/pubsub (#9144)
[abci] Removes unused Response/Request SetOption from ABCI (#9145)
[config] Rename the fastsync section and the fast_sync key blocksync and block_sync respectively (#9259)
[types] Reduce the use of protobuf types in core logic. ConsensusParams, BlockParams, ValidatorParams, EvidenceParams, VersionParams have become native types. They still utilize protobuf when being sent over the wire or written to disk. Moved ValidateConsensusParams inside (now native type) ConsensusParams, and renamed it to ValidateBasic. (#9287)
[abci/params] Deduplicate ConsensusParams and BlockParams so only types proto definitions are use. Remove TimeIotaMs and use a hard-coded 1 millisecond value to ensure monotonically increasing block times. Rename AppVersion to App so as to not stutter. (#9287)
[abci] New ABCI methods PrepareProposal and ProcessProposal which give the app control over transactions proposed and allows for verification of proposed blocks. (#9301)

BUG FIXES

[consensus] Fixed a busy loop that happened when sending of a block part failed by sleeping in case of error. (#4)
[state/kvindexer] Fixed the default behaviour of the kvindexer to index and query attributes by events in which they occur. In 0.34.25 this was mitigated by a separated RPC flag. @jmalicevic (#77)
[state/kvindexer] Resolved crashes when event values contained slashes, introduced after adding event sequences in #77. @jmalicevic (#382)
[consensus] (#386) Short-term fix for the case when needProofBlock cannot find previous block meta by defaulting to the creation of a new proof block. (@adizere)
- Special thanks to the Vega.xyz team, and in particular to Zohar (@ze97286), for reporting the problem and working with us to get to a fix.
[docker] enable cross platform build using docker buildx (#9073)
[consensus] fix round number of enterPropose when handling RoundStepNewRound timeout. (#9229)
[docker] ensure Docker image uses consistent version of Go (#9462)
[p2p] prevent peers who have errored from being added to peer_set (#9500)
[blocksync] handle the case when the sending queue is full: retry block request after a timeout (#9518)

FEATURES

[abci] New ABCI methods PrepareProposal and ProcessProposal which give the app control over transactions proposed and allows for verification of proposed blocks. (#9301)

IMPROVEMENTS

[e2e] Add functionality for uncoordinated (minor) upgrades (#56)
[tools/tm-signer-harness] Remove the folder as it is unused (#136)
[p2p] Reactor Send, TrySend and Receive renamed to SendEnvelope, TrySendEnvelope and ReceiveEnvelope to allow metrics to be appended to messages and measure bytes sent/received. (#230)
[abci] Added AbciVersion to RequestInfo allowing applications to check ABCI version when connecting to CometBFT. (#5706)
[cli] add --hard flag to rollback command (and a boolean to the RollbackState method). This will rollback state and remove the last block. This command can be triggered multiple times. The application must also rollback state to the same height. (#9171)
[crypto] Update to use btcec v2 and the latest btcutil. (#9250)
[rpc] Added header and header_by_hash queries to the RPC client (#9276)
[proto] Migrate from gogo/protobuf to cosmos/gogoproto (#9356)
[rpc] Enable caching of RPC responses (#9650)
[consensus] Save peer LastCommit correctly to achieve 50% reduction in gossiped precommits. (#9760)

v0.34.31

November 27, 2023

Fixes a small bug in the mempool for an experimental feature.

BUG FIXES

[mempool] Avoid infinite wait in transaction sending routine when using experimental parameters to limiting transaction gossiping to peers (#1654)

v0.34.30

November 17, 2023

This release contains, among other things, an opt-in, experimental feature to help reduce the bandwidth consumption associated with the mempool's transaction gossip.

BUILD

Bump Go version used to v1.20 since v1.19 has reached EOL (#1351)

FEATURES

[metrics] Add metric for mempool size in bytes SizeBytes. (#1512)

IMPROVEMENTS

[node] Make handshake cancelable (cometbft/cometbft#857)
[node] Close evidence.db OnStop (cometbft/cometbft#1210: @chillyvee)
[mempool] Add experimental feature to limit the number of persistent peers and non-persistent peers to which the node gossip transactions (only for "v0" mempool). (#1558, (#1584)
[config] Add mempool parameters experimental_max_gossip_connections_to_persistent_peers and experimental_max_gossip_connections_to_non_persistent_peers for limiting the number of peers to which the node gossip transactions. (#1558) (#1584)

v0.34.29

June 14, 2023

Provides several minor bug fixes, as well as fixes for several low-severity security issues.

BUG FIXES

[state/kvindex] Querying event attributes that are bigger than int64 is now enabled. (#771)
[pubsub] Pubsub queries are now able to parse big integers (larger than int64). Very big floats are also properly parsed into very big integers instead of being truncated to int64. (#771)

IMPROVEMENTS

[rpc] Remove response data from response failure logs in order to prevent large quantities of log data from being produced (#654)

SECURITY FIXES

[rpc/jsonrpc/client] Low severity - Prevent RPC client credentials from being inadvertently dumped to logs (#788)
[cmd/cometbft/commands/debug/kill] Low severity - Fix unsafe int cast in debug kill command (#794)
[consensus] Low severity - Avoid recursive call after rename to (*PeerState).MarshalJSON (#863)
[mempool/clist_mempool] Low severity - Prevent a transaction from appearing twice in the mempool (#890: @otrack)

v0.34.28

April 26, 2023

BREAKING CHANGES

[crypto/merkle] Do not allow verification of Merkle Proofs against empty trees (nil root). Proof.ComputeRootHash now panics when it encounters an error, but Proof.Verify does not panic (#558)

BUG FIXES

[consensus] Unexpected error conditions in ApplyBlock are non-recoverable, so ignoring the error and carrying on is a bug. We replaced a return that disregarded the error by a panic. (#496)
[consensus] Rename (*PeerState).ToJSON to MarshalJSON to fix a logging data race (#524)
[light] Fixed an edge case where a light client would panic when attempting to query a node that (1) has started from a non-zero height and (2) does not yet have any data. The light client will now, correctly, not panic and keep the node in its list of providers in the same way it would if it queried a node starting from height zero that does not yet have data (#575)

IMPROVEMENTS

[crypto/sr25519] Upgrade to go-schnorrkel@v1.0.0 (#475)
[jsonrpc/client] Improve the error message for client errors stemming from bad HTTP responses. (cometbft/cometbft#638)

v0.34.27

Feb 27, 2023

This is the first official release of CometBFT - a fork of Tendermint Core. This particular release is intended to be compatible with the Tendermint Core v0.34 release series.

For details as to how to upgrade to CometBFT from Tendermint Core, please see our upgrading guidelines.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns or feedback on this release, we would love to hear from you! Please contact us via GitHub Discussions, Discord (in the #cometbft channel) or Telegram.

Special thanks to @wcsiu, @ze97286, @faddat and @JayT106 for their contributions to this release!

BREAKING CHANGES

Rename binary to cometbft and Docker image to cometbft/cometbft (#152)
The TMHOME environment variable was renamed to CMTHOME, and all environment variables starting with TM_ are instead prefixed with CMT_ (#211)
Use Go 1.19 to build CometBFT, since Go 1.18 has reached end-of-life. (#360)

BUG FIXES

[consensus] Fixed a busy loop that happened when sending of a block part failed by sleeping in case of error. (#4)
[state/kvindexer] Resolved crashes when event values contained slashes, introduced after adding event sequences. (#383: @jmalicevic)
[consensus] Short-term fix for the case when needProofBlock cannot find previous block meta by defaulting to the creation of a new proof block. (#386: @adizere)
- Special thanks to the Vega.xyz team, and in particular to Zohar (@ze97286), for reporting the problem and working with us to get to a fix.
[p2p] Correctly use non-blocking TrySendEnvelope method when attempting to send messages, as opposed to the blocking SendEnvelope method. It is unclear whether this has a meaningful impact on P2P performance, but this patch does correct the underlying behaviour to what it should be (tendermint/tendermint#9936)

DEPENDENCIES

Replace tm-db with cometbft-db (#160)
Bump tm-load-test to v1.3.0 to remove implicit dependency on Tendermint Core (#165)
[crypto] Update to use btcec v2 and the latest btcutil (tendermint/tendermint#9787: @wcsiu)

FEATURES

[rpc] Add match_event query parameter to indicate to the RPC that it should match events within attributes, not only within a height (tendermint/tendermint#9759)

IMPROVEMENTS

[e2e] Add functionality for uncoordinated (minor) upgrades (#56)
[tools/tm-signer-harness] Remove the folder as it is unused (#136)
Append the commit hash to the version of CometBFT being built (#204)
[mempool/v1] Suppress "rejected bad transaction" in priority mempool logs by reducing log level from info to debug (#314: @JayT106)
[consensus] Add consensus_block_gossip_parts_received and consensus_step_duration_seconds metrics in order to aid in investigating the impact of database compaction on consensus performance (tendermint/tendermint#9733)
[state/kvindexer] Add match.event keyword to support condition evaluation based on the event the attributes belong to (tendermint/tendermint#9759)
[p2p] Reduce log spam through reducing log level of "Dialing peer" and "Added peer" messages from info to debug (tendermint/tendermint#9764: @faddat)
[consensus] Reduce bandwidth consumption of consensus votes by roughly 50% through fixing a small logic bug (tendermint/tendermint#9776)

CometBFT is a fork of Tendermint Core as of late December 2022.

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