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Supreme Gardening Equipment (v1.8.3)
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@fjl fjl released this 27 Mar 06:48
· 1056 commits to release/1.8 since this release
v1.8.3
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This is a security and maintenance release containing bug fixes and protection against various types of DoS attacks that could lead to slow block processing.

Improvements:

  • geth --shh and the mobile frameworks use Whisper v6 (#16371)
  • The geth export-preimages and geth import-preimages commands allow export and import of known keccak256 preimages (#16319)
  • bn256 EC pairing is much faster on arm64 (#16301)

Squashed bugs:

  • The block number in sync stats (eth_syncing) is updated more frequently (#16283)
  • The 128kB size limit for RPC requests is now also applied to WebSocket connections and HTTP requests using chunked transfer encoding
    (#16310, #16343)
  • abigen wrappers for contract events with a single parameter are fixed (#16256)

Credits

Thanks to Dominic Brütsch and Vasily Vasiliev for reporting bugs through the bounty program.

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.8.3 release milestone.

Binaries and mobile libraries are available on our download page.

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