• Upgrade dependencies #1708
• Go and dependency upgrades #1707
• Fix typos #1679
• fix privay readme link #1684
• Fix bug with private transactions not simulated with debug_traceCall #1673
• feat: Fix generating uuid requiring admin account and json rpc number of parameters #1666
• QBFT: fix chain fork when emptyblockperiodseconds is enabled #1669
• QBFT: prevent maximum request timeout overflow #1665
• Updated Epirus link to Chainlens in readme #1668
• Fix check for consensus algorithm to address broken RAFT timestamp in console #1616

🎉 Enhancements 🎉#

• Add configurable MaxRequestTimeoutSeconds on transitions #1624
• extension: expose generation of management contract uuid to allow external signing of approval request #1613

Fixes

• put synchronous back when block has to be propose immediately #1615
• Fix: block header times not being recorded correctly when using EmptyBlockPeriod #1605

Maintenance release

• Go version upgrade to 1.19 #1601

Fixes

• fix: use txn's from instead of hardcoding the address in simulations #1584

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

• perf: improved func ValidateNodeForTxn node id parsing #1578

Critical Fixes

• If communication with tessera fails GoQuorum should retry and then exit #1575

Prior to this change GoQuorum would silently continue if it received a 5xx response from tessera. This could cause a possible divergent state when one should not exist. This would be more prevalent in environments where tessera was not 100% highly available and reliable.

Fixes

• Update indirect github.com/gogo/protobuf to 1.3.2 #1571
• Fix validator selection mode on qbft config #1570
• Add extra trace logs for tessera #1562
• plugin: fix typo in central.go #1566
• Fix block period validation when reducing the block period at transition height #1564
• fix: incorrect link of QuickStart #1550

⚠️ Breaking Changes ⚠️

qbft issues with block rewards and mining beneficiary #1547

If you have started running a network with block rewards enabled and specifying a mining beneficiary you must upgrade each node individually and perform a full sync. This change fixes an issue with gas rewards not being allocated to the correct beneficiary.

Fixes

• fix: qbft empty block period waiting too long #1549
• fix: debug.traceCall: check nil transactions #1537

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

QBFT Validator Override

Add support to allow a list of validators to be specified at a block height. This is useful if you loose validator keys and need to reset the list of validators. The ability to propose and vote on validator inclusion will continue at subsequent blocks. #1530

 "transitions": [
        {
          "block":12,
          "validatorSelectionMode":"blockheader",
          "validators":["0xed9d02e382b34818e88b88a309c7fe71e65f419d", "0x..."]
        }
      ]

Validator Rewards

⚠️ This version contains a major bug with block rewards - please use v22.7.3 where it is fixed ⚠️

With the re-introduction of gas fees back into GoQuorum you need to have some gas to be able to spend! The introduction of validator rewards allows a fixed amount of BlockReward to be allocated to someone each block. You could use this to fill up a faucet contract or the network operators wallet for distribution. #1502

 "transitions": [
        {
          "block":12,
          "beneficiaryMode":"fixed",
          "miningBeneficiary":"0xed9d02e382b34818e88b88a309c7fe71e65f419d"
        }
      ]

Full documentation can be found at https://consensys.net/docs/goquorum/en/latest/configure-and-manage/configure/consensus-protocols/qbft/#rewards

Fixes

• fix: only set ValSet for new blocks #1520
• Fix issues with changing blockperiod down and up #1505
• The plugin service isn't always available #1533
• build: add empty-block-period and block-reward tests to ci #1524
• add lazy initialization with block 0 transition #1521
• Bump github.com/holiman/uint256 from 1.1.1 to 1.2.1 #1501 #1523
• add missing read lock #1517
• check nil pointer #1506

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

• [Upgrade] Go-Ethereum release v1.10.3 #1469
  (maintenance release, containing bug fixes and performance improvements)

Deprecations

Support for eth/64 has been dropped - 22636
If you wish to upgrade any node on your network to this version you should ensure that all other nodes support eth/65. This was releases in [v21.4.0]

Fixes

• fix: qlight token refreshment #1488
• Bump karalabe/usb dependency to latest release #1482
• github has deprecated ubuntu 18, replace it 18 with 20 #1484

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

Support Empty Blocks in QBFT

You can configure your QBFT network to not produce blocks when you have no transactions, saving on disk space. Documentation available https://consensys.net/docs/goquorum/en/latest/configure-and-manage/configure/consensus-protocols/qbft/#configure-empty-block-period

• qbft: add new block period setting used when the block is empty #1433

Re-enable gas

GoQuorum now supports gas - this is so you can make your networks public facing whilst mitigating the risk of a denial of service attack. Documentation available https://consensys.net/docs/goquorum/en/latest/concepts/gas-enabled-network/

• Enable gas price #1446
• configurable gas limit #1448

Transitions

Further enhancements have been made to transitions config to make it easier to manage and change your network over time. You can now manipulate the following configurations at any block height using transitions:

• algorithm ( qbft/ibft )
• epochLength ( Number of blocks that should pass before pending validator votes are reset )
• blockPeriodSeconds ( Minimum time between two consecutive IBFT or QBFT blocks’ timestamps )
• emptyBlockPeriodSeconds ( Minimum time between two consecutive IBFT or QBFT a block and empty block’ timestamps )
• requestTimeoutSeconds ( Minimum request timeout for each IBFT or QBFT round )
• contractSizeLimit ( Maximum smart contract code size in kb)
• validatorContractAddress ( Smart contract address for list of validators )
• validatorSelectionMode ( Validator selection mode to switch )
• enhancedPermissioningEnabled ( aka QIP714Block )
• privacyEnhancementsEnabled ( privacy enhancements (mandatory party, private state validation) )
• PrivacyPrecompileEnabled ( enable marker transactions support )
• gasPriceEnabled ( enable gas price )
• miner.gasLimit ( Miner gas ceiling limit for each block)
• twoFPlusOneEnabled ( Ceil(2N/3) is the default you need to explicitly use 2F + 1 if migrating from an old network )
• transactionSizeLimit ( change the ceiling size of a transaction )

Note that you can enable and disable features, where as with previous release you could only enable a feature at a block height.

Fixes

• fix auto update refresh timer for token #1459
• chainId must be represented as a hex string #1461
• core/freezer - retry sync write to disk #1439
• Fix: Add conditions for the is Raft flag #1432
• Fix privacy precompile on eth/tracers/api.go #1427

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

• Maintain P2P connections active during sync #1417
• prevent quorum from starting if privacy is enabled and syncmode is not full #1399
• [Upgrade] Go-Ethereum release v1.10.2 #1391

Fixes

• fix logic issue: handlers.removePeer() is called twice (apply bsc856) #1422
• Fix privacy precompile on eth/tracers/api.go #1427
• Maintain P2P connections active during sync #1417
• fix logic issue: handlers.removePeer() is called twice (apply bsc856) #1422
• Only fall through to backend on legacy protocols #1412
• Fix up issue with Istanbul not call calling eth sub-protocol #1411

Fixes

• Fix up issue with Istanbul not call calling eth sub-protocol #1411

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

• Allow management of validators list with a smart contract #1381
• qlight token manager plugin #1380

Fixes

• Fix signing typed transactions with plugin accounts #1388
• fix null pointer exception #1384
• consolidate empty wal entries error logs in one warning #1393
• istanbulConfig.RequestTimeout is stored in milliseconds #1394

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

• [Upgrade] Go-Ethereum release v1.10.1 #1375
• Feat: transition of contract size limit #1376

❗ Berlin Hard Fork ❗

When upgrading to this version you can specify berlinBlock in your genesis and run geth init again. The block height should be set sufficiently enough the future to allow all nodes to upgrade. This will be mandatory in future releases for some features to continue working.

https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/03/08/ethereum-berlin-upgrade-announcement/

What's Changed

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

QLight server and client implementation #1363

Note: This is an early access feature allowing node operators to offer a lightweight replica of a node, transactions are proxied through to the server. The qlight node can be used for a number of use cases:

• Anything that could thrash the API (monitoring, state querying etc). Thus avoiding impact to main nodes which are processing transactions.
• Security concerns where the main node is handling multiple private parties (multi-tenant). The qlight client will deal with private state for one party only, and only that user will have access to the qlight client.

ibft/qbft transition support #1371 #1357

Added support for consensus transitions allowing consensus variables to be changed at a block height.
Add new genesis config attributes "ibft" and "qbft" this also brings our genesis config into closer alignment with hyperledger/besu

Fixes

• Fix: update transitions for old config #1373
• Bump github.com/mattn/go-isatty from 0.0.10 to 0.0.14 #1361
• Bump github.com/rjeczalik/notify from 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 #1345
• Bump github.com/golang/protobuf from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2 #1349

What's Changed

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

Private state shared cache optimisations

This results in less writes to disk, full details in the pr https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1353

Fixes

• fix: test dumpconfig and TOML read https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1316
• fix: revert reason for private enhanced tx https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1315
• Fix concurrent maps modifications and seg faults https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1331
• fix: ibft1 version for support of besu https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1333
• Upgrade go version and enforce go mod tidy https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1337
• p2p/nat: skip TestUPNP in non-CI environments if discover fails (#22877) https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1341
• Update dependabot alerts daily https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1342
• Bump github.com/go-stack/stack from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1344
• Bump github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog from 0.13.0 to 1.1.0 https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/pull/1347

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ConsenSys/quorum/compare/v22.1.0...v22.1.1

Binaries

🎉 Enhancements 🎉

• [Upgrade] Go-Ethereum release v1.10.0 #1249

As this is a major release of Go-Ethereum we decided to separate it out into its own release.

⚠️ Breaking Changes ⚠️

Before you upgrade ensure that you have understood the changes required.

Particular attention needs to be paid to flag deprecatons and chained enforcement

More details can be found at:

https://consensys.net/docs/goquorum/en/latest/deploy/upgrade/migration/#upgrade-to-goquorum-2210

https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/03/03/geth-v1-10-0/

This release is a maintenance release.

Fixes

• Fix issue with inconsistent private state root when using MPS with PMT. #1283

This release is a maintenance release.

Fixes

• Fix concurrency errors when there is high load #1302 (thanks to @baptiste-b-pegasys @frankie-lim-sweeho for investigating)
• Update packages to fix issues identified by cve db #1303
• Remove warn log when receiving pre-prepare msg for future block #1280
• Unit test for deadlock detection when testQBFTBlock is set to 1 #1272

Enhancements

• IBFT: Ensure that Committed Seal is not zero value #1118
• [Upgrade] Go-Ethereum release v1.9.25 #1223
• Standalone node MPS DB Upgrade #1240
• replace crypto secp256k1 #1260
• Send transactions to all peers instead of a sub-set #1261
• Contract extension with mandatory recipients #1252
• Support mandatory recipients #1243
• Protect ProposerPolicy Registry using Mutex #1242
• Prefetch next block to warm up Private State #1238

Fixes

• Upstream merge fixes #1273
• Receipt unit test was not checking QuorumReceiptExtraData in PSReceipt #1266
• Fix private receipt of privacy marker transaction #1253
• fix: upgradebot: git configured so git merge works #1250
• fix: flacky unit test #1248
• fix: null pointer when error occurs #1239

Other

• Unit test for deadlock detection when testQBFTBlock is set to 1 #1272
• typo: change whitelist to autorization list #1257
• feat: add build sentinel job in the build workflow #1256
• Document setRawTransactionPrivateFrom with unit tests #1245
• Refactorisation: use a global Quorum Chain Config to avoid mutability #1228

Binaries

This release's main highlight is the addition of a new format for private transactions basing on a pre-compiled smart contract. This new approach allows extending obfuscated fields of a private transaction

This feature addition is not a breaking change and won’t impact normal (standard & enhanced) private transaction processing

Enhancements

• 🎉 [Privacy Precompile]: enables private transactions with extended obfuscated fields #1234
• Amend IntrinsicGas calculation for Privacy Marker Transaction to use actual payload hash, instead of hardcoded value #1236

Fixes

• fix: null pointer when error occurs #1239

Other

• Extend acceptance tests executed, and also on the master branch #1230