ethrex: v8.0.0
Highlights
Simplified Store API
Streamlined the storage backend interface, making it much easier and faster to add new store engine implementations.
Performance
Added parallelized account state merkleization to improve throughput in multi-core setups. We also exploited the fact that many transaction calls execute the same contract code, by adding a dedicated bytecode cache.
On the discovery side, we added discv4 ENR support to filter peers during discovery, allowing for lower resource usage, with improved peer discovery rate. Big thanks to our external contributors for driving this!
Metrics
We've been working on improving operator visibility by adding RPC error rate metrics and expanding peer/network ones both with dedicated rows and panels in Grafana. So networking health is easier to monitor. For more information about the latest state of our dashboards please take a look here.