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- EVM performance - tripled Gas Per Second through a number of enhancements
- EVM Compliance - updated code to handle nonce limits
- Reference Tests - bright ref tests to current revision
- Consulted for shadowfork consensus break
- Preliminary design discussions with karim Karim to validate checkpointing in sync.
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- Update reference tests to the latest version and include test for gray glacier
- Gray glacier hard fork
- fcU: Remove check if new finalized is descendant from the previous one
- EngineForkchoiceUpdated: Verify if payload attributes are valid
- Subcommand blocks import throws execptionexception
- Acceptance test for execution engine apis
- MERGE: Rename field random to prevRandao
- MERGE: Rename opcode RANDOM to PREVRANDAO
- MERGE: Add Kiln test vectors
- MERGE: Implement engine_exchangeTransitionConfigurationV1 API
- MERGE: extend semantics of executePayload / newPayload method
- Change payloadId of engine_forkchoiceUpdatedV1 API to fixed 8 bytes
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- Feature: "The Merge" switch to PoS
- Extend block parameter methods to accept 'finalized' and 'safe' as block tags
- Do not require a minimum block height when downloading headers or blocks
- Allow to backward sync to request headers back to last finalized block if present or genesis
- Replace deprecated INVALID_TERMINAL_BLOCK with INVALID lvh 0x0
- Stop backward sync if genesis block has been reached
- Fix sync terminal condition, that should stop on difficulty >= TTD
- Make pandas thread safe
- Fix: getMixHashOrPrevRandao to return the value present in the block header
- Stop the BlockPropagationManager when it receives the TTD reached event
- Fast sync with merge
- Persist last finalized block hash, prerequisite for The Merge
- Extend validateAndProcessBlock to return an error message in case of …
- refactor MergeCoordinator executeBlock to return validation reason
- Persist last finalized block hash
- Feature: transactions synchronization improvements
- Feature: JSON RPC response streaming
- Code improvements
- Fix: block propagation and synchronization
- Various
Features for "The Merge" that I ported on the main branch, but have been originally written by others developers from Consensys ConsenSys on the merge branch.
Code for the following PRs was written by Gary Schulte Justin Florentine Daniel Lehrner Jiri Peinlich
- Execution specific RPC endpoint
- Add components to handle the transition from PoW to PoS
- Add The Merge core components
- Add header validation rules needed to validate The Merge blocks
- Add PostMergeContext that will stop syncing after the swith switch to PoS
- Rename MergeOptions to MergeConfigOptions to follow the standard
- New MutableBlockchain method rewindToBlock by hash prerequisite for T…
- Merge: extend block creation and mining to support The Merge
- Merge: port of backward sync
- Merge: add terminal block number and hash to genesis config options
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Query for mainnet label on closed issues: closed PRs https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issuespulls?page=2&q=is%3Aissueis%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+label%3Amainnet+author%3Amacfarla
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Details on mainnet contributions
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- Trace APIs - implement the remaining endpoints - worked with frankisawesome, mark-terry and pinges on these
Details on mainnet contributions
- feature X - link to issue/PR
- feature Y - linkinvestigate bug - link to issue
- bugs
- CI improvements
- code review - link