Trinity¶

Unreleased (latest source)¶

#400: Bugfix: Respect configuration of individual logger (e.g -l p2p.discovery=ERROR)
#386: Slightly reduce eventbus traffic that the peer pool causes
#336: Bugfix: Ensure Trinity shuts down if the process pool dies (fatal error)

0.1.0-alpha.23¶

Released 2019-02-28

#337: Feature: Support for ConstantinopleV2 aka Petersburg aka ConstantinopleFix
#270: Performance: Persist information on peers between runs
#268: Maintenance: Add more bootnodes, use all the Geth and Parity bootnodes
#263: Performance: Upgrade to lahja 0.11.0 and get rid of EventBus coordinator process
#227: Bugfix: Do not accidentially create many processes that sit idle
#227: Tests: Cover APIs that also hit the database in trinity attach tests
#155: Feature: Disable syncing entirely with –sync-mode none
#155: Feature: Allow running –sync-mode full directly
#155: Feature: Allow plugins to extend –sync-mode with different strategies
#236: Performance: Quicker pruning of in-memory headers, was a leading asyncio bottleneck
#236: Bugfix: Several reliability improvements during sync

0.1.0-alpha.22¶

Released Jan 15, 2019

#176: Delay Constantinople upgrade

0.1.0-alpha.20¶

Released December 13, 2018

#1579: Feature: Full Constantinople support, with all* tests passing
#1590: Performance: CodeStream speedup
#1576: Bugfix: require recent enough py-ecc to avoid busted py-ecc release (see #1572)
#1577: Maintenance: Show state diffs on all state failures (see #1573)
#1570: Maintenance: Cleanup sporadic unclean shutdown of peer request
#1580: Maintenance: The logged delta in expected vs actual account balance was backwards
#1573: Maintenance: Display state diffs on failing tests, for much easier EVM debugging
#1567: Performance: Reduce event bus traffic by enabling point-to-point communication
#1569: Bugfix: Increase Kademlia timeouts to work on high-latency networks
#1530: Maintenance: Rename logging level from trace (reserved for EVM tracing) to debug2
#1553: Maintenance: Dynamically tune peer timeouts with historical latency (also #1583)
#1560: Bugfix: Constantinople CREATE2 gas usage
#1559: Feature: Mainnet configuration now defaults to Constantinople rules at 7080000
#1557: Docs: Clarify that local plugins must be installed with -e
#1538: Maintenance: Variety of dependency resolution warning cleanups
#1549: Maintenance: Separate Plugin space for trinity and trinity-beacon
#1554: Maintenance: Enable asynchronous iterators that can be cancelled by a service
#1523: Maintenance: Much faster testing of valid PoW chains
#1536: Maintenance: Add trinity-beacon command as a placeholder for future Beacon Chain
#1500: Performance: Be smarter about validating the bloom filter, to avoid duplicate hashing
#1537: Maintenance: Use new event bus feature to avoid the old hack for clean shutdown
#1544: Docs: Quickstart fix – use trinity attach instead of console
#1541: Docs: Simplify and de-duplicate readme
#1533: Bugfix: Light chain data lookups regressed during genesis file feature. Fixed
#1524: Bugfix: Validate header chain continuity during light sync
#1528: Maintenance: Computation code reorg and gas logging bugfix
#1522: Bugfix: Increase the system recursion limit for EVM requirements, but never decrease it
#1519: Docs: Document why we must spawn instead of fork on linux (spoiler: asyncio)
#1516: Maintenance: Add test for trinity attach
#1299: Feature: Launch via custom genesis file (See EIP proposal)
#1496: Bugfix: Regular chain sync crash
The research team has started adding Beacon Chain code to the underlying py-evm repo. It’s all a work in progress, but for those who like to follow along:
- #1508: Rework Eth2.0 Types
- #1543: Beacon Chain network commands and protocol scaffolding
- #1521: Rework helper functions - part 1
- #1552: Beacon Chain protocol class and handshake
- #1555: Rename data structures and constants
- #1563: Rework helper functions - part 2
- #1574: Beacon block request handler

0.1.0-alpha.18,19¶

That sound you make when you burp in the middle of a hiccup. Hiccurp?

0.1.0-alpha.17¶

Released November 20, 2018

#1488: Bugfix: Bugfix for state sync to limit the number of open files.
#1478: Maintenance: Improve logging messages during fast sync to include performance metrics
#1476: Bugfix: Ensure that network connections are properly close when a peer doesn’t successfully complete the handshake.
#1474: Bugfix: EthStats fix for displaying correct uptime metrics
#1471: Maintenance: Upgrade mypy to 0.641
#1469: Maintenance: Add logging to show when fast sync has completed.
#1467: Bugfix: Don’t add peers which disconnect during the boot process to the peer pool.
#1465: Bugfix: Proper handling for when SIGTERM is sent to the main Trinity process.
#1463: Bugfix: Better handling for bad server responses by EthStats client.
#1443: Maintenance: Merge the --nodekey and --nodekey-path flags.
#1438: Bugfix: Remove warnings when printing the ASCII Trinity header
#1437: Maintenance: Update to use f-strings for string formatting
#1435: Maintenance: Enable Constantinople fork on Ropsten chain
#1434: Bugfix: Fix incorrect mainnet genesis parameters.
#1421: Maintenance: Implement eth_syncing JSON-RPC endpoint
#1410: Maintenance: Implement EIP1283 for updated logic for SSTORE opcode gas costs.
#1395: Bugfix: Fix gas cost calculations for CREATE2 opcode
#1386: Maintenance: Trinity now prints a message to make it more clear why Trinity was shutdown.
#1387: Maintenance: Use colorized output for WARNING and ERROR level logging messages.
#1378: Bugfix: Fix address generation for CREATE2 opcode.
#1374: Maintenance: New ChainTipMonitor service to keep track of the highest TD chain tip.
#1371: Maintenance: Upgrade mypy to 0.630
#1367: Maintenance: Improve logging output to include more contextual information
#1361: Maintenance: Remove HeaderRequestingPeer in favor of BaseChainPeer
#1353: Maintenance: Decouple peer message handling from syncing.
#1351: Bugfix: Unhandled DecryptionError
#1348: Maintenance: Add default server URIs for mainnet and ropsten.
#1347: Maintenance: Improve code organization within trinity module
#1343: Bugfix: Rename Chain.network_id to be Chain.chain_id
#1342: Maintenance: Internal rename of ChainConfig to TrinityConfig
#1336: Maintenance: Implement plugin for EthStats reporting.
#1335: Maintenance: Relax some constraints on the ordered task management constructs.
#1332: Maintenance: Upgrade pyrlp to 1.0.3
#1317: Maintenance: Extract peer selection from the header sync.
#1312: Maintenance: Turn on warnings by default if in a prerelease

0.1.0-alpha.16¶

Released September 27, 2018

#1332: Bugfix: Comparing rlp objects across processes used to fail sporadically, because of a changing object hash (fixed by upgrading pyrlp to 1.0.3)
#1326: Maintenance: Squash a stack trace in the logs when a peer sends us an invalid public key during handshake
#1325: Bugfix: When switching to a new peer to sync headers, it might have started from too far behind the tip, and get stuck
#1327: Maintenance: Squash some log warnings from trying to make a request to a peer (or receive a response) while it is shutting down
#1321: Bugfix: Address a couple race condition exceptions when syncing headers from a new peer, and other downstream processing is in progress
#1316: Maintenance: Reduce size of images in documentation
#1313: Maintenance: Remove miscellaneous things that are generating python warnings (eg~ using deprecated methods)
#1279: Reliability: Atomically persist when storing: a block, a chain of headers, or a cluster of trie nodes
#1304: Maintenance: Refactor AtomicDB to return an explict database instance to write into
#1296: Maintenance: Require new AtomicDB in chain and header DB layers
#1295: Maintenance: New AtomicDB interface to enable a batch of atomic writes (all succeed or all fail)
#1290: Bugfix: more graceful recovery when re-launching sync on a fork
#1277: Maintenance: add a cancellable call_later to all services
#1226: Performance: enable multiple peer requests to a single fast peer when other peers are slow
#1254: Bugfix: peer selection when two peers have exactly the same throughput
#1253: Maintenance: prefer f-string formatting in p2p, trinity code

0.1.0-alpha.15¶

#1249: Misc bugfixes for fast sync reliability.
#1245: Improved exception messaging for BaseService
#1244: Use time.perf_counter or time.monotonic over time.time
#1242: Bugfix: Unhandled MalformedMessage.
#1235: Typo cleanup.
#1236: Documentation cleanup
#1237: Code cleanup
#1232: Bugfix: Correctly enforce timeouts on peer requests and add lock mechanism to support concurrency.
#1229: CI cleanup
#1228: Merge KademliaProtocol and DiscoveryProtocol
#1225: Expand peer stats tracking
#1221: Implement Discovery V5 Protocol
#1219: Re-organize and document fixture filler tools
#1214: Implement BaseService.is_operational.
#1210: Convert sync to use streaming queue instead of batches.
#1209: Chain Builder tool
#1205: Bugfix: ExchangeHandler stats crash
#1204: Consensus bugfix for uncle validation
#1151: Change to import_block to return chain re-organization data.
#1197: Increase wait time for database IPC socket.
#1194: Unify ValidationError to use eth-utils exception class.
#1190: Improved testing for peer authentication
#1189: Detect crashed sub-services and exit
#1179: LightNode now uses Server for incoming peer connections.
#1182: Convert fix-unclean-shutdown CLI command to be a plugin

0.1.0-alpha.14¶

#1081 #1115 #1116: Reduce logging output during state sync.
#1063 #1035 #1089 #1131 #1132 #1138 #1149 #1159: Implement round trip request/response API.
#1094 #1124: Make the node processing during state sync more async friendly.
#1097: Keep track of which peers are missing trie nodes during state sync.
#1109 #1135: Python 3.7 testing and experimental support.
#1136 #1120: Module re-organization in preparation of extracting p2p and trinity modules.
#1137: Peer subscriber API now supports specifying specific msg types to reduce msg queue traffic.
#1142 #1165: Implement JSON-RPC endpoints for: eth_estimateGas, eth_accounts, eth_call
#1150 #1176: Better handling of malformed messages from peers.
#1157: Use shared pool of workers across all services.
#1158: Support specifying granular logging levels via CLI.
#1161: Use a tmpfile based LevelDB database for cache during state sync to reduce memory footprint.
#1166: Latency and performance tracking for peer requests.
#1173: Better APIs for background task running for Service classes.
#1182: Convert fix-unclean-shutdown command to be a plugin.

0.1.0-alpha.13¶

Remove specified eth-account dependency in favor of allowing web3.py specify the correct version.

0.1.0-alpha.12¶

#1058 #1044: Add fix-unclean-shutdown CLI command for cleaning up after a dirty shutdown of the trinity CLI process.
#1041: Bugfix for ensuring CPU count for process pool is always greater than 0
#1010: Performance tuning during fast sync. Only check POW on a subset of the received headers.
#996 Experimental new Plugin API: Both the transaction pool and the console and attach commands are now written as plugins.
#898: New experimental transaction pool. Disabled by default. Enable with --tx-pool. (warning: has known issues that effect sync performance)
#935: Protection against eclipse attacks.
#869: Ensure connected peers are on the same side of the DAO fork.

Minor Changes

#1081: Reduce DEBUG log output during state sync.
#1071: Minor fix for how version string is generated for trinity
#1070: Easier profiling of ChainSyncer
#1068: Optimize evm.db.chain.ChainDB.persist_block for common case.
#1057: Additional DEBUG logging of peer uptime and msg stats.
#1049: New integration test suite for trinity CLI
#1045 #1051: Bugfix for generation of block numbers for GetBlockHeaders requests.
#1011: Workaround for parity bug parity #8038
#987: Now serving requests from peers during fast sync.
#971 #909 #650: Benchmarking test suite.
#968: When launching console and attach commands, check for presence of IPC socket and log informative message if not found.
#934: Decouple the Discovery and PeerPool services.
#913: Add validation of retrieved contract code when operating in --light mode.
#908: Bugfix for transitioning from syncing chain data to state data during fast sync.
#905: Support for multiple UPNP devices.

0.1.0-alpha.11¶

Bugfix for PreferredNodePeerPool to respect max_peers

0.1.0-alpha.10¶

More bugfixes to enforce --max-peers in PeerPool._connect_to_nodes

0.1.0-alpha.9¶

Bugfix to enforce --max-peers for incoming connections.

0.1.0-alpha.7¶

Remove min_peers concept from PeerPool
Add --max-peers and enforcement of maximum peer connections maintained by the PeerPool.

0.1.0-alpha.6¶

Respond to GetBlockHeaders message during fast sync to prevent being disconnected as a useless peer.
Add --profile CLI flag to Trinity to enable profiling via cProfile
Better error messaging with Trinity cannot determine the appropriate location for the data directory.
Handle ListDeserializationError during handshake.
Add net_version JSON-RPC endpoint.
Add web3_clientVersion JSON-RPC endpoint.
Handle rlp.DecodingError during handshake.