Changelog

Upcoming Breaking Changes

The /teku/v1/beacon/states/:state_id endpoint has been deprecated in favor of the standard API /eth/v1/debug/beacon/states/:state_id which now returns the state as SSZ when the Accept: application/octet-stream header is specified on the request.
The /eth/v1/debug/beacon/states/:state_id endpoint has been deprecated in favor of the v2 Altair endpoint /eth/v2/debug/beacon/states/:state_id
The /eth/v1/beacon/blocks/:block_id endpoint has been deprecated in favor of the v2 Altair endpoint /eth/v2/beacon/blocks/:block_id
The /eth/v1/validator/blocks/:slot endpoint has been deprecated in favor of the v2 Altair endpoint /eth/v2/validator/blocks/:slot
The commandline option --validators-performance-tracking-enabled has been deprecated in favour of --validators-performance-tracking-mode

For information on changes in released versions of Teku, see the releases page.

Support for the Pyrmont testnet has been removed. The Prater testnet should be used instead.

Added support for exporting metrics to an external consumer with --metrics-publish-endpoint.

Improved handling of the http accept header used to determine whether to send SSZ data or json for states and blocks.
Updated discovery library with improved performance.
Updated libp2p library to respect message list limits when sending messages.
Fixed issue on custom testnets with two forks in sequential epochs where the maximum gossip topic subscription limits were exceeded.
Fixed issue where /eth/v1/beacon/headers and /eth/v1/beacon/headers/:block_id would incorrectly return the block root in the body_root field.
Simplified chain head updates to resolve Skipping head block update to avoid potential rollback of the chain head warnings.