Ampharos

v1.5.0-alpha.9 -- Ampharos -- is the alpha release for the coming Electra upgrade.

PR showing full diff can be found here: #3982

Bellatrix

• Synchronously check all transactions to have non-zero length #3885

Electra

• Separate type for unaggregated network attestations #3900
• Update validator spec to handle execution requests #3976
• Fix validator fields in get_validator_from_deposit #3978
• Fix withdrawals bug and add more tests #3979
• Rename index vars in get_attesting_indices #3996
• Exclude empty requests in requests list #3998
• Add missed exit checks to consolidation processing #4000
• Update initial earliest_exit_epoch calculation & add tests #4001
• Ensure non-zero bits for each committee bitfield comprising an aggregate #4002

EIP-7594 (PeerDAS)

• Rebase eip7594 onto Electra #3893
• Specify data column sidecar verification functions to run #3963
• Add MAX_BLOBS_PER_BLOCK_EIP7594 and corresponding configs #4008

Networking

• Deprecate TTFB, RESP_TIMEOUT, introduce rate limiting recommendations #3767

Testing, repo, etc

• Encode zero-length hex-strings with quotes #3754
• Avoid generating empty transactions in tests #3884
• Fix blob transaction serialization to use RLP #3904
• Move deposit contract rules to its own Makefile #3940
• Add new check_mods function for generators #3970
• In README, move outdated specs to new section #3973
• Fix invalid file references in markdown files #3975
• Add misc beacon chain operations tests #3980
• Add more epoch processing tests #3984
• Add gen-modcheck CI check #3986
• Add more transition tests #3990
• Fix all pytest warnings #3989
• Upgrade pylint & split config files #3991
• Add test to check that pending deposits are sorted at fork #3995