v0.16.0

What Changed

Important

Node operators must upgrade Base Mainet nodes to v0.16.0 by 28th May to support Base Azul. See here for more information.

• As part of this upgrade, support for all clients except for base-reth-node and base-consensus have been dropped. See here for migration details.
• This release updates base-consensus and base-reth-node to 0.9.0 to support Base Azul.

v0.15.6

What's Changed

Note

This release updates base/base to 0.8.0.

This release updates base-consensus and base-reth-node to 0.8.0. This improves execution and consensus peering reliability on Base Sepolia.

v0.15.5

What's Changed

Note

This release updates base/base to 0.7.6.

This release contains a fix to eth_estimateGas for Base Sepolia nodes that have activated Base Azu, as well as a bug fix for websocket engine connections. If you are not impacted by either of these issues, this is an optional update.

v0.15.4

What's Changed

Note

This release updates base/base to 0.7.5.

This release only contains a fix to base-consensus configurable L1 confirmation depth. If you're not setting the BASE_NODE_VERIFIER_L1_CONFS environment variable or specifying the --l1.verifier-confs cli flag, you do not need to upgrade to this release.

Full Changelog: v0.15.3...v0.15.4

v0.15.3

What's Changed

Note

This release updates base/base to 0.7.4.

Along with a number of fixes to base-consensus, this release adds a configurable L1 confirmation depth for the verifier derivation pipeline via --l1.verifier-confs cli flag or a BASE_NODE_VERIFIER_L1_CONFS environment variable.

Full Changelog: v0.15.2...v0.15.3

v0.15.2

What's Changed

Note

Fixes a small bug in base-consensus where the L2_ENGINE_RPC_URL didn't support websocket urls. Now, both ws:// and wss:// prefixed urls are supported by base-consensus.

Update Base to 0.7.3 in #1021.

Full Changelog: v0.15.1...v0.15.2

v0.15.1

Breaking Changes (same as v0.15.0)

Important

Node operators must upgrade Base Sepolia nodes to use base-node-reth and base-consensus by 20th April. See here for more information.

The default consensus layer client is now base-consensus. Geth and Nethermind will no longer be supported starting with Base v1.

Action required:

• Configure new BASE_NODE environment variables (see example env files)
• To temporarily opt out, set USE_BASE_CONSENSUS=false

Changes

• Switch all entrypoints to use base-consensus authentication (#1001)
• Add legacy OP node flag (#1002)

Full Changelog: v0.15.0...v0.15.1

v0.15.0

What Changed

Important

Node operators must upgrade Base Sepolia nodes to use base-node-reth and base-consensus by 20th April. See here for more information.

Client Updates

• Base v0.5.1 to v0.7.0: diff
• Nethermind 1.36.0 to 1.36.2: diff
• op-geth v1.101609.1 to v1.101702.0: diff
• op-node v1.16.7 to v1.16.11: diff

v0.14.9

Warning

This is a recommended release for Base Geth Nodes

• Node Client Updates
  op-geth - v1.101609.1: diff
  optimism - op-node/v1.16.7: diff

Full Changelog: v0.14.8...v0.14.9

v0.14.8

❗ Critical bug fix for Base Reth Node Operators

This release contains base reth v0.5.1 which fixes race condition between canonical & flashblock propagation, missing RPC fields and ws subscription.

What's Changed

• chore: remove unused op-reth repo by @meyer9 in #981
• feat: support proofs ExEx by @meyer9 in #980
• chore: updated base-reth to 0.5.1 by @github-actions[bot] in #969

Full Changelog: v0.14.7...v0.14.8