Mainnet 10 - v0.18.4

⭐ Features

Improved and updated the Sealing and Verification logic to more fully involve the Verification nodes in the Sealing process

🛠 Improvements

Cadence Updates

• Update to Cadence v0.18.0 (#844) @turbolent
• Auto Cadence Update: Language Server NPM package: Add support for Node environment, add tests (#834) @turbolent
• Auto Cadence Update: Multiple PRs (#819) @turbolent
• Auto Cadence Update: Remove the result declaration kind (#827) @turbolent
• Auto Cadence Update: Fix AST walk for transaction declaration (#821) @turbolent
• Auto Cadence Update: Update for changes in Flowkit API (#815) @turbolent
• Auto Cadence Update: Disable the wasmtime VM for now (#812) @turbolent
• Add auto-cadence-upgrade branch to CI (#797) @janezpodhostnik
• Auto Cadence Update: Improve sync flow_go action (#796) @turbolent
• [FVM] Crypto Cadence updates (#795) @janezpodhostnik
• Update to Cadence v0.17.0 (#789) @turbolent

Crypto Updates

• Update the crypto lib version (#817) @tarakby
• Crypto update (#802) @tarakby
• And non relic bls stubs (#801) @janezpodhostnik
• Add additional crypto tests (#787) @janezpodhostnik
• BLS signature verification (#768) @janezpodhostnik
• KMAC hashing (#767) @janezpodhostnik
• add a sentinel error for invalid inputs (#753) @tarakby

Metrics and Monitoring

• [Verification] Logging block height on chunk processing pipeline (#856) @yhassanzadeh13
• [Execution] Expose more execution/fvm metrics (#813) @ramtinms
• [Networking] Adding logging around libp2p one-to-one stream management (#785) @vishalchangrani
• [Collection] Add Metric to Track Greatest Epoch Final View (#698) @danuio

General Improvments

• [Execution] Epoch service events (#799) @m4ksio
• [Execution] Add pause execution flag (#857) @zhangchiqing
• [Execution] Upgrade flow-core-contracts version (#829) @janezpodhostnik
• [Consensus] Concurrent pruning (#828) @zhangchiqing
• [Verification] rolls-in persistent architecture (#728) @yhassanzadeh13
• [Consensus] Pruning sealing mempool by height (#818) @zhangchiqing
• [Execution] Report transaction computation usage (#667) @ramtinms
• [Networking] making the peer update interval configurable via a command line argum… (#803) @vishalchangrani
• [Networking] Skipping pruning of connections which have ongoing one-to-one traffic (#800) @vishalchangrani
• [FVM] Implement FVM ValidatePublicKey (#788) @janezpodhostnik
• [Networking] Upgrading libp2p to version v0.14.1 (#782) @vishalchangrani
• [Execution] Delivery chunk data pack response async (#771) @zhangchiqing
• [Consensus] Approval Processing Core -> Sealing Core (#736) @durkmurder
• [FVM] prefixed hashers and a few changes (#781) @tarakby
• [FVM] Move create account to direct function call (#749) @janezpodhostnik
• [Consensus] Repopulating of assignment collectors tree (#765) @durkmurder
• [FVM] FVM refactor - blueprints (#713) @ramtinms
• [Verification] Adds integration test for retrying chunk data pack requests (#763) @yhassanzadeh13
• [Consensus] Approval processing engine suggestions (#769) @AlexHentschel
• [Consensus] Repopulating of execution tree on startup (#660) @durkmurder
• [Access] Removing node version from ping metric (#759) @vishalchangrani
• [Verification] adds checking chunk data response collection ID against block payload (#737) @yhassanzadeh13
• [Verification] extends integration tests for resource cleanup (#752) @yhassanzadeh13
• [FVM] Meta-transaction context refactor (#730) @janezpodhostnik

🐞 Bug Fixes

• [Networking] Fixing stream reset bug (#832) @vishalchangrani
• [Networking] Make unicast message timeout configurable via command line argument (#849) @vishalchangrani
• [Verification] Fixing notifier id at fetcher (#850) @yhassanzadeh13
• [Consensus] Fix QC generation in bootstrap when non-internal nodes are present (#755) @jordanschalm
• [Cadence] convert non UTF-8 cadence error to a UTF-8 error (#779) @vishalchangrani

Misc.

• Improve tagging logic if commit has more than 1 tag (#816) @Kay-Zee
• Ignore coverage.txt (#791) @jordanschalm
• Integration test fix for PR 736 (#780) @AlexHentschel
• Cannot use -l as a flag, therefore just use --light (#764) @Kay-Zee
• Add coverage workflow (#709) @Kay-Zee