We are upgrading our Ethereum Reth infrastructure from v2.5.2 to v2.9.0. This upgrade combines four releases of improvements. It includes a new EVM implementation (evm2) that makes block execution about 10% faster, faster historical-state and trace queries, and several RPC correctness fixes. No hard fork is involved, and users do not need to take any action. During the maintenance window, brief interruptions to RPC availability may occur.
RPC Changes: - eth_getProof — fixed. Proof responses now match the Ethereum execution-apis specification. - eth_call / eth_estimateGas — fixed. When the node works out how much gas a caller can afford, it now reserves blob fees from the account balance. - eth_estimateGas — changed. Estimates are now capped at the node's RPC gas cap. - eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas — changed. The fee oracle now ignores transactions with a tip below 2 wei, so the suggested priority fee no longer drops to 0. This matches Geth. - trace_* (Parity-style) — changed. Output now matches other clients: - Deleted accounts report empty stateDiff storage. - vmTrace ops and subs include only operations that actually executed. - Reverted CREATE calls return {gasUsed, output} without an address. - trace_callMany / trace_filter — changed. trace_callMany without a block parameter and trace_filter without block bounds now default to latest. If you need pending state or a historical range, specify the block or range explicitly. - trace_get — fixed. Results are now selected by trace tree path. Replaying a missing transaction returns null.