v1.32.3

Release notes

Important

This release is a mandatory upgrade for all node operators of the Energy Web Chain.

The Zurich hard-fork of EWC is set to the block number 36871000, which is expected to occur in the UTC afternoon of August 5, 2025.

Major highlights

Addressed OOM issues during full and archive sync

More resilient syncing of Archive nodes with better memory management thanks to #8975

Fixed the issue with broken block processing thread when a block is suggested out of order

This is an edge case scenario, but with some consensus clients and under very rare circumstances, it tends to break the processing in #8683

Improved the general performance of a node and its stability

Improved peering and validation performance under heavy P2P demand (snapserving, mempool txs, etc) in #8968

Few extra changes which are improving overall node performance, like #8926, #8947, #8927

Additionally, whenever a node breaks via random database corruption, now Nethermind will shut down to ensure no further corruption of the database is happening, and with proper setup (via Docker, systemd, or in systems like DappNode), it may self-recover in a few minutes; in #8986

Full Changelog: 1.32.2...1.32.3