release: prepare for release v1.3.8

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Description

Release v1.3.8 is a maintenance release with several enhancements, here is the summary of these updates that may interest the BSC users:

• Golang to v1.21 will be needed to compile
• a new tool to inspect the trie storage
• some improvements on P2P module
• some fix ups of RPC, PBSS, PebbleDB, consensus
• improve UX, sync with BSC mainnet by default, no need to init genesis block any more
• LES protocol has been removed, since light node can not work right now.
• increase the SystemTxsGas reservation from 1,500,000 to 5,000,000

Change Log

FEATURE

• #2074 faucet: new faucet client
• #2082 cmd/dbcmd: add inspect trie tool
• #2140 eth/fetcher: allow underpriced transactions in after timeout
• #2115 p2p: no peer reconnect if explicitly disconnected
• #2128 go.mod: upgrade prysm to support built with [email protected]
• #2151 feat: enable NoDial should still dial static nodes
• #2144 p2p: reset disconnect set with magic enode ID

BUGFIX

• #2095 rpc: fix ns/µs mismatch in metrics
• #2083 triedb/pathdb: fix async node buffer diskroot mismatches when journaling
• #2120 ethdb/pebble: cap memory table size as maxMemTableSize-1
• #2107 cmd/geth: fix parse state scheme
• #2121 parlia: fix verifyVoteAttestation when verify a batch of headers
• #2132 core: fix systemcontracts.GenesisHash when run bsc firstly without init

IMPROVEMENT

• #2099 params/config: remove useless toml tag for hardforks
• #2100 core/genesis: support chapel to run without geth init
• #2101 core: add metrics for bad block
• #2109 cmd/geth: tidy flags for geth command
• #1953 build(deps): bump github.com/docker/docker
• #2086 build(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.12.0 to 0.17.0
• #2106 params: use rialto to test builtin network logic
• #2098 cmd, les, tests: remove light client code
• #2114 p2p: add serve metrics
• #2123 p2p, eth: improve logs
• #2116 tests: revive evm test cases
• #2161 code: remove IsEuler check from worker.go
• #2167 improve: increase SystemTxsGas from 1,500,000 to 5,000,000
• #2172 improve: remove sharedpool from miner
• #1332 core/state: no need to prune block if the same

Example

NA

Compatibility

NA

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LGTM

[RenRick]

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