Release Rayingri (v1.14.8) · ethereum/go-ethereum

This is a maintenance release with bug fixes only.

Blobpool related flags in Geth now actually work. (#30203)
The evm run command no longer overwrites the sender account in genesis.json. (#30259)
evm run now allows configuring baseFeePerGas in genesis.json. (#30281)

core/types.Transaction.ChainID had a bug where it modified the signature for very large ChainID (>= 2^64). (#30157)
ethclient.Client.NetworkID now supports values returned in hex format by the server. (#30263)
ethclient/simulated.Backend.AdjustTime was fixed to apply the correct time divison. (#30138)
accounts/abi/bind.TransactOpts now supports setting an access list for created transactions. (#30195)
The package p2p/simulations has been removed. (#30250)

A snap-sync database corruption related to sync restarts is fixed in this release. (#30258)
eth_call storage overrides now work as originally intended: if a storage replacement object is specified in the call, previous storage values of the account are cleared. (#30185)
The txpool did not use the transaction's inline sender cache in some cases. (#30208)
The performance of EVM stack swaps was improved a bit. (#30249)

The downloader now takes withdrawals into account when sizing its queue. (#30276)
The new discovery node revalidation could hot-spin in certain rare scenarios. (#30239)
Configuring an external IP using --nat=extip:... could lead to invalid discovery packets being generated. (#30234)

github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec has been upgraded to resolve a build error caused by upstream API changes. (#30181)
Previous releases will not build with Go 1.23, but this one will. (#30253)
This release is built with Go 1.22.6. (#30273)

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.14.8 release milestone.

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