Ethereum (Go) - v1.13.3

Geth v1.13.3 is a scheduled maintenance release with various small additions and an important Pebble database fix.

• Update Pebble to fix an occasional IO and CPU runaway, adding some debugging capabilities too (#28224, #28070).
• Support full syncing to a specific hash without a beacon client via a --synctarget (#28209).
• Allow configuring websocket message limits via the Go RPC client (#27801).
• Drop support for eth/66 (Cancun will require eth/68 anyway) (#28239).
• Lower snap missing eth protocol warning to debug level (#28249).
• Enforce transaction metadata announcements in eth/68 (#28261).

Features related to the Cancun hardfork:

• Implement the BLOBFEE opcode for the upcoming Cancun hard fork (#28098).
• Enable blob transaction propagation and mining in Cancun networks (#28243).
• Start throttling transaction retrievals to prepare for blobs in Cancun (#28304).

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.13.3 release milestone.

As with all our previous releases, you can find the:

• Pre-built binaries for all platforms on our downloads page.
• Docker images published under ethereum/client-go.
• Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA repository.
• OSX packages in our Homebrew Tap repository.