Ethereum (Go) - v1.13.9

This release fixes a few issues and enables the Cancun upgrade for the Goerli network at block timestamp 1705473120 (#28719) which is 9:30am 10. Jan. 2024 UTC.

:warning: If you are running Goerli, this is a required update!

Apart from the Goerli configuration update, we have a few other changes.

• The 'simulated backend' in package accounts/abi/backends was rewritten. The improved version is available from the new package ethclient/simulated. A backwards-compatibility wrapper remains in the old location. (#28202)
• Fix ABI-encoding of negative big.Int in topics (#28764)
• In JSON logging output, the "error" level is now correctly emitted as "error". (#28774, #28780)
• Fixed an issue with configuration of stdlib package log for consumers of the geth library (#28747)
• geth removedb can now be run non-interactively (#28725)
• We're building a package for ubuntu 23.10: mantic minotaur now (#28728)

Testing

• Add currentExcessBlobGas to the state tests for better coverage of state tests (#28735)
• Fixed an issue in t8n regarding blob gas usage (#28735)

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.13.9 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.