Ethereum (Go) - v1.14.2

This is a maintenance release containing bug-fixes. In case you are wondering where v1.14.1 went, let's just say, the continuous integration gods have not been good to us.

List of changes in detail:

Geth

• When using geth --dev with a custom genesis block, the genesis file must now set difficulty and terminal total difficulty to zero. (#29579)
• For fork scheduling errors in geth init, fork timestamps will now be printed correctly. (#29514)
• Certain aspects of state handling are now parallelized resulting in a 5-10% speedup for block processing. (#29681)

RPC

• eth_feeHistory was changed to apply a limit on the number of requested percentiles (#29644)
• eth_createAccessList now honors request cancellation and terminates background work (#29686)
• eth_estimateGas takes tx blobs into account for low-balance scenarios (#29703)

Tracing

• The live tracing interface has new hooks around EVM system calls (#29355)
• flatCallTracer was fixed to return the correct error result when interrupted (#29623)

Build

• This release is built with Go 1.22.3 (#29725)
• We no longer provide deb packages for Ubunty 14.04 Trusty Tahr (#29651, #29649, #29648, #29647)
• CI builders have been updated to Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat (#29723)

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.14.1 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.