Release Rick Sanchez · sigp/lighthouse

This release marks Lighthouse transitioning into a production/stable development phase.

We recommend all users to upgrade to v1.0.0, especially if they're intending to stake with a genesis validator.

Summary

The mainnet genesis state has been included in the lighthouse binary.
The --testnet flag has been replaced with --network
- The default network has been changed from medalla to mainnet
The slasher has been added (see the docs)
Many other bug-fixes and improvements

Bump to v1.0.0, run cargo update
Add mainnet genesis state (#1959)
Remove experimental software warning (#1957)
Update security details in README (#1956)
Refine and test slashing protection semantics (#1885)
Add Prysm and Teku boot nodes (#1953)
Update validator guide for mainnet (#1951)
check if the slashing protection database is locked before creating keys (#1949)
Sync Bug fixes (#1950)
Change --testnet flag to --network (#1751)
Tweak slasher DB schema and pruning (#1948)
Implement slasher (#1567)
Improve UX whilst VC is waiting for genesis (#1915)
Add flag to import all attestations (#1941)
move sync state to the chains KV (#1940)
Fix race condition in seen caches (#1937)
Fix metrics http server error messages (#1946)
Expand eth1 block cache, add more logs (#1938)
Ensure deposit signatures do not use aggregate functions (#1935)
Move some rpc processing to the beacon_processor (#1936)
Add additional libp2p tests (#1867)
Document system requirements (#1934)
Add validation to kdf parameters (#1930)
[Remote signer] Add signer consumer lib (#1763)
Reject invalid utf-8 characters during encryption (#1928)
Update pool/attestations and committees endpoints (#1899)
Avoid string initialization in network metrics and replace by &str where possible (#1898)
Add new flag to set blocks per eth1 query (#1931)
Add lighthouse bootnodes (#1929)