Tidying Up

Release

This minor release fixes a few bugs from v0.6.0 Spring Cleaning, handles a minor refactor, and adds a 32-byte graffiti field to blocks. Thanks for the bug reports! v0.6.1 tests will be released shortly.

Changelog

Two PRs showing partial diffs of v0.6.1 being backported to master can be found here: #1003, #1038

Phase 0 spec

• features
  • add 32-byte graffiti 🎨 (#1014)
• simplifications/refactors
  • refactor attestation committee to be more generic and useful in phase 1 (#1009)
• bugs
  • fix process_registry_updates missing assignment (#1001)
  • fix two effective_balance bugs (#1004)
  • fix some underflow issues (#1017)
  • fix incorrect var in attestation rewards (#1037)
  • minor bugs related to ordering/typos/var-mismatch/etc ()
• misc
  • remove unused helper get_state_root from state transition doc (#1015)
  • minor formatting/typos/etc PRs (#994, #997, #996, #1013 )

Phase 0 validator

• minor formatting/types/etc PRs (#993)

Phase 0 networking

• minor formatting/types/etc PRs (#910, #907)

Deposit contract

• minor formatting/types/etc PRs (#995)

Simple Serialize

• implement SOS serialization in minimal_ssz.py (#1024)

BLS [none]

Phase 1 spec (warning: not stable) [none]

Light client spec (warning: not stable) [none]

Testing/CI

• minor formatting/typos/etc PRs (#1007, #1006)