We backported branch `extended-tracer` at commit 3078dfe80b back to v1.13.5 of Geth.
To achieve the backport, we did:
- git checkout -b extended-tracer-squashed
- git reset --hard 3078dfe80b
- git reset --mixed fc380f52ef # This was the latest merged commit not from `extended-tracer` branch
- git commit -A -m "<This message>"
- git checkout v1.13.5
- git checkout -b extended-tracer-backport-v1.13.5
- git cherry-pick extended-tracer-squashed
This changes the CI / release builds to use the latest Go version. It also
upgrades golangci-lint to a newer version compatible with Go 1.19.
In Go 1.19, godoc has gained official support for links and lists. The
syntax for code blocks in doc comments has changed and now requires a
leading tab character. gofmt adapts comments to the new syntax
automatically, so there are a lot of comment re-formatting changes in this
PR. We need to apply the new format in order to pass the CI lint stage with
Go 1.19.
With the linter upgrade, I have decided to disable 'gosec' - it produces
too many false-positive warnings. The 'deadcode' and 'varcheck' linters
have also been removed because golangci-lint warns about them being
unmaintained. 'unused' provides similar coverage and we already have it
enabled, so we don't lose much with this change.
This commit adds pluggable consensus engines to go-ethereum. In short, it
introduces a generic consensus interface, and refactors the entire codebase to
use this interface.
