Bug fixes
Fix an issue where Besu does not support 0x80 as transaction type when decoding eth/69 receipts
Fix non-deterministic sub-protocol registration during IBFT2 to QBFT consensus migration
Fix loss of colored output in terminal when using --color-enabled=true option

Add eth_subscribe and eth_unsubscribe support to IPC service
Add experimental callTracer tracer option to debug_trace* methods.

Add --ethstats-report-interval CLI option to control ethstats reporting frequency instead of using hardcoded 5-second interval #9271
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Highlights
Performance improvements for MOD related opcodes #9188
Add --cache-last-block-headers flag to cache the last n block headers persisted to the blockchain #9223

Full Release Notes:
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Highlights
- Expose new method to query hardfork by block number in Plugin API
- Support loading multiple transaction selector plugins
- Configurable limit for how much time plugins are allowed to take, to propose transactions, during block creation
- Improve EcRecover precompile performance

Breaking Changes

Remove deprecated option --bonsai-maximum-back-layers-to-load (deprecated since 23.4.0). Use --bonsai-historical-block-limit instead

Fusaka Testnet Fork Schedule:

- Holesky on 2025-10-01 08:48:00
- Sepolia on 2025-10-14 07:36:00
- Hoodi on 2025-10-28 18:53:12

* Experimental Bonsai Archive support is now available but remains experimental pending mainnet performance validation.
* Changes in Maven coordinates of Besu artifacts
Full release notes:
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* Breaking Changes: Cleanup of deprecated code—please review carefully!
* --snapsync-server-enabled has been promoted (but not yet default)

Increase default target-gas-limit to 60M for Holesky and Sepolia
Add support for Pyroscope to Docker image

Please note upcoming breaking changes
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Highlights:
Add Prague fork time for mainnet
Add support for eth_simulateV1
New metric besu_peers_peer_count_by_client to report the count of peers by client name
Default ExtraData to "besu+version"
Add block import tracer plugin provider
Tune and make configurable the PeerTransactionTracker