From 35700b9d65af58450e4285f4f4456ca296bc8191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daira Hopwood Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 15:44:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add release notes for the IBD memory spike issue. Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood --- doc/release-notes.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index a29094b51..51da82d34 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -4,3 +4,15 @@ release-notes at release time) Notable changes =============== +Fixed +----- + +This is a hotfix release that fixes a regression in memory usage during +Initial Block Download. The regression was indirectly caused by a change +to prioritize downloading headers (PR #6231), introduced in release 5.3.1. +It caused memory usage for new nodes to spike to roughly 11 GiB about an +hour after starting Initial Block Download. + +The issue fixed by this release does not affect nodes that start from +a fully synced chain, or that had sufficient memory available to get +past the memory usage spike.