Description

This is a maintenance release containing improvements and bugs' fixes.
It doesn't change the behaviour for the upcoming Madhugiri mainnet HF, happening on Tuesday, Dec 9th at around 10.00 UTC (block 80084800).
This release can be used on mainnet and amoy.

What's Changed

• feat: add metrics for pebbledb read/writes by @jhkimqd in #1900
• merge master to develop by @marcello33 in #1908
• chore: fix some typos in comment by @russcoss in #1804
• Enable block stm for non witness producers by @lucca30 in #1911
• updated auto generated docs by @pratikspatil024 in #1912
• core(txpool): align with geth by @kamuikatsurgi in #1903
• security improvements by @marcello33 in #1914
• bug fix: core/rawdb: apply ancient db offset to the freezer by @pratikspatil024 in #1915
• v2.5.3 candidate by @marcello33 in #1917

New Contributors

• @jhkimqd made their first contribution in #1900
• @russcoss made their first contribution in #1804

Full Changelog: v2.5.2...v2.5.3