Mareep

v1.5.0-alpha.6 -- Mareep -- is the alpha release for the coming Electra upgrade.

PR showing full diff can be found here: #3920

Altair

• Simplify is_better_update condition #3816

Electra

• Update correlation penalty computation #3882
• Move requests out of execution_payload into beacon_block.body #3875
• Remove stale comment on latest_execution_payload_header #3929
• Remove unnecessary signing domain for consolidations #3915
• Minor fixes on Electra spec and test helper #3914
• Simplify name of helper get_validator_max_effective_balance #3909
• Harmonize process_withdrawals spec with 3761 #3905

EIP-7594 (PeerDAS)

• Use explicit csc integer size #3897
• Change csc types to back to uint64 #3908
• Delete g2_lincomb in poly-commits-sampling spec #3913

EIP-7732 (ePBS)

• Fix some typos #3902
• Modify ExecutionPayloadEnvelopeByRoot #3890
• Refactor beacon chain state transition function #3898
• Require the builder is active and non-slashed #3888

Testing, repo, etc

• Update python to 3.12.4 #3880
• Fix the install_pyspec_test CI check #3894
• Fix test vector generators to work with Python 3.12 #3927
• Add cronjob for test vector generation #3922
• Update README and dependencies #3879
• Randomize validator index in partial withdrawal test #3892
• Get rid of compute_state_by_epoch_processing_to #3878
• Ensure EL block hash is updated when beacon parent root is overridden #3881
• Fix yield statement in test_get_custody_columns #3931