contender v0.9.1

Summary

This patch includes improvements to long-running spammers (#496), live metrics reporting (#493), deterministic setup tx ordering (#491), eth_sendRawTransactionSync support (#459), continuous funding for --forever spam runs (#502), metrics support for sub-second blocks (#498), and migrates the .contender data dir, supporting $XDG_STATE_HOME (#499).

❤️ Many thanks to these contributors:

@0xl3on
@vbuilder69420
@gligneul
@bitwiseguy
@0xWeakSheep

All Changes

• Release/v0.9.1 (#504)
• bugfix/init scenario error handling (#503)
• feat(cli): organize help flags into logical sections (#501)
• feat: keep spammers funded (#502)
• Add option to config time to inclusion bucket size (#498)
• feat: move default data dir (#499)
• spam: harden against transient rpc failures (#496)
• chore(deps): bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 3 to 4 (#478)
• chore(deps): bump docker/metadata-action from 5 to 6 (#479)
• chore(deps): bump rustls-webpki from 0.103.8 to 0.103.10 (#474)
• feat: structured transaction rate reporting during spam (#493)
• feat: deterministic setup with --seed flag (#491)
• feat: add sync raw send transaction support (#459)

Binaries

The binaries are signed with the PGP key: F62E A741 E6B4 E0BA 58D3 8619 698A C82F 9A2F E605

Contender CLI

System	Architecture	Binary	PGP Signature
	x86_64	contender-v0.9.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	PGP Signature
	aarch64	contender-v0.9.1-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	PGP Signature
	x86_64	contender-v0.9.1-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	PGP Signature
	aarch64	contender-v0.9.1-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	PGP Signature