Bump github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum from 1.9.15 to 1.9.18

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Bumps github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum from 1.9.15 to 1.9.18.

Release notes

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Illium Elite (v1.9.18)

Geth v1.9.18 is a bugfix release, fixing an occasional fast sync hang in the throttling mechanism (among other improvements):

• Memory allocation micro-optimizations to improve raw EVM number crunching by 5% (#21336).
• Fix a regression that made previously persisted --dev chains unable to load back up (#21352).
• Support configurable developer account (and passphrase) in --dev mode (#21301).
• Fix downloader throttling that degraded sync and occasionally locked it up (#21263).
• Fix local gomobile building and fix iOS framework builds (#21361, #21362).
• Fix stale transaction eviction bug, stabilizing pool churn (#21300).

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.9.18 release milestone

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As with all our previous releases, you can find the:

• Pre-built binaries for all platforms on our downloads page.
• Docker images published under ethereum/client-go.
• Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA repository.
• OSX packages in our Homebrew Tap repository.

Mount Milgrom (v1.9.17)

Geth v1.9.17 is a small maintenance release (trying to get back onto the biweekly schedule), though it does pack a few punches as well!

• Enable historical garbage collection for light clients (#19570).
• Apply --rpc.txfeecap to a few missed endpoints (#21231).
• Drastically reduce allocations in the transaction pool (#21328).
• Drastically reduce allocations on certain EVM opcodes (#21222).
• Raise the default gas limit in --dev mode to 12 million (#21323).
• Fix ethstats reconnect issue and fix constant Görli drops (#21347).
• Fix gas estimation if balance / price overflown uint64 (#21346).

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.9.17 release milestone

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As with all our previous releases, you can find the:

• Pre-built binaries for all platforms on our downloads page.
• Docker images published under ethereum/client-go.
• Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA repository.
• OSX packages in our Homebrew Tap repository.

Ryncol (v1.9.16)

Geth v1.9.16 is another maintenance release containing a couple minor new features, bug fixes, and block processing optimizations.

This release adds the --rpc.txfeecap geth option, which limits transaction fees to a set value. This limit applies to transactions sent via eth_sendTransaction. The default limit is 1 ether. (#21212)

The default value for --rpc.gascap is now 25M gas. It previously defaulted to unlimited gas. This applies to eth_call and will reject calls which request more gas than the cap. (#21229)

Commits

• f538259 params: release Geth v1.9.18
• b1be979 params: upgrade CHTs (#21376)
• e997f92 Merge pull request #21368 from holiman/update_uint256
• 56434bf deps: update uint256 to v1.1.1
• 6793ffa Merge pull request #21300 from rjl493456442/txpool-fix-queued-evictions
• 5413df1 core: fix heartbeat in txpool
• c374447 core: fix queued transaction eviction
• 1059221 eth/downloader: refactor downloader + queue (#21263)
• 3a57eec mobile: fix build on iOS (#21362)
• 997b552 build: fix GOBIN for gomobile commands (#21361)
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