This release fixes a moderate severity security issue, Security Advisory Alderfly,
which impacts all networks that rely on Tendermint light clients.
Further details will be released once networks have upgraded.
This release also includes a small Go API-breaking change, to reduce panics in the RPC layer.
Special thanks to our external contributors on this release: @gchaincl
Friendly reminder: We have a [bug bounty program](https://hackerone.com/tendermint).
### BREAKING CHANGES
- Go API
- [rpc/jsonrpc/server] [\#6204](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/6204) Modify `WriteRPCResponseHTTP(Error)` to return an error (@melekes)
### FEATURES
- [rpc] [\#6226](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/6226) Index block events and expose a new RPC method, `/block_search`, to allow querying for blocks by `BeginBlock` and `EndBlock` events (@alexanderbez)
### BUG FIXES
- [rpc/jsonrpc/server] [\#6191](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/6191) Correctly unmarshal `RPCRequest` when data is `null` (@melekes)
- [p2p] [\#6289](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/6289) Fix "unknown channels" bug on CustomReactors (@gchaincl)
- [light/evidence] Adds logic to handle forward lunatic attacks (@cmwaters)
- [rpc/jsonrpc/client/ws_client] \#6176 `NewWS` no longer accepts options (use `NewWSWithOptions` and `OnReconnect` funcs to configure the client) (@melekes)
- [rpc/jsonrpc/server] \#6204 Modify `WriteRPCResponseHTTP(Error)` to return an error (@melekes)
- Blockchain Protocol
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### FEATURES
- [rpc] \#6226 Index block events and expose a new RPC method, `/block_search`, to allow querying for blocks by `BeginBlock` and `EndBlock` events. (@alexanderbez)
- [config] Add `--mode` flag and config variable. See [ADR-52](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/docs/architecture/adr-052-tendermint-mode.md) @dongsam
### IMPROVEMENTS
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- [privval] \#5638 Increase read/write timeout to 5s and calculate ping interval based on it (@JoeKash)
- [blockchain/v1] [\#5701](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/5701) Handle peers without blocks (@melekes)
- [blockchain/v1] \#5711 Fix deadlock (@melekes)
- [rpc/jsonrpc/server] \#6191 Correctly unmarshal `RPCRequest` when data is `null` (@melekes)
- [light/evidence] Adds logic to handle forward lunatic attacks (@cmwaters)