## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Similar to #4181 but without the version bump and a more nuanced fix.
Patches the high CPU usage seen after the Capella fork which was caused by processing exits when there are skip slots.
## Additional Info
~~This is an imperfect solution that will cause us to drop some exits at the fork boundary. This is tracked at #4184.~~
## Proposed Changes
Implement the consensus changes necessary for the upcoming Altair hard fork.
## Additional Info
This is quite a heavy refactor, with pivotal types like the `BeaconState` and `BeaconBlock` changing from structs to enums. This ripples through the whole codebase with field accesses changing to methods, e.g. `state.slot` => `state.slot()`.
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
Resolves#1100
## Proposed Changes
* Implement the `SafeArith` trait for `Slot` and `Epoch`, so that methods like `safe_add` become available.
* Tweak the `SafeArith` trait to allow a different `Rhs` type (analagous to `std::ops::Add`, etc).
* Add a `legacy-arith` feature to `types` and `state_processing` that conditionally enables implementations of
the `std` ops with saturating semantics.
* Check compilation of `types` and `state_processing` _without_ `legacy-arith` on CI,
thus guaranteeing that they only use the `SafeArith` primitives 🎉
## Additional Info
The `legacy-arith` feature gets turned on by all higher-level crates that depend on `state_processing` or `types`, thus allowing the beacon chain, networking, and other components to continue to rely on the availability of ops like `+`, `-`, `*`, etc.
**This is a consensus-breaking change**, but brings us in line with the spec, and our incompatibilities shouldn't have been reachable with any valid configuration of Eth2 parameters.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
- Refactor the `bls` crate to support multiple BLS "backends" (e.g., milagro, blst, etc).
- Removes some duplicate, unused code in `common/rest_types/src/validator.rs`.
- Removes the old "upgrade legacy keypairs" functionality (these were unencrypted keys that haven't been supported for a few testnets, no one should be using them anymore).
## Additional Info
Most of the files changed are just inconsequential changes to function names.
## TODO
- [x] Optimization levels
- [x] Infinity point: https://github.com/supranational/blst/issues/11
- [x] Ensure milagro *and* blst are tested via CI
- [x] What to do with unsafe code?
- [x] Test infinity point in signature sets
* Update state processing for v0.12
* Fix EF test runners for v0.12
* Fix some tests
* Fix broken attestation verification test
* More test fixes
* Fix typo found in review
