Node version reporting as 0.1.0 although running 0.3.0

[PeaStew]

It appears the version string was not updated for the latest releases when querying:

{ "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"web3_clientVersion", "params":[ ], "id":1 }

returns:
"result": "Geth/v0.1.0-unstable-a84992a3-20230427/linux-amd64/go1.19.9"

docker shows:

ghcr.io/base-org/node:v0.3.0

Even https://goerli.base.org/ returns the wrong version

Needs to be fixed because it's not easy to track version changes for updates without this being correct

[aflock]

Hey @PeaStew, this is a geth API and will return the version of Geth currently running
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/2274a03e339f213361453590b54917bbfd0a0c31/node/api.go#L329
It's not intended to track the release version of this node software.
The best way to track released versions would be to subscribe to this projects releases
Is that what you're trying to do?

[PeaStew]

Hey @PeaStew, this is a geth API and will return the version of Geth currently running https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/2274a03e339f213361453590b54917bbfd0a0c31/node/api.go#L329 It's not intended to track the release version of this node software. The best way to track released versions would be to subscribe to this projects releases Is that what you're trying to do?

We are trying to track our version of the software running on our load balancer vs the version that has been released, so that we get alerting on new versions. This is pretty normal to need to do.

[aflock]

Makes sense as something you need to do. This API won't be the correct way to implement that however - possibly you could use some docker tooling to monitor the version of software you are running?

[PeaStew]

Sure, why make it easy

[mdehoog]

Hey @PeaStew, thanks for raising the issue! The current version comes from these constants: https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/op-geth/blob/v1.101106.0/params/version.go#L32-L37

I agree it would be preferable for web3_clientVersion to return the correct version information. I'm working with the Optimism team to figure out a way to keep this in sync with the released tag. Note that any fix would pin it to the op-geth version, not necessarily the version of the docker image in this repo, as this repo is a combination of a couple of pieces of software that are versioned separately.

[mdehoog]

this is now fixed:

> curl -d '{ "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"web3_clientVersion", "params":[ ], "id":1 }' -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://goerli.base.org
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"Geth/v1.101200.1-rc.2-36831023-20230823/linux-amd64/go1.19.12","id":1}