Bitcoin updated to LevelDB 1.22 in February 2020:
bitcoin/bitcoin#17398
Benefits include:
- CRC32C hardware acceleration is now an external library crc32c. This adds acceleration on ARM, and should be faster on x86 because of using prefetch. It also makes it easy to support similar instruction sets on other platforms in the future.
- Thread handling uses C++11, instead of platform specific code.
- Native windows environment was added. No need to maintain our own hacky one, anymore.