Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/stable' into unstable

Author: tersec

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+2025-12-18 v25.12.0
+===================
+
+The Nimbus consensus client `v25.12.0` is a `medium-urgency` release for mainnet due to network stability improvements. To access blobs in Fusaka and later in this release, use the `--light-supernode` option. The undocumented `--debug-peerdas-supernode` option will be removed in a pending release.
+
+### Improvements
+
+- Allow genesis epoch BPOs:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/7788
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Ensure distinct Fulu and Gloas fork digests:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/7794
+
+- Fix stack traces memory leak:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/7791
+
 2025-11-28 v25.11.1
 ===================
 

beacon_chain/version.nim

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ import std/[os, strutils], ./buildinfo
 
 const
   versionMajor* = 25
-  versionMinor* = 11
-  versionBuild* = 1
+  versionMinor* = 12
+  versionBuild* = 0
 
   versionBlob* = "stateofus" # Single word - ends up in the default graffiti