BitShares TESTNET Feature Release 2.0.20180803

fox (57)in #bitshares • 6 years ago (edited)

This is a Feature Release for the TESTNET only. Active block producers are encouraged to upgrade at this time. The testing period will continue thru 14:00 UTC 21 AUG 2018after which time the Core Team will begin finalizing a release for the mainnet.

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Preliminary Release Notes Latest Version:

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BitShares-Core-2.0.1808-macOS-cli-tools.tar.gz
BitShares-Core-2.0.1808-x64-cli-tools.zip
Source code (zip)
Source code (tar.gz)

Security Fixes

CLI wallet: updated choice of range proof params in cli wallet reveals transaction magnitude to very narrow range for Blinded Transfers (issue #480 / PR #1117 #1227)

API Changes

Removed crypto_api from default list of allowed APIs. (issue #1123 / PR #1125)
Changed default max-ops-per-account value to 100, impacts account history (#1120)
Added get_account_limit_orders database API to query for open orders of one account in one market #463 #849 #1163
Added get_asset_count API to return total number of available assets #688, #1159
Added get_transaction_hex_without_sig API get serialized transaction hex without signatures field (issue #1013 / PR #1038)
Added support for account name as parameter for all API calls #969 #989 #1164 #1168 #1152 #1155
Added fail_reason field to proposal object #730, #1036
Retroactively deducted witness missed_blocks caused by chain halts #1087

New Features and Improvements

Added Openssl 1.1 and Ubuntu 18.04 support (issue #835 / PR #559 #921 #1008 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/7)
- Fixed invalid use of incomplete type BIGNUM {aka struct bignum_st} #327
Added witness_node startup option --enable-standby-votes-tracking to track votes of standby witnesses and committee members #987, #1191, #1211
Added cli_wallet startup option --suggest-brain-key to generate keys without connecting to a witness_node #1011, #1039
Added quit command to cli_wallet #1104, #1050 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/63
Improved witness_node performance for generating blocks, resyncing and replaying
- Improved account maintenance (vote tally) performance (issue #803/ PR #1085)
- Improved performance of database::update_expired_feeds() and global object getters #1093 #1180
- Slightly improved price comparison performance #1094 #1124
- Added index on short_backing_asset, better performance for updating asset (Issue #960 / PR #1019)

Docker

Changed default docker p2p port to 1776, fixed p2p port to match Dockerfile #1226, #1078
Fixes to make Docker containers shutdown gracefully #1077 #1115
Fixed Docker Cloud Build Failing Due to Compile Time #1221 #1222
Modified Dockerfile to work with new docker cloud version (0.10.1) #1075
Updated testnet Branch to Include Latest Dockerfile #1074

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch refactor #1103 #1201
- Add auth to communicate with the ES database with --elasticsearch-basic-auth startup option.
- Custom index names with --elasticsearch-index-prefix startup option.
- Removed --elasticsearch-logs startup option
- Better error handling: if there is an error when sending data to ElasticSearch, plugin will stop processing blocks and keep trying, and it resumes when connection is back at the same place. #681
- add operation_id_num for easier filtering.
- Fill orders data in additional for easy volume.
- Test cases framework. #1047
- Make full use of common functions in the 2 plugins(utilities).
- flush ES database on every block when node is in sync to improve real time user experience. #1137
Updated documentation https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/wiki/ElasticSearch-Plugin

Bugfixes

Fixed CLI get_account_history pagination issue (duplicate ops when limit great than 100) #1176, #1177, #1179
Fixed cli_wallet crashes for macOS 10.13.5 #1127 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/60
Fixed "log file of current hour gets overwritten by default" #809 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/56
Fixed 2 minor bugs in snapshot plugin #1185
Fixed object database exception handling when built with Boost 1.66 (#852 #1126 #1161)
Enable boost::stacktrace correctly https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/66

Other Changes

Integrated SonarCloud into travis build (issue #836 / PR #1081 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/49)
Added USE_PROFILER option to Cmake to enable profiling #1119
Added OPENSSL_CONF_SOURCE variable for building in Windows https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/59
Added cli_tests to Travis-CI #1156
Added asset_api_tests #1202
Added new seed node by bangzi #1130 #1138
Changed default core_exchange_rate quote asset in order to create asset more easily #1132
Updated node.cpp, check attacker/buggy client before updating items ids #1007
Optimized find() call in P2P code #1090, #1091
Refactored get_impacted_account_visitor, removed duplicate code from impacted.cpp #845 #1073
Refactored cancel_all_subscriptions for better performance and consistency #762 #1009 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/50
Changed push_proposal exception log level to warn #1146
Cleaned up Balance evaluator code #1150
Cleaned up get_named_account_balances code #1154 , #1135
Cleaned up logging in account.cpp #1010
Cleanup up a visitor struct in static_variant.hpp https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/58
Removed obsolete constants (issue #1034 / PR #1072)
Removed unused "smaz" compression #986 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/51
Remove fc bz2 unused linkage https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/52
Removed double assert in object_id_type constructor #1128
Removed protocol.hpp #1197, #1200
Backported EOS PR 3560 replace assert in FC::crypto #992 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/54
Backported EOS PR 3240 HTTP performance improvement, added move-semantic-version set_body function #999 https://github.com/bitshares/websocketpp/pull/1 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/65
Updated test case for time_point_sec::to_iso_string, detect boost version #597 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/67
Fixed Performance sucks at first block after a long sequence of missed blocks #1086 #1087
- witness missed_blocks count no longer increases due to chain halt (retroactive change)
Fixed cli_tests websocket port binding #1178 #1187
Fixed RPC logging level inconsistency #929 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-fc/pull/62
Fixed wallet in-code docs, suppressed compiler warnings #1015 #1181 #1129 #1199 #1190
Updated asset_object::amount_to_string implementation for slightly better performance #1012
Updated system requirements into Documents #1107 #1108
Updated README.md document #1121, #1166, #1212