Release 0.3

This release is a major update with significant changes under the hood (see below). It now already comes with a basic piston.web version (documentation available in README-web.md) and fixes quite a lot of nasty littly bugs.

As usual, bug reports are welcome.

Howto upgrade

pip3 install steem-piston --upgrade     [--user]

New:

• [piston] show history in cli
• [piston] allow to provide tags or any arbitray data in the frontmatter header
• [piston] add powerdownroute command
• [piston] show interest payments and when they can happen the earliest
• [wallet] allow to overwrite password promt by means of an environmental variable 'UNLOCK'
• [piston] delkey, getkey and minor fixes in the wallet
• [steem] add get_account_history call
• [steem] allow sorting of posts by total_payout_value
• [steem] get_comments call
• [wallet] implement masterpassword

piston.web:

• [web] cleanup and singelton websocket connection
• [web] funds: add interest payments
• [web] improvments and index page
• [web] tokenize tags
• [readme.web] piston now in develop (later master) branch, howto for windows7
• [web] README-web: add dependencies for apt-get
• [web] allow to specify --host to listen to, defaults to 127.0.0.1
• [web] show root posts for replies
• [web] list more transactions and filter by type
• [web] Readme some dependencies
• [web] voting spinners
• [web] add a footer and some bottom distance
• [web] simplify html/markdown presentation
• [web] settings page
• [web] properly show comment_reward in the tx history
• [web] remove lxml dependency
• [web] highlight own posts
• [web] fix reply identifier not in the form
• [web] README
• [web] fixes for the wallet import procedure
• [web] massive update
• [web] more structure, content and the ability to post
• [web] initial browse view
• [web] initial work on standalone piston.web
• [browse] allow to browse more than 10 posts

Fixes:

• [Makefile] don't intend the git tag message
• [account] properly use graphene-inherited account module for key related stuff
• [docs] a page about this.piston.rocks API server
• [docs] documentation of source code
• [piston] add a piston.py file for development
• [piston] ensure on startup that the piston node is available
• [piston] fix author on posts
• [piston] fix default_author for replies
• [piston] fix transfer amount/asset distinction
• [setup] cleanup dependencies
• [setup] fix flask/egg issue by disallowing zip
• [setup] make sure the user uses python3
• [setup] update dependencies
• [sqlwallet] initial commit
• [steem] don't randomly throw any keys in create_account
• [steem] fix Post when used with an indentifier
• [steem] fix account creation
• [steem] fix get_recommended when no recommendation returned
• [steem] remove recommended
• [storage] Backup solution
• [storage] create app_data dir if not present
• [storage] enable multithreaded access to storage
• [storage] more robust backup
• [utils] don't exit on exception
• [wallet] ensure to overwrite the keys if manually passed
• [wallet] legacy wallet code cleanup

Important Notes:

• If you had a piston wallet before, you will need to migrate your
  existing wallet into the more modern SQLite-based wallet. This works
  as easy as running

  piston listaccounts
  

  You will be asked to provide the old password and a new password. Afterwards,
  your private keys will be BIP32 encrypted and stored in your local piston
  wallet.

• The piston wallet stores it's database in your appdir:

  OSX:

  • ~/Library/Application Support/piston

  Windows:

  • C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Application Data\Local Settings\Fabian Schuh\piston
  • C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Application Data\Fabian Schuh\piston

  Linux:

  • ~/.local/share/piston

• The piston wallet will create backups of your local database now and then and
  store them in the backups/ folder next to the database (see above)

• If you use the steem.transfer() call you will need to modify your calls to
  now distinguish asset (string) from amount (float).

• The piston.create_account no longer generates a password for your, you will
  need to either provide a password or the public keys for creating new
  accounts.