bigchaindb/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log (Release Notes)

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file (CHANGELOG.md). This project adheres to Semantic Versioning (or at least we try). Contributors to this file, please follow the guidelines on keepachangelog.com. Note that each version (or "release") is the name of a Git tag of a particular commit, so the associated date and time are the date and time of that commit (as reported by GitHub), not the "Uploaded on" date listed on PyPI (which may differ). For reference, the possible headings are:

• Added for new features.
• Changed for changes in existing functionality.
• Deprecated for once-stable features removed in upcoming releases.
• Removed for deprecated features removed in this release.
• Fixed for any bug fixes.
• Security to invite users to upgrade in case of vulnerabilities.
• External Contributors to list contributors outside of BigchainDB GmbH.
• Notes

[0.5.1] - YYYY-MM-DD

Tag name: v0.5.1 = commit: committed:

Added

• New third table, the 'votes' table: Pull Request #379
• Added get_tx_by_payload_uuid() including index: Pull Request #411
• Ability to deploy a test cluster on AWS using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for storage: Pull Request #469
• Ability to add different-size payloads to transactions when filling the backlog for benchmarking: Pull Request #273

Changed

• Votes are no longer appended to the blocks inside the 'bigchain' table. They're now written to their own table, the 'votes' table: Pull Request #379
• Refactored how blocks get constructed using the new approach to doing multiprocessing, using the multipipes package: Pull Request #484
• Changed all queries to use read_mode='majority': Pull Request #497
• Revised how base software gets deployed on AWS instances: Pull Request #478
• Refactored db.utils.init(): Pull Request #471

External Contributors

• @shauns - Pull Request #411
• @lonelypeanut - Pull Request #479
• @lluminita - Pull Requests #435 & #471

Notes

• Several additions and changes to the documentation: Pull Requests #416, #417, #418, #420, #421, #422, #423, #425, #428, #430, #431, #435, #442, #472, #481

[0.5.0] - 2016-07-04

Tag name: v0.5.0 = commit: 3832953130 committed: July 4, 2016, 1:07 PM GMT+2

Added

• New bigchaindb set-replicas subcommand: Pull Request #392
• Informative JSON message when one makes a request to the root endpoint of the HTTP client-server API: Pull Request #367
• Return HTTP response code 404 when a transaction is not found: Pull Request #369

Changed

• Changed the order in which configuration settings get their values. If a setting is set by an environment variable, then that value will be the value, regardless of whether another value is set in a local config file. Also added a method to programattically update the config settings. Pull Request #395
• Changed the definition of util.sign_tx(). It now has a third, optional argument: a Bigchain instance. Pull Request #410

Notes

• Several additions and changes to the documentation: Pull Requests #388, #393, #397, #402, #403, #406, #408

[0.4.2] - 2016-06-15

Tag name: v0.4.2 = commit: 7ce6c3980c committed: June 15, 2016, 1:42 PM GMT+2

Added

• Report the BigchainDB version number when starting BigchainDB: Pull Request #385

Changed

• Round timestamps to a precision of one second, and replace payload hash with payload UUID in transactions: Pull Request #384
• Updated cryptoconditions API usage: Pull Request #373

[0.4.1] - 2016-06-13

Tag name: v0.4.1 = commit: 9c4aa987bc committed: June 13, 2016, 9:52 AM GMT+2

Added

• Revert bigchain deletes: Pull Request #330

Changed

• Use inverted threshold condition instead of negative weights for escrow: Pull Request #355

Fixed

• Removed duplicate pytest in setup.py: Pull Request #365

Notes

• There were several additions and changes to the documentation: Pull Requests #343, #363, #364, #366, #370, #372

[0.4.0] - 2016-05-27

Tag name: v0.4.0 = commit: a89399c4f9 committed: May 27, 2016, 1:42 PM GMT+2

Added

• Support for escrow (possible because of two other new things: cryptoconditions with inverters, and a timeout condition): Pull Request #329
• Caching of calls to load_consensus_plugin(), using @lru_cache. This speeds up the instantiation of Bigchain objects and greatly improves overall performance. Pull Request #271
• New Dockerfile-dev Docker file to make it easier for developers to develop BigchainDB with Docker. One can run all unit tests with Docker again. Pull Request #313
• Transactions in invalid blocks are copied to the backlog: Pull Request #221.
• Queries to the bigchain table now ignore invalid blocks: Pull Request #324
• Use secondary index on get_transaction: Pull Request #324
• New bigchaindb command to set the number of RethinkDB shards (in both tables): Pull Request #258
• Better handling of an outdated setuptools: Pull Request #279

Changed

• The block processes now use GroupProcess: Pull Request #267
• Replaced the json Python package with rapidjson (a Python wrapper for a fast JSON parser/generator written in C++), to speed up JSON serialization and deserialization: Pull Request #318
• Overhauled ROADMAP.md and moved it to the bigchaindb/org repository: Pull Requests #282, #306, #308, #325
• AWS deployment has better support for New Relic Server Monitoring: Pull Request #316
• AWS deployment script now reads from a configuration file: Pull Request #291
• AWS deployment script doesn't auto-start the BigchainDB servers anymore: Pull Request #257

Fixed

• Bug related to transaction malleability: Pull Request #281

Notes

You can now see a big-picture view of all BigchainDB repositories on a waffle.io board.

[0.3.0] - 2016-05-03

Tag name: v0.3.0 = commit: a97c54e82b committed: May 3, 2016, 11:52 AM GMT+2

Added

• Crypto-conditions specs according to the Interledger protocol: Pull Request #174
• Added support for anonymous hashlocked conditions and fulfillments: Pull Request #211

Changed

• Several improvements to the AWS deployment scripts: Pull Request #227

Fixed

• Bug related to block validation: Pull Request #233

Notes

This release completely refactored the structure of the transactions and broke compatibility with older versions of BigchainDB. The refactor of the transactions was made in order to add support for multiple inputs/outputs and the crypto-conditions specs from the Interledger protocol.

We also updated the RethinkDB Python drivers so you need to upgrade to RethinkDB v2.3+

[0.2.0] - 2016-04-26

Tag name: v0.2.0 = commit: 0c4a2b380a committed: April 26, 2016, 11:09 AM GMT+2

Added

• Ability to use environment variables to set (or partially set) configuration settings: Pull Request #153
• bigchaindb --export-my-pubkey: Pull Request #186
• bigchaindb --version, and one central source for the current version (version.py): Pull Request #208
• AWS deployment scripts: Pull Requests #160, #166, #172, #203
• codecov.yml: Pull Request #161
• CHANGELOG.md (this file): Pull Request #117
• Signatures using Ed25519: Pull Requests #138, #152
• Multisig support: Pull Request #107
• HTTP Server & Web API: Pull Requests #102, #150, #155, #183
• Python driver/SDK/API: Pull Request #102
• Python Style Guide: Pull Request #89
• Monitoring & dashboard tools: Pull Requests #72, #181

Changed

• Rewrote README.md into four sets of links: Pull Requests #80 and #115

Fixed

• Bug related to config overwrite: Pull Request #97
• Bug related to running the bigchaindb-benchmark load on docker Pull Request #225

External Contributors

• @thedoctor: Pull Requests #99, #136
• @roderik: Pull Request #162

[0.1.5] - 2016-04-20

Tag name: v0.1.5 = commit: 9f62cddbaf committed: April 20, 2016, 3:31 PM GMT+2

Fixed

• Issue #71 (Voter is not validating blocks correctly when checking for double spends) in Pull Request #76

[0.1.4] - 2016-02-22

Tag name: v0.1.4 = commit: c4c850f480 committed: Feb 22, 2016, 11:51 AM GMT+1

Added

• Added to classifiers to setup.py

Changed

• Allow running pytest tests in parallel (using xdist): Pull Request #65
• Allow non-interactive first start: Pull Request #64 to resolve Issue #58

[0.1.3] - 2016-02-16

Tag name: v0.1.3 = commit 8926e3216c committed Feb 16, 2016, 11:37 AM GMT+1

Changed

• Changed from using Git Flow to GitHub flow (but with develop as the default branch).

[0.1.2] - 2016-02-15

Tag name: v0.1.2 = commit d2ff24166d committed Feb 15, 2016, 2:23 PM GMT+1

Added

• Various tests

Fixed

• Fix exception when running start: Pull Request #32 resolved [Issue #35]

[0.1.1] - 2016-02-15

Tag name: v0.1.1 = commit 2a025448b2 committed Feb 15, 2016, 10:48 AM GMT+1

Added

• "release 0.1.1": Pull Request #37

Removed

• tox.ini Pull Request #18
• requirements.txt in the root directory, and the entire requirements/ directory: Pull Request #14

Fixed

• Hotfix for AttributeError, fixed Issue #27

[0.1.0] - 2016-02-10

Tag name: v0.1.0 = commit 8539e8dc2d committed Feb 10, 2016, 10:04 PM GMT+1

The first public release of BigchainDB, including:

• Initial BigchainDB Server code, including many tests and some code for benchmarking.
• Initial documentation (in bigchaindb/docs).
• Initial README.md, ROADMAP.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md.
• Packaging for PyPI, including setup.py and setup.cfg.
• Initial Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml (for deployment using Docker and Docker Compose).
• Initial .gitignore (list of things for git to ignore).
• Initial .travis.yml (used by Travis CI).