tendermint/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md

v0.32.9

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This release contains breaking changes to the Block#Header, specifically NumTxs and TotalTxs were removed (#2521). Here's how this change affects different modules:

• apps: it breaks the ABCI header field numbering
• state: it breaks the format of State on disk
• RPC: all RPC requests which expose the header broke
• Go API: the Header broke
• P2P: since blocks go over the wire, technically the P2P protocol broke

Also, blocks are significantly smaller 🔥 because we got rid of the redundant information in Block#LastCommit. Commit now mainly consists of a signature and a validator address plus a timestamp. Note we may remove the validator address & timestamp fields in the future (see ADR-25).

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @erikgrinaker, @PSalant726, @gchaincl, @gregzaitsev

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [rpc] #3471 Paginate /validators response (default: 30 vals per page)
  • [rpc] #3188 Remove BlockMeta in ResultBlock in favor of BlockId for /block
  • [rpc] /block_results response format updated (see RPC docs for details)

    {
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "id": "",
      "result": {
        "height": "2109",
        "txs_results": null,
        "begin_block_events": null,
        "end_block_events": null,
        "validator_updates": null,
        "consensus_param_updates": null
      }
    }
    

  • [rpc] #4141 Remove #event suffix from the ID in event responses. {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 0, "result": ...}
  • [rpc] #4141 Switch to integer IDs instead of json-client-XYZ

    id=0 method=/subscribe
    id=0 result=...
    id=1 method=/abci_query
    id=1 result=...
    

    • ID is unique for each request;
    • Request.ID is now optional. Notification is a Request without an ID. Previously ID="" or ID=0 were considered as notifications.

• Apps

  • [tm-bench] Removed tm-bench in favor of tm-load-test

• Go API

  • [rpc/client] #3471 Validators now requires two more args: page and perPage
  • [libs/common] #3262 Make error the last parameter of Task (@PSalant726)
  • [cs/types] #3262 Rename GotVoteFromUnwantedRoundError to ErrGotVoteFromUnwantedRound (@PSalant726)
  • [libs/common] #3862 Remove errors.go from libs/common

• Blockchain Protocol

  • [abci] #2521 Remove TotalTxs and NumTxs from Header
  • [types] #4151 Enforce ordering of votes in DuplicateVoteEvidence to be lexicographically sorted on BlockID
  • [types] #1648 Change Commit to consist of just signatures

• P2P Protocol

  • [p2p] #3668 Make SecretConnection non-malleable

• [proto] #3986 Prefix protobuf types to avoid name conflicts.

  • ABCI becomes tendermint.abci.types with the new API endpoint /tendermint.abci.types.ABCIApplication/
  • core_grpc becomes tendermint.rpc.grpc with the new API endpoint /tendermint.rpc.grpc.BroadcastAPI/
  • merkle becomes tendermint.crypto.merkle
  • libs.common becomes tendermint.libs.common
  • proto3 becomes tendermint.types.proto3

FEATURES:

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [rpc] #3188 Added block_size to BlockMeta this is reflected in /blockchain
• [types] #2521 Add NumTxs to BlockMeta and EventDataNewBlockHeader
• [docs] #4111 Replaced dead whitepaper link in README.md
• [p2p] #4185 Simplify SecretConnection handshake with merlin
• [cli] #4065 Add --consensus.create_empty_blocks_interval flag (@jgimeno)

BUG FIXES:

• [rpc/lib] #4051 Fix RPC client, which was previously resolving https protocol to http (@yenkhoon)
• [rpc] #4141 JSONRPCClient: validate that Response.ID matches Request.ID
• [rpc] #4141 WSClient: check for unsolicited responses
• [types] \4164 Prevent temporary power overflows on validator updates
• [cs] #4069 Don't panic when block meta is not found in store (@gregzaitsev)
• [types] #4164 Prevent temporary power overflows on validator updates (joint efforts of @gchaincl and @ancazamfir)
• [p2p] #4140 SecretConnection: use the transcript solely for authentication (i.e. MAC)