tendermint/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md

Pending

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @goolAdapter, @bradyjoestar

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [config] #2232 timeouts as time.Duration, not ints
  • [config] #2505 Remove Mempool.RecheckEmpty (it was effectively useless anyways)
  • [config] mempool.wal is disabled by default
  • [rpc] #2298 /abci_query takes prove argument instead of trusted and switches the default behaviour to prove=false
  • [privval] #2459 Split SocketPVMsgs implementations into Request and Response, where the Response may contain a error message (returned by the remote signer)

• Apps

  • [abci] #2298 ResponseQuery.Proof is now a structured merkle.Proof, not just arbitrary bytes

• Go API

  • [node] Remove node.RunForever
  • [config] #2232 timeouts as time.Duration, not ints
  • [rpc/client] #2298 ABCIQueryOptions.Trusted -> ABCIQueryOptions.Prove
  • [types] #2298 Remove Index and Total fields from TxProof.
  • [crypto/merkle & lite] #2298 Various changes to accomodate General Merkle trees

• Blockchain Protocol

  • [types] #2459 Vote/Proposal/Heartbeat use amino encoding instead of JSON in SignBytes.
  • [types] #2512 Remove the pubkey field from the validator hash

• P2P Protocol

FEATURES:

• [crypto/merkle] #2298 General Merkle Proof scheme for chaining various types of Merkle trees together
• [abci] #2557 Add Codespace field to Response{CheckTx, DeliverTx, Query}

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [consensus] #2169 add additional metrics
• [p2p] #2169 add additional metrics
• [config] #2232 added ValidateBasic method, which performs basic checks

BUG FIXES:

• [autofile] #2428 Group.RotateFile need call Flush() before rename (@goolAdapter)
• [node] #2434 Make node respond to signal interrupts while sleeping for genesis time
• [consensus] #1690 wait for timeoutPrecommit before starting next round
• [evidence] #2515 fix db iter leak (@goolAdapter)
• [common/bit_array] Fixed a bug in the Or function
• [common/bit_array] Fixed a bug in the Sub function (@bradyjoestar)
• [common] #2534 make bit array's PickRandom choose uniformly from true bits
• [p2p] #2555 fix p2p switch FlushThrottle value (@goolAdapter)