Unreleased Changes
vX.X
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BREAKING CHANGES
-
CLI/RPC/Config
- [config] #5598 The
test_fuzz
and test_fuzz_config
P2P settings have been removed. (@erikgrinaker)
- [config] #5728
fast_sync = "v1"
is no longer supported (@melekes)
- [cli] #5772
gen_node_key
prints JSON-encoded NodeKey
rather than ID and does not save it to node_key.json
(@melekes)
- [cli] #5777 use hyphen-case instead of snake_case for all cli commands and config parameters (@cmwaters)
- [rpc] #6019 standardise RPC errors and return the correct status code (@bipulprasad & @cmwaters)
- [rpc] #6168 Change default sorting to desc for
/tx_search
results (@melekes)
- [cli] #6282 User must specify the node mode when using
tendermint init
(@cmwaters)
- [state/indexer] #6382 reconstruct indexer, move txindex into the indexer package (@JayT106)
- [cli] #6372 Introduce
BootstrapPeers
as part of the new p2p stack. Peers to be connected on startup (@cmwaters)
- [config] #6462 Move
PrivValidator
configuration out of BaseConfig
into its own section. (@tychoish)
- [rpc] #6610 Add MaxPeerBlockHeight into /status rpc call (@JayT106)
-
Apps
- [ABCI] #6408 Change the
key
and value
fields from []byte
to string
in the EventAttribute
type. (@alexanderbez)
- [ABCI] #5447 Remove
SetOption
method from ABCI.Client
interface
- [ABCI] #5447 Reset
Oneof
indexes for Request
and Response
.
- [ABCI] #5818 Use protoio for msg length delimitation. Migrates from int64 to uint64 length delimiters.
- [Version] #6494
TMCoreSemVer
has been renamed to TMVersion
.
- It is not required any longer to set ldflags to set version strings
-
P2P Protocol
-
Go API
- [p2p] #6618 Move
p2p.NodeInfo
into types
to support use of the SDK. (@tychoish)
- [p2p] #6583 Make
p2p.NodeID
and p2p.NetAddress
exported types to support their use in the RPC layer. (@tychoish)
- [node] #6540 Reduce surface area of the
node
package by making most of the implementation details private. (@tychoish)
- [p2p] #6547 Move the entire
p2p
package and all reactor implementations into internal
. (@tychoish)
- [libs/log] #6534 Remove the existing custom Tendermint logger backed by go-kit. The logging interface,
Logger
, remains. Tendermint still provides a default logger backed by the performant zerolog logger. (@alexanderbez)
- [libs/time] #6495 Move types/time to libs/time to improve consistency. (@tychoish)
- [mempool] #6529 The
Context
field has been removed from the TxInfo
type. CheckTx
now requires a Context
argument. (@alexanderbez)
- [abci/client, proxy] #5673
Async
funcs return an error, Sync
and Async
funcs accept context.Context
(@melekes)
- [p2p] Remove unused function
MakePoWTarget
. (@erikgrinaker)
- [libs/bits] #5720 Validate
BitArray
in FromProto
, which now returns an error (@melekes)
- [proto/p2p] Rename
DefaultNodeInfo
and DefaultNodeInfoOther
to NodeInfo
and NodeInfoOther
(@erikgrinaker)
- [proto/p2p] Rename
NodeInfo.default_node_id
to node_id
(@erikgrinaker)
- [libs/os] Kill() and {Must,}{Read,Write}File() functions have been removed. (@alessio)
- [store] #5848 Remove block store state in favor of using the db iterators directly (@cmwaters)
- [state] #5864 Use an iterator when pruning state (@cmwaters)
- [types] #6023 Remove
tm2pb.Header
, tm2pb.BlockID
, tm2pb.PartSetHeader
and tm2pb.NewValidatorUpdate
.
- Each of the above types has a
ToProto
and FromProto
method or function which replaced this logic.
- [light] #6054 Move
MaxRetryAttempt
option from client to provider.
NewWithOptions
now sets the max retry attempts and timeouts (@cmwaters)
- [all] #6077 Change spelling from British English to American (@cmwaters)
- Rename "Subscription.Cancelled()" to "Subscription.Canceled()" in libs/pubsub
- Rename "behaviour" pkg to "behavior" and internalized it in blockchain v2
- [rpc/client/http] #6176 Remove
endpoint
arg from New
, NewWithTimeout
and NewWithClient
(@melekes)
- [rpc/client/http] #6176 Unexpose
WSEvents
(@melekes)
- [rpc/jsonrpc/client/ws_client] #6176
NewWS
no longer accepts options (use NewWSWithOptions
and OnReconnect
funcs to configure the client) (@melekes)
- [internal/libs] #6366 Move
autofile
, clist
,fail
,flowrate
, protoio
, sync
, tempfile
, test
and timer
lib packages to an internal folder
- [libs/rand] #6364 Remove most of libs/rand in favour of standard lib's
math/rand
(@liamsi)
- [mempool] #6466 The original mempool reactor has been versioned as
v0
and moved to a sub-package under the root mempool
package.
Some core types have been kept in the mempool
package such as TxCache
and it's implementations, the Mempool
interface itself
and TxInfo
. (@alexanderbez)
- [crypto/sr25519] #6526 Do not re-execute the Ed25519-style key derivation step when doing signing and verification. The derivation is now done once and only once. This breaks
sr25519.GenPrivKeyFromSecret
output compatibility. (@Yawning)
-
Blockchain Protocol
-
Data Storage
- [store/state/evidence/light] #5771 Use an order-preserving varint key encoding (@cmwaters)
- [mempool] #6396 Remove mempool's write ahead log (WAL), (previously unused by the tendermint code). (@tychoish)
- [state] #6541 Move pruneBlocks from consensus/state to state/execution. (@JayT106)
-
Tooling
- [tools] #6498 Set OS home dir to instead of the hardcoded PATH. (@JayT106)
FEATURES
- [config] Add
--mode
flag and config variable. See ADR-52 @dongsam
- [rpc] #6329 Don't cap page size in unsafe mode (@gotjoshua, @cmwaters)
- [pex] #6305 v2 pex reactor with backwards compatability. Introduces two new pex messages to
accomodate for the new p2p stack. Removes the notion of seeds and crawling. All peer
exchange reactors behave the same. (@cmwaters)
- [crypto] #6376 Enable sr25519 as a validator key
- [mempool] #6466 Introduction of a prioritized mempool. (@alexanderbez)
Priority
and Sender
have been introduced into the ResponseCheckTx
type, where the priority
will determine the prioritization of
the transaction when a proposer reaps transactions for a block proposal. The sender
field acts as an index.
- Operators may toggle between the legacy mempool reactor,
v0
, and the new prioritized reactor, v1
, by setting the
mempool.version
configuration, where v1
is the default configuration.
- Applications that do not specify a priority, i.e. zero, will have transactions reaped by the order in which they are received by the node.
- Transactions are gossiped in FIFO order as they are in
v0
.
- [config/indexer] #6411 Introduce support for custom event indexing data sources, specifically PostgreSQL. (@JayT106)
IMPROVEMENTS
- [libs/log] Console log formatting changes as a result of #6534 and #6589. (@tychoish)
- [statesync] #6566 Allow state sync fetchers and request timeout to be configurable. (@alexanderbez)
- [types] #6478 Add
block_id
to newblock
event (@jeebster)
- [crypto/ed25519] #5632 Adopt zip215
ed25519
verification. (@marbar3778)
- [crypto/ed25519] #6526 Use curve25519-voi for
ed25519
signing and verification. (@Yawning)
- [crypto/sr25519] #6526 Use curve25519-voi for
sr25519
signing and verification. (@Yawning)
- [privval] #5603 Add
--key
to init
, gen_validator
, testnet
& unsafe_reset_priv_validator
for use in generating secp256k1
keys.
- [privval] #5725 Add gRPC support to private validator.
- [privval] #5876
tendermint show-validator
will query the remote signer if gRPC is being used (@marbar3778)
- [abci/client] #5673
Async
requests return an error if queue is full (@melekes)
- [mempool] #5673 Cancel
CheckTx
requests if RPC client disconnects or times out (@melekes)
- [abci] #5706 Added
AbciVersion
to RequestInfo
allowing applications to check ABCI version when connecting to Tendermint. (@marbar3778)
- [blockchain/v1] #5728 Remove in favor of v2 (@melekes)
- [blockchain/v0] #5741 Relax termination conditions and increase sync timeout (@melekes)
- [cli] #5772
gen_node_key
output now contains node ID (id
field) (@melekes)
- [blockchain/v2] #5774 Send status request when new peer joins (@melekes)
- [consensus] #5792 Deprecates the
time_iota_ms
consensus parameter, to reduce the bug surface. The parameter is no longer used. (@valardragon)
- [store] #5888 store.SaveBlock saves using batches instead of transactions for now to improve ACID properties. This is a quick fix for underlying issues around tm-db and ACID guarantees. (@githubsands)
- [consensus] #5987 Remove
time_iota_ms
from consensus params. Merge tmproto.ConsensusParams
and abci.ConsensusParams
. (@marbar3778)
- [types] #5994 Reduce the use of protobuf types in core logic. (@marbar3778)
ConsensusParams
, BlockParams
, ValidatorParams
, EvidenceParams
, VersionParams
, sm.Version
and version.Consensus
have become native types. They still utilize protobuf when being sent over the wire or written to disk.
- [rpc/client/http] #6163 Do not drop events even if the
out
channel is full (@melekes)
- [node] #6059 Validate and complete genesis doc before saving to state store (@silasdavis)
- [state] #6067 Batch save state data (@githubsands & @cmwaters)
- [crypto] #6120 Implement batch verification interface for ed25519 and sr25519. (@marbar3778)
- [types] #6120 use batch verification for verifying commits signatures.
- If the key type supports the batch verification API it will try to batch verify. If the verification fails we will single verify each signature.
- [privval/file] #6185 Return error on
LoadFilePV
, LoadFilePVEmptyState
. Allows for better programmatic control of Tendermint.
- [privval] #6240 Add
context.Context
to privval interface.
- [rpc] #6265 set cache control in http-rpc response header (@JayT106)
- [statesync] #6378 Retry requests for snapshots and add a minimum discovery time (5s) for new snapshots.
- [node/state] #6370 graceful shutdown in the consensus reactor (@JayT106)
- [crypto/merkle] #6443 Improve HashAlternatives performance (@cuonglm)
- [crypto/merkle] #6513 Optimize HashAlternatives (@marbar3778)
- [p2p/pex] #6509 Improve addrBook.hash performance (@cuonglm)
- [consensus/metrics] #6549 Change block_size gauge to a histogram for better observability over time (@marbar3778)
- [statesync] #6587 Increase chunk priority and re-request chunks that don't arrive (@cmwaters)
- [state/privval] #6578 No GetPubKey retry beyond the proposal/voting window (@JayT106)
- [rpc] #6615 Add TotalGasUsed to block_results response (@crypto-facs)
BUG FIXES
- [privval] #5638 Increase read/write timeout to 5s and calculate ping interval based on it (@JoeKash)
- [blockchain/v1] #5701 Handle peers without blocks (@melekes)
- [blockchain/v1] #5711 Fix deadlock (@melekes)
- [evidence] #6375 Fix bug with inconsistent LightClientAttackEvidence hashing (cmwaters)
- [rpc] #6507 fix RPC client doesn't handle url's without ports (@JayT106)
- [statesync] #6463 Adds Reverse Sync feature to fetch historical light blocks after state sync in order to verify any evidence (@cmwaters)
- [fastsync] #6590 Update the metrics during fast-sync (@JayT106)