tendermint/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v0.33.3

April 6, 2020

This security release fixes:

Denial of service 1

Tendermint 0.33.2 and earlier does not limit P2P connection requests number. For each p2p connection, Tendermint allocates ~0.5MB. Even though this memory is garbage collected once the connection is terminated (due to duplicate IP or reaching a maximum number of inbound peers), temporary memory spikes can lead to OOM (Out-Of-Memory) exceptions.

Tendermint 0.33.3 (and 0.32.10) limits the total number of P2P incoming connection requests to to p2p.max_num_inbound_peers + len(p2p.unconditional_peer_ids).

Notes:

• Tendermint does not rate limit P2P connection requests per IP (an attacker can saturate all the inbound slots);
• Tendermint does not rate limit HTTP(S) requests. If you expose any RPC endpoints to the public, please make sure to put in place some protection (https://www.nginx.com/blog/rate-limiting-nginx/). We may implement this in the future (#1696).

Denial of service 2

Tendermint 0.33.2 and earlier does not reclaim activeID of a peer after it's removed in Mempool reactor. This does not happen all the time. It only happens when a connection fails (for any reason) before the Peer is created and added to all reactors. RemovePeer is therefore called before AddPeer, which leads to always growing memory (activeIDs map). The activeIDs map has a maximum size of 65535 and the node will panic if this map reaches the maximum. An attacker can create a lot of connection attempts (exploiting Denial of service 1), which ultimately will lead to the node panicking.

Tendermint 0.33.3 (and 0.32.10) claims activeID for a peer in InitPeer, which is executed before MConnection is started.

Notes:

• InitPeer function was added to all reactors to combat a similar issue - #3338;
• Denial of service 2 is independent of Denial of service 1 and can be executed without it.

All clients are recommended to upgrade

Special thanks to fudongbai for finding and reporting this.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

SECURITY:

• [mempool] Reserve IDs in InitPeer instead of AddPeer (@tessr)
• [p2p] Limit the number of incoming connections (@melekes)

v0.33.2

March 11, 2020

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @antho1404, @michaelfig, @gterzian, @tau3, @Shivani912

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BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [cli] #4505 tendermint lite sub-command new syntax (@melekes): lite cosmoshub-3 -p 52.57.29.196:26657 -w public-seed-node.cosmoshub.certus.one:26657 --height 962118 --hash 28B97BE9F6DE51AC69F70E0B7BFD7E5C9CD1A595B7DC31AFF27C50D4948

• Go API

  • [lite2] #4535 Remove Start/Stop (@melekes)
  • [lite2] #4469 Remove RemoveNoLongerTrustedHeaders and RemoveNoLongerTrustedHeadersPeriod option (@cmwaters)
  • [lite2] #4473 Return height as a 2nd param in TrustedValidatorSet (@melekes)
  • [lite2] #4536 Update returns a signed header (1st param) (@melekes)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [blockchain/v2] #4361 Add reactor (@brapse)
• [cmd] #4515 Change tendermint debug dump sub-command archives filename's format (@melekes)
• [consensus] #3583 Reduce non-deterministic signature log noise (@tau3)
• [examples/kvstore] #4507 ABCI query now returns the proper height (@erikgrinaker)
• [lite2] #4462 Add NewHTTPClient and NewHTTPClientFromTrustedStore (@cmwaters)
• [lite2] #4329 modified bisection to loop (@cmwaters)
• [lite2] #4385 Disconnect from bad nodes (@melekes)
• [lite2] #4398 Add VerifyAdjacent and VerifyNonAdjacent funcs (@cmwaters)
• [lite2] #4426 Don't save intermediate headers (@cmwaters)
• [lite2] #4464 Cross-check first header (@cmwaters)
• [lite2] #4470 Fix inconsistent header-validatorset pairing (@melekes)
• [lite2] #4488 Allow local clock drift -10 sec. (@melekes)
• [p2p] #4449 Use curve25519.X25519() instead of ScalarMult (@erikgrinaker)
• [types] #4417 VerifyCommitX() functions should return as soon as +2/3 threshold is reached (@alessio).
• [libs/kv] #4542 remove unused type KI64Pair (@tessr)

BUG FIXES:

• [cmd] #4303 Show useful error when Tendermint is not initialized (@melekes)
• [cmd] #4515 Fix tendermint debug kill sub-command (@melekes)
• [rpc] #3935 Create buffered subscriptions on /subscribe (@melekes)
• [rpc] #4375 Stop searching for txs in /tx_search upon client timeout (@gterzian)
• [rpc] #4406 Fix issue with multiple subscriptions on the websocket (@antho1404)
• [rpc] #4432 Fix /tx_search pagination with ordered results (@erikgrinaker)
• [rpc] #4492 Keep the original subscription "id" field when new RPCs come in (@michaelfig)

v0.33.1

Feburary 13, 2020

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @princesinha19

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FEATURES:

• [rpc] #3333 Add order_by to /tx_search endpoint, allowing to change default ordering from asc to desc (@princesinha19)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [proto] #4369 Add buf for usage with linting and checking if there are breaking changes with the master branch.
• [proto] #4369 Add make proto-gen cmd to generate proto stubs outside of GOPATH.

BUG FIXES:

• [node] #4311 Use GRPCMaxOpenConnections when creating the gRPC server, not MaxOpenConnections
• [rpc] #4319 Check BlockMeta is not nil in /block & /block_by_hash

v0.33

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @mrekucci, @PSalant726, @princesinha19, @greg-szabo, @dongsam, @cuonglm, @jgimeno, @yenkhoon

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January 14, 2020

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).

lite2 package has been added to solve lite issues and introduce weak subjectivity interface. Refer to the spec for complete details. lite package is now deprecated and will be removed in v0.34 release.

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.

  • [config] #4046 Rename tag(s) to CompositeKey & places where tag is still present it was renamed to event or events. Find how a compositeKey is constructed here

    • You will have to generate a new config for your Tendermint node(s)

  • [genesis] #2565 Add consensus_params.evidence.max_age_duration. Rename consensus_params.evidence.max_age to max_age_num_blocks.

  • [cli] #1771 tendermint lite now uses new light client package (lite2) and has 3 more flags: --trusting-period, --trusted-height and --trusted-hash

• Apps

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

• Go API

  • [rpc] #3953 Modify NewHTTP, NewXXXClient functions to return an error on invalid remote instead of panicking (@mrekucci)
  • [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
  • [libs/common] #4230 Move KV out of common to its own pkg
  • [libs/common] #4230 Rename cmn.KVPair(s) to kv.Pair(s)s
  • [libs/common] #4232 Move Service & BaseService from libs/common to libs/service
  • [libs/common] #4232 Move common/nil.go to types/utils.go & make the functions private
  • [libs/common] #4231 Move random functions from libs/common into pkg rand
  • [libs/common] #4237 Move byte functions from libs/common into pkg bytes
  • [libs/common] #4237 Move throttletimer functions from libs/common into pkg timer
  • [libs/common] #4237 Move tempfile functions from libs/common into pkg tempfile
  • [libs/common] #4240 Move os functions from libs/common into pkg os
  • [libs/common] #4240 Move net functions from libs/common into pkg net
  • [libs/common] #4240 Move mathematical functions and types out of libs/common to math pkg
  • [libs/common] #4240 Move string functions out of libs/common to strings pkg
  • [libs/common] #4240 Move async functions out of libs/common to async pkg
  • [libs/common] #4240 Move bit functions out of libs/common to bits pkg
  • [libs/common] #4240 Move cmap functions out of libs/common to cmap pkg
  • [libs/common] #4258 Remove Rand from all rand pkg functions
  • [types] #2565 Remove MockBadEvidence & MockGoodEvidence in favor of MockEvidence

• 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:

• [p2p] #4053 Add unconditional_peer_ids and persistent_peers_max_dial_period config variables (see ADR-050) (@dongsam)
• [tools] #4227 Implement tendermint debug kill and tendermint debug dump commands for Tendermint node debugging functionality. See --help in both commands for further documentation and usage.
• [cli] #4234 Add --db_backend and --db_dir flags (@princesinha19)
• [cli] #4113 Add optional --genesis_hash flag to check genesis hash upon startup
• [config] #3831 Add support for RocksDB (@Stumble)
• [rpc] #3985 Add new /block_by_hash endpoint, which allows to fetch a block by its hash (@princesinha19)
• [metrics] #4263 Add
  • consensus_validator_power: track your validators power
  • consensus_validator_last_signed_height: track at which height the validator last signed
  • consensus_validator_missed_blocks: total amount of missed blocks for a validator as gauges in prometheus for validator specific metrics
• [rpc/lib] #4248 RPC client basic authentication support (@greg-szabo)
• [lite2] #1771 Light client with weak subjectivity

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [rpc] #3188 Added block_size to BlockMeta this is reflected in /blockchain
• [types] #2521 Add NumTxs to BlockMeta and EventDataNewBlockHeader
• [p2p] #4185 Simplify SecretConnection handshake with merlin
• [cli] #4065 Add --consensus.create_empty_blocks_interval flag (@jgimeno)
• [docs] #4065 Document --consensus.create_empty_blocks_interval flag (@jgimeno)
• [crypto] #4190 Added SR25519 signature scheme
• [abci] [#4177] kvstore: Return LastBlockHeight and LastBlockAppHash in Info (@princesinha19)
• [rpc] #2741 Add proposer to /consensus_state response (@princesinha19)
• [deps] #4289 Update tm-db to 0.4.0, this includes major breaking changes in the dep that change how errors are handled.

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)
• [consensus/types] #4243 fix BenchmarkRoundStateDeepCopy panics (@cuonglm)
• [rpc] #4256 Pass outCapacity to eventBus#Subscribe when subscribing using a local client

v0.32.10

April 6, 2020

This security release fixes:

Denial of Service 1

Tendermint 0.33.2 and earlier does not limit the number of P2P connection requests. For each p2p connection, Tendermint allocates ~0.5MB. Even though this memory is garbage collected once the connection is terminated (due to duplicate IP or reaching a maximum number of inbound peers), temporary memory spikes can lead to OOM (Out-Of-Memory) exceptions.

Tendermint 0.33.3 (and 0.32.10) limits the total number of P2P incoming connection requests to to p2p.max_num_inbound_peers + len(p2p.unconditional_peer_ids).

Notes:

• Tendermint does not rate limit P2P connection requests per IP (an attacker can saturate all the inbound slots);
• Tendermint does not rate limit HTTP(S) requests. If you expose any RPC endpoints to the public, please make sure to put in place some protection (https://www.nginx.com/blog/rate-limiting-nginx/). We may implement this in the future (#1696).

Denial of Service 2

Tendermint 0.33.2 and earlier does not reclaim activeID of a peer after it's removed in Mempool reactor. This does not happen all the time. It only happens when a connection fails (for any reason) before the Peer is created and added to all reactors. RemovePeer is therefore called before AddPeer, which leads to always growing memory (activeIDs map). The activeIDs map has a maximum size of 65535 and the node will panic if this map reaches the maximum. An attacker can create a lot of connection attempts (exploiting Denial of Service 1), which ultimately will lead to the node panicking.

Tendermint 0.33.3 (and 0.32.10) claims activeID for a peer in InitPeer, which is executed before MConnection is started.

Notes:

• InitPeer function was added to all reactors to combat a similar issue - #3338;
• Denial of Service 2 is independent of Denial of Service 1 and can be executed without it.

All clients are recommended to upgrade

Special thanks to fudongbai for finding and reporting this.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

SECURITY:

• [mempool] Reserve IDs in InitPeer instead of AddPeer (@tessr)
• [p2p] Limit the number of incoming connections (@melekes)

v0.32.9

January, 9, 2020

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @greg-szabo, @gregzaitsev, @yenkhoon

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

FEATURES:

• [rpc/lib] #4248 RPC client basic authentication support (@greg-szabo)

• [metrics] #4294 Add

  • consensus_validator_power: track your validators power
  • consensus_validator_last_signed_height: track at which height the validator last signed
  • consensus_validator_missed_blocks: total amount of missed blocks for a validator as gauges in prometheus for validator specific metrics

BUG FIXES:

• [rpc/lib] #4051 Fix RPC client, which was previously resolving https protocol to http (@yenkhoon)
• [cs] #4069 Don't panic when block meta is not found in store (@gregzaitsev)

v0.32.8

November 19, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @erikgrinaker, @guagualvcha, @hsyis, @cosmostuba, @whunmr, @austinabell

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BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API

  • [libs/pubsub] #4070 Query#(Matches|Conditions) returns an error.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [mempool] #4083 Added TxInfo parameter to CheckTx(), and removed CheckTxWithInfo() (@erikgrinaker)
• [mempool] #4057 Include peer ID when logging rejected txns (@erikgrinaker)
• [tools] #4023 Improved tm-monitor formatting of start time and avg tx throughput (@erikgrinaker)
• [p2p] #3991 Log "has been established or dialed" as debug log instead of Error for connected peers (@whunmr)
• [rpc] #4077 Added support for EXISTS clause to the Websocket query interface.
• [privval] Add SignerDialerEndpointRetryWaitInterval option (@cosmostuba)
• [crypto] Add RegisterKeyType to amino to allow external key types registration (@austinabell)

BUG FIXES:

• [libs/pubsub] #4070 Strip out non-numeric characters when attempting to match numeric values.
• [libs/pubsub] #4070 No longer panic in Query#(Matches|Conditions) preferring to return an error instead.
• [tools] #4023 Refresh tm-monitor health when validator count is updated (@erikgrinaker)
• [state] #4104 txindex/kv: Fsync data to disk immediately after receiving it (@guagualvcha)
• [state] #4095 txindex/kv: Return an error if there's one when the user searches for a tx (hash=X) (@hsyis)

v0.32.7

October 18, 2019

This security release fixes a vulnerability found in the consensus package, where an attacker could construct a BlockPartMessage message in such a way that it will lead to consensus failure. A few similar issues have been identified and fixed here.

All clients are recommended to upgrade

Special thanks to elvishacker for finding and reporting this.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [consensus] Modify WAL#Write and WAL#WriteSync to return an error if they fail to write a message

SECURITY:

• [consensus] Validate incoming messages more throughly

v0.32.6

October 8, 2019

The previous patch was insufficient because the attacker could still find a way to submit a nil pubkey by constructing a PubKeyMultisigThreshold pubkey with nil subpubkeys for example.

This release provides multiple fixes, which include recovering from panics when accepting new peers and only allowing ed25519 pubkeys.

All clients are recommended to upgrade

Special thanks to fudongbai for pointing this out.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

SECURITY:

• [p2p] #4030 Only allow ed25519 pubkeys when connecting

v0.32.5

October 1, 2019

This release fixes a major security vulnerability found in the p2p package. All clients are recommended to upgrade. See #4030 for details.

Special thanks to fudongbai for discovering and reporting this issue.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

SECURITY:

• [p2p] #4030 Fix for panic on nil public key send to a peer

v0.32.4

September 19, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @jon-certik, @gracenoah, @PSalant726, @gchaincl

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BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config
  • [rpc] #3984 Add MempoolClient interface to Client interface

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [rpc] #2010 Add NewHTTPWithClient and NewJSONRPCClientWithHTTPClient (note these and NewHTTP, NewJSONRPCClient functions panic if remote is invalid) (@gracenoah)
• [rpc] #3882 Add custom marshalers to proto messages to disable omitempty
• [deps] #3952 bump github.com/go-kit/kit from 0.6.0 to 0.9.0
• [deps] #3951 bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0
• [deps] #3945 bump github.com/gorilla/websocket from 1.2.0 to 1.4.1
• [deps] #3948 bump github.com/libp2p/go-buffer-pool from 0.0.1 to 0.0.2
• [deps] #3943 bump github.com/fortytw2/leaktest from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0
• [deps] #3939 bump github.com/rs/cors from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0
• [deps] #3937 bump github.com/magiconair/properties from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1
• [deps] #3947 update gogo/protobuf version from v1.2.1 to v1.3.0
• [deps] #4001 bump github.com/tendermint/tm-db from 0.1.1 to 0.2.0

BUG FIXES:

• [consensus] #3908 Wait timeout_commit to pass even if create_empty_blocks is false
• [mempool] #3968 Fix memory loading error on 32-bit machines (@jon-certik)

v0.32.3

August 28, 2019

@climber73 wrote the Writing a Tendermint Core application in Java (gRPC) guide.

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @gchaincl, @bluele, @climber73

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IMPROVEMENTS:

• [consensus] #3839 Reduce "Error attempting to add vote" message severity (Error -> Info)
• [mempool] #3877 Make max_tx_bytes configurable instead of max_msg_bytes (@bluele)
• [privval] #3370 Refactor and simplify validator/kms connection handling. Please refer to this comment for details
• [rpc] #3880 Document endpoints with swagger, introduce contract tests of implementation against documentation

BUG FIXES:

• [config] #3868 Move misplaced max_msg_bytes into mempool section (@bluele)
• [rpc] #3910 Fix DATA RACE in HTTP client (@gchaincl)
• [store] #3893 Fix "Unregistered interface types.Evidence" panic

v0.32.2

July 31, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @ruseinov, @bluele, @guagualvcha

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BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [libs] #3811 Remove db from libs in favor of https://github.com/tendermint/tm-db

FEATURES:

• [blockchain] #3561 Add early version of the new blockchain reactor, which is supposed to be more modular and testable compared to the old version. To try it, you'll have to change version in the config file, here NOTE: It's not ready for a production yet. For further information, see ADR-40 & ADR-43
• [mempool] #3826 Make max_msg_bytes configurable(@bluele)
• [node] #3846 Allow replacing existing p2p.Reactor(s) using CustomReactors option. Warning: beware of accidental name clashes. Here is the list of existing reactors: MEMPOOL, BLOCKCHAIN, CONSENSUS, EVIDENCE, PEX.
• [rpc] #3818 Make max_body_bytes and max_header_bytes configurable(@bluele)
• [rpc] #2252 Add /broadcast_evidence endpoint to submit double signing and other types of evidence

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [abci] #3809 Recover from application panics in server/socket_server.go to allow socket cleanup (@ruseinov)
• [p2p] #3664 p2p/conn: reuse buffer when write/read from secret connection(@guagualvcha)
• [p2p] #3834 Do not write 'Couldn't connect to any seeds' error log if there are no seeds in config file
• [rpc] #3076 Improve transaction search performance

BUG FIXES:

• [p2p] #3644 Fix error logging for connection stop (@defunctzombie)
• [rpc] #3813 Return err if page is incorrect (less than 0 or greater than total pages)

v0.32.1

July 15, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @ParthDesai, @climber73, @jim380, @ashleyvega

This release contains a minor enhancement to the ABCI and some breaking changes to our libs folder, namely:

• CheckTx requests include a CheckTxType enum that can be set to Recheck to indicate to the application that this transaction was already checked/validated and certain expensive operations (like checking signatures) can be skipped
• Removed various functions from libs pkgs

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API

  • [abci] #2127 The CheckTx and DeliverTx methods in the ABCI Application interface now take structs as arguments (RequestCheckTx and RequestDeliverTx, respectively), instead of just the raw tx bytes. This allows more information to be passed to these methods, for instance, indicating whether a tx has already been checked.
  • [libs] Remove unused db/debugDB and common/colors.go & errors/errors.go files (@marbar3778)
  • [libs] #2432 Remove unused common/heap.go file (@marbar3778)
  • [libs] Remove unused date.go, io.go. Remove GoPath(), Prompt() and IsDirEmpty() functions from os.go (@marbar3778)
  • [libs] Remove unused FailRand() func and minor clean up to fail.go(@marbar3778)

FEATURES:

• [node] Add variadic argument to NewNode to support functional options, allowing the Node to be more easily customized.
• [node]#3730 Add CustomReactors option to NewNode allowing caller to pass custom reactors to run inside Tendermint node (@ParthDesai)
• [abci] #2127RequestCheckTx has a new field, CheckTxType, which can take values of CheckTxType_New and CheckTxType_Recheck, indicating whether this is a new tx being checked for the first time or whether this tx is being rechecked after a block commit. This allows applications to skip certain expensive operations, like signature checking, if they've already been done once. see docs

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [rpc] #3700 Make possible to set absolute paths for TLS cert and key (@climber73)
• [abci] #3513 Call the reqRes callback after the resCb so they always happen in the same order

BUG FIXES:

• [p2p] #3338 Prevent "sent next PEX request too soon" errors by not calling ensurePeers outside of ensurePeersRoutine
• [behaviour] \3772 Return correct reason in MessageOutOfOrder (@jim380)
• [config] #3723 Add consensus_params to testnet config generation; document time_iota_ms (@ashleyvega)

v0.32.0

June 25, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @needkane, @SebastianElvis, @andynog, @Yawning, @wooparadog

This release contains breaking changes to our build and release processes, ABCI, and the RPC, namely:

• Use Go modules instead of dep
• Bring active development to the master Github branch
• ABCI Tags are now Events - see docs
• Bind RPC to localhost by default, not to the public interface UPGRADING/RPC_Changes

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [cli] #3613 Switch from golang/dep to Go Modules to resolve dependencies: It is recommended to switch to Go Modules if your project has tendermint as a dependency. Read more on Modules here: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules
  • [config] #3632 Removed leveldb as generic option for db_backend. Must be goleveldb or cleveldb.
  • [rpc] #3616 Fix field names for /block_results response (eg. results.DeliverTx -> results.deliver_tx). See docs for details.
  • [rpc] #3724 RPC now binds to 127.0.0.1 by default instead of 0.0.0.0

• Apps

  • [abci] #1859 ResponseCheckTx, ResponseDeliverTx, ResponseBeginBlock, and ResponseEndBlock now include Events instead of Tags. Each Event contains a type and a list of attributes (list of key-value pairs) allowing for inclusion of multiple distinct events in each response.

• Go API

  • [abci] #3193 Use RequestDeliverTx and RequestCheckTx in the ABCI Application interface
  • [libs/db] #3632 Removed deprecated LevelDBBackend const If you have db_backend set to leveldb in your config file, please change it to goleveldb or cleveldb.
  • [p2p] #3521 Remove NewNetAddressStringWithOptionalID

• Blockchain Protocol

• P2P Protocol

FEATURES:

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [abci/examples] #3659 Change validator update tx format in the persistent_kvstore to use base64 for pubkeys instead of hex (@needkane)
• [consensus] #3656 Exit if SwitchToConsensus fails
• [p2p] #3666 Add per channel telemetry to improve reactor observability
• [rpc] #3686 HTTPClient#Call returns wrapped errors, so a caller could use errors.Cause to retrieve an error code. (@wooparadog)

BUG FIXES:

• [libs/db] #3717 Fixed the BoltDB backend's Batch.Delete implementation (@Yawning)
• [libs/db] #3718 Fixed the BoltDB backend's Get and Iterator implementation (@Yawning)
• [node] #3716 Fix a bug where nil is recorded as node's address
• [node] #3741 Fix profiler blocking the entire node

Tendermint 0.31 release series has reached End-Of-Life and is no longer supported.

v0.31.12

April 6, 2020

This security release fixes:

Denial of Service 1

Tendermint 0.33.2 and earlier does not limit the number of P2P connection requests. For each p2p connection, Tendermint allocates ~0.5MB. Even though this memory is garbage collected once the connection is terminated (due to duplicate IP or reaching a maximum number of inbound peers), temporary memory spikes can lead to OOM (Out-Of-Memory) exceptions.

Tendermint 0.33.3, 0.32.10, and 0.31.12 limit the total number of P2P incoming connection requests to to p2p.max_num_inbound_peers + len(p2p.unconditional_peer_ids).

Notes:

• Tendermint does not rate limit P2P connection requests per IP (an attacker can saturate all the inbound slots);
• Tendermint does not rate limit HTTP(S) requests. If you expose any RPC endpoints to the public, please make sure to put in place some protection (https://www.nginx.com/blog/rate-limiting-nginx/). We may implement this in the future (#1696).

Denial of Service 2

Tendermint 0.33.2 and earlier does not reclaim activeID of a peer after it's removed in Mempool reactor. This does not happen all the time. It only happens when a connection fails (for any reason) before the Peer is created and added to all reactors. RemovePeer is therefore called before AddPeer, which leads to always growing memory (activeIDs map). The activeIDs map has a maximum size of 65535 and the node will panic if this map reaches the maximum. An attacker can create a lot of connection attempts (exploiting Denial of Service 1), which ultimately will lead to the node panicking.

Tendermint 0.33.3, 0.32.10, and 0.31.12 claim activeID for a peer in InitPeer, which is executed before MConnection is started.

Notes:

• InitPeer function was added to all reactors to combat a similar issue - #3338;
• Denial of Service 2 is independent of Denial of Service 1 and can be executed without it.

All clients are recommended to upgrade

Special thanks to fudongbai for finding and reporting this.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

SECURITY:

• [mempool] Reserve IDs in InitPeer instead of AddPeer (@tessr)
• [p2p] Limit the number of incoming connections (@melekes)

v0.31.11

October 18, 2019

This security release fixes a vulnerability found in the consensus package, where an attacker could construct a BlockPartMessage message in such a way that it will lead to consensus failure. A few similar issues have been identified and fixed here.

All clients are recommended to upgrade

Special thanks to elvishacker for finding and reporting this.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [consensus] Modify WAL#Write and WAL#WriteSync to return an error if they fail to write a message

SECURITY:

• [consensus] Validate incoming messages more throughly

v0.31.10

October 8, 2019

The previous patch was insufficient because the attacker could still find a way to submit a nil pubkey by constructing a PubKeyMultisigThreshold pubkey with nil subpubkeys for example.

This release provides multiple fixes, which include recovering from panics when accepting new peers and only allowing ed25519 pubkeys.

All clients are recommended to upgrade

Special thanks to fudongbai for pointing this out.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

SECURITY:

• [p2p] #4030 Only allow ed25519 pubkeys when connecting

v0.31.9

October 1, 2019

This release fixes a major security vulnerability found in the p2p package. All clients are recommended to upgrade. See #4030 for details.

Special thanks to fudongbai for discovering and reporting this issue.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

SECURITY:

• [p2p] #4030 Fix for panic on nil public key send to a peer

BUG FIXES:

• [node] #3716 Fix a bug where nil is recorded as node's address
• [node] #3741 Fix profiler blocking the entire node

v0.31.8

July 29, 2019

This releases fixes one bug in the PEX reactor and adds a recover to the Go's ABCI server, which allows it to properly cleanup.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [abci] #3809 Recover from application panics in server/socket_server.go to allow socket cleanup (@ruseinov)

BUG FIXES:

• [p2p] #3338 Prevent "sent next PEX request too soon" errors by not calling ensurePeers outside of ensurePeersRoutine

v0.31.7

June 3, 2019

This releases fixes a regression in the mempool introduced in v0.31.6. The regression caused the invalid committed txs to be proposed in blocks over and over again.

BUG FIXES:

• [mempool] #3699 Remove all committed txs from the mempool. This reverts the change from v0.31.6 where we only remove valid txs from the mempool. Note this means malicious proposals can cause txs to be dropped from the mempools of other nodes by including them in blocks before they are valid. See #3322.

v0.31.6

May 31st, 2019

This release contains many fixes and improvements, primarily for p2p functionality. It also fixes a security issue in the mempool package.

With this release, Tendermint now supports boltdb, although in experimental mode. Feel free to try and report to us any findings/issues. Note also that the build tags for compiling CLevelDB have changed.

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @guagualvcha, @james-ray, @gregdhill, @climber73, @yutianwu, @carlosflrs, @defunctzombie, @leoluk, @needkane, @CrocdileChan

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [libs/common] Removed deprecated PanicSanity, PanicCrisis, PanicConsensus and PanicQ
  • [mempool, state] #2659 Mempool now an interface that lives in the mempool package. See issue and PR for more details.
  • [p2p] #3346 Reactor#InitPeer method is added to Reactor interface
  • [types] #1648 Commit#VoteSignBytes signature was changed

FEATURES:

• [node] #2659 Add node.Mempool() method, which allows you to access mempool
• [libs/db] #3604 Add experimental support for bolt db (etcd's fork of bolt) (@CrocdileChan)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [cli] #3585 Add --keep-addr-book option to unsafe_reset_all cmd to not clear the address book (@climber73)
• [cli] #3160 Add --config=<path-to-config> option to testnet cmd (@gregdhill)
• [cli] #3661 Add --hostname-suffix, --hostname and --random-monikers options to testnet cmd for greater peer address/identity generation flexibility.
• [crypto] #3672 Return more info in the AddSignatureFromPubKey error
• [cs/replay] #3460 Check appHash for each block
• [libs/db] #3611 Conditional compilation
  • Use cleveldb tag instead of gcc to compile Tendermint with CLevelDB or use make build_c / make install_c (full instructions can be found at https://docs.tendermint.com/master/introduction/install.html#compile-with-cleveldb-support)
  • Use boltdb tag to compile Tendermint with bolt db
• [node] #3362 Return an error if persistent_peers list is invalid (except when IP lookup fails)
• [p2p] #3463 Do not log "Can't add peer's address to addrbook" error for a private peer (@guagualvcha)
• [p2p] #3531 Terminate session on nonce wrapping (@climber73)
• [pex] #3647 Dial seeds, if any, instead of crawling peers first (@defunctzombie)
• [rpc] #3534 Add support for batched requests/responses in JSON RPC
• [rpc] #3362 /dial_seeds & /dial_peers return errors if addresses are incorrect (except when IP lookup fails)

BUG FIXES:

• [consensus] #3067 Fix replay from appHeight==0 with validator set changes (@james-ray)
• [consensus] #3304 Create a peer state in consensus reactor before the peer is started (@guagualvcha)
• [lite] #3669 Add context parameter to RPC Handlers in proxy routes (@yutianwu)
• [mempool] #3322 When a block is committed, only remove committed txs from the mempool that were valid (ie. ResponseDeliverTx.Code == 0)
• [p2p] #3338 Ensure RemovePeer is always called before InitPeer (upon a peer reconnecting to our node)
• [p2p] #3532 Limit the number of attempts to connect to a peer in seed mode to 16 (as a result, the node will stop retrying after a 35 hours time window)
• [p2p] #3362 Allow inbound peers to be persistent, including for seed nodes.
• [pex] #3603 Dial seeds when addrbook needs more addresses (@defunctzombie)

OTHERS:

• [networks] fixes ansible integration script (@carlosflrs)

v0.31.5

April 16th, 2019

This release fixes a regression from v0.31.4 where, in existing chains that were upgraded, /validators could return an empty validator set. This is true for almost all heights, given the validator set remains the same.

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @brapse, @guagualvcha, @dongsam, @phucc

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [libs/common] CMap: slight optimization in Keys() and Values() (@phucc)
• [gitignore] gitignore: add .vendor-new (@dongsam)

BUG FIXES:

• [state] #3537 LoadValidators: do not return an empty validator set
• [blockchain] #3457 Fix "peer did not send us anything" in fast_sync mode when under high pressure

v0.31.4

April 12th, 2019

This release fixes a regression from v0.31.3 which used the peer's SocketAddr to add the peer to the address book. This swallowed the peer's self-reported port which is important in case of reconnect. It brings back NetAddress() to NodeInfo and uses it instead of SocketAddr for adding peers. Additionally, it improves response time on the /validators or /status RPC endpoints. As a side-effect it makes these RPC endpoint more difficult to DoS and fixes a performance degradation in ExecCommitBlock. Also, it contains an ADR that proposes decoupling the responsibility for peer behaviour from the p2p.Switch (by @brapse).

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @brapse, @guagualvcha, @mydring

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [p2p] #3463 Do not log "Can't add peer's address to addrbook" error for a private peer
• [p2p] #3547 Fix a couple of annoying typos (@mdyring)

BUG FIXES:

• [docs] #3514 Fix block.Header.Time description (@melekes)
• [p2p] #2716 Check if we're already connected to peer right before dialing it (@melekes)
• [p2p] #3545 Add back NetAddress() to NodeInfo and use it instead of peer's SocketAddr() when adding a peer to the PEXReactor (potential fix for #3532)
• [state] #3438 Persist validators every 100000 blocks even if no changes to the set occurred (@guagualvcha). This
  1. Prevents possible DoS attack using /validators or /status RPC endpoints. Before response time was growing linearly with height if no changes were made to the validator set.
  2. Fixes performance degradation in ExecCommitBlock where we call LoadValidators for each Evidence in the block.

v0.31.3

April 1st, 2019

This release includes two security sensitive fixes: it ensures generated private keys are valid, and it prevents certain DNS lookups that would cause the node to panic if the lookup failed.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [crypto/secp256k1] #3439 The secp256k1.GenPrivKeySecp256k1 function has changed to guarantee that it returns a valid key, which means it will return a different private key than in previous versions for the same secret.

BUG FIXES:

• [crypto/secp256k1] #3439 Ensure generated private keys are valid by randomly sampling until a valid key is found. Previously, it was possible (though rare!) to generate keys that exceeded the curve order. Such keys would lead to invalid signatures.
• [p2p] #3522 Memoize socket address in peer connections to avoid DNS lookups. Previously, failed DNS lookups could cause the node to panic.

v0.31.2

March 30th, 2019

This release fixes a regression from v0.31.1 where Tendermint panics under mempool load for external ABCI apps.

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @guagualvcha

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

• Apps

• Go API

  • [libs/autofile] #3504 Remove unused code in autofile package. Deleted functions: Group.Search, Group.FindLast, GroupReader.ReadLine, GroupReader.PushLine, MakeSimpleSearchFunc (@guagualvcha)

• Blockchain Protocol

• P2P Protocol

FEATURES:

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [circle] #3497 Move release management to CircleCI

BUG FIXES:

• [mempool] #3512 Fix panic from concurrent access to txsMap, a regression for external ABCI apps introduced in v0.31.1

v0.31.1

March 27th, 2019

This release contains a major improvement for the mempool that reduce the amount of sent data by about 30% (see some numbers below). It also fixes a memory leak in the mempool and adds TLS support to the RPC server by providing a certificate and key in the config.

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @brapse, @guagualvcha, @HaoyangLiu, @needkane, @TraceBundy

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

• Apps

• Go API

  • [crypto] #3426 Remove Ripemd160 helper method (@needkane)
  • [libs/common] #3429 Remove RepeatTimer (also TimerMaker and Ticker interface)
  • [rpc/client] #3458 Include NetworkClient interface into Client interface
  • [types] #3448 Remove method PB2TM.ConsensusParams

• Blockchain Protocol

• P2P Protocol

FEATURES:

• [rpc] #3419 Start HTTPS server if rpc.tls_cert_file and rpc.tls_key_file are provided in the config (@guagualvcha)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [docs] #3140 Formalize proposer election algorithm properties
• [docs] #3482 Fix broken links (@brapse)
• [mempool] #2778 No longer send txs back to peers who sent it to you. Also, limit to 65536 active peers. This vastly improves the bandwidth consumption of nodes. For instance, for a 4 node localnet, in a test sending 250byte txs for 120 sec. at 500 txs/sec (total of 15MB):
  • total bytes received from 1st node:
    • before: 42793967 (43MB)
    • after: 30003256 (30MB)
  • total bytes sent to 1st node:
    • before: 30569339 (30MB)
    • after: 19304964 (19MB)
• [p2p] #3475 Simplify GetSelectionWithBias for addressbook (@guagualvcha)
• [rpc/lib/client] #3430 Disable compression for HTTP client to prevent GZIP-bomb DoS attacks (@guagualvcha)

BUG FIXES:

• [blockchain] #2699 Update the maxHeight when a peer is removed
• [mempool] #3478 Fix memory-leak related to broadcastTxRoutine (@HaoyangLiu)

v0.31.0

March 16th, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @danil-lashin, @guagualvcha, @siburu, @silasdavis, @srmo, @Stumble, @svenstaro

This release is primarily about the new pubsub implementation, dubbed pubsub 2.0, and related changes, like configurable limits on the number of active RPC subscriptions at a time (max_subscription_clients). Pubsub 2.0 is an improved version of the older pubsub that is non-blocking and has a nicer API. Note the improved pubsub API also resulted in some improvements to the HTTPClient interface and the API for WebSocket subscriptions. This release also adds a configurable limit to the mempool size (max_txs_bytes, default 1GB) and a configurable timeout for the /broadcast_tx_commit endpoint.

See the v0.31.0 Milestone for more details.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [config] #2920 Remove consensus.blocktime_iota parameter
  • [rpc] #3227 New PubSub design does not block on clients when publishing messages. Slow clients may miss messages and receive an error, terminating the subscription.
  • [rpc] #3269 Limit number of unique clientIDs with open subscriptions. Configurable via rpc.max_subscription_clients
  • [rpc] #3269 Limit number of unique queries a given client can subscribe to at once. Configurable via rpc.max_subscriptions_per_client.
  • [rpc] #3435 Default ReadTimeout and WriteTimeout changed to 10s. WriteTimeout can increased by setting rpc.timeout_broadcast_tx_commit in the config.
  • [rpc/client] #3269 Update EventsClient interface to reflect new pubsub/eventBus API ADR-33. This includes Subscribe, Unsubscribe, and UnsubscribeAll methods.

• Apps

  • [abci] #3403 Remove time_iota_ms from BlockParams. This is a ConsensusParam but need not be exposed to the app for now.
  • [abci] #2920 Rename consensus_params.block_size to consensus_params.block in ABCI ConsensusParams

• Go API

  • [libs/common] TrapSignal accepts logger as a first parameter and does not block anymore
    • previously it was dumping "captured ..." msg to os.Stdout
    • TrapSignal should not be responsible for blocking thread of execution
  • [libs/db] #3397 Add possibility to Close() Batch to prevent memory leak when using ClevelDB. (@Stumble)
  • [types] #3354 Remove RoundState from EventDataRoundState
  • [rpc] #3435 StartHTTPServer / StartHTTPAndTLSServer now require a Config (use rpcserver.DefaultConfig)

• Blockchain Protocol

• P2P Protocol

FEATURES:

• [config] #3269 New configuration values for controlling RPC subscriptions:
  • rpc.max_subscription_clients sets the maximum number of unique clients with open subscriptions
  • rpc.max_subscriptions_per_clientsets the maximum number of unique subscriptions from a given client
  • rpc.timeout_broadcast_tx_commit sets the time to wait for a tx to be committed during /broadcast_tx_commit
• [types] #2920 Add time_iota_ms to block's consensus parameters (not exposed to the application)
• [lite] #3269 Add /unsubscribe_all endpoint to unsubscribe from all events
• [mempool] #3079 Bound mempool memory usage via the mempool.max_txs_bytes configuration value. Set to 1GB by default. The mempool's current txs_total_bytes is exposed via total_bytes field in /num_unconfirmed_txs and /unconfirmed_txs RPC endpoints.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [all] #3385, #3386 Various linting improvements
• [crypto] #3371 Copy in secp256k1 package from go-ethereum instead of importing go-ethereum (@silasdavis)
• [deps] #3382 Don't pin repos without releases
• [deps] #3357, #3389, #3392 Update gogo/protobuf, golang/protobuf, levigo, golang.org/x/crypto
• [libs/common] #3238 exit with zero (0) code upon receiving SIGTERM/SIGINT
• [libs/db] #3378 CLevelDB#Stats now returns the following properties:
  • leveldb.num-files-at-level{n}
  • leveldb.stats
  • leveldb.sstables
  • leveldb.blockpool
  • leveldb.cachedblock
  • leveldb.openedtables
  • leveldb.alivesnaps
  • leveldb.aliveiters
• [privval] #3351 First part of larger refactoring that clarifies and separates concerns in the privval package.

BUG FIXES:

• [blockchain] #3358 Fix timer leak in BlockPool (@guagualvcha)
• [cmd] #3408 Fix testnet command's panic when creating non-validator configs (using --n flag) (@srmo)
• [libs/db/remotedb/grpcdb] #3402 Close Iterator/ReverseIterator after use
• [libs/pubsub] #951, #1880 Use non-blocking send when dispatching messages ADR-33
• [lite] #3364 Fix /validators and /abci_query proxy endpoints (@guagualvcha)
• [p2p/conn] #3347 Reject all-zero shared secrets in the Diffie-Hellman step of secret-connection
• [p2p] #3369 Do not panic when filter times out
• [p2p] #3359 Fix reconnecting report duplicate ID error due to race condition between adding peer to peerSet and starting it (@guagualvcha)

v0.30.2

March 10th, 2019

This release fixes a CLevelDB memory leak. It was happening because we were not closing the WriteBatch object after use. See levigo's godoc for the Close method. Special thanks goes to @Stumble who both reported an issue in cosmos-sdk and provided a fix here.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [libs/db] #3842 Add Close() method to Batch interface (@Stumble)

BUG FIXES:

• [libs/db] #3842 Fix CLevelDB memory leak (@Stumble)

v0.30.1

February 20th, 2019

This release fixes a consensus halt and a DataCorruptionError after restart discovered in game_of_stakes_6. It also fixes a security issue in the p2p handshake by authenticating the NetAddress.ID of the peer we're dialing.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [config] #3291 Make config.ResetTestRootWithChainID() create concurrency-safe test directories.

BUG FIXES:

• [consensus] #3295 Flush WAL on stop to prevent data corruption during graceful shutdown.
• [consensus] #3302 Fix possible halt by resetting TriggeredTimeoutPrecommit before starting next height.
• [rpc] #3251 Fix /net_info#peers#remote_ip format. New format spec:
  • dotted decimal ("192.0.2.1"), if ip is an IPv4 or IP4-mapped IPv6 address
  • IPv6 ("2001:db8::1"), if ip is a valid IPv6 address
• [cmd] #3314 Return an error on show_validator when the private validator file does not exist.
• [p2p] #3010 Authenticate a peer against its NetAddress.ID when dialing.

v0.30.0

February 8th, 2019

This release fixes yet another issue with the proposer selection algorithm. We hope it's the last one, but we won't be surprised if it's not. We plan to one day expose the selection algorithm more directly to the application (#3285), and even to support randomness (#763). For more, see issues marked proposer-selection.

This release also includes a fix to prevent Tendermint from including the same piece of evidence in more than one block. This issue was reported by @chengwenxi in our bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Apps

  • [state] #3222 Duplicate updates for the same validator are forbidden. Apps must ensure that a given ResponseEndBlock.ValidatorUpdates contains only one entry per pubkey.

• Go API

  • [types] #3222 Remove Add and Update methods from ValidatorSet in favor of new UpdateWithChangeSet. This allows updates to be applied as a set, instead of one at a time.

• Block Protocol

  • [state] #3286 Blocks that include already committed evidence are invalid.

• P2P Protocol

  • [consensus] #3222 Validator updates are applied as a set, instead of one at a time, thus impacting the proposer priority calculation. This ensures that the proposer selection algorithm does not depend on the order of updates in ResponseEndBlock.ValidatorUpdates.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [crypto] #3279 Use btcec.S256().N directly instead of hard coding a copy.

BUG FIXES:

• [state] #3222 Fix validator set updates so they are applied as a set, rather than one at a time. This makes the proposer selection algorithm independent of the order of updates in ResponseEndBlock.ValidatorUpdates.
• [evidence] #3286 Don't add committed evidence to evidence pool.

v0.29.2

February 7th, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @ackratos, @rickyyangz

Note: This release contains security sensitive patches in the p2p and crypto packages:

• p2p:
  • Partial fix for MITM attacks on the p2p connection. MITM conditions may still exist. See #3010.
• crypto:
  • Eliminate our fork of btcd and use the btcd/btcec library directly for native secp256k1 signing. Note we still modify the signature encoding to prevent malleability.
  • Support the libsecp256k1 library via CGo through the go-ethereum/crypto/secp256k1 package.
  • Eliminate MixEntropy functions

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [crypto] #3278 Remove MixEntropy functions
  • [types] #3245 Commit uses type CommitSig Vote instead of Vote directly. In preparation for removing redundant fields from the commit #1648

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [consensus] #3246 Better logging and notes on recovery for corrupted WAL file
• [crypto] #3163 Use ethereum's libsecp256k1 go-wrapper for signatures when cgo is available
• [crypto] #3162 Wrap btcd instead of forking it to keep up with fixes (used if cgo is not available)
• [makefile] #3233 Use golangci-lint instead of go-metalinter
• [tools] #3218 Add go-deadlock tool to help detect deadlocks
• [tools] #3106 Add tm-signer-harness test harness for remote signers
• [tests] #3258 Fixed a bunch of non-deterministic test failures

BUG FIXES:

• [node] #3186 EventBus and indexerService should be started before first block (for replay last block on handshake) execution (@ackratos)
• [p2p] #3232 Fix infinite loop leading to addrbook deadlock for seed nodes
• [p2p] #3247 Fix panic in SeedMode when calling FlushStop and OnStop concurrently
• [p2p] #3040 Fix MITM on secret connection by checking low-order points
• [privval] #3258 Fix race between sign requests and ping requests in socket that was causing messages to be corrupted

v0.29.1

January 24, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @infinytum, @gauthamzz

This release contains two important fixes: one for p2p layer where we sometimes were not closing connections and one for consensus layer where consensus with no empty blocks (create_empty_blocks = false) could halt.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [pex] #3037 Only log "Reached max attempts to dial" once
• [rpc] #3159 Expose triggered_timeout_commit in the /dump_consensus_state

BUG FIXES:

• [consensus] #3199 Fix consensus halt with no empty blocks from not resetting triggeredTimeoutCommit
• [p2p] #2967 Fix file descriptor leak

v0.29.0

January 21, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @bradyjoestar, @kunaldhariwal, @gauthamzz, @hrharder

This release is primarily about making some breaking changes to the Block protocol version before Cosmos launch, and to fixing more issues in the proposer selection algorithm discovered on Cosmos testnets.

The Block protocol changes include using a standard Merkle tree format (RFC 6962), fixing some inconsistencies between field orders in Vote and Proposal structs, and constraining the hash of the ConsensusParams to include only a few fields.

The proposer selection algorithm saw significant progress, including a formal proof by @cwgoes for the base-case in Idris and a much more detailed specification (still in progress) by @ancazamfir.

Fixes to the proposer selection algorithm include normalizing the proposer priorities to mitigate the effects of large changes to the validator set. That said, we just discovered another bug, which will be fixed in the next breaking release.

While we are trying to stabilize the Block protocol to preserve compatibility with old chains, there may be some final changes yet to come before Cosmos launch as we continue to audit and test the software.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

• Apps

  • [state] #3049 Total voting power of the validator set is upper bounded by MaxInt64 / 8. Apps must ensure they do not return changes to the validator set that cause this maximum to be exceeded.

• Go API

  • [node] #3082 MetricsProvider now requires you to pass a chain ID
  • [types] #2713 Rename TxProof.LeafHash to TxProof.Leaf
  • [crypto/merkle] #2713 SimpleProof.Verify takes a leaf instead of a leafHash and performs the hashing itself

• Blockchain Protocol

  • [crypto/merkle] #2713 Merkle trees now match the RFC 6962 specification
  • [types] #3078 Re-order Timestamp and BlockID in CanonicalVote so it's consistent with CanonicalProposal (BlockID comes first)
  • [types] #3165 Hash of ConsensusParams only includes BlockSize.MaxBytes and BlockSize.MaxGas

• P2P Protocol

  • [consensus] #3049 Normalize priorities to not exceed 2*TotalVotingPower to mitigate unfair proposer selection heavily preferring earlier joined validators in the case of an early bonded large validator unbonding

FEATURES:

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [rpc] #3065 Return maxPerPage (100), not defaultPerPage (30) if per_page is greater than the max 100.
• [instrumentation] #3082 Add chain_id label for all metrics

BUG FIXES:

• [crypto] #3164 Update btcd fork for rare signRFC6979 bug
• [lite] #3171 Fix verifying large validator set changes
• [log] #3125 Fix year format
• [mempool] #3168 Limit tx size to fit in the max reactor msg size
• [scripts] #3147 Fix json2wal for large block parts (@bradyjoestar)

v0.28.1

January 18th, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @HaoyangLiu

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BUG FIXES:

• [consensus] Fix consensus halt from proposing blocks with too much evidence

v0.28.0

January 16th, 2019

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @fmauricios, @gianfelipe93, @husio, @needkane, @srmo, @yutianwu

This release is primarily about upgrades to the privval system - separating the priv_validator.json into distinct config and data files, and refactoring the socket validator to support reconnections.

Note: Please backup your existing priv_validator.json before using this version.

See UPGRADING.md for more details.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [cli] Removed --proxy_app=dummy option. Use kvstore (persistent_kvstore) instead.
  • [cli] Renamed --proxy_app=nilapp to --proxy_app=noop.
  • [config] #2992 allow_duplicate_ip is now set to false
  • [privval] #1181 Split priv_validator.json into immutable (config/priv_validator_key.json) and mutable (data/priv_validator_state.json) parts (@yutianwu)
  • [privval] #2926 Split up PubKeyMsg into PubKeyRequest and PubKeyResponse to be consistent with other message types
  • [privval] #2923 Listen for unix socket connections instead of dialing them

• Apps

• Go API

  • [types] #2981 Remove PrivValidator.GetAddress()

• Blockchain Protocol

• P2P Protocol

FEATURES:

• [rpc] #3052 Include peer's remote IP in /net_info

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [consensus] #3086 Log peerID on ignored votes (@srmo)
• [docs] #3061 Added specification for signing consensus msgs at ./docs/spec/consensus/signing.md
• [privval] #2948 Memoize pubkey so it's only requested once on startup
• [privval] #2923 Retry RemoteSigner connections on error

BUG FIXES:

• [build] #3085 Fix Version field in build scripts (@husio)
• [crypto/multisig] #3102 Fix multisig keys address length
• [crypto/encoding] #3101 Fix PubKeyMultisigThreshold unmarshalling into crypto.PubKey interface
• [p2p/conn] #3111 Make SecretConnection thread safe
• [rpc] #3053 Fix internal error in /tx_search when results are empty (@gianfelipe93)
• [types] #2926 Do not panic if retrieving the privval's public key fails

v0.27.4

December 21st, 2018

BUG FIXES:

• [mempool] #3036 Fix LRU cache by popping the least recently used item when the cache is full, not the most recently used one!

v0.27.3

December 16th, 2018

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [dep] #3027 Revert to mainline Go crypto library, eliminating the modified bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword

v0.27.2

December 16th, 2018

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [node] #3025 Validate NodeInfo addresses on startup.

BUG FIXES:

• [p2p] #3025 Revert to using defers in addrbook. Fixes deadlocks in pex and consensus upon invalid ExternalAddr/ListenAddr configuration.

v0.27.1

December 15th, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @danil-lashin, @hleb-albau, @james-ray, @leo-xinwang

FEATURES:

• [rpc] #2964 Add UnconfirmedTxs(limit) and NumUnconfirmedTxs() methods to HTTP/Local clients (@danil-lashin)
• [docs] #3004 Enable full-text search on docs pages

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [consensus] #2971 Return error if ValidatorSet is empty after InitChain (@leo-xinwang)
• [ci/cd] #3005 Updated CircleCI job to trigger website build when docs are updated
• [docs] Various updates

BUG FIXES:

• [cmd] #2983 testnet command always sets addr_book_strict = false
• [config] #2980 Fix CORS options formatting
• [kv indexer] #2912 Don't ignore key when executing CONTAINS
• [mempool] #2961 Call notifyTxsAvailable if there're txs left after committing a block, but recheck=false
• [mempool] #2994 Reject txs with negative GasWanted
• [p2p] #2990 Fix a bug where seeds don't disconnect from a peer after 3h
• [consensus] #3006 Save state after InitChain only when stateHeight is also 0 (@james-ray)

v0.27.0

December 5th, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @danil-lashin, @srmo

Special thanks to @dlguddus for discovering a major issue in the proposer selection algorithm.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

This release is primarily about fixes to the proposer selection algorithm in preparation for the Cosmos Game of Stakes. It also makes use of the ConsensusParams.Validator.PubKeyTypes to restrict the key types that can be used by validators, and removes the Heartbeat consensus message.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [rpc] #2932 Rename accum to proposer_priority

• Go API

  • [db] #2913 ReverseIterator API change: start < end, and end is exclusive.
  • [types] #2932 Rename Validator.Accum to Validator.ProposerPriority

• Blockchain Protocol

  • [state] #2714 Validators can now only use pubkeys allowed within ConsensusParams.Validator.PubKeyTypes

• P2P Protocol

  • [consensus] #2871 Remove ProposalHeartbeat message as it serves no real purpose (@srmo)
  • [state] Fixes for proposer selection:
    • #2785 Accum for new validators is -1.125*totalVotingPower instead of 0
    • #2941 val.Accum is preserved during ValidatorSet.Update to avoid being reset to 0

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [state] #2929 Minor refactor of updateState logic (@danil-lashin)
• [node] #2959 Allow node to start even if software's BlockProtocol is different from state's BlockProtocol
• [pex] #2959 Pex reactor logger uses module=pex

BUG FIXES:

• [p2p] #2968 Panic on transport error rather than continuing to run but not accept new connections
• [p2p] #2969 Fix mismatch in peer count between /net_info and the prometheus metrics
• [rpc] #2408 /broadcast_tx_commit: Fix "interface conversion: interface {} in nil, not EventDataTx" panic (could happen if somebody sent a tx using /broadcast_tx_commit while Tendermint was being stopped)
• [state] #2785 Fix accum for new validators to be -1.125*totalVotingPower instead of 0, forcing them to wait before becoming the proposer. Also:
  • do not batch clip
  • keep accums averaged near 0
• [txindex/kv] #2925 Don't return false positives when range searching for a prefix of a tag value
• [types] #2938 Fix regression in v0.26.4 where we panic on empty genDoc.Validators
• [types] #2941 Preserve val.Accum during ValidatorSet.Update to avoid it being reset to 0 every time a validator is updated

v0.26.4

November 27th, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @ackratos, @goolAdapter, @james-ray, @joe-bowman, @kostko, @nagarajmanjunath, @tomtau

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

FEATURES:

• [rpc] #2747 Enable subscription to tags emitted from BeginBlock/EndBlock (@kostko)
• [types] #2747 Add ResultBeginBlock and ResultEndBlock fields to EventDataNewBlock and EventDataNewBlockHeader to support subscriptions (@kostko)
• [types] #2918 Add Marshal, MarshalTo, Unmarshal methods to various structs to support Protobuf compatibility (@nagarajmanjunath)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [config] #2877 Add blocktime_iota to the config.toml (@ackratos)
  • NOTE: this should be a ConsensusParam, not part of the config, and will be removed from the config at a later date (#2920.
• [mempool] #2882 Add txs from Update to cache
• [mempool] #2891 Remove local int64 counter from being stored in every tx
• [node] #2866 Add ability to instantiate IPCVal (@joe-bowman)

BUG FIXES:

• [blockchain] #2731 Retry both blocks if either is bad to avoid getting stuck during fast sync (@goolAdapter)
• [consensus] #2893 Use genDoc.Validators instead of state.NextValidators on replay when appHeight==0 (@james-ray)
• [log] #2868 Fix module=main setting overriding all others
  • NOTE: this changes the default logging behaviour to be much less verbose. Set log_level="info" to restore the previous behaviour.
• [rpc] #2808 Fix accum field in /validators by calling IncrementAccum if necessary
• [rpc] #2811 Allow integer IDs in JSON-RPC requests (@tomtau)
• [txindex/kv] #2759 Fix tx.height range queries
• [txindex/kv] #2775 Order tx results by index if height is the same
• [txindex/kv] #2908 Don't return false positives when searching for a prefix of a tag value

v0.26.3

November 17th, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @danil-lashin, @kevlubkcm, @krhubert, @srmo

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Go API
  • [rpc] #2791 Functions that start HTTP servers are now blocking:
    • Impacts StartHTTPServer, StartHTTPAndTLSServer, and StartGRPCServer
    • These functions now take a net.Listener instead of an address
  • [rpc] #2767 Subscribing to events NewRound and CompleteProposal return new types EventDataNewRound and EventDataCompleteProposal, respectively, instead of the generic EventDataRoundState. (@kevlubkcm)

FEATURES:

• [log] #2843 New log_format config option, which can be set to 'plain' for colored text or 'json' for JSON output
• [types] #2767 New event types EventDataNewRound (with ProposerInfo) and EventDataCompleteProposal (with BlockID). (@kevlubkcm)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [dep] #2844 Dependencies are no longer pinned to an exact version in the Gopkg.toml:
  • Serialization libs are allowed to vary by patch release
  • Other libs are allowed to vary by minor release
• [p2p] #2857 "Send failed" is logged at debug level instead of error.
• [rpc] #2780 Add read and write timeouts to HTTP servers
• [state] #2848 Make "Update to validators" msg value pretty (@danil-lashin)

BUG FIXES:

• [consensus] #2819 Don't send proposalHearbeat if not a validator
• [docs] #2859 Fix ConsensusParams details in spec
• [libs/autofile] #2760 Comment out autofile permissions check - should fix running Tendermint on Windows
• [p2p] #2869 Set connection config properly instead of always using default
• [p2p/pex] #2802 Seed mode fixes:
  • Only disconnect from inbound peers
  • Use FlushStop instead of Sleep to ensure all messages are sent before disconnecting

v0.26.2

November 15th, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @hleb-albau, @zhuzeyu

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

FEATURES:

• [rpc] #2582 Enable CORS on RPC API (@hleb-albau)

BUG FIXES:

• [abci] #2748 Unlock mutex in localClient so even when app panics (e.g. during CheckTx), consensus continue working
• [abci] #2748 Fix DATA RACE in localClient
• [amino] #2822 Update to v0.14.1 to support compiling on 32-bit platforms
• [rpc] #2748 Drain channel before calling Unsubscribe(All) in /broadcast_tx_commit

v0.26.1

November 11, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @katakonst

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [consensus] #2704 Simplify valid POL round logic
• [docs] #2749 Deduplicate some ABCI docs
• [mempool] More detailed log messages
  • #2724
  • #2762

BUG FIXES:

• [autofile] #2703 Do not panic when checking Head size
• [crypto/merkle] #2756 Fix crypto/merkle ProofOperators.Verify to check bounds on keypath parts.
• [mempool] fix a bug where we create a WAL despite wal_dir being empty
• [p2p] #2771 Fix peer-id label name to peer_id in prometheus metrics
• [p2p] #2797 Fix IDs in peer NodeInfo and require them for addresses in AddressBook
• [p2p] #2797 Do not close conn immediately after sending pex addrs in seed mode. Partial fix for #2092.

v0.26.0

November 2, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @bradyjoestar, @connorwstein, @goolAdapter, @HaoyangLiu, @james-ray, @overbool, @phymbert, @Slamper, @Uzair1995, @yutianwu.

Special thanks to @Slamper for a series of bug reports in our bug bounty program which are fixed in this release.

This release is primarily about adding Version fields to various data structures, optimizing consensus messages for signing and verification in restricted environments (like HSMs and the Ethereum Virtual Machine), and aligning the consensus code with the specification. It also includes our first take at a generalized merkle proof system, and changes the length of hashes used for hashing data structures from 20 to 32 bytes.

See the UPGRADING.md for details on upgrading to the new version.

Please note that we are still making breaking changes to the protocols. While the new Version fields should help us to keep the software backwards compatible even while upgrading the protocols, we cannot guarantee that new releases will be compatible with old chains just yet. We expect there will be another breaking release or two before the Cosmos Hub launch, but we will otherwise be paying increasing attention to backwards compatibility. Thanks for bearing with us!

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [config] #2232 Timeouts are now strings like "3s" and "100ms", not ints
  • [config] #2505 Remove Mempool.RecheckEmpty (it was effectively useless anyways)
  • [config] #2490 mempool.wal is disabled by default
  • [privval] #2459 Split SocketPVMsgs implementations into Request and Response, where the Response may contain a error message (returned by the remote signer)
  • [state] #2644 Add Version field to State, breaking the format of State as encoded on disk.
  • [rpc] #2298 /abci_query takes prove argument instead of trusted and switches the default behaviour to prove=false
  • [rpc] #2654 Remove all node_info.other.*_version fields in /status and /net_info
  • [rpc] #2636 Remove _params suffix from fields in consensus_params.

• Apps

  • [abci] #2298 ResponseQuery.Proof is now a structured merkle.Proof, not just arbitrary bytes
  • [abci] #2644 Add Version to Header and shift all fields by one
  • [abci] #2662 Bump the field numbers for some ResponseInfo fields to make room for AppVersion
  • [abci] #2636 Updates to ConsensusParams
    • Remove Params suffix from field names
    • Add Params suffix to message types
    • Add new field and type, Validator ValidatorParams, to control what types of validator keys are allowed.

• Go API

  • [config] #2232 Timeouts are time.Duration, not ints
  • [crypto/merkle & lite] #2298 Various changes to accomodate General Merkle trees
  • [crypto/merkle] #2595 Remove all Hasher objects in favor of byte slices
  • [crypto/merkle] #2635 merkle.SimpleHashFromTwoHashes is no longer exported
  • [node] #2479 Remove node.RunForever
  • [rpc/client] #2298 ABCIQueryOptions.Trusted -> ABCIQueryOptions.Prove
  • [types] #2298 Remove Index and Total fields from TxProof.
  • [types] #2598 VoteTypeXxx are now of type SignedMsgType byte and named XxxType, eg. PrevoteType, PrecommitType.
  • [types] #2636 Rename fields in ConsensusParams to remove Params suffixes
  • [types] #2735 Simplify Proposal message to align with spec

• Blockchain Protocol

  • [crypto/tmhash] #2732 TMHASH is now full 32-byte SHA256
    • All hashes in the block header and Merkle trees are now 32-bytes
    • PubKey Addresses are still only 20-bytes
  • [state] #2587 Require block.Time of the fist block to be genesis time
  • [state] #2644 Require block.Version to match state.Version
  • [types] Update SignBytes for Vote/Proposal/Heartbeat:
    • #2459 Use amino encoding instead of JSON in SignBytes.
    • #2598 Reorder fields and use fixed sized encoding.
    • #2598 Change Type field from string to byte and use new SignedMsgType to enumerate.
  • [types] #2730 Use same order for fields in Vote as in the SignBytes
  • [types] #2732 Remove the address field from the validator hash
  • [types] #2644 Add Version struct to Header
  • [types] #2609 ConsensusParams.Hash() is the hash of the amino encoded struct instead of the Merkle tree of the fields
  • [types] #2670 Header.Hash() builds Merkle tree out of fields in the same order they appear in the header, instead of sorting by field name
  • [types] #2682 Use proto3 varint encoding for ints that are usually unsigned (instead of zigzag encoding).
  • [types] #2636 Add Validator field to ConsensusParams (Used to control which pubkey types validators can use, by abci type).

• P2P Protocol

  • [consensus] #2652 Replace CommitStepMessage with NewValidBlockMessage
  • [consensus] #2735 Simplify Proposal message to align with spec
  • [consensus] #2730 Add Type field to Proposal and use same order of fields as in the SignBytes for both Proposal and Vote
  • [p2p] #2654 Add ProtocolVersion struct with protocol versions to top of DefaultNodeInfo and require ProtocolVersion.Block to match during peer handshake

FEATURES:

• [abci] #2557 Add Codespace field to Response{CheckTx, DeliverTx, Query}
• [abci] #2662 Add BlockVersion and P2PVersion to RequestInfo
• [crypto/merkle] #2298 General Merkle Proof scheme for chaining various types of Merkle trees together
• [docs/architecture] #1181 S plit immutable and mutable parts of priv_validator.json

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Additional Metrics
  • [consensus] #2169
  • [p2p] #2169
• [config] #2232 Added ValidateBasic method, which performs basic checks
• [crypto/ed25519] #2558 Switch to use latest golang.org/x/crypto through our fork at github.com/tendermint/crypto
• [libs/log] #2707 Add year to log format (@yutianwu)
• [tools] #2238 Binary dependencies are now locked to a specific git commit

BUG FIXES:

• #2711 Validate all incoming reactor messages. Fixes various bugs due to negative ints.
• [autofile] #2428 Group.RotateFile need call Flush() before rename (@goolAdapter)
• [common] #2533 Fixed a bug in the BitArray.Or method
• [common] #2506 Fixed a bug in the BitArray.Sub method (@james-ray)
• [common] #2534 Fix BitArray.PickRandom to choose uniformly from true bits
• [consensus] #1690 Wait for timeoutPrecommit before starting next round
• [consensus] #1745 Wait for Proposal or timeoutProposal before entering prevote
• [consensus] #2642 Only propose ValidBlock, not LockedBlock
• [consensus] #2642 Initialized ValidRound and LockedRound to -1
• [consensus] #1637 Limit the amount of evidence that can be included in a block
• [consensus] #2652 Ensure valid block property with faulty proposer
• [evidence] #2515 Fix db iter leak (@goolAdapter)
• [libs/event] #2518 Fix event concurrency flaw (@goolAdapter)
• [node] #2434 Make node respond to signal interrupts while sleeping for genesis time
• [state] #2616 Pass nil to NewValidatorSet() when genesis file's Validators field is nil
• [p2p] #2555 Fix p2p switch FlushThrottle value (@goolAdapter)
• [p2p] #2668 Reconnect to originally dialed address (not self-reported address) for persistent peers

v0.25.0

September 22, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @scriptionist, @bradyjoestar, @WALL-E

This release is mostly about the ConsensusParams - removing fields and enforcing MaxGas. It also addresses some issues found via security audit, removes various unused functions from libs/common, and implements ADR-012.

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [rpc] #2391 /status result.node_info.other became a map
  • [types] #2364 Remove TxSize and BlockGossip from ConsensusParams
    • Maximum tx size is now set implicitly via the BlockSize.MaxBytes
    • The size of block parts in the consensus is now fixed to 64kB

• Apps

  • [mempool] #2360 Mempool tracks the ResponseCheckTx.GasWanted and ConsensusParams.BlockSize.MaxGas and enforces:
    • GasWanted <= MaxGas for every tx
    • (sum of GasWanted in block) <= MaxGas for block proposal

• Go API

  • [libs/common] #2431 Remove Word256 due to lack of use
  • [libs/common] #2452 Remove the following functions due to lack of use:
    • byteslice.go: cmn.IsZeros, cmn.RightPadBytes, cmn.LeftPadBytes, cmn.PrefixEndBytes
    • strings.go: cmn.IsHex, cmn.StripHex
    • int.go: Uint64Slice, all put/get int64 methods

FEATURES:

• [rpc] #2415 New /consensus_params?height=X endpoint to query the consensus params at any height (@scriptonist)
• [types] #1714 Add Address to GenesisValidator
• [metrics] #2337 consensus.block_interval_metrics is now gauge, not histogram (you will be able to see spikes, if any)
• [libs] #2286 Panic if autofile or db/fsdb permissions change from 0600.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [libs/db] #2371 Output error instead of panic when the given db_backend is not initialised (@bradyjoestar)
• [mempool] #2399 Make mempool cache a proper LRU (@bradyjoestar)
• [p2p] #2126 Introduce PeerTransport interface to improve isolation of concerns
• [libs/common] #2326 Service returns ErrNotStarted

BUG FIXES:

• [node] #2294 Delay starting node until Genesis time
• [consensus] #2048 Correct peer statistics for marking peer as good
• [rpc] #2460 StartHTTPAndTLSServer() now passes StartTLS() errors back to the caller rather than hanging forever.
• [p2p] #2047 Accept new connections asynchronously
• [tm-bench] #2410 Enforce minimum transaction size (@WALL-E)

0.24.0

September 6th, 2018

Special thanks to external contributors with PRs included in this release: ackratos, james-ray, bradyjoestar, peerlink, Ahmah2009, bluele, b00f.

This release includes breaking upgrades in the block header, including the long awaited changes for delaying validator set updates by one block to better support light clients. It also fixes enforcement on the maximum size of blocks, and includes a BFT timestamp in each block that can be safely used by applications. There are also some minor breaking changes to the rpc, config, and ABCI.

See the UPGRADING.md for details on upgrading to the new version.

From here on, breaking changes will be broken down to better reflect how users are affected by a change.

A few more breaking changes are in the works - each will come with a clear Architecture Decision Record (ADR) explaining the change. You can review ADRs here or in the open Pull Requests. You can also check in on the issues marked as breaking.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• CLI/RPC/Config

  • [config] #2169 Replace MaxNumPeers with MaxNumInboundPeers and MaxNumOutboundPeers
  • [config] #2300 Reduce default mempool size from 100k to 5k, until ABCI rechecking is implemented.
  • [rpc] #1815 /commit returns a signed_header field instead of everything being top-level

• Apps

  • [abci] Added address of the original proposer of the block to Header
  • [abci] Change ABCI Header to match Tendermint exactly
  • [abci] #2159 Update use of Validator (see ADR-018):
    • Remove PubKey from Validator (so it's just Address and Power)
    • Introduce ValidatorUpdate (with just PubKey and Power)
    • InitChain and EndBlock use ValidatorUpdate
    • Update field names and types in BeginBlock
  • [state] #1815 Validator set changes are now delayed by one block
    • updates returned in ResponseEndBlock for block H will be included in RequestBeginBlock for block H+2

• Go API

  • [lite] #1815 Complete refactor of the package
  • [node] #2212 NewNode now accepts a *p2p.NodeKey (@bradyjoestar)
  • [libs/common] #2199 Remove Fmt, in favor of fmt.Sprintf
  • [libs/common] SplitAndTrim was deleted
  • [libs/common] #2274 Remove unused Math functions like MaxInt, MaxInt64, MinInt, MinInt64 (@Ahmah2009)
  • [libs/clist] Panics if list extends beyond MaxLength
  • [crypto] #2205 Rename AminoRoute variables to no longer be prefixed by signature type.

• Blockchain Protocol

  • [state] #1815 Validator set changes are now delayed by one block (!)
    • Add NextValidatorSet to State, changes on-disk representation of state
  • [state] #2184 Enforce ConsensusParams.BlockSize.MaxBytes (See ADR-020).
    • Remove ConsensusParams.BlockSize.MaxTxs
    • Introduce maximum sizes for all components of a block, including ChainID
  • [types] Updates to the block Header:
    • #1815 NextValidatorsHash - hash of the validator set for the next block, so the current validators actually sign over the hash for the new validators
    • #2106 ProposerAddress - address of the block's original proposer
  • [consensus] #2203 Implement BFT time
    • Timestamp in block must be monotonic and equal the median of timestamps in block's LastCommit
  • [crypto] #2239 Secp256k1 signature changes (See ADR-014):
    • format changed from DER to r || s, both little endian encoded as 32 bytes.
    • malleability removed by requiring s to be in canonical form.

• P2P Protocol

  • [p2p] #2263 Update secret connection to use a little endian encoded nonce
  • [blockchain] #2213 Fix Amino routes for blockchain reactor messages (@peerlink)

FEATURES:

• [types] #2015 Allow genesis file to have 0 validators (@b00f)
  • Initial validator set can be determined by the app in ResponseInitChain
• [rpc] #2161 New event ValidatorSetUpdates for when the validator set changes
• [crypto/multisig] #2164 Introduce multisig pubkey and signature format
• [libs/db] #2293 Allow passing options through when creating instances of leveldb dbs

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [docs] Lint documentation with write-good and stop-words.
• [docs] #2249 Refactor, deduplicate, and improve the ABCI docs and spec (with thanks to @ttmc).
• [scripts] #2196 Added json2wal tool, which is supposed to help our users restore (@bradyjoestar) corrupted WAL files and compose test WAL files (@bradyjoestar)
• [mempool] #2234 Now stores txs by hash inside of the cache, to mitigate memory leakage
• [mempool] #2166 Set explicit capacity for map when updating txs (@bluele)

BUG FIXES:

• [config] #2284 Replace db_path with db_dir from automatically generated configuration files.
• [mempool] #2188 Fix OOM issue from cache map and list getting out of sync
• [state] #2051 KV store index supports searching by tx.height (@ackratos)
• [rpc] #2327 /dial_peers does not try to dial existing peers
• [node] #2323 Filter empty strings from config lists (@james-ray)
• [abci/client] #2236 Fix closing GRPC connection (@bradyjoestar)

0.23.1

August 22nd, 2018

BUG FIXES:

• [libs/autofile] #2261 Fix log rotation so it actually happens.
  • Fixes issues with consensus WAL growing unbounded ala #2259

0.23.0

August 5th, 2018

This release includes breaking upgrades in our P2P encryption, some ABCI messages, and how we encode time and signatures.

A few more changes are still coming to the Header, ABCI, and validator set handling to better support light clients, BFT time, and upgrades. Most notably, validator set changes will be delayed by one block (see #1815).

We also removed make ensure_deps in favour of make get_vendor_deps.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• [abci] Changed time format from int64 to google.protobuf.Timestamp
• [abci] Changed Validators to LastCommitInfo in RequestBeginBlock
• [abci] Removed Fee from ResponseDeliverTx and ResponseCheckTx
• [crypto] Switch crypto.Signature from interface to []byte for space efficiency #2128
  • NOTE: this means signatures no longer have the prefix bytes in Amino binary nor the type field in Amino JSON. They're just bytes.
• [p2p] Remove salsa and ripemd primitives, in favor of using chacha as a stream cipher, and hkdf #2054
• [tools] Removed make ensure_deps in favor of make get_vendor_deps
• [types] CanonicalTime uses nanoseconds instead of clipping to ms
  • breaks serialization/signing of all messages with a timestamp

FEATURES:

• [tools] Added make check_dep
  • ensures gopkg.lock is synced with gopkg.toml
  • ensures no branches are used in the gopkg.toml

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [blockchain] Improve fast-sync logic #1805
  • tweak params
  • only process one block at a time to avoid starving
• [common] bit array functions which take in another parameter are now thread safe
• [crypto] Switch hkdfchachapoly1305 to xchachapoly1305
• [p2p] begin connecting to peers as soon a seed node provides them to you (#2093)

BUG FIXES:

• [common] Safely handle cases where atomic write files already exist #2109
• [privval] fix a deadline for accepting new connections in socket private validator.
• [p2p] Allow startup if a configured seed node's IP can't be resolved (#1716)
• [node] Fully exit when CTRL-C is pressed even if consensus state panics #2072

0.22.8

July 26th, 2018

BUG FIXES

• [consensus, blockchain] Fix 0.22.7 below.

0.22.7

July 26th, 2018

BUG FIXES

• [consensus, blockchain] Register the Evidence interface so it can be marshalled/unmarshalled by the blockchain and consensus reactors

0.22.6

July 24th, 2018

BUG FIXES

• [rpc] Fix /blockchain endpoint
  • (#2049) Fix OOM attack by returning error on negative input
  • Fix result length to have max 20 (instead of 21) block metas
• [rpc] Validate height is non-negative in /abci_query
• [consensus] (#2050) Include evidence in proposal block parts (previously evidence was not being included in blocks!)
• [p2p] (#2046) Close rejected inbound connections so file descriptor doesn't leak
• [Gopkg] (#2053) Fix versions in the toml

0.22.5

July 23th, 2018

BREAKING CHANGES:

• [crypto] Refactor tendermint/crypto into many subpackages
• [libs/common] remove exponentially distributed random numbers

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [abci, libs/common] Generated gogoproto static marshaller methods
• [config] Increase default send/recv rates to 5 mB/s
• [p2p] reject addresses coming from private peers
• [p2p] allow persistent peers to be private

BUG FIXES:

• [mempool] fixed a race condition when create_empty_blocks=false where a transaction is published at an old height.
• [p2p] dial external IP setup by persistent_peers, not internal NAT IP
• [rpc] make /status RPC endpoint resistant to consensus halt

0.22.4

July 14th, 2018

BREAKING CHANGES:

• [genesis] removed deprecated app_options field.
• [types] Genesis.AppStateJSON -> Genesis.AppState

FEATURES:

• [tools] Merged in from github.com/tendermint/tools

BUG FIXES:

• [tools/tm-bench] Various fixes
• [consensus] Wait for WAL to stop on shutdown
• [abci] Fix #1891, pending requests cannot hang when abci server dies. Previously a crash in BeginBlock could leave tendermint in broken state.

0.22.3

July 10th, 2018

IMPROVEMENTS

• Update dependencies
  • pin all values in Gopkg.toml to version or commit
  • update golang/protobuf to v1.1.0

0.22.2

July 10th, 2018

IMPROVEMENTS

• More cleanup post repo merge!
• [docs] Include ecosystem.json and tendermint-bft.md from deprecated aib-data repository.
• [config] Add instrumentation.max_open_connections, which limits the number of requests in flight to Prometheus server (if enabled). Default: 3.

BUG FIXES

• [rpc] Allow unquoted integers in requests
  • NOTE: this is only for URI requests. JSONRPC requests and all responses will use quoted integers (the proto3 JSON standard).
• [consensus] Fix halt on shutdown

0.22.1

July 5th, 2018

IMPROVEMENTS

• Cleanup post repo-merge.
• [docs] Various improvements.

BUG FIXES

• [state] Return error when EndBlock returns a 0-power validator that isn't already in the validator set.
• [consensus] Shut down WAL properly.

0.22.0

July 2nd, 2018

BREAKING CHANGES:

• [config]
  • Remove max_block_size_txs and max_block_size_bytes in favor of consensus params from the genesis file.
  • Rename skip_upnp to upnp, and turn it off by default.
  • Change max_packet_msg_size back to max_packet_msg_payload_size
• [rpc]
  • All integers are encoded as strings (part of the update for Amino v0.10.1)
  • syncing is now called catching_up
• [types] Update Amino to v0.10.1
  • Amino is now fully proto3 compatible for the basic types
  • JSON-encoded types now use the type name instead of the prefix bytes
  • Integers are encoded as strings
• [crypto] Update go-crypto to v0.10.0 and merge into crypto
  • privKey.Sign returns error.
  • ed25519 address changed to the first 20-bytes of the SHA256 of the raw pubkey bytes
  • tmlibs/merkle -> crypto/merkle. Uses SHA256 instead of RIPEMD160
• [tmlibs] Update to v0.9.0 and merge into libs
  • remove merkle package (moved to crypto/merkle)

FEATURES

• [cmd] Added metrics (served under /metrics using a Prometheus client; disabled by default). See the new instrumentation section in the config and metrics guide.
• [p2p] Add IPv6 support to peering.
• [p2p] Add external_address to config to allow specifying the address for peers to dial

IMPROVEMENT

• [rpc/client] Supports https and wss now.
• [crypto] Make public key size into public constants
• [mempool] Log tx hash, not entire tx
• [abci] Merged in github.com/tendermint/abci
• [crypto] Merged in github.com/tendermint/go-crypto
• [libs] Merged in github.com/tendermint/tmlibs
• [docs] Move from .rst to .md

BUG FIXES:

• [rpc] Limit maximum number of HTTP/WebSocket connections (rpc.max_open_connections) and gRPC connections (rpc.grpc_max_open_connections). Check out "Running In Production" guide if you want to increase them.
• [rpc] Limit maximum request body size to 1MB (header is limited to 1MB).
• [consensus] Fix a halting bug where create_empty_blocks=false
• [p2p] Fix panic in seed mode

0.21.0

June 21th, 2018

BREAKING CHANGES

• [config] Change default ports from 4665X to 2665X. Ports over 32768 are ephemeral and reserved for use by the kernel.
• [cmd] unsafe_reset_all removes the addrbook.json

IMPROVEMENT

• [pubsub] Set default capacity to 0
• [docs] Various improvements

BUG FIXES

• [consensus] Fix an issue where we don't make blocks after fast_sync when create_empty_blocks=false
• [mempool] Fix #1761 where we don't process txs if cache_size=0
• [rpc] Fix memory leak in Websocket (when using /subscribe method)
• [config] Escape paths in config - fixes config paths on Windows

0.20.0

June 6th, 2018

This is the first in a series of breaking releases coming to Tendermint after soliciting developer feedback and conducting security audits.

This release does not break any blockchain data structures or protocols other than the ABCI messages between Tendermint and the application.

Applications that upgrade for ABCI v0.11.0 should be able to continue running Tendermint v0.20.0 on blockchains created with v0.19.X

BREAKING CHANGES

• [abci] Upgrade to v0.11.0
• [abci] Change Query path for filtering peers by node ID from p2p/filter/pubkey/<id> to p2p/filter/id/<id>

0.19.9

June 5th, 2018

BREAKING CHANGES

• [types/priv_validator] Moved to top level privval package

FEATURES

• [config] Collapse PeerConfig into P2PConfig
• [docs] Add quick-install script
• [docs/spec] Add table of Amino prefixes

BUG FIXES

• [rpc] Return 404 for unknown endpoints
• [consensus] Flush WAL on stop
• [evidence] Don't send evidence to peers that are behind
• [p2p] Fix memory leak on peer disconnects
• [rpc] Fix panic when per_page=0

0.19.8

June 4th, 2018

BREAKING:

• [p2p] Remove auth_enc config option, peer connections are always auth encrypted. Technically a breaking change but seems no one was using it and arguably a bug fix :)

BUG FIXES

• [mempool] Fix deadlock under high load when skip_timeout_commit=true and create_empty_blocks=false

0.19.7

May 31st, 2018

BREAKING:

• [libs/pubsub] TagMap#Get returns a string value
• [libs/pubsub] NewTagMap accepts a map of strings

FEATURES

• [rpc] the RPC documentation is now published to https://tendermint.github.io/slate
• [p2p] AllowDuplicateIP config option to refuse connections from same IP.
  • true by default for now, false by default in next breaking release
• [docs] Add docs for query, tx indexing, events, pubsub
• [docs] Add some notes about running Tendermint in production

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [consensus] Consensus reactor now receives events from a separate synchronous event bus, which is not dependant on external RPC load
• [consensus/wal] do not look for height in older files if we've seen height - 1
• [docs] Various cleanup and link fixes

0.19.6

May 29th, 2018

BUG FIXES

• [blockchain] Fix fast-sync deadlock during high peer turnover

BUG FIX:

• [evidence] Dont send peers evidence from heights they haven't synced to yet
• [p2p] Refuse connections to more than one peer with the same IP
• [docs] Various fixes

0.19.5

May 20th, 2018

BREAKING CHANGES

• [rpc/client] TxSearch and UnconfirmedTxs have new arguments (see below)
• [rpc/client] TxSearch returns ResultTxSearch
• [version] Breaking changes to Go APIs will not be reflected in breaking version change, but will be included in changelog.

FEATURES

• [rpc] /tx_search takes page (starts at 1) and per_page (max 100, default 30) args to paginate results
• [rpc] /unconfirmed_txs takes limit (max 100, default 30) arg to limit the output
• [config] mempool.size and mempool.cache_size options

IMPROVEMENTS

• [docs] Lots of updates
• [consensus] Only Fsync() the WAL before executing msgs from ourselves

BUG FIXES

• [mempool] Enforce upper bound on number of transactions

0.19.4 (May 17th, 2018)

IMPROVEMENTS

• [state] Improve tx indexing by using batches
• [consensus, state] Improve logging (more consensus logs, fewer tx logs)
• [spec] Moved to docs/spec (TODO cleanup the rest of the docs ...)

BUG FIXES

• [consensus] Fix issue #1575 where a late proposer can get stuck

0.19.3 (May 14th, 2018)

FEATURES

• [rpc] New /consensus_state returns just the votes seen at the current height

IMPROVEMENTS

• [rpc] Add stringified votes and fraction of power voted to /dump_consensus_state
• [rpc] Add PeerStateStats to /dump_consensus_state

BUG FIXES

• [cmd] Set GenesisTime during tendermint init
• [consensus] fix ValidBlock rules

0.19.2 (April 30th, 2018)

FEATURES:

• [p2p] Allow peers with different Minor versions to connect
• [rpc] /net_info includes n_peers

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [p2p] Various code comments, cleanup, error types
• [p2p] Change some Error logs to Debug

BUG FIXES:

• [p2p] Fix reconnect to persistent peer when first dial fails
• [p2p] Validate NodeInfo.ListenAddr
• [p2p] Only allow (MaxNumPeers - MaxNumOutboundPeers) inbound peers
• [p2p/pex] Limit max msg size to 64kB
• [p2p] Fix panic when pex=false
• [p2p] Allow multiple IPs per ID in AddrBook
• [p2p] Fix before/after bugs in addrbook isBad()

0.19.1 (April 27th, 2018)

Note this release includes some small breaking changes in the RPC and one in the config that are really bug fixes. v0.19.1 will work with existing chains, and make Tendermint easier to use and debug. With <3

BREAKING (MINOR)

• [config] Removed wal_light setting. If you really needed this, let us know

FEATURES:

• [networks] moved in tooling from devops repo: terraform and ansible scripts for deploying testnets !
• [cmd] Added gen_node_key command

BUG FIXES

Some of these are breaking in the RPC response, but they're really bugs!

• [spec] Document address format and pubkey encoding pre and post Amino
• [rpc] Lower case JSON field names
• [rpc] Fix missing entries, improve, and lower case the fields in /dump_consensus_state
• [rpc] Fix NodeInfo.Channels format to hex
• [rpc] Add Validator address to /status
• [rpc] Fix prove in ABCIQuery
• [cmd] MarshalJSONIndent on init

0.19.0 (April 13th, 2018)

BREAKING:

• [cmd] improved testnet command; now it can fill in persistent_peers for you in the config file and much more (see tendermint testnet --help for details)
• [cmd] show_node_id now returns an error if there is no node key
• [rpc]: changed the output format for the /status endpoint (see https://godoc.org/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/rpc/core#Status)

Upgrade from go-wire to go-amino. This is a sweeping change that breaks everything that is serialized to disk or over the network.

See github.com/tendermint/go-amino for details on the new format.

See scripts/wire2amino.go for a tool to upgrade genesis/priv_validator/node_key JSON files.

FEATURES

• [test] docker-compose for local testnet setup (thanks Greg!)

0.18.0 (April 6th, 2018)

BREAKING:

• [types] Merkle tree uses different encoding for varints (see tmlibs v0.8.0)
• [types] ValidtorSet.GetByAddress returns -1 if no validator found
• [p2p] require all addresses come with an ID no matter what
• [rpc] Listening address must contain tcp:// or unix:// prefix

FEATURES:

• [rpc] StartHTTPAndTLSServer (not used yet)
• [rpc] Include validator's voting power in /status
• [rpc] /tx and /tx_search responses now include the transaction hash
• [rpc] Include peer NodeIDs in /net_info

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [config] trim whitespace from elements of lists (like persistent_peers)
• [rpc] /tx_search results are sorted by height
• [p2p] do not try to connect to ourselves (ok, maybe only once)
• [p2p] seeds respond with a bias towards good peers

BUG FIXES:

• [rpc] fix subscribing using an abci.ResponseDeliverTx tag
• [rpc] fix tx_indexers matchRange
• [rpc] fix unsubscribing (see tmlibs v0.8.0)

0.17.1 (March 27th, 2018)

BUG FIXES:

• [types] Actually support app_state in genesis as AppStateJSON

0.17.0 (March 27th, 2018)

BREAKING:

• [types] WriteSignBytes -> SignBytes

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [all] renamed dummy (persistent_dummy) to kvstore (persistent_kvstore) (name "dummy" is deprecated and will not work in the next breaking release)
• [docs] note on determinism (docs/determinism.rst)
• [genesis] app_options field is deprecated. please rename it to app_state in your genesis file(s). app_options will not work in the next breaking release
• [p2p] dial seeds directly without potential peers
• [p2p] exponential backoff for addrs in the address book
• [p2p] mark peer as good if it contributed enough votes or block parts
• [p2p] stop peer if it sends incorrect data, msg to unknown channel, msg we did not expect
• [p2p] when auth_enc is true, all dialed peers must have a node ID in their address
• [spec] various improvements
• switched from glide to dep internally for package management
• [wire] prep work for upgrading to new go-wire (which is now called go-amino)

FEATURES:

• [config] exposed auth_enc flag to enable/disable encryption
• [config] added the --p2p.private_peer_ids flag and PrivatePeerIDs config variable (see config for description)
• [rpc] added /health endpoint, which returns empty result for now
• [types/priv_validator] new format and socket client, allowing for remote signing

BUG FIXES:

• [consensus] fix liveness bug by introducing ValidBlock mechanism

0.16.0 (February 20th, 2018)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• [config] use $TMHOME/config for all config and json files
• [p2p] old --p2p.seeds is now --p2p.persistent_peers (persistent peers to which TM will always connect to)
• [p2p] now --p2p.seeds only used for getting addresses (if addrbook is empty; not persistent)
• [p2p] NodeInfo: remove RemoteAddr and add Channels
  • we must have at least one overlapping channel with peer
  • we only send msgs for channels the peer advertised
• [p2p/conn] pong timeout
• [lite] comment out IAVL related code

FEATURES:

• [p2p] added new /dial_peers&persistent=_ unsafe endpoint
• [p2p] persistent node key in $THMHOME/config/node_key.json
• [p2p] introduce peer ID and authenticate peers by ID using addresses like ID@IP:PORT
• [p2p/pex] new seed mode crawls the network and serves as a seed.
• [config] MempoolConfig.CacheSize
• [config] P2P.SeedMode (--p2p.seed_mode)

IMPROVEMENT:

• [p2p/pex] stricter rules in the PEX reactor for better handling of abuse
• [p2p] various improvements to code structure including subpackages for pex and conn
• [docs] new spec!
• [all] speed up the tests!

BUG FIX:

• [blockchain] StopPeerForError on timeout
• [consensus] StopPeerForError on a bad Maj23 message
• [state] flush mempool conn before calling commit
• [types] fix priv val signing things that only differ by timestamp
• [mempool] fix memory leak causing zombie peers
• [p2p/conn] fix potential deadlock

0.15.0 (December 29, 2017)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• [p2p] enable the Peer Exchange reactor by default
• [types] add Timestamp field to Proposal/Vote
• [types] add new fields to Header: TotalTxs, ConsensusParamsHash, LastResultsHash, EvidenceHash
• [types] add Evidence to Block
• [types] simplify ValidateBasic
• [state] updates to support changes to the header
• [state] Enforce <1/3 of validator set can change at a time

FEATURES:

• [state] Send indices of absent validators and addresses of byzantine validators in BeginBlock
• [state] Historical ConsensusParams and ABCIResponses
• [docs] Specification for the base Tendermint data structures.
• [evidence] New evidence reactor for gossiping and managing evidence
• [rpc] /block_results?height=X returns the DeliverTx results for a given height.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [consensus] Better handling of corrupt WAL file

BUG FIXES:

• [lite] fix race
• [state] validate block.Header.ValidatorsHash
• [p2p] allow seed addresses to be prefixed with eg. tcp://
• [p2p] use consistent key to refer to peers so we dont try to connect to existing peers
• [cmd] fix tendermint init to ignore files that are there and generate files that aren't.

0.14.0 (December 11, 2017)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• consensus/wal: removed separator
• rpc/client: changed Subscribe/Unsubscribe/UnsubscribeAll funcs signatures to be identical to event bus.

FEATURES:

• new tendermint lite command (and lite/proxy pkg) for running a light-client RPC proxy. NOTE it is currently insecure and its APIs are not yet covered by semver

IMPROVEMENTS:

• rpc/client: can act as event bus subscriber (See https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/945).
• p2p: use exponential backoff from seconds to hours when attempting to reconnect to persistent peer
• config: moniker defaults to the machine's hostname instead of "anonymous"

BUG FIXES:

• p2p: no longer exit if one of the seed addresses is incorrect

0.13.0 (December 6, 2017)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• abci: update to v0.8 using gogo/protobuf; includes tx tags, vote info in RequestBeginBlock, data.Bytes everywhere, use int64, etc.
• types: block heights are now int64 everywhere
• types & node: EventSwitch and EventCache have been replaced by EventBus and EventBuffer; event types have been overhauled
• node: EventSwitch methods now refer to EventBus
• rpc/lib/types: RPCResponse is no longer a pointer; WSRPCConnection interface has been modified
• rpc/client: WaitForOneEvent takes an EventsClient instead of types.EventSwitch
• rpc/client: Add/RemoveListenerForEvent are now Subscribe/Unsubscribe
• rpc/core/types: ResultABCIQuery wraps an abci.ResponseQuery
• rpc: /subscribe and /unsubscribe take query arg instead of event
• rpc: /status returns the LatestBlockTime in human readable form instead of in nanoseconds
• mempool: cached transactions return an error instead of an ABCI response with BadNonce

FEATURES:

• rpc: new /unsubscribe_all WebSocket RPC endpoint
• rpc: new /tx_search endpoint for filtering transactions by more complex queries
• p2p/trust: new trust metric for tracking peers. See ADR-006
• config: TxIndexConfig allows to set what DeliverTx tags to index

IMPROVEMENTS:

• New asynchronous events system using tmlibs/pubsub
• logging: Various small improvements
• consensus: Graceful shutdown when app crashes
• tests: Fix various non-deterministic errors
• p2p: more defensive programming

BUG FIXES:

• consensus: fix panic where prs.ProposalBlockParts is not initialized
• p2p: fix panic on bad channel

0.12.1 (November 27, 2017)

BUG FIXES:

• upgrade tmlibs dependency to enable Windows builds for Tendermint

0.12.0 (October 27, 2017)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• rpc/client: websocket ResultsCh and ErrorsCh unified in ResponsesCh.
• rpc/client: ABCIQuery no longer takes prove
• state: remove GenesisDoc from state.
• consensus: new binary WAL format provides efficiency and uses checksums to detect corruption
  • use scripts/wal2json to convert to json for debugging

FEATURES:

• new Verifiers pkg contains the tendermint light-client library (name subject to change)!
• rpc: /genesis includes the app_options .
• rpc: /abci_query takes an additional height parameter to support historical queries.
• rpc/client: new ABCIQueryWithOptions supports options like trusted (set false to get a proof) and height to query a historical height.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• rpc: /genesis result includes app_options
• rpc/lib/client: add jitter to reconnects.
• rpc/lib/types: RPCError satisfies the error interface.

BUG FIXES:

• rpc/client: fix ws deadlock after stopping
• blockchain: fix panic on AddBlock when peer is nil
• mempool: fix sending on TxsAvailable when a tx has been invalidated
• consensus: dont run WAL catchup if we fast synced

0.11.1 (October 10, 2017)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• blockchain/reactor: respondWithNoResponseMessage for missing height

BUG FIXES:

• rpc: fixed client WebSocket timeout
• rpc: client now resubscribes on reconnection
• rpc: fix panics on missing params
• rpc: fix /dump_consensus_state to have normal json output (NOTE: technically breaking, but worth a bug fix label)
• types: fixed out of range error in VoteSet.addVote
• consensus: fix wal autofile via https://github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#032-october-2-2017

0.11.0 (September 22, 2017)

BREAKING:

• genesis file: validator amount is now power

• abci: Info, BeginBlock, InitChain all take structs

• rpc: various changes to match JSONRPC spec (http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification), including breaking ones:

  • requests that previously returned HTTP code 4XX now return 200 with an error code in the JSONRPC.
  • rpctypes.RPCResponse uses new RPCError type instead of string.

• cmd: if there is no genesis, exit immediately instead of waiting around for one to show.

• types: Signer.Sign returns an error.

• state: every validator set change is persisted to disk, which required some changes to the State structure.

• p2p: new p2p.Peer interface used for all reactor methods (instead of *p2p.Peer struct).

FEATURES:

• rpc: /validators?height=X allows querying of validators at previous heights.
• rpc: Leaving the height param empty for /block, /validators, and /commit will return the value for the latest height.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• docs: Moved all docs from the website and tools repo in, converted to .rst, and cleaned up for presentation on tendermint.readthedocs.io

BUG FIXES:

• fix WAL openning issue on Windows

0.10.4 (September 5, 2017)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• docs: Added Slate docs to each rpc function (see rpc/core)
• docs: Ported all website docs to Read The Docs
• config: expose some p2p params to tweak performance: RecvRate, SendRate, and MaxMsgPacketPayloadSize
• rpc: Upgrade the websocket client and server, including improved auto reconnect, and proper ping/pong

BUG FIXES:

• consensus: fix panic on getVoteBitArray
• consensus: hang instead of panicking on byzantine consensus failures
• cmd: dont load config for version command

0.10.3 (August 10, 2017)

FEATURES:

• control over empty block production:
  • new flag, --consensus.create_empty_blocks; when set to false, blocks are only created when there are txs or when the AppHash changes.
  • new config option, consensus.create_empty_blocks_interval; an empty block is created after this many seconds.
  • in normal operation, create_empty_blocks = true and create_empty_blocks_interval = 0, so blocks are being created all the time (as in all previous versions of tendermint). The number of empty blocks can be reduced by increasing create_empty_blocks_interval or by setting create_empty_blocks = false.
  • new TxsAvailable() method added to Mempool that returns a channel which fires when txs are available.
  • new heartbeat message added to consensus reactor to notify peers that a node is waiting for txs before entering propose step.
• rpc: Add syncing field to response returned by /status. Is true while in fast-sync mode.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• various improvements to documentation and code comments

BUG FIXES:

• mempool: pass height into constructor so it doesn't always start at 0

0.10.2 (July 10, 2017)

FEATURES:

• Enable lower latency block commits by adding consensus reactor sleep durations and p2p flush throttle timeout to the config

IMPROVEMENTS:

• More detailed logging in the consensus reactor and state machine
• More in-code documentation for many exposed functions, especially in consensus/reactor.go and p2p/switch.go
• Improved readability for some function definitions and code blocks with long lines

0.10.1 (June 28, 2017)

FEATURES:

• Use --trace to get stack traces for logged errors
• types: GenesisDoc.ValidatorHash returns the hash of the genesis validator set
• types: GenesisDocFromFile parses a GenesiDoc from a JSON file

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Add a Code of Conduct
• Variety of improvements as suggested by megacheck tool
• rpc: deduplicate tests between rpc/client and rpc/tests
• rpc: addresses without a protocol prefix default to tcp://. http:// is also accepted as an alias for tcp://
• cmd: commands are more easily reuseable from other tools
• DOCKER: automate build/push

BUG FIXES:

• Fix log statements using keys with spaces (logger does not currently support spaces)
• rpc: set logger on websocket connection
• rpc: fix ws connection stability by setting write deadline on pings

0.10.0 (June 2, 2017)

Includes major updates to configuration, logging, and json serialization. Also includes the Grand Repo-Merge of 2017.

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Config and Flags:

  • The config map is replaced with a Config struct, containing substructs: BaseConfig, P2PConfig, MempoolConfig, ConsensusConfig, RPCConfig
  • This affects the following flags:
    • --seeds is now --p2p.seeds
    • --node_laddr is now --p2p.laddr
    • --pex is now --p2p.pex
    • --skip_upnp is now --p2p.skip_upnp
    • --rpc_laddr is now --rpc.laddr
    • --grpc_laddr is now --rpc.grpc_laddr
  • Any configuration option now within a substract must come under that heading in the config.toml, for instance:

    [p2p]
    laddr="tcp://1.2.3.4:46656"
    
    [consensus]
    timeout_propose=1000
    

  • Use viper and DefaultConfig() / TestConfig() functions to handle defaults, and remove config/tendermint and config/tendermint_test
  • Change some function and method signatures to
  • Change some function and method signatures accomodate new config

• Logger

  • Replace static log15 logger with a simple interface, and provide a new implementation using go-kit. See our new logging library and blog post for more details
  • Levels warn and notice are removed (you may need to change them in your config.toml!)
  • Change some function and method signatures to accept a logger

• JSON serialization:

  • Replace [TypeByte, Xxx] with {"type": "some-type", "data": Xxx} in RPC and all .json files by using go-wire/data. For instance, a public key is now:

    "pub_key": {
      "type": "ed25519",
      "data": "83DDF8775937A4A12A2704269E2729FCFCD491B933C4B0A7FFE37FE41D7760D0"
    }
    

  • Remove type information about RPC responses, so [TypeByte, {"jsonrpc": "2.0", ... }] is now just {"jsonrpc": "2.0", ... }
  • Change []byte to data.Bytes in all serialized types (for hex encoding)
  • Lowercase the JSON tags in ValidatorSet fields
  • Introduce EventDataInner for serializing events

• Other:

  • Send InitChain message in handshake if appBlockHeight == 0
  • Do not include the Accum field when computing the validator hash. This makes the ValidatorSetHash unique for a given validator set, rather than changing with every block (as the Accum changes)
  • Unsafe RPC calls are not enabled by default. This includes /dial_seeds, and all calls prefixed with unsafe. Use the --rpc.unsafe flag to enable.

FEATURES:

• Per-module log levels. For instance, the new default is state:info,*:error, which means the state package logs at info level, and everything else logs at error level
• Log if a node is validator or not in every consensus round
• Use ldflags to set git hash as part of the version
• Ignore address and pub_key fields in priv_validator.json and overwrite them with the values derrived from the priv_key

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Merge tendermint/go-p2p -> tendermint/tendermint/p2p and tendermint/go-rpc -> tendermint/tendermint/rpc/lib
• Update paths for grand repo merge:
  • go-common -> tmlibs/common
  • go-data -> go-wire/data
  • All other go- libs, except go-crypto and go-wire, are merged under tmlibs
• No global loggers (loggers are passed into constructors, or preferably set with a SetLogger method)
• Return HTTP status codes with errors for RPC responses
• Limit /blockchain_info call to return a maximum of 20 blocks
• Use .Wrap() and .Unwrap() instead of eg. PubKeyS for go-crypto types
• RPC JSON responses use pretty printing (via json.MarshalIndent)
• Color code different instances of the consensus for tests
• Isolate viper to cmd/tendermint/commands and do not read config from file for tests

0.9.2 (April 26, 2017)

BUG FIXES:

• Fix bug in ResetPrivValidator where we were using the global config and log (causing external consumers, eg. basecoin, to fail).

0.9.1 (April 21, 2017)

FEATURES:

• Transaction indexing - txs are indexed by their hash using a simple key-value store; easily extended to more advanced indexers
• New /tx?hash=X endpoint to query for transactions and their DeliverTx result by hash. Optionally returns a proof of the tx's inclusion in the block
• tendermint testnet command initializes files for a testnet

IMPROVEMENTS:

• CLI now uses Cobra framework
• TMROOT is now TMHOME (TMROOT will stop working in 0.10.0)
• /broadcast_tx_XXX also returns the Hash (can be used to query for the tx)
• /broadcast_tx_commit also returns the height the block was committed in
• ABCIResponses struct persisted to disk before calling Commit; makes handshake replay much cleaner
• WAL uses #ENDHEIGHT instead of #HEIGHT (#HEIGHT will stop working in 0.10.0)
• Peers included via --seeds, under seeds in the config, or in /dial_seeds are now persistent, and will be reconnected to if the connection breaks

BUG FIXES:

• Fix bug in fast-sync where we stop syncing after a peer is removed, even if they're re-added later
• Fix handshake replay to handle validator set changes and results of DeliverTx when we crash after app.Commit but before state.Save()

0.9.0 (March 6, 2017)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Update ABCI to v0.4.0, where Query is now Query(RequestQuery) ResponseQuery, enabling precise proofs at particular heights:

message RequestQuery{
	bytes data = 1;
	string path = 2;
	uint64 height = 3;
	bool prove = 4;
}

message ResponseQuery{
	CodeType          code        = 1;
	int64             index       = 2;
	bytes             key         = 3;
	bytes             value       = 4;
	bytes             proof       = 5;
	uint64            height      = 6;
	string            log         = 7;
}

• BlockMeta data type unifies its Hash and PartSetHash under a BlockID:

type BlockMeta struct {
	BlockID BlockID `json:"block_id"` // the block hash and partsethash
	Header  *Header `json:"header"`   // The block's Header
}

• ValidatorSet.Proposer is exposed as a field and persisted with the State. Use GetProposer() to initialize or update after validator-set changes.

• tendermint gen_validator command output is now pure JSON

FEATURES:

• New RPC endpoint /commit?height=X returns header and commit for block at height X
• Client API for each endpoint, including mocks for testing

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Node is now a BaseService
• Simplified starting Tendermint in-process from another application
• Better organized Makefile
• Scripts for auto-building binaries across platforms
• Docker image improved, slimmed down (using Alpine), and changed from tendermint/tmbase to tendermint/tendermint
• New repo files: CONTRIBUTING.md, Github ISSUE_TEMPLATE, CHANGELOG.md
• Improvements on CircleCI for managing build/test artifacts
• Handshake replay is doen through the consensus package, possibly using a mockApp
• Graceful shutdown of RPC listeners
• Tests for the PEX reactor and DialSeeds

BUG FIXES:

• Check peer.Send for failure before updating PeerState in consensus
• Fix panic in /dial_seeds with invalid addresses
• Fix proposer selection logic in ValidatorSet by taking the address into account in the accumComparable
• Fix inconcistencies with ValidatorSet.Proposer across restarts by persisting it in the State

0.8.0 (January 13, 2017)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• New data type BlockID to represent blocks:

type BlockID struct {
	Hash        []byte        `json:"hash"`
	PartsHeader PartSetHeader `json:"parts"`
}

• Vote data type now includes validator address and index:

type Vote struct {
	ValidatorAddress []byte           `json:"validator_address"`
	ValidatorIndex   int              `json:"validator_index"`
	Height           int              `json:"height"`
	Round            int              `json:"round"`
	Type             byte             `json:"type"`
	BlockID          BlockID          `json:"block_id"` // zero if vote is nil.
	Signature        crypto.Signature `json:"signature"`
}

• Update TMSP to v0.3.0, where it is now called ABCI and AppendTx is DeliverTx
• Hex strings in the RPC are now "0x" prefixed

FEATURES:

• New message type on the ConsensusReactor, Maj23Msg, for peers to alert others they've seen a Maj23, in order to track and handle conflicting votes intelligently to prevent Byzantine faults from causing halts:

type VoteSetMaj23Message struct {
	Height  int
	Round   int
	Type    byte
	BlockID types.BlockID
}

• Configurable block part set size
• Validator set changes
• Optionally skip TimeoutCommit if we have all the votes
• Handshake between Tendermint and App on startup to sync latest state and ensure consistent recovery from crashes
• GRPC server for BroadcastTx endpoint

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Less verbose logging
• Better test coverage (37% -> 49%)
• Canonical SignBytes for signable types
• Write-Ahead Log for Mempool and Consensus via tmlibs/autofile
• Better in-process testing for the consensus reactor and byzantine faults
• Better crash/restart testing for individual nodes at preset failure points, and of networks at arbitrary points
• Better abstraction over timeout mechanics

BUG FIXES:

• Fix memory leak in mempool peer
• Fix panic on POLRound=-1
• Actually set the CommitTime
• Actually send BeginBlock message
• Fix a liveness issues caused by Byzantine proposals/votes. Uses the new Maj23Msg.

0.7.4 (December 14, 2016)

FEATURES:

• Enable the Peer Exchange reactor with the --pex flag for more resilient gossip network (feature still in development, beware dragons)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Remove restrictions on RPC endpoint /dial_seeds to enable manual network configuration

0.7.3 (October 20, 2016)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Type safe FireEvent
• More WAL/replay tests
• Cleanup some docs

BUG FIXES:

• Fix deadlock in mempool for synchronous apps
• Replay handles non-empty blocks
• Fix race condition in HeightVoteSet

0.7.2 (September 11, 2016)

BUG FIXES:

• Set mustConnect=false so tendermint will retry connecting to the app

0.7.1 (September 10, 2016)

FEATURES:

• New TMSP connection for Query/Info
• New RPC endpoints:
  • tmsp_query
  • tmsp_info
• Allow application to filter peers through Query (off by default)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• TMSP connection type enforced at compile time
• All listen/client urls use a "tcp://" or "unix://" prefix

BUG FIXES:

• Save LastSignature/LastSignBytes to priv_validator.json for recovery
• Fix event unsubscribe
• Fix fastsync/blockchain reactor

0.7.0 (August 7, 2016)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Strict SemVer starting now!
• Update to ABCI v0.2.0
• Validation types now called Commit
• NewBlock event only returns the block header

FEATURES:

• TMSP and RPC support TCP and UNIX sockets
• Addition config options including block size and consensus parameters
• New WAL mode cswal_light; logs only the validator's own votes
• New RPC endpoints:
  • for starting/stopping profilers, and for updating config
  • /broadcast_tx_commit, returns when tx is included in a block, else an error
  • /unsafe_flush_mempool, empties the mempool

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Various optimizations
• Remove bad or invalidated transactions from the mempool cache (allows later duplicates)
• More elaborate testing using CircleCI including benchmarking throughput on 4 digitalocean droplets

BUG FIXES:

• Various fixes to WAL and replay logic
• Various race conditions

PreHistory

Strict versioning only began with the release of v0.7.0, in late summer 2016. The project itself began in early summer 2014 and was workable decentralized cryptocurrency software by the end of that year. Through the course of 2015, in collaboration with Eris Industries (now Monax Industries), many additional features were integrated, including an implementation from scratch of the Ethereum Virtual Machine. That implementation now forms the heart of Burrow. In the later half of 2015, the consensus algorithm was upgraded with a more asynchronous design and a more deterministic and robust implementation.

By late 2015, frustration with the difficulty of forking a large monolithic stack to create alternative cryptocurrency designs led to the invention of the Application Blockchain Interface (ABCI), then called the Tendermint Socket Protocol (TMSP). The Ethereum Virtual Machine and various other transaction features were removed, and Tendermint was whittled down to a core consensus engine driving an application running in another process. The ABCI interface and implementation were iterated on and improved over the course of 2016, until versioned history kicked in with v0.7.0.