tendermint/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md

v0.34.0-rc3

Special thanks to external contributors on this release:

Friendly reminder, we have a bug bounty program.

BREAKING CHANGES

• Blockchain Protocol

  • #5193 Header hashes are no longer empty for empty inputs, notably DataHash, EvidenceHash, and LastResultsHash (@erikgrinaker)

• Go API

  • [evidence] #5181 Phantom validator evidence was removed (also from abci) (@cmwaters)
  • [merkle] #5193 HashFromByteSlices and ProofsFromByteSlices now return a hash for empty inputs, following RFC6962 (@erikgrinaker)
  • [crypto] [#5214] Change GenPrivKeySecp256k1 to GenPrivKeyFromSecret to be consistent with other keys
  • [state] #5191 Add State.InitialHeight field to record initial block height, must be 1 (not 0) to start from 1 (@erikgrinaker)
  • [state] LoadStateFromDBOrGenesisFile() and LoadStateFromDBOrGenesisDoc() no longer saves the state in the database if not found, the genesis state is simply returned (@erikgrinaker)

FEATURES:

• [abci] #5174 Add amnesia evidence and remove mock and potential amnesia evidence from abci (@cmwaters)
• [abci] #5191 Add InitChain.InitialHeight field giving the initial block height (@erikgrinaker)
• [abci] #5227 Add ResponseInitChain.app_hash which is recorded in genesis block (@erikgrinaker)
• [genesis] #5191 Add initial_height field to specify the initial chain height (defaults to 1) (@erikgrinaker)
• [db] Add support for badgerdb database backend (@erikgrinaker)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• [evidence] #5219 Change the source of evidence time to block time (@cmwaters)

BUG FIXES:

• [evidence] #5170 change abci evidence time to the time the infraction happened not the time the evidence was committed on the block (@cmwaters)
• [node] Don't attempt fast sync when the ABCI application specifies ourself as the only validator via InitChain (@erikgrinaker)
• [libs/rand] #5215 Fix out-of-memory error on unexpected argument of Str() (@SadPencil)