CHANGELOG 0.9

Note: Parity 0.9 reached End-of-Life on 2016-05-02 (EOL).

Parity beta-0.9.1 (2016-02-16)

Homestead transition block changed to 1100000.

• Beta patch to 0.9.1 #445
• Delay homestead transition #430
• (BETA) https link in the installer (?) #392
• beta: Check for handshake expiration before attempting replace #377

Parity beta-0.9 (2016-02-08)

First Parity Beta 0.9 released.

• Panic on missing counters; Client cleanup #368
• Update README for new PPAs. #369
• block_queue::clear should be more thorough #365
• Fixed an issue with forked counters #363
• Install parity #362
• DB directory versioning #358
• Raise FD limit for MacOS #357
• Travis slack integration. #356
• SignedTransaction structure #350
• License #354
• Performance optimizations #353
• Gitter in README. #355
• test efforts, receipt requests #352
• sync tests setup & local module coverage #348
• install parity script #347
• evmjit homestead merge #342
• Fixed sync stalling on fork #343
• Remerge 264 #334
• Ethsync tests bfix #339
• Fix default options. #335
• sync queue limit hotfix #338
• Network tests, separate local coverage for utils #333
• fix parity version so netstats can parse it #332
• reveal surprise #331
• Revert removal of new_code. #330
• Network mod tests first part #329
• Look ma no dead_code #323
• Fixing JIT, Updating hook to run ethcore tests. #326
• Final docs #327
• update install-deps.sh #316
• Finish all my docs. Fix previous test compilation. #320
• Additional evm tests (extops, call, jumps) and some docs #317
• More documentation. #318
• Additional documentation. #315
• unused functions cleanup #310
• update ethcore.github.io documentation automatically #311
• Another try with travis ci credentials #314
• Document some stuff. #309
• Check block parent on import; Peer timeouts #303
• Increasing coverage for evm. #306
• ethcore docs #301
• Replacing secure token for deployment #305
• doc.sh #299
• Building beta-* and stable-* tags #302
• Deploying artifacts for tags (release/beta) #300
• cov.sh to show coverage locally #298
• benchmark fixes #297
• Include JSONRPC CLI options. #296
• travis.yml fixes #293
• Improve version string. #295
• Fixed block queue test #294
• Util docs #292
• fixed building docs #289
• update travis to build PRs only against master #290
• Coverage effort #272
• updated docker containers #288
• rpc module fixes #287
• Test for Receipt RLP. #282
• Building from source guide #284
• Fixed neted empty list RLP encoding #283
• Fix CALLDATACOPY (and bonus CODECOPY, too!). #279
• added travis && coveralls badge to README.md #280
• coveralls coverage #277
• Travis [in progress] #257
• Travis on reorganized repo #276
• umbrella project #275
• Ethash disk cache #273
• Parity executable name and version #274
• Dockerfile #195
• Garbage collection test fix #267
• Fix stCallCreateCallCodeTest, add more tests #271
• Moved sync out of ethcore crate; Added block validation #265
• RLP encoder refactoring #252
• Chain sync tests and minor refactoring #264
• Common log init function #263
• changed max vm depth from 128 to 64, change homestead block to 1_000_000 #262
• fixed blockchain tests crash on log init #261
• Blockchain tests and some helpers for guarding temp directory #256
• Fix logging and random tests. #260
• Fix difficulty calculation algo. #259
• fix submodule version #258
• temp dir spawn refactoring #246
• fixed tests submodule branch #254
• rpc net methods returns real peer count && protocol version #253
• Add homestead & random tests. #245
• Fixing suicide with self-refund to be consistent with CPP. #247
• stubs for rpc methods #251
• clippy, missing docs, renaming etc. #244
• impl missing methods in tests #243
• General tests and some helpers #239
• Note additional tests are fixed, fix doc test. #242
• jsonrpc http server #193
• Ethash nonce is H64 not a u64 #240
• Fix import for bcMultiChainTest #236
• Client basic tests #232
• Fix ensure_db_good() and flush_queue(), block refactoring, check block format, be strict. #231
• Rlp #207
• Schedule documentation #219
• U256<->H256 Conversion #206
• Spawning new thread when we are reaching stack limit #217
• Blockchain tests #211
• fixed failing sync test #218
• Removing println #216
• Cleaning readme #212
• Fixing delegatecall #196
• Autogenerate the Args from the docopt macro. #205
• Networking fixes #202
• Argument parsing from CLI #204
• Removed wildcard from clippy version #203
• Fixed tests and tweaked sync progress report #201
• Heavy tests #199
• Mutithreaded IO #198
• Populating last_hashes #197
• Fixing clippy stuff #170
• basic .travis.yml #194
• Generating coverage reports. #190
• Adding doc requests comments #192
• moved src/bin/client.rs -> src/bin/client/main.rs #185
• removed overflowing_shr #188
• fixed wrapping ops on latest nightly #187
• Pruned state DB #176
• Memory management for cache #180
• Implement signs having low-s. #183
• Introduce sha3 crate and use it in ethash #178
• Multithreaded block queue #173
• Iterator for NibbleSlice and TrieDB. #171
• Handling all possible overflows #145
• Global secp256k1 context #164
• Ethash #152
• Move util into here #153
• EVM Interpreter #103
• Homestead transition support, maybe. #141
• externalities refactor #131
• More open files. #140
• Single array for logs output. #133
• Client app event handler #132
• Various consensus fixes. #130
• callcode builtins tests pass #127
• Client state syncing #119
• Split externalities from executive. #126
• executive error on not enoguh base gas #124
• Gav #125
• builtin sets excepted to true #123
• More state tests. #122
• updated to rocksdb wrapper version 0.3 #121
• out_of_gas -> excepted #120
• Parametrizing evm::Factory #111
• stLogs tests passing #118
• Fix executive. #117
• Fixes for marek's shooting from the hip. #116
• Executive revert fix #115
• Fix storage/account and add butress test. #114
• Refactored Pod & Diff types into separate files, JSON infrastructure revamp. #113
• Fix storage stuff and introduce per-item dirty-tracking. #112
• Check logs in state tests. #109
• executive gas calculation fixes #108
• proper gas calculation in executive #107
• Fixing MaxDepth param for executive #105
• Fix determination of state roots. #106
• transact substracts tx_gas #104
• Pretty-print and fix for state. #102
• Tier step price. #101
• Refactor Diff datastructures. #100
• externalities use u256 instead of u64 for gas calculation #99
• Executive tests #97
• State conensus tests now print mismatching diff on fail. #98
• State testing framework. First test is failing. #96
• executive tests #95
• Use U512s for ether cost calculation, complete transaction API #94
• Utils for consensus test decoding and better layout. #93
• executive fixes + tests #89
• All transaction tests pass. Nicer testing framework. #92
• Block verification tests; BlockProvider blockchain trait for testing #88
• State::exists, docs and tests. #87
• Add tests module, add two more transaction tests. #86
• bring back removed tests, removed build warnings #82
• Nicer transaction validation API. Nicer OutOfBounds API in general. #85
• Transaction fixes and consensus tests (all passing) #84
• fixed getting block info in evmjit + tests #81
• evm tests cleanup #80
• renamed VmFactory -> Factory #77
• fixed rust-evmjit description of improper_ctypes usage #76
• jit feature enabled by default #75
• evm #52
• state clone #74
• Block Verification (no tests yet) #72
• Improvements to LogEntry and Transaction #73
• Use getter in header in preparation for a Header trait; additional testing in enact_block(). #64
• BlockChain sync and Client app #55
• Block enactment (including test) #63
• Block complete. Needs tests. #62
• More on OpenBlock::close; State::kill_account added #61
• Remove genesis module, add more chain specs and separate out ethereum-specific stuff #60
• State::new_contract, camelCase engine params, missing param #59
• Use reorganisation #58
• Initial Ethash/Block skeleton implementations. #57
• Spec with tested Morden genesis decoder and builtins. #54
• Move all chain parameters into engine_params #50
• jit ffi improvements [please review] #51
• blockchain [please review] #34
• Move information from networkparams.rs into spec.rs #48
• Move bulking out in Engine/Params. #47
• Removed need for mutation in State. #46
• State::code and State::storage_at + tests. #45
• State functions for balance and nonce operations #44
• Account::storage_at, Account::ensure_cached and tests. #43
• Additional tests. #42
• seal todo done #41
• missing rustc_serialize crate && rlp as_list function #40
• More methods in Account, documentation and tests. #39
• Minor reworking of Account. #38
• Add Account and State classes. #37
• Revert regressions #36