CHANGELOG 1.0

Note: Parity 1.0 reached End-of-Life on 2016-06-24 (EOL).

Parity v1.0.2 (2016-04-11)

Parity 1.0.2 release improves Json RPC compatibility and fixes a number of stability issues.

• Flush password prompt #1031
• [beta] dependencies update #949
• Master to beta v1.0.2 #922
• Master to beta 1.0.2 #908

Parity v1.0.1 (2016-03-28)

Parity 1.0.1 update fixes a number of issues with Json RPC, transaction propagation and syncing.

• Imporved sync error handling #905
• Publish locally-made transactions to peers. #851
• Merge fixes from master to beta #845
• Full sync restart on bad block #844
• Make BlockNumber optional, fix eth_call #828
• Web3sha3 beta #826
• Use network id for the web3_net_version return. #821
• Fix mining from spinning #806
• Merge master to beta #796

Parity v1.0.0 (2016-03-24)

Parity 1.0.0 release adds the following features:

• Standard JsonRPC interface.
• Full Homestead compatibility.
• Transaction management.
• Mining with external miner.
• Account management.
• Geth key chain compatibility.
• Additional command line options.
• State trie pruning.
• Cache and queue footprint.
• Network discovery & NAT traversal.
• Custom chain specification files.

Note that in this release the state database is in archive (full) mode by default. Run with one of the --pruning options to enable pruning.

• First part of multi-mining support #804
• Fixing future-current transactions clash #802
• Increase threads to num_cpus & fix author reporting #800
• another batch of rpc improvements #798
• Avoid tracing DELEGATECALL and CALLCODE. Plus tests for it. #794
• complete getting started steps for OS X #793
• Auto detect available port (with fixed test) #788
• eth_getTransactionReceipt #792
• Comprehensive tests for tracing transactions #791
• Disable preparing work package if miners don't ask for it. #771
• Listen on all interfaces for JSONRPC by default. #786
• eth_call #783
• Revert "Auto detect available port" #789
• added output to execution result #777
• Auto detect available port #782
• Allow 0x prefix for --author. #785
• updated dependencies, moved rpctest to its own submodule #784
• use ethjson module to load chain json tests #778
• Tracing implemented. #772
• test ethjson module on travis #780
• batch of rpc fixes #775
• rpctest executable #757
• Refactoring error transaction_queue error handling and update_sealing method. #753
• Avoid importing transactions with gas above 1.1*block_gas_limit to transaction queue #760
• Removing transactions that failed to be pushed to block. #752
• Updating clippy #766
• Attempting to add all transactions to mined block #754
• Prettier version w/o git dir; Use rustc compile time version #761
• Stop adding transactions to queue while not fully synced #751
• Verify sender's balance before importing transaction to queue #746
• Returning number of transactions pending in block not queue #750
• Speeding up build #733
• adding check for a sync when giving work to miner #742
• json deserialization module #745
• Update install-parity.sh #749
• Restart sync on getting old unknown header #747
• Missing return for #737 #744
• Enact block with uncles test #741
• Fix outdated libc version on dependency #740
• Fixing possible race in transaction queue #735
• Sync fixed again #737
• Don't change best block until extras is committed. #734
• stable only until travis speedup #736
• Optimizing uint operations (architecture independent) #629
• Add RLP, not a data item. #725
• PV63 receipts response #687
• another batch of rpc tests #723
• dockerfiles update #726
• Lock reports to avoid out of order badness. #721
• Fixed handshake leak #722
• Allow configuration of target gas limit. #719
• Version 1.1 in master #714
• Silence UDP warnings #720
• Rpc personal tests #715
• Fixing warnings #704
• docopts cleanups #713
• Removed rocksdb build dependency #717
• Fixed splitting Neighbours packet #710
• management of account expiration & memory #701
• Remove EarlyMerge from user docs. #708
• Fixes and traces for refcountdb. #705
• Check for NULL_RLP in AccountDB #706
• ethminer as crate #700
• Old ref-counted DB code #692
• next batch of rpc tests and fixes #699
• implemented eth_geStorageAt rpc method, added more tests for rpc #695
• Fix JournalDB era marker #690
• More sync fixes #685
• mark some key tests as heavy #694
• Limit incoming connections #693
• Updating clippy #688
• eth_accounts, eth_getBalance rpc functions && tests #691
• state query for archive jdb #683
• Fix for option 1 of JournalDB #658
• Rename into something that is a little more descriptive. #689
• JournalDB with in-memory overlay (option2) #634
• additional (failing) SecretStore test #682
• Updating clippy & fixing warnings. #670
• rpc web3 tests #681
• Making personal json-rpc configurable via cli #677
• RPC Pending Transactions Filter #661
• Rearrange journaldb infrastructure to make more extensible #678
• JournalDB -> Box<JournalDB>, and it's a trait. #673
• fix warning for transaction_queue.add usage #676
• Adding std::mem back (only for asm) #680
• update readme to exclude beta step (stable is ok) #679
• fixed U256 and transaction request deserialization #675
• More geth compatibility. #666
• Removing running clippy by default on nightly. #671
• rpc net submodule tests #667
• Client module overhaul #665
• Rpc transaction signing #587
• Transaction queue exposed via JSON rpc. #652
• Remove unneeded locking #499
• extend sync status interface to sync provider #664
• --archive is default. --pruning is option. #663
• jsonrpc uses client and sync interfaces #641
• Expose transaction insertion in sync lib #609
• Removing get prefix from poll_info #660
• Tx queue update height bug #657
• Tx_queue_docs -> To master #651
• blockchain import_route #645
• Stop workers before stopping event loop #655
• Validate sender before importing to queue #650
• Gas price threshold for transactions #640
• dev feature enabled when compiling without --release #627
• Don't call mark_as_bad needlessly #648
• Fixed sync handling large forks #647
• Additional documentation for transaction queue #631
• Transaction Queue Integration #607
• Keys cli #639
• fix build warning #643
• updated jsonrpc-core and http-server libs #642
• jsonrpc panics gracefully shutdown client #638
• Fixing CLI parameters #633
• Normal CLI options with geth. #628
• Do not remove the peer immediatelly on send error #626
• Jsonrpc block behind #622
• Remove println!s. #624
• JournalDB option 1 fix #613
• Network tracing cleanup #611
• Revert "Transaction Queue integration" #602
• fix benches compilation #601
• Transaction Queue integration #595
• verifier trait improvements #597
• build on rust stable #600
• Geth import silent if no geth #599
• Additional journaldb logging and assert #593
• Uncle inclusion in block authoring. #578
• Fixed potential deadlock on startup #592
• Fixing an overflow panic #591
• Fixed one more case of sync stalling #590
• JournalDB can now operate in "archive" mode #589
• Secret store integration with client #586
• fix build on nightly rust #588
• deserialization for uint generic #585
• TransactionsQueue implementation #559
• JSON-RPC personal service (follows #582) #583
• making key directory thread-safe #582
• verifier trait #581
• shrink_to_fit after removing hashes. #580
• support for rpc polling #504
• limit serde codegen only to rpc types submodule #569
• fork test for Issue test/568 #573
• Fixing clippy warnings = small refactoring of request_blocks #560
• Improved journaldb logging #571
• Additional check to ancient enactments. #570
• chainfilter shouldnt exclude to_block from results #564
• Fix coverage test run #567
• Mining #547
• fix uint warnings #565
• Finished blockchain generator. #562
• fixed broken master #563
• uint to separate crate #544
• improved test chain generator #554
• Fixing spelling in propagade->propagate #558
• Changing RefCell to Cell in transaction. #557
• Fix for morden consensus. #556
• blockchain generator #550
• Sparse Table Implementation (Row, Col) -> Val #545
• fixup install script #548
• Fixing clippy warnings #546
• ignore out directory #543
• u256 full multiplication #539
• Fix panic when downloading stales, update homestead transition #537
• changing x64 asm config #534
• uncomment state transition tests #533
• jsonrpc uses weak pointers to client #532
• Morden switch to Homestead rules at #494,000. #531
• Blockchain module cleanup #524
• Multiplication issue + very exhaustive tests for it #528
• EIP-8 #498
• Make "random" trie tests fully deterministic. #527
• udpated serde to version 0.7.0 #526
• Better memory management #516
• Typo #523
• U512 add/sub optimize #521
• Account management + geth keystore import (no utility crate added) #509
• Delayed UPnP initialization #505
• Fixing marking blocks as bad & SyncMessage bugs + small client refactoring. #503
• optimization of U256 #515
• Removed rocksdb from build scripts and instructions #520
• RocksDB abstraction layer + Hash index for state DB #464
• bloomfilter #418
• Fixed a race condition when connecting peer disconnects immediately #519
• ignore intellij idea project files as well #518
• updated version of unicase #517
• jsonrpc security, cors headers, fixed #359 #493
• Rust implementations to replace data tables (#161) #482
• fix issue with starting requested block number was not included itself #512
• fixed travis --org GH_TOKEN #510
• Improved log format #506
• Log address on failed connection attempt #502
• Bumping clippy and fixing warnings. #501
• Bumping versions. Fixes #496 #500
• Manage final user-input errors. #494
• Remove unneeded code, fix minor potential issue with length. #495
• Remove "unknown" from version string. #488
• Include git commit date & hash. #486
• Use proper version string. #485
• Networking fixes #480
• Fix potential deadlock on node table update #484
• Squash more warnings #481
• dev/test/build tools to separate crate #477
• Back to original slab crate #479
• Better user errors. #476
• UDP Discovery #440
• update readme with rust override #475
• fixed warnings on rust beta #474
• Secret store (part2 - encrypted key/value svc) #449
• Kill bad test. #473
• Make clippy an optional dependency #422
• parity compiling fine #469
• compiling ethcore on beta #468
• Utils compiling in beta #467
• Get rid of lru_cache dependency #466
• Add daemonization. #459
• Master upgrade #448
• Remove contributing stuff now that we have CLA bot. #447
• Add Morden bootnode. #446
• beta fixes to master #441
• Secret store (part1 - key management) #423
• Use 1100000 as the homestead transition, fix build instructions. #438
• More sync and propagation fixes #420
• back to cargo crates #436
• Fixing clippy warnings #435
• preserving root cargo lock #434
• Nightly fix #432
• nightly fixes #431
• Delay Homestead transition from 1,000,000. #429
• Nightly fix effort (still should fail) #428
• clippy version update, docopt-macro moving to fork #425
• Network/Sync fixes and optimizations #416
• Use latest era instead of end era as journal marker #414
• api changes #402
• Option for no init nodes. #408
• Fixed block_bodies not returning a list #406
• Fix test. #405
• Allow path to be configured. #404
• Upnp #400
• eth_syncing, fixed #397 #398
• Using modified version of ctrlc that catches SIGTERM #399
• Catching panics. #396
• jsonrpc #391
• Externalities tests (still clumsy) #394
• excluding test code itself from coverage #395
• Additional tweaks to options. #390
• --chain option for setting which network to go on. #388
• Ethash unit tests final #387
• jsonrpc #374
• Editorconfig file. #384
• Coverage effort [in progress] #382
• making root kcov runner simular to the one running on CI #380
• add gcc as a dependency to dockerfiles #381
• Check for handshake expiration before attempting connection replace #375
• Blocks propagation #364
• Network params. #376
• Add parity-node-zero to bootnodes. #373
• kcov uses travis_job_id instead of coveralls token #370
• Add parity-node-zero.ethcore.io to boot nodes. #371

Parity v1.0.0-rc1 (2016-03-15)

First Parity 1.0.0 release candidate.

• Version 1.0 in beta #712
• Fix test for beta #617
• JournalDB fix option 1 for beta #614
• Failing test. #606
• Fix transition points #604
• (BETA) Update README.md #549
• (BETA) instructions for beta release channel #456
• (BETA) fix nightly - remerge #454
• (BETA) fixing nightly version for beta #452