CHANGELOG 1.6

Note: Parity 1.6 reached End-of-Life on 2017-10-15 (EOL).

Parity v1.6.10 (2017-07-25)

This is a hotfix release for the stable channel addressing the recent multi-signature wallet vulnerability. Note, upgrading is not mandatory, and all future multi-sig wallets created by any version of Parity are secure.

All Changes:

• Backports for stable #6116
  • Remove chunk to restore from pending set only upon successful import #6112
  • Blacklist bad snapshot manifest hashes upon failure #5874
  • Bump snap version and tweak importing detection logic #6079 (modified to work)
• Fix docker build for stable #6118
• Update wallet library binaries #6108
• Backported wallet fix #6104
  • Fix initialisation bug. (#6102)
  • Update wallet library modifiers (#6103)
• Bump to v1.6.10

Parity v1.6.9 (2017-07-16)

This is a first stable release of 1.6 series. It contains a number of minor fixes and introduces the --reseal-on-uncles option for miners.

Full list of changes:

• Backports #6061
  • Ethereum Classic Monetary Policy #5741
    • Update rewards for uncle miners for ECIP1017
    • Fix an off-by-one error in ECIP1017 era calculation
    • ecip1017_era_rounds missing from EthashParams when run in build bot
    • strip out ecip1017_eras_block_reward function and add unit test
  • JS precompiled set to stable
• Backports #6060
  • --reseal-on-uncle #5940
    • Optimized uncle check
    • Additional uncle check
    • Updated comment
  • Bump to v1.6.9
  • CLI: Export error message and less verbose peer counter. #5870
    • Removed numbed of active connections from informant
    • Print error message when fatdb is required
    • Remove peers from UI

Parity v1.6.8 (2017-06-08)

This release addresses:

• a rare condition where quickly creating a new account was generating an account not matching the recovery phrase.
• compressed RLP strings caused wrong/empty transaction receipts on Classic network.
• blacklisting the empty phrase account from UI and RPC on non-development chains. See also this blog post.
• canceling transactions that didn't have a condition.
• the updated Expanse fork block and chain ID.

Full changelog:

• Backporting to beta #5791
  • Bump to v1.6.8
  • Update expanse json with fork at block 600000 #5351
    • Update expanse json with fork at block 600000
    • Update exp chainID to 2
  • Bumped mio #5763
  • Fixed default UI port for mac installer #5782
  • Blacklist empty phrase account. #5730
  • Update Cid/multihash/ring/tinykeccak #5785
    • Updating ring,multihash,tiny-keccak
    • Updating CID in ipfs.
  • Disable compression for RLP strings #5786
• Beta Backports #5789
  • Fix local transactions without condition. #5716
  • Block invalid account name creation #5784
    • Additional non-empty phrase check (fromNew)
    • Explicit canCreate check in create (not only on UI)
    • BN instance check (fixes Geth imports)
    • Fixup tests after better checks
  • Recover from empty phrase in dev mode #5698
    • Add dev chain to isTest
    • Fix signer
    • Fix no condition transactions
    • Fix case: old parity
    • Fix propTypes.

Parity v1.6.7 (2017-05-18)

This release addresses:

• potential usability issues with import and recovery of existing accounts.
• canceling scheduled transactions via RPC or UI.
• warp sync issues with the Kovan network.

Full changelog:

• Backporting to beta #5657
  • Add CHANGELOG.md #5513
  • Reorg into blocks before minimum history #5558
  • Bump to v1.6.7
• Cancel Transaction #5656
  • option to disable persistent txqueue #5544
  • Remove transaction RPC #4949
  • Cancel tx JS #4958
  • Updating documentation for RPCs #5392
• Backport Recover button #5654
  • Backport #5645
• Add monotonic step to Kovan #5630
  • Add monotonic transition to kovan #5587
• Fix ethsign #5600
• Registry backports #5445
  • Fixes to the Registry dapp #4984
  • Fix references to api outside of parity.js #4981

Parity v1.6.6 (2017-04-11)

This release brings warp sync support for kovan network.

• Beta Backports #5434
  • Bump to v1.6.6
  • Strict validation transitions #4988
    • Ability to make validation stricter
    • Fix consensus
    • Remove logger
  • Fix eth_sign showing as wallet account #5309
    • DefaultProps for account
    • Pass signing account
    • Update tests for Connect(...)
  • Add new seed nodes #5345
  • Kovan warp sync fixed
• Aura eip155 validation transition #5363
  • Add eip155 validation
  • Add transition block
• Default eip155 validation #5350
• Backport syntax libs update #5316

Parity v1.6.5 (2017-03-28)

This release contains the following changes:

• Warp sync snapshot format improvements.
• Fix for Firefox UI issues.
• Fix for restoring from a file snapshot.
• Fix for auto-updater error handling.
• Updated configuration for Ropsten revival. Make sure to delete old Ropsten blockchain first with parity db kill --chain ropsten. After that you can sync normally with parity --chain ropsten.

Full changes:

• Beta Backports #5299
  • Fix FireFox overflows #5000
    • Max width for container
    • Set min-width
  • Switching ValidatorSet #4961
    • Add multi validator set
    • Nicer comment
    • Validate in constructor
    • Reporting
  • Avoid clogging up tmp when updater dir has bad permissions. #5024
  • Force earliest era set in snapshot restore #5021
  • Bumb to v1.6.5
  • Fine grained snapshot chunking
  • Ropsten revival
• Fix validator contract syncing #4789 #5011
  • Make validator set aware of various states
  • Fix updater build
  • Clean up contract call
  • Failing sync test
  • Adjust tests
  • Nicer indent
  • Revert bound divisor

Parity v1.6.4 (2017-03-22)

A number of issues fixed in this release:

• Ledger device connectivity issues for some users on Windows.
• Improved vault usability.
• Stratum mining no longer requires --force-sealing.
• evm binary has been renamed to parity-evm to avoid conflict with cpp-ethereum package.

Full Changes:

• Backporting to beta #4995
  • Bump to v1.6.4
  • Ensure sealing work enabled if notifier registed
  • Fix condition check
  • Always send full chunks #4960
  • Bump nanomsg #4965
  • Renaming evm binary to avoid conflicts. #4899
• Beta UI backports #4993
  • Update js-precompiled 20170314-121823
  • Attach hardware wallets already in addressbook #4912
    • Attach hardware wallets already in addressbook
    • Only set values changed
  • Add Vaults logic to First Run #4894 #4914
  • Add ability to configure Secure API (for #4885) #4922
  • Add z-index to small modals as well #4923
  • Eth_sign where account === undefined #4964
    • Update for case where account === undefined
    • Update tests to not mask account === undefined
    • Default account = {} where undefined (thanks @tomusdrw)
  • Fix Password Dialog forms style issue #4968

Parity v1.6.3 (2017-03-14)

This release fixes issue compatibility with Safari on MacOS.

• Safari fixes #4902
  • Add intitial max-width to sections
  • Move background z-index to -1

Parity v1.6.2 (2017-03-13)

A major release introducing a few new features:

• Revamped UI.
• Account Vaults.
• Support for Ledger hardware wallet devices.
• Stratum protocol for PoW mining.
• A new MacOS installer. Parity for MacOS now includes a Menu Bar icon that allows controlling Parity service.
• Disk backed transaction store. Pending transactions are now saved to disk and won't get lost when Parity is restarted.
• Improved memory management.

See the blog post for more details.

Full Changes:

• Fix auto-updater beta #4868
• Beta UI backports #4855
  • Added React Hot Reload to dapps + TokenDeplpoy fix (#4846)
  • Fix method decoding (#4845)
    • Fix contract deployment method decoding in Signer
    • Linting
  • Fix TxViewer when no to (contract deployment) (#4847)
    • Added React Hot Reload to dapps + TokenDeplpoy fix
    • Fixes to the LocalTx dapp
    • Don't send the nonce for mined transactions
    • Don't encode empty to values for options
  • Pull steps from actual available steps (#4848)
  • Wait for the value to have changed in the input (#4844)
  • Backport Regsirty changes from #4589
  • Test fixes for #4589
• Beta Simple score #4852
  • Simple score
  • Ignore part of a test
• Backporting to beta #4840
  • Fixes to the Registry dapp (#4838)
    • Fix wrong ABI methods
    • Fix comparison
  • Bump to v1.6.1
• Show token icons on list summary pages (#4826) #4827
  • Adjust balance overlay margins (no jumps)
  • Img only balances, small verifications
  • Invalid tests removed
  • Always wrap display (Thanks @ngotchac)
  • Update tests to reflect reality
• Beta Engine backports #4806
  • Calibrate before rejection
  • Change flag name
  • Add eip155
  • Make network_id default
• Beta UI backports #4823
  • Better logic for contract deployments (#4821)
• Beta UI backports #4818
  • Update the key (#4817)
  • Adjust selection colours/display (#4811)
    • Adjust selection colours to match with mui
    • allow -> disable (simplify selections)
    • Only use top-border
    • Overlay selection line
    • Slightly more muted unselected
    • Restore address icon
  • Fix default values for contract queries
• Beta UI backports #4809
  • Update Wallet to new Wallet Code (#4805)
    • Update Wallet Version
    • Update Wallet Library
    • Update Wallets Bytecodes
    • Typo
    • Separate Deploy in Contract API
    • Use the new Wallet ABI // Update wallet code
    • WIP .// Deploy from Wallet
    • Update Wallet contract
    • Contract Deployment for Wallet
    • Working deployments for Single Owned Wallet contracts
    • Linting
    • Create a Wallet from a Wallet
    • Linting
    • Fix Signer transactions // Add Gas Used for transactions
    • Deploy wallet contract fix
    • Fix too high gas estimate for Wallet Contract Deploys
    • Final piece ; deploying from Wallet owned by wallet
    • Update Wallet Code
    • Updated the Wallet Codes
    • Fixing Wallet Deployments
    • Add Support for older wallets
    • Linting
  • SMS Faucet (#4774)
    • Faucet
    • Remove flakey button-index testing
    • Only display faucet when sms verified (mainnet)
    • Simplify availability checks
    • WIP
    • Resuest from verified -> verified
    • Update endpoint, display response text
    • Error icon on errors
    • Parse hash text response
    • Use /api/:address endpoint
    • Hash -> data
    • Adjust sms-certified message
  • Fix SectionList hovering issue (#4749)
    • Fix SectionList Items hover when <3 items
    • Even easier...
  • Lint (new)
• Update ETC bootnodes #4794
• Update comments and reg ABI #4787
• Optimize signature for fallback function. #4780
• Rephrasing token generation screen. #4777
• Etherscan links based on netVersion identifier #4772
• Update README.md #4762
• Fix invalid props to verification code #4766
• Extend authority round consensus test #4756
• Revert last hyper "fix" #4752
• Vault Management UI (round 3) #4652
• Update SelectionList indicators #4736
• Update testnet detection #4746
• Fix Portal in Portal ESC issue #4745
• Update wiki #4743
• Account selector close operations #4728
• Fix Account Selection in Signer #4744
• Support both V1 & V2 DataChanged events in registry #4734
• Add info on forks. #4733
• Add registry addr #4732
• UI support for hardware wallets #4539
• S/delete/forget/ for wallets #4729
• New chains #4720
• Enable --warp by default #4719
• Update Uglify (fix to 2.8.2) to fix binary builds #4723
• Extract i18n strings in modals/* #4706
• Provide uncle size where available in RPC #4713
• EC math functions #4696
• Add registrar fields #4716
• Extract i18n strings in views/* #4695
• Removing network=disable from config files #4715
• Fast in-place migration for adding and removing column families #4687
• Display badges on summary view #4689
• Consistent file uploads #4699
• Rename https://mkr.market -> https://oasisdex.com #4701
• Stop copy & clickthrough from list summaries #4700
• Display ... for address summary overflows #4691
• Less agressive grayscale/opacity in SelectionList #4688
• Propagate trie errors upwards from State #4655
• Generic state backend #4632
• Enhance dialog layouts (round 1) #4637
• Vault Management UI (round 2) #4631
• Fix Portal broad event stopper #4674
• Custom dev chain presets #4671
• Max gas limit and min gas price #4661
• Align list displays with SectionList (UI consistency) #4621
• Add SelectionList component to DRY up #4639
• I18n NL linting updates #4662
• Misc. small UI fixes #4657
• More CLI settings for IPFS API #4608
• Fix Tendermint deadlock #4654
• Nl translations #4649
• Update transaction condition documentation #4659
• Bump hyper versions #4645
• Sane updater #4658
• Remainder of RPC APIs implemented for the light client #4594
• Preserve vault meta when changing pwd #4650
• Fix Geth account import #4641
• Tweak some checks. #4633
• Attempt to fix subscribeToEvents test #4638
• Fix selection value from RadioButtons #4636
• Convert all remaining Modals to use Portal (UI consistency) #4625
• Default account selection update #4609
• Display ETH balance in overlay account selector #4588
• Fixed minor grammar mistake in readme #4627
• Extract newly available i18n strings #4623
• Save pending local transactions in the database #4566
• Bump CID version to allow compilation on all platforms #4614
• Vault Management UI (first round) #4446
• Let Engine decide if it seals internally #4613
• Show only known accounts/wallets/addresses on Home #4612
• Proper default accounts RPCs #4580
• Hash-fetch errors in case upstream returns non-200 #4599
• Added pending transaction info to eth_getTransactionByHash #4570
• Secret store - initial version #4567
• Handle invalid ABI retrieved from address_book gracefully #4606
• Optimize key directory reloads #4583
• Revert Double Click on Accounts to close in Signer Bar #4590
• IPFS MVP #4545
• Networking fixes #4563
• Remove eth_compile* RPCs #4577
• Ledger wallet signing fixed #4578
• Remove vertx from Webpack config #4576
• Better display of tags #4564
• Added vaults support to ethstore-cli #4532
• Fixed font URLs #4579
• Explicitly set seconds to 0 from selector #4559
• Fixes evmbin compilation and adding to standard build. #4561
• Alias for personal_sendTransaction #4554
• Key derivation in ethstore & rpc #4515
• Skip OOG check for simple transfers #4558
• Light Client transaction queue, initial LightDispatcher #4501
• Fixes BadgeReg Middleware #4556
• Fix pasting of value in Input fields #4555
• Tooltips with react-intl #4549
• Close on double-click for Signer Account selection #4540
• Signer provenance #4477
• Fix console dapp #4544
• Extract i18n string into i18n/_defaults (base of translations) #4514
• Fix contract queries bug #4534
• Fixing namespace of couple methods in console. #4538
• Home landing page #4178
• Bump JSON RPC crates versions #4530
• Update rust version in README #4531
• Lower default pruning history and memory #4528
• Serde 0.9 #4508
• Fixes to Token Deploy dapp #4513
• Fixed receipt decoding #4521
• Several fixes to the Wallet in general #4504
• Use the current contract name for Solidity compilation #4510
• Preparation for Light client RPC #4485
• Fix Dutch translation #4509
• Fixed a warning and bumped libusb-sys #4507
• Fix TnC overflows on small screens #4505
• Fix no data sent in TxQueue dapp #4502
• Ledger wallet support #4486
• Add new Componennt for Token Images #4498
• Fix address and accounts links #4491
• Fix Token Reg Dapp issues in Firefox #4489
• Parity.js interfaces for vaults #4497
• Initial Dutch translations #4484
• Fix key.meta.vault for root dir keys && read vault.meta without vault key #4482
• Arbitrary labels for extended keys (u32, H256 built-in) #4438
• Fix ethstore build #4492
• Fixed compilation of ethstore-cli #4493
• Build embedded Parity JS properly and separatly #4426
• Static link for snappy #4487
• Work with string numbers in contract (Fixes #4472) #4478
• Metadata support for vaults #4475
• Sort gas price corpus when hitting genesis #4470
• Fixing CORS headers for parity.web3.site #4461
• Make signing compatible with geth. #4468
• Handle registry not found errors #4465
• Fix Portal scrolling getting stuck #4455
• Fix AccountCard stretch to 100% #4450
• Include total difficulty in CHTs and hide implementation details from consumers #4428
• Fix RLP encoding for types recursively calling RlpStream::append #4362
• Open popup without attempting inline #4440
• Fixing histogram again (#4464) port from beta #4467
• Vaults RPCs #4366
• Ethkey - extended keys #4377
• Use secure websocket from HTTPS clients #4436
• RPC middleware: Informant & Client.keep_alive #4384
• Fix eth_sign/parity_postSign #4432
• Web view with web3.site support #4313
• Extend Portal component with title, buttons & steps (as per Modal) #4392
• Extension installation overlay #4423
• Add block & timestamp conditions to Signer #4411
• Transaction timestamp condition #4419
• Poll for defaultAccount to update dapp & overlay subscriptions #4417
• Validate dapps accounts with address book #4407
• Dapps use defaultAccount instead of own selectors #4386
• Fix lock and rename tracing #4403
• Restarting fetch client every now and then #4399
• Perform a sync between Rust and JS when generating markdown instead of in spec tests #4408
• Registry dapp: make lookup use lower case #4409
• Available Dapp selection alignment with Permissions (Portal) #4374
• More permissive verification process #4317
• Fix ParityBar account selection overflows #4405
• Mac binaries signing #4397
• Revert "remove [ci skip]" #4398
• Registry, s/a the owner/the owner/ #4391
• Fixing invalid address in docs #4388
• Remove [ci skip] #4381
• Fixing estimate gas in case histogram is not available #4387
• Default Account selector in Signer overlay #4375
• Fixing web3 in console #4382
• Add parity_defaultAccount RPC (with subscription) #4383
• Full JSON-RPC docs + sync tests. #4335
• Expose util as Api.util #4372
• Dapp Account Selection & Defaults #4355
• Publish @parity/jsonrpc #4365
• Fix signing #4363
• Fixing embedded bar not closing in chrome extension #4367
• Update AccountCard for re-use #4350
• Add proper event listener to Portal #4359
• Optional from field in Transaction Requests #4332
• Rust 1.14 in README [ci-skip] #4361
• Fix JournalDB::earliest_era on empty database #4316
• Fixed race condition deadlock on fetching enode URL #4354
• Allow Portal to be used as top-level modal #4338
• Fix postsign #4347
• Renaming signAndSendTransaction to sendTransaction #4351
• Add api.util.encodeMethodCall to parity.js #4330
• Initial commit for vaults #4312
• Returning default account as coinbase + allow altering sender in signer #4323
• Persistent tracking of dapps #4302
• Exposing all RPCs over dapps port as CLI option #4346
• New macOS App #4345
• Display QrCode for accounts, addresses & contracts #4329
• Add QrCode & Copy to ShapeShift #4322
• Parity.js api.parity.chainStatus should handle { blockGap: null } #4327
• DeleteAccount & LoadContract modal updates #4320
• Split Tab from TabBar #4318
• Contracts interface expansion #4307
• HistoryStore for tracking relevant routes #4305
• Split Dapp icon into ui/DappIcon (re-use) #4308
• Add a Playground for the UI Components #4301
• Update CreateWallet with FormattedMessage #4298
• Update dates for new PRs missed #4306
• EIP-98: Optional transaction state root #4296
• Fix whitespace #4299
• Attempt to fix console. #4294
• Ui/SectionList component #4292
• Stratum up #4233
• Logging transaction duration #4297
• Generic engine utilities #4258
• JSON-RPC interfaces with documentation #4276
• Dont decode seal fields #4263
• Skip misbehaving test until properly fixed #4283
• Additional logs for own transactions #4278
• Ensure write lock isn't held when calling handlers #4285
• Feature selector #4074
• AccountCreate updates #3988
• Extended JS interface -> Markdown generator #4275
• Added 3 warpnodes for ropsten #4289
• Ledger Communication JS toolkit #4268
• ValidatorSet reporting #4208
• Add support for api.subscribe('parity_accountsInfo') #4273
• Display AccountCard name via IdentityName #4235
• Dapp visibility save/load tests #4150
• Fix wrong output format of peers #4270
• Chain scoring #4218
• Rust 1.14 for windows builds #4269
• Eslint formatting updates #4234
• Embeddable ParityBar #4222
• Update deb-build.sh to fix libssl dependency #4260
• Integration with zgp whitelist contract #4215
• Adjust the location of the signer snippet #4155
• Fix wrong token handling #4254
• Additional building-block UI components #4239
• Bump package.json to 0.3.0 (1.6 track) #4244
• Disable incoming ETH notifications #4243
• Memory-based pruning history size #4114
• Common EngineSigner #4189
• Verification: don't request a code twice #4221
• S/Delete Contract/Forget Contract/ #4237
• Light protocol syncing improvements #4212
• LES Peer Info #4195
• Don't panic on uknown git commit hash #4231
• Cache registry reverses in local storage #4182
• Update version numbers in README #4223
• CHT calculations for full nodes #4181
• Use single source of info for dapp meta (build & display) #4217
• Non-secure API for DappReg #4216
• Console now has admin #4220
• Verification: add mainnet BadgeReg ids #4190
• Fixing minimal transaction queue price #4204
• Remove unnecessary Engine method #4184
• Fixed --base-path on windows #4193
• Fixing etherscan price parsing #4202
• LES: Better timeouts + Track failed requests #4093
• ESLint additional rules #4186
• JsonRPC bump for IPC fix #4200
• Poll for upgrades as part of global status (long) #4197
• Updater fixes #4196
• Prevent duplicate incoming connections #4180
• Minor typo to ensure it updates only when synced. #4188
• Minor refactor for clarity #4174
• Secret - from hash function, also validate data #4159
• Gas_limit for blocks, mined by Parity will be divisible by 37 #4154
• Support HTML5-routed dapps #4173
• Fix subscribeToEvents test #4166
• Fix dapps not loading #4170
• Fix broken token images #4169
• Bumping hyper #4167
• Icarus -> update, increase web timeout. #4165
• Add a password strength component #4153
• Stop flickering + added loader in AddressSelector #4149
• On demand LES request #4036
• Ropsten fork detection #4163
• Pull in console dapp as builtin #4145
• Optimized hash lookups #4144
• UnverifiedTransaction type #4134
• Verification: check if server is running #4140
• Remove onSubmit of current (no auto-change on password edit) #4151
• Trim spaces from InputAddress #4126
• Don't pop-up notifications after network switch #4076
• Use estimateGas error (as per updated implementation) #4131
• Improvements and optimisations to estimate_gas #4142
• New jsonrpc-core with futures and metadata support #3859
• Reenable mainnet update server. #4137
• Temporarily skip failing test #4138
• Refactor VoteCollector #4101
• Another minor estimation fix #4133
• Add proper label to method decoding inputs #4136
• Remove bindActionCreators({}, dispatch) (empty, unneeded) #4135
• Better contract error log reporting & handling #4128
• Fix broken Transfer : total account balance #4127
• Test harness for lightsync #4109
• Fix call/estimate_gas #4121
• Fixing decoding ABI with signatures in names #4125
• Get rid of unsafe code in ethkey, propagate incorrect Secret errors. #4119
• Basic tests for subscribeToEvents #4115
• Auto-detect hex encoded bytes in sha3 #4108
• Use binary chop to estimate gas accurately #4100
• V1.6 in master #4113
• Ignore get_price_info test by default. #4112
• Fix wrong information logging #4106
• Avoid comms with not-yet-active release update server. #4111
• Update Transfer logic + Better logging #4098
• Fix Signer : wrong account on reload #4104
• Cache registry reverses, completion in address selector #4066
• Validator/authority contract #3937
• No reorg limit for ancient blocks #4099
• Update registration after every write #4102
• Default to no auto-update. #4092
• Don't remove out of date local transactions #4094