CHANGELOG 1.9

Note: Parity 1.9 reached End-of-Life on 2018-05-09 (EOL).

Parity v1.9.7 (2018-04-23)

Parity 1.9.7 is a bug-fix release to improve performance and stability.

The full list of included changes:

• Update Parity stable to 1.9.7 + Backports (#8456)
  • Update Parity stable to 1.9.7
  • Allow 32-bit pipelines to fail (#8454)
    • Disable 32-bit targets for Gitlab
    • Rename Linux pipelines
  • Update wasmi (#8452)
  • Revert Cargo lock update from master
  • Fix Cargo.lock
• Backports (#8449)
  • Use forked app_dirs crate for reverted Windows dir behavior (#8438)
    • Remove unused app_dirs dependency in CLI
    • Use forked app_dirs crate for reverted Windows dir behavior
  • Remove Tendermint extra_info due to seal inconsistencies (#8367)
  • Improve VM executor stack size estimation rules (#8439)
    • Improve VM executor stack size estimation rules
    • Typo: docs add "(Debug build)" comment
    • Fix an off by one typo and set minimal stack size
    • Use saturating_sub to avoid potential overflow
  • Upgrade crossbeam to 0.3

Parity v1.9.6 (2018-04-16)

Parity 1.9.6 is a bug-fix release to improve performance and stability.

The full list of included changes:

• Bump app_dirs, fixes #8315 (#8355)
• Fix Cargo lock
• Backports (#8352)
  • Update musicoin spec in line with gmc v2.6.2 (#8242)
  • Supress TemporaryInvalid verification failures. (#8256)
  • Include suicided accounts in state diff (#8297)
    • Include suicided accounts in state diff
    • Shorten form match -> if let
    • Test suicide trace diff in State
  • Replace_home for password_files, reserved_peers and log_file (#8324)
    • Replace_home for password_files, reserved_peers and log_file
    • Typo: arg_log_file is Option
    • Bump version in util/version
• Bump stable to 1.9.6 (#8348)
• WASM libraries bump (#8219)
  • Bump wasm libs (#8171)
  • Bump wasmi version (#8209)
• Updated jsonrpc to include latest backports (1.9) (#8182)
  • Updated jsonrpc to include latest backports (1.9)
  • Update dependencies.

Parity v1.9.5 (2018-03-21)

Parity 1.9.5 is a bug-fix release to improve performance and stability. This release marks the 1.9 track stable.

We are excited to announce support for Wasm Smart Contracts on Kovan network. The hard-fork to activate the Wasm-VM will take place on block 6600000.

The full list of included changes:

• Do a meaningful commit that does not contain the words "ci" or "skip"
• Triggering build for stable.
• Postpone Kovan hard fork (#8137) (#8152)
  • Postpone Kovan hard fork (#8137)
    • ethcore: postpone Kovan hard fork
    • util: update version fork metadata
  • WASM libraries bump (#7970)
    • update wasmi, parity-wasm, wasm-utils to latest version
    • Update to new wasmi & error handling
    • also utilize new stack limiter
    • fix typo
    • replace dependency url
    • Cargo.lock update
• Fix scripts. Force JS rebuild. (#8144)
• Stable Backports (#8133)
  • updater: apply exponential backoff after download failure (#8059)
    • updater: apply exponential backoff after download failure
    • updater: reset backoff on new release
  • Limit incoming connections. (#8060)
    • Limit ingress connections
    • Optimized handshakes logging
  • Max code size on Kovan (#8067)
    • Enable code size limit on kovan
    • Fix formatting.
  • add some dos protection (#8084)
  • more dos protection (#8104)
  • Const time comparison (#8113)
    • Use subtle::slices_equal for constant time comparison.
    • Also update the existing version of subtle in ethcrypto from
    • 0.1 to 0.5
    • Test specifically for InvalidPassword error.
  • revert removing blooms (#8066)
  • Revert "fix traces, removed bloomchain crate, closes #7228, closes #7167"
  • Revert "fixed broken logs (#7934)"
    • fixed broken logs
    • bring back old lock order
    • remove migration v13
    • revert CURRENT_VERSION to 12 in migration.rs
    • Fix compilation.
    • Check one step deeper if we're on release track branches
    • add missing pr
    • Fix blooms?
    • Fix tests compiilation.
    • Fix size.
• Check one step deeper if we're on release track branches (#8134) (#8140)
• Trigger js build. (#8121)
• Stable backports (#8055)
  • CI: Fix cargo cache (#7968)
  • Fix cache Blocking waiting for file lock on the registry index
  • Only clean locked cargo cache on windows
  • fixed ethstore sign (#8026)
  • fix cache & snapcraft CI build (#8052)
  • Add MCIP-6 Byzyantium transition to Musicoin spec (#7841)
    • Add test chain spec for musicoin byzantium testnet
    • Add MCIP-6 Byzyantium transition to Musicoin spec
    • Update mcip6_byz.json
    • ethcore: update musicoin byzantium block number
    • ethcore: update musicoin bootnodes
    • Update musicoin.json
    • More bootnodes.
• Optimize JS build (#8093)
  • Extract common chunks plugin.
  • Fix common CSS.
  • Fix js push for stable.
  • Remove arguments to getPlugins.
• Stable Backports (#8058)
  • fixed parsing ethash seals and verify_block_undordered (#8031)
  • fix for verify_block_basic crashing on invalid transaction rlp (#8032)
• Make 1.9 stable (#8023)
  • Make 1.9 stable
  • Bump stable to 1.9.5
  • Fix gitlab builds

Parity v1.9.4 (2018-03-01)

Parity 1.9.4 is a bug-fix release to improve performance and stability.

The full list of included changes:

• Bump beta to 1.9.4 (#8016)
• Beta Backports (#8011)
  • Fix traces, removed bloomchain crate (#7979)
  • Reject too large packets in snapshot sync. (#7977)
  • Fixed broken logs (#7934)
  • Increase max download limit to 128MB (#7965)
  • Calculate proper keccak256/sha3 using parity. (#7953)
  • Bump WebSockets (#7952)
  • Hardware-wallet/usb-subscribe-refactor (#7860)
  • Make block generator easier to use (#7888)

Parity v1.9.3 (2018-02-20)

Parity 1.9.3 is a bug-fix release to improve performance and stability.

The full list of included changes:

• Backports (#7945)
  • ECIP 1041 - Remove Difficulty Bomb (#7905)
  • spec: Validate required divisor fields are not 0 (#7933)
  • Kovan WASM fork code (#7849)
• Gitlab Cargo Cache (#7944)
• Bump react-qr-reader (#7943)
  • Update react-qr-reader
  • Explicit webrtc-adapter dependency (package-lock workaround)
  • Iframe with allow (QR, new Chrome policy)
• Backport of #7844 and #7917 to beta (#7940)
  • Randomize the peer we dispatch to
  • Fix a division by zero in light client RPC handler
• Wallet allowJsEval: true (#7913)
  • Wallet allowJsEval: true
  • Fix unsafe wallet.
  • Enable unsafe-eval for all dapps.
• Fix CSP for dapps that require eval. (#7867) (#7903)
  • Add allowJsEval to manifest.
  • Enable 'unsafe-eval' if requested in manifest.
• Fix snap build beta (#7895)
• Fix snapcraft grade to stable (#7894)
• Backport Master CI PRs to Beta (#7890)
  • Add binary identifiers and sha256sum to builds (#7830)
  • Fix checksums and auto-update push (#7846)
  • Update gitlab-build.sh (#7855)
  • Fix installer binary names for macos and windows (#7881)
  • Update gitlab-test.sh (#7883)
  • Fix snapcraft nightly (#7884)
• Backport Core PRs to beta (#7891)
  • Update back-references more aggressively after answering from cache (#7578)
  • Updated WASM Runtime & new interpreter (wasmi) (#7796)
  • Adjust storage update evm-style (#7812)
  • Add new EF ropstens nodes (#7824)
  • Store updater metadata in a single place (#7832)
  • WASM: Disable internal memory (#7842)
  • Add a timeout for light client sync requests (#7848)
  • Flush keyfiles. Resolves #7632 (#7868)
  • Fix wallet import (#7873)

Parity v1.9.2 (2018-02-02)

Parity 1.9.2 is a bug-fix release to improve performance and stability. It adds additional bootnodes for the Ropsten test network.

The full list of included changes:

• Backports beta (#7780)
  • Bump beta to 1.9.2
  • Update ropsten.json (#7776)
• Snapcraft push beta

Parity v1.9.1 (2018-02-01)

Parity 1.9.1 is a bug-fix release to improve performance and stability. It restores ERC-20 token balances, improves networking, fixes database corruptions on client shutdown, and fixes issues with the --password command-line flag. Happy syncing, fellow Ethereans!

In addition, this stabilizes Kovan and other Proof-of-Authority networks. If you run a network with AuRa engine, updating is highly encouraged!

The full list of included changes:

• Beta Backports (#7756)
  • Filter-out nodes.json (#7716)
    • Filter-out nodes.json
    • network: sort node table nodes by failure ratio
    • network: fix node table tests
    • network: fit node failure percentage into buckets of 5%
    • network: consider number of attempts in sorting of node table
    • network: fix node table grumbles
  • Fix client not being dropped on shutdown (#7695)
    • parity: wait for client to drop on shutdown
    • parity: fix grumbles in shutdown wait
    • parity: increase shutdown timeouts
  • Wrap --help output to 120 characters (#7626)
    • Update Clap dependency and remove workarounds
    • WIP
    • Remove line breaks in help messages for now
    • Multiple values can only be separated by commas (closes #7428)
    • Grumbles; refactor repeating code; add constant
    • Use a single Wrapper rather than allocate a new one for each call
    • Wrap --help to 120 characters rather than 100 characte
• Token filter balances (throttle) (#7742)
  • Token filter balances (throttle)
  • Cleanups
  • Remove unused uniq
  • Update @parity/shared to 2.2.23
  • Remove unused code paths
• Bump beta to 1.9.1 (#7751)
• Explicitly add branch name (#7754)
  • Explicitly add branch name
  • Fix cargo update branch to beta
• Revert revert revert (#7715)
• This reverts commit 568dc33.

Parity v1.9.0 "Velocity" (2018-01-25)

We are happy to announce our newest Parity 1.9 release. Among others, it enables the following features:

• It integrates the fully reworked Parity Wallet and DApps browser (a.k.a. "UI 2.0", #6819).
• It enables devp2p snappy compression (#6683).
• AuRa Proof-of-Authority chains now disable uncles by default (#7006). Existing PoA chains can go through a "maximum uncle count transition" to achieve more stability (#7196).
• Added Expanse's Byzantium hard-fork (#7463).
• Added support for Ellaism chain (#7222).

Further, users upgrading from 1.8 should acknowledge the following changes:

• Fixed DELEGATECALL's from/to field (#7568).
• Set zero nonce and gas price for calls by default (#6954).
• Create pending blocks with all transactions from the queue (#6942).
• Remove RPC parameter leniency now that Mist formats correctly (#6651). Parity stops accepting decimal-formatted block numbers and stops parsing the empty string as empty bytes.
• Public nodes do not support the user interface anymore. If you are running a public node, please stay on the 1.8 branch of the stable releases.

Additional noteworthy changes:

• ethstore and ethkey have been significantly improved (#6961):
  • ethstore now supports brute forcing pre-sale wallets given a password list for recovery.
  • ethkey now supports multi-threaded generation of prefix-matching addresses.
  • ethkey now supports prefix-matching brain wallets.
  • ethkey now supports brain-wallets recovery-phrases lookup. This helps to find a correct phrase if you know the address you want to get yet you made a typo backing the phrase up, or forgot a word.

Read more about Parity 1.9 in our blog post.

The full list of included changes:

• Add scroll when when too many accounts (#7677) (#7679)
• Update installer.nsi
• Fix conditions in gitlab-test (#7676)
  • Fix conditions in gitlab-test
  • Update gitlab-test.sh
• Remove cargo cache
• Backports to beta (#7660)
  • Improve handling of RocksDB corruption (#7630)
    • Kvdb-rocksdb: update rust-rocksdb version
    • Kvdb-rocksdb: mark corruptions and attempt repair on db open
    • Kvdb-rocksdb: better corruption detection on open
    • Kvdb-rocksdb: add corruption_file_name const
    • Kvdb-rocksdb: rename mark_corruption to check_for_corruption
  • Hardening of CSP (#7621)
  • Fixed delegatecall's from/to (#7568)
    • Fixed delegatecall's from/to, closes #7166
    • Added tests for delegatecall traces, #7167
  • Light client RPCs (#7603)
    • Implement registrar.
    • Implement eth_getCode
    • Don't wait for providers.
    • Don't wait for providers.
    • Fix linting and wasm tests.
  • Problem: AttachedProtocols don't get registered (#7610)
  • Fix Temporarily Invalid blocks handling (#7613)
    • Handle temporarily invalid blocks in sync.
    • Fix tests.
• Add docker build for beta (#7671)
  • Add docker build for beta
  • Add cargo cache
• Fix snapcraft build for beta (#7670)
• Update Parity.pkgproj
• update gitlab build from master
• Update references to dapp sources (#7634) (#7636)
• Update tokenreg (#7618) (#7619)
• Fix cache:key (#7598)
• Make 1.9 beta (#7533)
• Trigger js-precompiled (#7535)
• RocksDB fix (#7512)
• Update js-api (#7510)
• Expose default gas price percentile configuration in CLI (#7497)
• Use https connection (#7503)
• More thorough changes detection (#7472)
• Fix small layout issues (#7500)
• Show all accounts on Topbar (#7498)
• Update Parity Mainnet Bootnodes (#7476)
• Fixed panic when io is not available for export block (#7495)
• Advance AuRa step as far as we can and prevent invalid blocks. (#7451)
• Update package-lock in js-old (#7494)
• Update issue template and readme (#7450)
• Update package-lock.json pinned versions (#7492)
• Explicit pre-precompiled push checkout (#7474)
• Trigger js-precompiled (#7473)
• Expanse Byzantium update w/ correct metropolis difficulty increment divisor (#7463)
• Updated icons (#7469)
• Cleanup certifications (#7454)
• Fix css lint (updated stylelint) (#7471)
• Upgrade markdown-loader & marked (#7467)
• Remove JS test for removed code (#7461)
• Pull in dapp-status (#7457)
• Bump openssl crate (#7455)
• Signer updates from global Redux state (#7452)
• Remove expanse chain (#7437)
• Store tokens with repeatable id (#7435)
• Strict config parsing (#7433)
• Upgrade to RocksDB 5.8.8 and tune settings to reduce space amplification (#7348)
• Fix status layout (#7432)
• Fix tracing failed calls. (#7412)
• Problem: sending any Whisper message fails (#7421)
• Wait for future blocks in AuRa (#7368)
• Fix final feature. (#7426)
• Use RwLock for state DB (#7425)
• Update branding on UI (#7370)
• Changelog for 1.8.5 and 1.7.11 (#7401)
• Added checking tx-type using transactions permission contract for miners (#7359)
• Standalone dir crate, replaces #7383 (#7409)
• SecretStore: secretstore_signRawHash method (#7336)
• SecretStore: return error 404 when there's no key shares for given key on all nodes (#7331)
• SecretStore: PoA integration initial version (#7101)
• Update bootnodes (#7363)
• Fix default CORS settings. (#7387)
• Fix version (#7390)
• Wasm runtime update (#7356)
• Parity-version pr reopen (#7136)
• Get rid of clippy remainings. (#7355)
• Avoid using ok_or with allocated argument (#7357)
• Make accounts refresh time configurable. (#7345)
• Enable traces for DEV chain (#7327)
• Problem: AuRa's unsafeties around step duration (#7282)
• Problem: Cargo.toml file contains [project] key (#7346)
• Fix broken flex modal layouts (#7343)
• Fix dappIcon & Fix Signer Pending (#7338)
• Fix wallet token/badge icons not showing up (#7333)
• Add Ellaism coin in chain config (#7222)
• Update bootnodes (#7296)
• Adds personal_signTransaction RPC method (#6991)
• Fix double initialization of embeded providers. (#7326)
• Transaction Pool re-implementation (#6994)
• UI package bump (#7318)
• Test framework and basic test for whisper (#7011)
• CI js-precompiled trigger (#7316)
• Fix inject.js & Signer store duplication (#7299)
• Detect different node, same-key signing in aura (#7245)
• New warp enodes (#7287)
• CSS fixes for v1 (#7285)
• Wallet subscriptions & refresh (#7283)
• Update inject web3 dependencies (#7286)
• Some padding around dapp image (#7276)
• Expand available middleware methods (#7275)
• Inject parity script to all dapps // Expand dapps to any ZIP file (#7260)
• New Homepage (#7266)
• Update kovan HF block number. (#7259)
• CHANGELOG for 1.7.10 and 1.8.4 (#7265)
• Remove extraneous id hashing (#7269)
• Simplify status + content display overlaps/page fixing (#7264)
• UI redirect to 127.0.0.1 when localhost requested (#7236)
• Usability improvements to security token Dialog #7112 (#7134)
• Don't display unneeded notifications (#7237)
• Reduce max block timestamp drift to 15 seconds (#7240)
• Increase allowed time drift to 10s. (#7238)
• Improve building from source (#7239)
• Fix/Update method permissions (#7233)
• Fix aura difficulty race (#7198)
• Dependency updates (#7226)
• Display all dapps (shell) & wallet tabs (v1) by default (#7213)
• Rework dapps list (#7206)
• Add contributing guidelines and code of conduct. (#7157)
• Make Signing Requests more visible (#7204)
• Send each log as a separate notification (#7175)
• Deleting a mistake comment in calc difficulty (#7154)
• Maximum uncle count transition (#7196)
• Update FirstRun for UI-2 (#7195)
• Update mocha import stubs (#7191)
• Escape inifinite loop in estimte_gas (#7075)
• New account selector UI in top bar (#7179)
• Removed ethcore-util dependency from ethcore-network (#7180)
• WASM test runner utility upgrade (#7147)
• React 16 (#7174)
• Assorted improvements for ethstore and ethkey (#6961)
• Delete unused package.json (dist bundles) (#7173)
• Remove *.css.map & *.js.map (#7168)
• Use git flag to remove old js artifacts (#7165)
• Cleanup JS build artifacts (#7164)
• Fixes typo in user config path (#7159)
• Pull in new dapp-{methods,visible} dapps (#7150)
• WASM test runner utility (#7142)
• WASM Remove blockhash error (#7121)
• ECIP-1039: Monetary policy rounding specification (#7067)
• Fixed RotatingLogger after migrating to new arrayvec (#7129)
• Push to correct shell branch (#7135)
• Update js-precompiled ref, trigger JS build (#7132)
• Fixed build && test (#7128)
• Update packages, pull in compiled-only repos (#7125)
• Cleanup top bar, add Home icon for navigation (#7118)
• WASM storage_read and storage_write don't return anything (#7110)
• Local dapp development URL (#7100)
• Remove unused and duplicated files in js-old (#7082)
• Optimize & group dapp requests (#7083)
• WASM parse payload from panics (#7097)
• Fix no-default-features. (#7096)
• Updated eth-secp256k1 (#7090)
• Improve Github Issue Template (#7099)
• Changes necessary to upload crates to crates.io (#7020)
• Reopened 6860 - iterate over both buffered and unbuffered database entries (#7048)
• SecretStore: servers set change session api (#6925)
• Disable uncles by default (#7006)
• Squashed ethcore-network changes which introduce error-chain (#7040)
• Removed redundant imports (#7057)
• CHANGELOG for 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.8.2, and 1.8.3 (#7055)
• Properly display Signer errors (Snackbar display popup) (#7053)
• Add the desktop file for the snap (#7059)
• Small performance gain in allocations (#7054)
• Bump JSON-RPC version (#7051)
• Fix nonce reservation (#7025)
• Fixed ethstore-cli output (#7052)
• Add mui for embed compilation (#7049)
• Update the snap metadata to keep working strictly confined (#6993)
• Remove unused js packages (dapp cleanups) (#7046)
• Gitlog location update (#7042)
• Move git logging to .git-release.log (#7041)
• Start from rust root in release update step (#7039)
• Complete token merge, remove unused files (#7037)
• Add missing cargo-push.sh shell variable (#7036)
• Fix npm start script (#7034)
• Update executable flags on release scripts (#7035)
• Fix v1 precompiled (#7033)
• Push precompiled to correct branch (v1) (#7031)
• Update v1 Wallet Dapp (#6935)
• WASM tests update (#7018)
• Events in WASM runtime (#6967)
• Adds validate_node_url() and refactors boot node check (#6907) (#6970)
• Fix windows build (with ui rebuild) (#7016)
• Make CLI arguments parsing more backwards compatible (#7004)
• Fixes for parity-extension (#6990)
• Update ethcore-bigint (#6992)
• Get local transactions by hash in the light client (#6874)
• Warn when blacklisted account present in store (#6875)
• Skip nonce check for gas estimation (#6997)
• Creating pending block with all transactions from the queue (#6942)
• Removes MAX_TX_TO_IMPORT from ChainSync (#6976)
• SecretStore: versioned keys (#6910)
• Removes FUTURE_QUEUE_LIMITS_SHIFT (#6962)
• Set zero nonce and gas price for calls by default (#6954)
• Add hint in ActionParams for splitting code/data (#6957)
• Return decoded seal fields. (#6932)
• Fix serialization of status in transaction receipts. (#6926)
• Reserve nonces for signing (#6834)
• Windows fixes (#6921)
• Don't add {css,js}.map from dapps (#6931)
• Fix JSON tracing for sub-calls. (#6842)
• Shell updates (bonds, updated Dapps) (#6897)
• Fix #6228: do not display eth price in cli for etc (#6877)
• Fix mining help (#6885)
• Refactor static context check in CREATE. (#6886)
• Cleanup some configuration options (#6878)
• Fix serialization of non-localized transactions (#6868)
• Updated ntp to version 0.3 (#6854)
• Align README with 1.8 and prepare CHANGELOG with 1.8.1 (#6833)
• Return error on timed unlock (#6777)
• Fix dapps tests in master (#6866)
• Ethstore optimizations (#6827)
• Add ECIP1017 to Morden config (#6810)
• Remove all package publishing to npm (#6838)
• Util crates use tempdir crate instead of devtools to create temp path (#6807)
• Trigger js build (#6836)
• Clean-up scripts. (#6832)
• Tweaked snapshot sync threshold (#6829)
• Integrate UI 2 (#6819)
• Refresh cached tokens based on registry info & random balances (#6818)
• Change keypath derivation logic (#6815)
• Refactors journaldb as a separate crate (#6801)
• Trigger UI build. (#6817)
• Bumped more crate versions (#6809)
• Fix RPC compilation warnings. (#6808)
• Remove internal ipc (#6795)
• Consistent KeyValueDB errors (#6792)
• Squash remaining warnings (#6789)
• Forward-port #6754 #6755 (#6785)
• Removed duplicated versions of clippy (#6776)
• Updated ethabi to version 4.0 (#6742)
• Updated rpc_cli and parity to rpassword 1.0 (#6774)
• Fix sign data typo (#6750)
• Refactoring/cache 6693 (#6772)
• Fix CHANGLOG for 1.8.0 (#6751)
• Removes redundant mut in service.rs.in (#6775)
• Remove redundant mut (#6773)
• Fixed kovan chain validation (#6758)
• Removed redundant evm deps (#6757)
• Fixed modexp gas calculation overflow (#6741)
• Use cc 1.0 instead of gcc (#6733)
• Version bump to 1.9.0 (#6727)
• Fix badges not showing up (#6730)