v1.8.0-DEVNET

Note that this is only for Devnet. It should not run on Mainnet

Upgrade instructions

Please leave some time for your neighbors to upgrade as well. Connection will only be established with neighbors who have upgraded to >= 1.8.0. If you are not receiving traffic from your neighbors within a day, restart your node. Your neighbors may have upgraded after a longer period of time and restarting your node should allow the node to re-establish the connection.

Changes

• Support for UDP connections has been removed. Please re-add your neighbors through the TCP protocol instead.

Configuration changes

The following configuration parameters have been removed:

• UDP_RECEIVER_PORT
• TCP_RECEIVER_PORT
• MAX_PEERS
• DNS_REFRESHER_ENABLED
• DNS_RESOLUTION_ENABLED

The following configuration parameters have been added:

• NEIGHBORING_SOCKET_ADDRESS - defines the socket address to bind the TCP socket to.
• NEIGHBORING_SOCKET_PORT - defines the port of the TCP socket to use.
• RECONNECT_ATTEMPT_INTERVAL_SECONDS - defines the interval at which to try to reconnect/disconnect wanted neighbors.
• AUTO_TETHERING_ENABLED - controls auto-tethering, this was previously controlled via TESTNET true, default is false (also in testnet mode).
• MAX_NEIGHBORS - rename of MAX_PEERS, defines the max number of connected neighbor

Other changes

• It is now possible to connect to multiple neighbors originating from the same IP address, as the identity of a node is its IP address + server socket port
• BCTCurl is used within the transaction processing pipeline which batches up to 64 transactions to hash them at the same time.
• Neighbors are now only added after their domain name could be resolved. Reconnects are done in the RECONNECT_ATTEMPT_INTERVAL_SECONDS defined interval. Neighbors to which the connection was closed, are put into "reconnect pool" until they are explicitly removed by removeNeighbors.
• Gossiping transaction messages are now dynamic and take 341–1650 bytes of data.
• The requested transaction hash of a transaction gossip packet is now fixed to 49 bytes, no matter in what mode the node runs in.
• The getNeighbors API call now also returns the domain with which the neighbor was added and whether the neighbor is actually connected.
• A neighbor communicates his used coordinator address in the initial handshake packet, which if it doesn't match the node's own used coordinator address, will drop the connection. This prevents cross-pollination of nodes running in different networks. The Nodes will also communicate their used minimum weight magnitude, which in case they don't match, will also drop the connection.
• Fix: set arrival time in millis (not seconds) (#766)
• #1376
• #1377
• #1380
• #1381
• #1383
• #1379
• #1388