CHANGELOG.md

Parity-Ethereum v2.7.1

Parity Ethereum v2.7.2-stable is a patch version release of parity-ethereum. Starting in the 2.7.x series of releases, parity-ethereum is switching to a single stable release track. As a result, any clients that currently receive updates from the beta track should switch to the stable track. Due to database format changes, upgrading from 2.5.x or 2.6.x is one-way only.

The full list of included changes:

• backwards compatible call_type creation_method (#11450 + #11455)
• chore: remove unused dependencies (#11432)
• Cargo.lock: new lockfile format (#11448)
• rlp_derive: cleanup (#11446)
• Avoid long state queries when serving GetNodeData requests (#11444)
• update kvdb-rocksdb to 0.4 (#11442)
• Remove dead bootnodes, add new geth bootnodes (#11441)
• goerli: replace foundation bootnode (#11433)
• fix: export hardcoded sync format (#11416)
• verification: fix race same block + misc (#11400)
• update classic testnet bootnodes (#11398)
• gcc to clang (#11453)

Parity-Ethereum v2.7.1

Parity Ethereum v2.7.1-stable is a patch version release of parity-ethereum. Starting in the 2.7.x series of releases, parity-ethereum is switching to a single stable release track. As a result, any clients that currently receive updates from the beta track should switch to the stable track. Due to database format changes, upgrading from 2.5.x or 2.6.x is one-way only.

The full list of included changes from v2.7.0 to v2.7.1:

• Revert "Distinguish between create and create2 (#11311)" (#11427)

Parity-Ethereum v2.7.0

Parity Ethereum v2.7.0-stable is a minor version release of parity-ethereum. As of this release, parity-ethereum is switching to a single stable release track. As a result, any clients that currently receive updates from the beta track should switch to the stable track.

The full list of included changes from v2.5-stable to v2.7-stable (the v2.6-beta branch will already include some of these changes):

• Update POA bootnodes (#11411)
• Update ProgPoW to 0.9.3 (#11407)
• Add EtherCore support (#11402)
• json-tests: Fix compile error (#11384)
• ethcore/res: fix ethereum classic chainspec blake2_f activation block num (#11391)
• Switching to stable-track (#11377)
• Update copyright notice 2020 (#11386)
• miner: fix deprecation warning Error::description (#11380)
• Fix Aztlan hard fork issues (#11347)
• authority_round: Fix next_step_time_duration. (#11379)
• Set the block gas limit to the value returned by a contract call (#10928)
• [Trace] Distinguish between create and create2 (#11311)
• fix cargo audit (#11378)
• Fix esoteric test config variable (#11292)
• Rip out the C and Java bindings (#11346)
• Encapsulate access to the client for secret store (#11232)
• Forward-port #11356 (#11359)
• Fix error message typo (#11363)
• [util/migration]: remove needless static bounds (#11348)
• Replace stale boot nodes with latest list (#11351)
• Update to latest kvdb-*: no default column, DBValue is Vec (#11312)
• we do not profit from incremental now (#11302)
• update autoupdate fork blocks for nightly (#11308)
• Add Nat PMP method to P2P module (#11210)
• Add randomness contract support to AuthorityRound. (#10946)
• ethcore/res: activate ecip-1061 on kotti and mordor (#11338)
• tx-q: enable basic verification of local transactions (#11332)
• remove null signatures (#11335)
• ethcore/res: activate agharta on classic 9573000 (#11331)
• [secretstore] migrate to version 4 (#11322)
• Enable EIP-2384 for ice age hard fork (#11281)
• Fix atomicity violation in network-devp2p (#11277)
• Istanbul activation on xDai (#11299)
• Istanbul activation on POA Core (#11298)
• Adds support for ipc socket permissions (#11273)
• Add check for deserialising hex values over U256 limit (#11309)
• validate-chainspecs: check istanbul eips are in the foundation spec (#11305)
• [chainspec]: add eip1344_transition for istanbul (#11301)
• only add transactions to signing-queue if it is enabled (#11272)
• Use upstream rocksdb (#11248)
• Treat only blocks in queue as synced (#11264)
• add support for evan.network chains (#11289)
• Add benchmarks and tests for RlpNodeCodec decoding (#11287)
• upgrade vergen to 3.0 (#11293)
• interruptible test and build jobs (#11294)
• Istanbul HF on POA Sokol (#11282)
• [ethcore]: apply filter when PendingSet::AlwaysQueue in ready_transactions_filtered (#11227)
• Update lib.rs (#11286)
• Don't prune ancient state when instantiating a Client (#11270)
• fixed verify_uncles error type (#11276)
• ethcore: fix rlp deprecation warnings (#11280)
• Upgrade trie-db to 0.16.0. (#11274)
• Clarify what first_block None means (#11269)
• removed redundant VMType enum with one variant (#11266)
• Ensure jsonrpc threading settings are sane (#11267)
• Return Ok(None) when the registrar contract returns empty slice (#11257)
• Add a benchmark for snapshot::account::to_fat_rlps() (#11185)
• Fix misc compile warnings (#11258)
• simplify verification (#11249)
• update ropsten forkCanonHash, forkBlock (#11247)
• Make InstantSeal Instant again (#11186)
• ropsten #6631425 foundation #8798209 (#11201)
• Update list of bootnodes for xDai chain (#11236)
• ethcore/res: add mordor testnet configuration (#11200)
• [chain specs]: activate Istanbul on mainnet (#11228)
• [builtin]: support multiple prices and activations in chain spec (#11039)
• Insert explicit warning into the panic hook (#11225)
• Snapshot restoration overhaul (#11219)
• Fix docker centos build (#11226)
• retry on gitlab system failures (#11222)
• Update bootnodes. (#11203)
• Use provided usd-per-eth value if an endpoint is specified (#11209)
• Use a lock instead of atomics for snapshot Progress (#11197)
• [informant]: MillisecondDuration -> as_millis() (#11211)
• Step duration map configuration parameter ported from the POA Network fork (#10902)
• Upgrade jsonrpc to latest (#11206)
• [export hardcoded sync]: use debug for H256 (#11204)
• Pause pruning while snapshotting (#11178)
• Type annotation for next_key() matching of json filter options (#11192)
• Crypto primitives removed from ethkey (#11174)
• Made ecrecover implementation trait public (#11188)
• Remove unused macro_use. (#11191)
• [dependencies]: jsonrpc 14.0.1 (#11183)
• [receipt]: add sender & receiver to RichReceipts (#11179)
• [dependencies] bump rand 0.7 (#11022)
• [ethcore/builtin]: do not panic in blake2pricer on short input (#11180)
• TxPermissions ver 3: gas price & data (#11170)
• [ethash] chainspec validate ecip1017EraRounds non-zero (#11123)
• util Host: fix a double Read Lock bug in fn Host::session_readable() (#11175)
• ethcore client: fix a double Read Lock bug in fn Client::logs() (#11172)
• Aura: Report malice on sibling blocks from the same validator (#11160)
• Change how RPCs eth_call and eth_estimateGas handle "Pending" (#11127)
• Cleanup stratum a bit (#11161)
• Upgrade to jsonrpc v14 (#11151)
• Secret store: fix Instant::now() related race in net_keep_alive (#11155)
• RPC method for clearing the engine signer (#10920)
• Use TryFrom instead of From+panic for Builtin (#11140)
• Fix sccache statistics (#11145)
• Update ethereum types to 0.8.0 version (#11139)
• [json]: add docs to hardfork specification (#11138)
• ServiceTransactionChecker::refresh_cache: allow registrar unavailable (#11126)
• Fix some random typos, formatting/whitespace (#11128)
• Refactor parity_listStorageKeys with count parameter optional (#11124)
• Make EIP712Domain Fields Optional (#11103)
• EIP-712: bump version in prep for publishing (#11106)
• move StateResult to common-types (#11121)
• Deduplicate registrar contract & calling logic (#11110)
• Refactor return type of BlockChainClient::code #7098 (#11102)
• Switching sccache from local to Redis (#10971)
• SIMD Implementation for EIP-152 (#11056)
• Fix deprecated trait objects without an explicit dyn (#11112)
• [spec] fix rinkeby spec (#11108)
• Update to latest jsonrpc (#11111)
• use images from our registry (#11105)
• Correct EIP-712 encoding (#11092)
• [CI] check evmbin build (#11096)
• Update kvdb, kvdb-rocksdb and h2 (#11091)
• [client]: Fix for incorrectly dropped consensus messages (#11082) (#11086)
• Update JSON tests to d4f86ecf4aa7c (#11054)
• fix(network): typo (#11088)
• [ethash] remove manual unrolling (#11069)
• ethcore/res: activate Istanbul on Ropsten, Görli, Rinkeby, Kovan (#11068)
• [sync]: rust 2018 (#11067)
• [ethcore]: move client test types to test-helpers (#11062)
• [sync]: remove unused dependencies or make dev (#11061)
• [ethcore]: reduce re-exports (#11059)
• [evmbin] fix time formatting (#11060)
• Update hardcoded headers (foundation, classic, kovan, xdai, ewc, ...) (#11053)
• cargo update -p eth-secp256k1 (#11052)
• ethcore: remove test-helper feat from build (#11047)
• Include test-helpers from ethjson (#11045)
• [ethcore]: cleanup dependencies (#11043)
• add more tx tests (#11038)
• Fix parallel transactions race-condition (#10995)
• [ethcore]: make it compile without test-helpers feature (#11036)
• Benchmarks for block verification (#11035)
• Move snapshot related traits to their proper place (#11012)
• cleanup json crate (#11027)
• [spec] add istanbul test spec (#11033)
• [json-spec] make blake2 pricing spec more readable (#11034)
• Add blake2_f precompile (#11017)
• Add new line after writing block to hex file. (#10984)
• fix: remove unused error-chain (#11028)
• fix: remove needless use of itertools (#11029)
• Convert std::test benchmarks to use Criterion (#10999)
• Fix block detail updating (#11015)
• [trace] introduce trace failed to Ext (#11019)
• cli: update usage and version headers (#10924)
• [private-tx] remove unused rand (#11024)
• Extract snapshot to own crate (#11010)
• Edit publish-onchain.sh to use https (#11016)
• EIP 1108: Reduce alt_bn128 precompile gas costs (#11008)
• Fix deadlock in network-devp2p (#11013)
• Implement EIP-1283 reenable transition, EIP-1706 and EIP-2200 (#10191)
• EIP 1884 Re-pricing of trie-size dependent operations (#10992)
• xDai chain support and nodes list update (#10989)
• [trace] check mem diff within range (#11002)
• EIP-1344 Add CHAINID op-code (#10983)
• Make ClientIoMessage generic over the Client (#10981)
• bump spin to 0.5.2 (#10996)
• fix compile warnings (#10993)
• Fix compilation on recent nightlies (#10991)
• [ipfs] Convert to edition 2018 (#10979)
• Extract spec to own crate (#10978)
• EIP 2028: transaction gas lowered from 68 to 16 (#10987)
• Extract engines to own crates (#10966)
• Configuration map of block reward contract addresses (#10875)
• Add a 2/3 quorum option to Authority Round. (#10909)
• Fix rlp decode for inline trie nodes. (#10980)
• Private contract migration and offchain state sync (#10748)
• manual publish jobs for releases, no changes for nightlies (#10977)
• Extract the Engine trait (#10958)
• Better error message for rpc gas price errors (#10931)
• [.gitlab.yml] cargo check ethcore benches (#10965)
• Verify transaction against its block during import (#10954)
• [evmbin] fix compilation (#10976)
• Update to latest trie version. (#10972)
• [blooms-db] Fix benchmarks (#10974)
• Fix ethcore/benches build. (#10964)
• tx-pool: accept local tx with higher gas price when pool full (#10901)
• Disable unsyncable expanse chain (#10926)
• Extract Machine from ethcore (#10949)
• removed redundant state_root function from spec, improve spec error types (#10955)
• Add support for Energy Web Foundation's new chains (#10957)
• [evmbin] add more tests to main.rs (#10956)
• Fix compiler warnings in util/io and upgrade to edition 2018 Upgrade mio to latest (#10953)
• unify loading spec && further spec cleanups (#10948)
• refactor: Refactor evmbin CLI (#10742)
• journaldb changes (#10929)
• Allow default block parameter to be blockHash (#10932)
• Enable sealing when engine is ready (#10938)
• Fix some warnings and typos. (#10941)
• Updated [email protected] key (#10939)
• Change the return type of step_inner function. (#10940)
• get rid of hidden mutability of Spec (#10904)
• simplify BlockReward::reward implementation (#10906)
• Kaspersky AV whitelisting (#10919)
• additional arithmetic EVM opcode benchmarks (#10916)
• [Cargo.lock] cargo update -p crossbeam-epoch (#10921)
• Fixes incorrect comment. (#10913)
• Add file path to disk map write/read warnings (#10911)
• remove verify_transaction_unordered from engine (#10891)
• Avast whitelist script (#10900)
• cleanup ethcore ethereum module (#10899)
• Move more types out of ethcore (#10880)
• return block nonce when engine is clique (#10892)
• TransactionQueue::import accepts iterator (#10889)
• rename is_pruned to is_prunable (#10888)
• simplify create_address_scheme (#10890)
• Move DatabaseExtras back to trace (#10868)
• Update README.md and Changelogs (#10866)
• whisper is no longer a part of parity-ethereum repo (#10855)
• [ethash] remove mem::uninitialized (#10861)
• Docker images renaming (#10863)
• Move the substate module into ethcore/executive (#10867)
• Run cargo fix on a few of the worst offenders (#10854)
• removed redundant fork choice abstraction (#10849)
• Extract state-db from ethcore (#10858)
• Fix fork choice (#10837)
• Move more code into state-account (#10840)
• Remove compiler warning (#10865)
• [ethash] use static_assertions crate (#10860)
• EIP-1702: Generalized Account Versioning Scheme (#10771)
• ethcore-builtin (#10850)
• removed QueueError type (#10852)
• removed unused macros (#10851)
• bump crossbeam (#10848)
• removed unused trait PrivateNotify and unused Error types (#10847)
• make fn submit_seal more idiomatic (#10843)
• update parking-lot to 0.8 (#10845)
• Update version to 2.7.0 (#10846)
• update jsonrpc to 12.0 (#10841)
• Improve logging and cleanup in miner around block sealing (#10745)
• Extract AccountDB to account-db (#10839)
• test: Update Whisper test for invalid pool size (#10811)
• Extricate PodAccount and state Account to own crates (#10838)
• logs (#10817)
• refactor: whisper: Add type aliases and update rustdocs in message.rs (#10812)
• Break circular dependency between Client and Engine (part 1) (#10833)
• tests: Relates to #10655: Test instructions for Readme (#10835)
• refactor: Related #9459 - evmbin: replace untyped json! macro with fully typed serde serialization using Rust structs (#10657)
• idiomatic changes to PodState (#10834)
• Allow --nat extip:your.host.here.org (#10830)
• When updating the client or when called from RPC, sleep should mean sleep (#10814)
• Remove excessive warning (#10831)
• Fix typo in README.md (#10828)
• ethcore does not use byteorder (#10829)
• Better logging when backfilling ancient blocks fail (#10796)
• depends: Update wordlist to v1.3 (#10823)
• cargo update -p smallvec (#10822)
• replace memzero with zeroize crate (#10816)
• Don't repeat the logic from Default impl (#10813)
• removed additional_params method (#10818)
• Add Constantinople eips to the dev (instant_seal) config (#10809)
• removed redundant fmt::Display implementations (#10806)
• revert changes to .gitlab-ci.yml (#10807)
• Add filtering capability to parity_pendingTransactions (issue 8269) (#10506)
• removed EthEngine alias (#10805)
• wait a bit longer in should_check_status_of_request_when_its_resolved (#10808)
• Do not drop the peer with None difficulty (#10772)
• ethcore-bloom-journal updated to 2018 (#10804)
• ethcore-light uses bincode 1.1 (#10798)
• Fix a few typos and unused warnings. (#10803)
• updated project to ansi_term 0.11 (#10799)
• added new ropsten-bootnode and removed old one (#10794)
• updated price-info to edition 2018 (#10801)
• ethcore-network-devp2p uses igd 0.9 (#10797)
• updated parity-local-store to edition 2018 and removed redundant Error type (#10800)
• Cleanup unused vm dependencies (#10787)
• Removed redundant ethcore-service error type (#10788)
• Removed machine abstraction from ethcore (#10791)
• Updated blooms-db to rust 2018 and removed redundant deps (#10785)
• ethkey no longer uses byteorder (#10786)
• Log validator set changes in EpochManager (#10734)
• Treat empty account the same as non-exist accounts in EIP-1052 (#10775)
• docs: Update Readme with TOC, Contributor Guideline. Update Cargo package descriptions (#10652)
• Move Engine::register_client to be before other I/O handler registration (#10767)
• Print warnings when using dangerous settings for ValidatorSet (#10733)
• ethcore/res: activate atlantis classic hf on block 8772000 (#10766)
• refactor: Fix indentation (#10740)
• Updated Bn128PairingImpl to use optimized batch pairing (#10765)
• fix: aura don't add SystemTime::now() (#10720)
• Initialize private tx logger only if private tx functionality is enabled (#10758)
• Remove unused code (#10762)
• Remove calls to heapsize (#10432)
• [devp2p] Update to 2018 edition (#10716)
• Add a way to signal shutdown to snapshotting threads (#10744)
• Enable aesni (#10756)
• remove support of old SS db formats (#10757)
• [devp2p] Don't use rust-crypto (#10714)
• updater: fix static id hashes initialization (#10755)
• Use fewer threads for snapshotting (#10752)
• Die error_chain, die (#10747)
• Fix deprectation warnings on nightly (#10746)
• fix docker tags for publishing (#10741)
• DevP2p: Get node IP address and udp port from Socket, if not included in PING packet (#10705)
• ethcore: enable ECIP-1054 for classic (#10731)
• Stop breaking out of loop if a non-canonical hash is found (#10729)
• Refactor Clique stepping (#10691)
• Use RUSTFLAGS to set the optimization level (#10719)
• SecretStore: non-blocking wait of session completion (#10303)
• removed secret_store folder (#10722)
• SecretStore: expose restore_key_public in HTTP API (#10241)
• Revert "enable lto for release builds (#10717)" (#10721)
• enable lto for release builds (#10717)
• Merge Notifier and TransactionsPoolNotifier (#10591)
• [devp2p] Fix warnings and re-org imports (#10710)
• Upgrade ethereum types (#10670)
• introduce MissingParent Error, fixes #10699 (#10700)
• Update publishing (#10644)
• Upgrade to parity-crypto 0.4 (#10650)
• new image (#10673)
• Add SealingState; don't prepare block when not ready. (#10529)
• Fix compiler warning (that will become an error) (#10683)
• add_sync_notifier in EthPubSubClient holds on to a Client for too long (#10689)
• Don't panic if extra_data is longer than VANITY_LENGTH (#10682)
• docs: evmbin - Update Rust docs (#10658)
• Remove annoying compiler warnings (#10679)
• Reset blockchain properly (#10669)
• Remove support for hardware wallets (#10678)
• [CI] allow cargo audit to fail (#10676)
• docs: Add ProgPoW Rust docs to ethash module (#10653)
• fix: Move PR template into .github/ folder (#10663)
• docs: Add PR template (#10654)
• Trivial journal for private transactions (#10056)
• fix(compilation warnings) (#10649)
• [whisper] Move needed aes_gcm crypto in-crate (#10647)
• Adds parity_getRawBlockByNumber, parity_submitRawBlock (#10609)
• Fix rinkeby petersburg fork (#10632)
• ci: publish docs debug (#10638)
• Fix publish docs (#10635)
• Update kovan.json to switch validator set to POA Consensus Contracts (#10628)
• [ethcore] remove error_chain (#10616)
• Remove unused import (#10615)
• evm: add some mulmod benches (#10600)
• Clique: zero-fill extradata when the supplied value is less than 32 bytes in length (#10605)
• Constantinople HF on POA Core (#10606)
• adds rpc error message for --no-ancient-blocks (#10608)
• Allow CORS requests in Secret Store API (#10584)
• update bootnodes (#10595)
• sccache logs to stdout (#10596)
• fix(whisper expiry): current time + work + ttl (#10587)
• CI improvements (#10579)
• Watch transactions pool (#10558)
• fix(evmbin): make benches compile again (#10586)
• fix issue with compilation when 'slow-blocks' feature enabled (#10585)
• Reject crazy timestamps instead of truncating. (#10574)
• Node table limiting and cache for node filter (#10288)
• fix(light cull): poll light cull instead of timer (#10559)
• Update Issue Template to direct security issue to email (#10562)
• RPC: Implements eth_subscribe("syncing") (#10311)
• Explicitly enable or disable Stratum in config file (Issue 9785) (#10521)
• version: bump master to 2.6 (#10560)