1.7.0 - 2019-11-14
- Added: #5537 Creating Ethereum Node Record (ENR) at program start.
- Added: #5571 Support Discovery v4 ENR Extension messages.
- Added: #5557 Improved debug logging of full sync.
- Added: #5564 Improved help output of Aleth by adding list of channels.
- Added: #5575 Log active peer count and peer list every 30 seconds.
- Added: #5580 Enable syncing from ETC nodes for blocks < dao hard fork block.
- Added: #5591 Network logging bugfixes and improvements and add p2pcap log channel.
- Added: #5588 Testeth prints similar test suite name suggestions, when the name passed in
-t
argument is not found. - Added: #5593 Dynamically updating host ENR.
- Added: #5624 Remove useless peers from peer list.
- Added: #5634 Bootnodes for Rinkeby and Goerli.
- Added: #5640 Support EIP-1702 Generalized Account Versioning Scheme (active only in Experimental fork.)
- Added: #5691 Istanbul support: EIP-2028 Transaction data gas cost reduction.
- Added: #5696 #5708 Istanbul support: EIP-1344 ChainID opcode.
- Added: #5700 #5725 Istanbul support: EIP 1884 Repricing for trie-size-dependent opcodes.
- Added: #5701 Outputs ENR text representation in admin.nodeInfo RPC.
- Added: #5705 Istanbul support: EIP 1108 Reduce alt_bn128 precompile gas costs.
- Added: #5707 Aleth waits for 2 seconds after sending disconnect to peer before closing socket.
- Added: #5709 #5728 Istanbul support: EIP-2200 Structured Definitions for Net Gas Metering.
- Added: #5751 Istanbul support: EIP-152 Add BLAKE2 compression function
F
precompile. - Added: #5755 testeth now runs
stChainId
,stSLoadTest
,stSelfBalance
tests for Istanbul. - Added: #5758 Istanbul support: activation in Ropsten config.
- Added: #5762 aleth-vm supports
--network Istanbul
option. - Changed: #5532 The leveldb is upgraded to 1.22. This is breaking change on Windows and the old databases are not compatible.
- Changed: #5559 Update peer validation error messages.
- Changed: #5568 Improve rlpx handshake log messages and create new rlpx log channel.
- Changed: #5570 Now it's not necessary to recompile with VMTRACE flag to get VM trace log. Just use
testeth -- --vmtrace
oraleth -v 4 --log-vmtrace
. - Changed: #5576 Moved sstore_combinations and static_Call50000_sha256 tests to stTimeConsuming test suite. (testeth runs them only with
--all
flag) - Changed: #5589 Make aleth output always line-buffered even when redirected to file or pipe.
- Changed: #5602 Better predicting external IP address and UDP port.
- Changed: #5605 Network logging bugfixes and improvements and add warpcap log channel.
- Changed: #5628 Don't try to endlessly reconnect to official Ethereum bootnodes.
- Changed: #5632 RocksDB support is disabled by default. Enable with
-DROCKSB=ON
CMake option. - Changed: #5648
BlockChainTests
suite is split intoBlockChainTests/ValidBlocks
andBlockChainTests/InvalidBlocks
. - Changed: #5678 Enable optimizer in aleth-interpreter by default.
- Changed: #5675 Disconnect from peer when syncing is disabled for peer.
- Changed: #5676 When receiving large batches of new block hashes, process up to 1024 hashes instead of disabling the peer.
- Changed: #5719 Enable support for Visual Studio 2017 on Windows.
- Changed: #5713 Propagate new blocks after PoW check rather than after import into the blockchain.
- Changed: #5734 debug_accountRangeAt RPC method is renamed to debug_accountRange to conform with geth and retesteth requirements.
- Changed: #5735
testeth -t GeneralStateTests
andtesteth -t BCGeneralStateTests
commands now don't run the tests for the forks before Istanbul. To run those tests use a separateLegacyTests
suite with commandstesteth -t LegacyTests/Constantinople/GeneralStateTests
andtesteth -t LegacyTests/Constantinople/BCGeneralStateTests -- --all
- Changed: #5810 EVMC has been upgraded to version 7.0.0.
- Removed: #5631 Removed PARANOID build option.
- Fixed: #5562 Don't send header request messages to peers that haven't sent us Status yet.
- Fixed: #5581 Fixed finding neighbour nodes in Discovery.
- Fixed: #5599 Prevent aleth from attempting concurrent connection to node which results in disconnect of original connection.
- Fixed: #5609 Log valid local enode-address when external IP is not known.
- Fixed: #5627 Correct testeth --help log output indentation.
- Fixed: #5644 Avoid attempting to sync with disconnected peers.
- Fixed: #5647 test_importRawBlock RPC method correctly fails in case of import failure.
- Fixed: #5664 Behavior in corner case tests about touching empty Precompiles now agrees with geth's results.
- Fixed: #5662 Correct depth value when aleth-interpreter invokes
evmc_host_interface::call
callback. - Fixed: #5666 aleth-interpreter returns
EVMC_INVALID_INSTRUCTION
whenINVALID
opcode is encountered andEVMC_UNKNOWN_INSTRUCTION
for undefined opcodes. - Fixed: #5706 Stop tracking sent transactions after they've been imported into the blockchain.
- Fixed: #5687 Limit transaction queue's dropped transaction history to 1024 transactions.
- Fixed: #5718 Avoid checking contract balance or destination account existence when executing self-destruct operations on Frontier and Homestead.
- Fixed: #5803 Client version string reported by RPC and devp2p now better matches the format used by other clients. This will allow aleth to be correctly listed on ethernodes.org.
1.6.0 - 2019-04-16
- Added: #5485 aleth-bootnode now by default connects to official Ethereum bootnodes. This can be disabled with
--no-bootstrap
flag. - Added: #5505 Allow building with libc++ on Linux.
- Added: #5514 Improved logging in case of RPC method failures.
- Added: #5526 Improved logging when loading chain config json containing syntax error.
- Changed: #5464 Upgrade OS and compilers in the docker image for tests.
- Changed: #5560 Upgrade ethash library to version 0.4.4.
- Removed: #5538 Removed --private flag from aleth command-line arguments.
- Fixed: #5483 Don't ping the same node more than once in a row; also fixes the assertion failure.
- Fixed: #5512 Calling
eth_call
withoutfrom
argument. - Fixed: #5502 Fix Discovery terminating prematurely because of race condition.
- Fixed: #5452 Correctly handle Discovery messages when the peer changes public key.
- Fixed: #5519 Correctly handle Discovery messages with known public key but unknown endpoint.
- Fixed: #5523 #5533 Fix syncing terminating prematurely because of race condition.
- Fixed: #5539 Fix logic for determining if dao hard fork block header should be requested.
- Fixed: #5547 Fix unnecessary slow-down of eth_flush RPC method.
- Fixed: #5548 Fix rlp tool for long hexadecimal string inputs.
- Fixed: #5181 Fix building on PowerPC architecture where -mtune=generic is not available.