Peerplays mainnet release 1.5.18
- This is a hardfork release
- Replays are mandatory
- The hardfork date is 16th July 2022, 00:00:00 UTC
Who should upgrade :
Its recommended that all the mainnet witnesses and Bitcoin & Hive SON operators to upgrade.
Summary
This release incorporates important bug fixes to SONs, Bitcoin network connection & numerous enhancements. We have also added large number of automated test cases, upgraded libboost version etc.
We are also introducing the feature to ignore outdated, older witness nodes which are still running. GPOS participation rewards now include blockchain transaction fees to help increase security in the selection of witnesses, SONs, and Advisors.
OS support : 2 Ubuntu LTS version, 20.04 and 18.04 are now supported. The Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be supported until April 2023.
Features
Create cli wallet command to report sidechain deposit transaction manually
Create cli wallet command to report sidechain deposit transaction manually
Implement cli wallet command/api endpoint to retrieve voting info
https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/issues/276
Redirect transaction fees to dividends
Enable multiple SON support by default
Bring all funtions in database_api and wallet_api to a unified form
Implement the witness capability to overwrite last hard fork
Improvements & Bug Fixes
stopping witness_node with control-C corrupts chain file
Ungraceful shutdown when interrupting software with CTRL+C
Bitcoin SON on mainnet - deposit not identified
Update witness node/wallet to TLS 1.3
Refactor Bitcoin block parsing to match changes from Bitcoin v0.22
Enable building with boost version higher 1.67
Refactor importing BTC addresses into son-wallet
exception seen in witness logs
deprecated variables used in fc library
deprecation messages for auto_unit_test.hpp seen in build logs.
remove FC_REFLECT_TEMPLATE for votes_info_object
application core dumps when chain-id argument is not provided.
cli_wallet core dumps when cli_wallet -v is used
Error doesn't hep in identifying the issue with cli-wallet command
port ElasticSearch changes from Bitshares
Switch to Ubuntu 20.04 as a default platform
Error in chain_test in gitlab autobuild
ability to resign as a SON and recover my tokens)
cli wallet unable to decode memo text
Refactor importing BTC addresses into son-wallet
Add check for transfer fee when moving funds from deposit address to primary wallet
Remove hardcoded chain parameters
""ERROR_WHILE_CONVERTING_VALUE_TO_STRING" error seen in witness logs
cli_wallet SON related tests randomly fail)
Refactor GPO and DGPO, move dynamic data from GPO to DGPO
Fix hardcoded fee for issuing assets in sidechain plugin
chain getting halted when son payouts are created
Configure docker images to create core dumps on witness software crash
SON-HIVE Voting - Refactor all the places we use sidechain_type directly
SON Hive Voting - Node crashes when same SON id is used for both sidechains
SON Hive Voting - Scheduler provides invalid SON IDs
libreadline-dev package must be removed from Dockers and installation instructions
Disconnecting non compatible witness nodes happens too late