Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.18.1

Fixed

• Set default port for peers where it is unset.

0.18.0

Added

• Support setting up and connecting to IPv6 peers.

0.17.14

Fixed

• Reduce verbosity on incoming header decode test.
• Show appropriate error message upon receiving empty headers.

0.17.13

Added

• Display more details about invalid incoming headers.

0.17.12

Fixed

• Do not connect to more than the maximum number of peers.

0.17.11

Added

• Display message command that disconnects a peer.

0.17.10

Fixed

• Correct disconnect timeout algorithm bug.

0.17.9

Fixed

• Add randomised timeouts to avoid disconnecting all peers.

0.17.2

Fixed

• Do not start chain actor until database initialized.

0.17.1

Changed

• Depend on haskoin-core-0.17.3.

0.17.0

Added

• Support for Bitcoin Cash November 2020 hard fork.
• BlockHeaders instance for ReaderT Chain.

0.16.0

Changed

• Add support for column families.

0.15.0

Changed

• Use new Haskell bindings for RocksDB.

0.14.1

Fixed

• Correct flawed peer locking logic in Chain actor.

0.14.0

Changed

• Massively refactor everything in a non-backwards-compatible way.
• Use MIT license.
• Bump haskoin-core.
• Bump secp256k1-haskell.

Fixed

• Fix getting stuck on a single peer.

0.13.0

Changed

• Depend on Haskoin Store 0.13.3.
• Better code organisation.

0.12.0

Changed

• Add a test suite that simulates network instead of connecting to real one.

0.11.3

Changed

• Revert including multiline decoding error text in logs.

0.11.2

Changed

• Include header decoding error text in logs.

0.11.1

Changed

• Improve logging.

0.11.0

Changed

• Set peer too old time

0.10.1

Changed

• Disconnect old peers after 48 hours instead of 30 minutes.

0.10.0

Changed

• Move modules out of Network.Haskoin namespace.
• Add better and more logging.
• Change Manager module name and related values to PeerManager.

0.9.21

Removed

• Remove unnecessary logging.

0.9.20

Changed

• Better log messages.
• Less verbose debug logging.

0.9.19

Changed

• Better log messages.

0.9.18

Added

• More aggressive peer discovery.

0.9.17

Added

• Peers are disconnected automatically after awhile.

0.9.16

Added

• Lower bound versions for some dependencies.

0.9.15

Changed

• Update to support new NetworkAddress data structure from haskoin-core.

0.9.14

Removed

• No longer support storing peers in db as performance tradeoff doesn’t justify it.

0.9.13

Changed

• Really store peers in db.

0.9.12

Changed

• Demote some logging to debug level.

0.9.11

Added

• Add -O2 optimisations to GHC.

0.9.10

Added

• Increase debugging information where application freezes.

0.9.9

Added

• Increase debugging information.

0.9.8

Changed

• Increase version of haskoin-core to 0.9.0.
• Fix some tests.

0.9.7

Added

• More debugging.

Changed

• Be defensive against duplicate peers.
• Increase interval between housekeeping pings.
• Replace peers in database atomically.

0.9.6

Changed

• Randomize known peers instead of keeping scores.
• Simplify peer management code to avoid freezes.
• Merge logic for chain and manager.

0.9.5

Changed

• Do not record new peers in database when peer discovery is disabled.

0.9.4

Changed

• Don’t spam best block events.

0.9.3

Changed

• Correct display of milliseconds in log.
• Correct bug when receiving headers from unknown peer.
• Simplify chain syncing code.

0.9.2

Changed

• Peer dies immediately when receiving a bad message.

0.9.1

Changed

• Keep track of last synced header from a peer to avoid endless loops on large reorgs.

0.9.0

Changed

• Use an STM listener instead of a publisher for the node API.

0.8.2

Added

• Expose ChainMessage and ManagerMessage types from Haskoin.Node module.

0.8.1

Changed

• Corrected documentation for killPeer function.
• Leave time out of logic code.

0.8.0

Changed

• Peers are now killed directly instead of through peer manager.

Removed

• Chain no longer needs peer manager.

0.7.2

Added

• Compatibility with base 4.12.

Changed

• Update base to 4.9.

0.7.1

Added

• Allow to easily obtain a peer’s publisher.

0.7.0

Added

• Versioning for chain and peer database.
• Automatic purging of chain and peer database when version changes.
• Add extra timers.
• Add publishers to every peer.

Changed

• Full reimplementation of node API.
• Simplify peer selection and management.
• Merge manager and peer events.
• Rename configuration variables for node.
• Separate logic from actors for peer manager and chain.

Removed

• Remove irrelevant fields from peer information.
• Remove unreliable peer block head tracking.
• Remove dependency on deprecated binary conduits.
• Remove Bloom filter support from manager.
• Remove unreliable peer request tracking code.
• Remove separate manager events.

0.6.1

Changed

• Fix bug where peer height did not update in certain cases.

0.6.0

Added

• Documentation everywhere.

Changed

• Make compatible with NQE 0.5.
• Use supervisor only in peer manager.
• API quality of life changes.
• Exposed module is now only Haskoin.Node.

Removed

• No more direct access to internals.

0.5.2

Changed

• Improve dependency definitions.

0.5.1

Changed

• Dependency sec256k1 changes to secp256k1-haskell.

0.5.0

Added

• New CHANGELOG.md file.
• Use nqe for concurrency.
• Peer discovery.
• RocksDB peer and block header storage.
• Support for Merkle blocks.

Changed

• Split out of former haskoin repository.
• Use hpack and package.yaml.
• Old haskoin-node package now renamed to old-haskoin-node and deprecated.

Removed

• Removed Old Haskoin Node package completely.
• Removed Stylish Haskell configuration file.
• Remvoed haskoin-core and haskoin-wallet packages from this repository.