## Parity-Ethereum [v2.2.1](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/releases/tag/v2.2.1) (2018-11-15)

Parity-Ethereum 2.2.1-beta is the first v2.2 release, and might introduce features that break previous work flows, among others:

- Prevent zero network ID ([#9763](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9763)) and drop support for Olympic testnet ([#9801](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9801)): The Olympic test net is dead for years and never used a chain ID but network ID zero. Parity Ethereum is now preventing the network ID to be zero, thus Olympic support is dropped. Make sure to chose positive non-zero network IDs in future.
- Multithreaded snapshot creation ([#9239](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9239)): adds a CLI argument `--snapshot-threads` which specifies the number of threads. This helps improving the performance of full nodes that wish to provide warp-snapshots for the network. The gain in performance comes with a slight drawback in increased snapshot size.
- Expose config max-round-blocks-to-import ([#9439](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9439)): Parity Ethereum imports blocks in rounds. If at the end of any round, the queue is not empty, we consider it to be _importing_ and won't notify pubsub. On large re-orgs (10+ blocks), this is possible. The default `max_round_blocks_to_import` is increased to 12 and configurable via the `--max-round-blocks-to-import` CLI flag. With unstable network conditions, it is advised to increase the number. This shouldn't have any noticeable performance impact unless the number is set to really large.
- Increase Gas-floor-target and Gas Cap ([#9564](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9564)): the default values for gas floor target are `8_000_000` and gas cap `10_000_000`, similar to Geth 1.8.15+.
- Produce portable binaries ([#9725](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9725)): we now produce portable binaries, but it may incur some performance degradation. For ultimate performance it's now better to compile Parity Ethereum from source with `PORTABLE=OFF` environment variable.
- RPC: `parity_allTransactionHashes` ([#9745](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9745)): Get all pending transactions from the queue with the high performant `parity_allTransactionHashes` RPC method.
- Support `eth_chainId` RPC method ([#9783](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9783)): implements EIP-695 to get the chainID via RPC.
- AuRa: finalize blocks ([#9692](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9692)): The AuRa engine was updated to emit ancestry actions to finalize blocks. The full client stores block finality in the database, the engine builds finality from an ancestry of `ExtendedHeader`; `is_epoch_end` was updated to take a vec of recently finalized headers; `is_epoch_end_light` was added which maintains the previous interface and is used by the light client since the client itself doesn't track finality.

The full list of included changes:

- Backport to parity 2.2.1 beta ([#9905](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9905))
  - Bump version to 2.2.1
  - Fix: Intermittent failing CI due to addr in use ([#9885](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9885))
  - Fix Parity not closing on Ctrl-C ([#9886](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9886))
  - Fix json tracer overflow ([#9873](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9873))
  - Fix docker script ([#9854](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9854))
  - Add hardcoded headers for light client ([#9907](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9907))
  - Gitlab-ci: make android release build succeed ([#9743](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9743))
  - Allow to seal work on latest block ([#9876](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9876))
  - Remove rust-toolchain file ([#9906](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9906))
  - Light-fetch: Differentiate between out-of-gas/manual throw and use required gas from response on failure ([#9824](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9824))
  - Eip-712 implementation ([#9631](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9631))
  - Eip-191 implementation ([#9701](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9701))
  - Simplify cargo audit ([#9918](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9918))
  - Fix performance issue importing Kovan blocks ([#9914](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9914))
  - Ci: nuke the gitlab caches ([#9855](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9855))
- Backports to parity beta 2.2.0 ([#9820](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9820))
  - Ci: remove failing tests for android, windows, and macos ([#9788](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9788))
  - Implement NoProof for json tests and update tests reference ([#9814](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9814))
  - Move state root verification before gas used ([#9841](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9841))
  - Classic.json Bootnode Update ([#9828](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9828))
- Rpc: parity_allTransactionHashes ([#9745](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9745))
- Revert "prevent zero networkID ([#9763](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9763))" ([#9815](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9815))
- Allow zero chain id in EIP155 signing process ([#9792](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9792))
- Add readiness check for docker container ([#9804](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9804))
- Insert dev account before unlocking ([#9813](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9813))
- Removed "rustup" & added new runner tag ([#9731](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9731))
- Expose config max-round-blocks-to-import ([#9439](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9439))
- Aura: finalize blocks ([#9692](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9692))
- Sync: retry different peer after empty subchain heads response ([#9753](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9753))
- Fix(light-rpc/parity) : Remove unused client ([#9802](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9802))
- Drops support for olympic testnet, closes [#9800](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/issues/9800) ([#9801](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9801))
- Replace `tokio_core` with `tokio` (`ring` -> 0.13) ([#9657](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9657))
- Support eth_chainId RPC method ([#9783](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9783))
- Ethcore: bump ropsten forkblock checkpoint ([#9775](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9775))
- Docs: changelogs for 2.0.8 and 2.1.3 ([#9758](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9758))
- Prevent zero networkID ([#9763](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9763))
- Skip seal fields count check when --no-seal-check is used ([#9757](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9757))
- Aura: fix panic on extra_info with unsealed block ([#9755](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9755))
- Docs: update changelogs ([#9742](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9742))
- Removed extra assert in generation_session_is_removed_when_succeeded ([#9738](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9738))
- Make checkpoint_storage_at use plain loop instead of recursion ([#9734](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9734))
- Use signed 256-bit integer for sstore gas refund substate ([#9746](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9746))
- Heads ref not present for branches beta and stable ([#9741](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9741))
- Add Callisto support ([#9534](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9534))
- Add --force to cargo audit install script ([#9735](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9735))
- Remove unused expired value from Handshake ([#9732](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9732))
- Add hardcoded headers ([#9730](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9730))
- Produce portable binaries ([#9725](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9725))
- Gitlab ci: releasable_branches: change variables condition to schedule ([#9729](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9729))
- Update a few parity-common dependencies ([#9663](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9663))
- Hf in POA Core (2018-10-22) ([#9724](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9724))
- Schedule nightly builds ([#9717](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9717))
- Fix ancient blocks sync ([#9531](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9531))
- Ci: Skip docs job for nightly ([#9693](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9693))
- Fix (light/provider) : Make `read_only executions` read-only ([#9591](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9591))
- Ethcore: fix detection of major import ([#9552](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9552))
- Return 0 on error ([#9705](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9705))
- Ethcore: delay ropsten hardfork ([#9704](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9704))
- Make instantSeal engine backwards compatible, closes [#9696](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/issues/9696) ([#9700](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9700))
- Implement CREATE2 gas changes and fix some potential overflowing ([#9694](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9694))
- Don't hash the init_code of CREATE. ([#9688](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9688))
- Ethcore: minor optimization of modexp by using LR exponentiation ([#9697](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9697))
- Removed redundant clone before each block import ([#9683](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9683))
- Add Foundation Bootnodes ([#9666](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9666))
- Docker: run as parity user ([#9689](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9689))
- Ethcore: mcip3 block reward contract ([#9605](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9605))
- Verify block syncing responses against requests ([#9670](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9670))
- Add a new RPC `parity_submitWorkDetail` similar `eth_submitWork` but return block hash ([#9404](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9404))
- Resumable EVM and heap-allocated callstack ([#9360](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9360))
- Update parity-wordlist library ([#9682](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9682))
- Ci: Remove unnecessary pipes ([#9681](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9681))
- Test.sh: use cargo --target for platforms other than linux, win or mac ([#9650](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9650))
- Ci: fix push script ([#9679](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9679))
- Hardfork the testnets ([#9562](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9562))
- Calculate sha3 instead of sha256 for push-release. ([#9673](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9673))
- Ethcore-io retries failed work steal ([#9651](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9651))
- Fix(light_fetch): avoid race with BlockNumber::Latest ([#9665](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9665))
- Test fix for windows cache name... ([#9658](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9658))
- Refactor(fetch) : light use only one `DNS` thread ([#9647](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9647))
- Ethereum libfuzzer integration small change ([#9547](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9547))
- Cli: remove reference to --no-ui in --unlock flag help ([#9616](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9616))
- Remove master from releasable branches ([#9655](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9655))
- Ethcore/VerificationQueue don't spawn up extra `worker-threads` when explictly specified not to ([#9620](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9620))
- Rpc: parity_getBlockReceipts ([#9527](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9527))
- Remove unused dependencies ([#9589](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9589))
- Ignore key_server_cluster randomly failing tests ([#9639](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9639))
- Ethcore: handle vm exception when estimating gas ([#9615](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9615))
- Fix bad-block reporting no reason ([#9638](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9638))
- Use static call and apparent value transfer for block reward contract code ([#9603](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9603))
- Hf in POA Sokol (2018-09-19) ([#9607](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9607))
- Bump smallvec to 0.6 in ethcore-light, ethstore and whisper ([#9588](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9588))
- Add constantinople conf to EvmTestClient. ([#9570](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9570))
- Fix(network): don't disconnect reserved peers ([#9608](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9608))
- Fix failing node-table tests on mac os, closes [#9632](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/issues/9632) ([#9633](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9633))
- Update ropsten.json ([#9602](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9602))
- Simplify ethcore errors by removing BlockImportError ([#9593](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9593))
- Fix windows compilation, replaces [#9561](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/issues/9561) ([#9621](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9621))
- Master: rpc-docs set github token ([#9610](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9610))
- Docs: add changelogs for 1.11.10, 1.11.11, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.1.0, and 2.1.1 ([#9554](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9554))
- Docs(rpc): annotate tag with the provided message ([#9601](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9601))
- Ci: fix regex roll_eyes ([#9597](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9597))
- Remove snapcraft clean ([#9585](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9585))
- Add snapcraft package image (master) ([#9584](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9584))
- Docs(rpc): push the branch along with tags ([#9578](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9578))
- Fix typo for jsonrpc-threads flag ([#9574](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9574))
- Fix informant compile ([#9571](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9571))
- Added ropsten bootnodes ([#9569](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9569))
- Increase Gas-floor-target and Gas Cap ([#9564](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9564))
- While working on the platform tests make them non-breaking ([#9563](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9563))
- Improve P2P discovery ([#9526](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9526))
- Move dockerfile for android build container to scripts repo ([#9560](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9560))
- Simultaneous platform tests WIP ([#9557](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9557))
- Update ethabi-derive, serde, serde_json, serde_derive, syn && quote ([#9553](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9553))
- Ci: fix rpc docs generation 2 ([#9550](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9550))
- Ci: always run build pipelines for win, mac, linux, and android ([#9537](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9537))
- Multithreaded snapshot creation ([#9239](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9239))
- New ethabi ([#9511](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9511))
- Remove initial token for WS. ([#9545](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9545))
- Net_version caches network_id to avoid redundant aquire of sync readlock ([#9544](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9544))
- Correct before_script for nightly build versions ([#9543](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9543))
- Deps: bump kvdb-rocksdb to 0.1.4 ([#9539](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9539))
- State: test when contract creation fails, old storage values should re-appear ([#9532](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9532))
- Allow dropping light client RPC query with no results ([#9318](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9318))
- Bump master to 2.2.0 ([#9517](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9517))
- Enable all Constantinople hard fork changes in constantinople_test.json ([#9505](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9505))
- [Light] Validate `account balance` before importing transactions ([#9417](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9417))
- In create memory calculation is the same for create2 because the additional parameter was popped before. ([#9522](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9522))
- Update patricia trie to 0.2.2 ([#9525](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9525))
- Replace hardcoded JSON with serde json! macro ([#9489](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9489))
- Fix typo in version string ([#9516](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/pull/9516))

## Previous releases

- [CHANGELOG-2.1](docs/CHANGELOG-2.1.md) (_stable_)
- [CHANGELOG-2.0](docs/CHANGELOG-2.0.md) (EOL: 2018-11-15)
- [CHANGELOG-1.11](docs/CHANGELOG-1.11.md) (EOL: 2018-09-19)
- [CHANGELOG-1.10](docs/CHANGELOG-1.10.md) (EOL: 2018-07-18)
- [CHANGELOG-1.9](docs/CHANGELOG-1.9.md) (EOL: 2018-05-09)
- [CHANGELOG-1.8](docs/CHANGELOG-1.8.md) (EOL: 2018-03-22)
- [CHANGELOG-1.7](docs/CHANGELOG-1.7.md) (EOL: 2018-01-25)
- [CHANGELOG-1.6](docs/CHANGELOG-1.6.md) (EOL: 2017-10-15)
- [CHANGELOG-1.5](docs/CHANGELOG-1.5.md) (EOL: 2017-07-28)
- [CHANGELOG-1.4](docs/CHANGELOG-1.4.md) (EOL: 2017-03-13)
- [CHANGELOG-1.3](docs/CHANGELOG-1.3.md) (EOL: 2017-01-19)
- [CHANGELOG-1.2](docs/CHANGELOG-1.2.md) (EOL: 2016-11-07)
- [CHANGELOG-1.1](docs/CHANGELOG-1.1.md) (EOL: 2016-08-12)
- [CHANGELOG-1.0](docs/CHANGELOG-1.0.md) (EOL: 2016-06-24)
- [CHANGELOG-0.9](docs/CHANGELOG-0.9.md) (EOL: 2016-05-02)