openethereum/CHANGELOG.md

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.6

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.6-stable is a bugfix release that improves stability.

• Allow specifying hostnames for node URLs
• Fix a bug where archive nodes were losing peers

The full list of included changes:

• Kaspersky AV whitelisting (#10919)
• Avast whitelist script (#10900)
• Docker images renaming (#10863)
• Remove excessive warning (#10831)
• Allow --nat extip:your.host.here.org (#10830)
• When updating the client or when called from RPC, sleep should mean sleep (#10814)
• added new ropsten-bootnode and removed old one (#10794)
• ethkey no longer uses byteorder (#10786)
• Do not drop the peer with None difficulty (#10772)
• docs: Update Readme with TOC, Contributor Guideline. Update Cargo package descriptions (#10652)

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.5

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.5-stable is a minor release that improves performance and stability. This release stabilises the 2.5 branch.

As of today, Parity-Ethereum 2.4 reaches end of life and everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.4

Parity Ethereum v2.5.4-beta is a security update that addresses servo/rust-smallvec#148

The full list of included changes:

• cargo update -p smallvec (#10822)

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.3

Parity-Ethereum 2.5.3-beta is a bugfix release that improves performance and stability.

• EthereumClassic: activate the Atlantis Hardfork
• Clique: fix time overflow
• State tests: treat empty accounts the same as non-existant accounts (EIP 1052)
• Networking: support discovery-only peers (geth bootnodes)
• Snapshotting: fix unclean shutdown while snappshotting is under way

The full list of included changes:

• ethcore/res: activate atlantis classic hf on block 8772000 (#10766)
• fix docker tags for publishing (#10741)
• fix: aura don't add SystemTime::now() (#10720)
• Treat empty account the same as non-exist accounts in EIP-1052 (#10775)
• DevP2p: Get node IP address and udp port from Socket, if not included in PING packet (#10705)
• Add a way to signal shutdown to snapshotting threads (#10744)

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.2

Parity-Ethereum 2.5.2-beta is a bugfix release that improves performance and stability.

Among others, it enables the Atlantis hardfork on Morden and Kotti Classic networks.

The full list of included changes:

• [CI] allow cargo audit to fail (#10676)
• Reset blockchain properly (#10669)
• new image (#10673)
• Update publishing (#10644)
• enable lto for release builds (#10717)
• Use RUSTFLAGS to set the optimization level (#10719)
• ethcore: enable ECIP-1054 for classic (#10731)

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.1

Parity-Ethereum 2.5.1-beta is a bugfix release that improves performance and stability.

Among others, it enables the Petersburg hardfork on Rinkeby and POA-Core Network, as well as the Kovan Network community hardfork.

The full list of included changes:

• ci: publish docs debug (#10638)

Parity-Ethereum v2.5.0

Parity-Ethereum 2.5.0-beta is a minor release that improves performance and stabilizes the 2.5 branch by marking it as beta release.

• This release adds support for the Clique consensus engine (#9981)
  • This enables Parity-Ethereum users to use the Görli, the Kotti Classic, and the legacy Rinkeby testnet. To get started try parity --chain goerli; note that light client support is currently not yet fully functional.
• This release removes the dead chain configs for Easthub and Ethereum Social (#10531)

As of today, Parity-Ethereum 2.3 reaches end of life and everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

The full list of included changes:

• fix(light cull): poll light cull instead of timer (#10559)