v2.5.0

Hello, ibet members.

This release is a semi-annual regular release.

Overview

v2.5.0 brings performance optimizations, security enhancements, and dependency upgrades. This release focuses on improving the efficiency of the p2p networking layer, RLP encoding/decoding, and storage performance, resulting in faster processing and reduced resource usage.

Performance & Optimization (Key Highlights)

• p2p/enode: Introduced per-source timeout in FairMix for better connection management, reducing latency issues by @YoshihitoAso [#105]
• p2p, rlp: Optimized RLP encoding/decoding to improve data serialization efficiency, leading to faster blockchain operations by @YoshihitoAso [#107]
• Freezer: Enhanced storage performance for historical data, ensuring better scalability and faster access to archived data by @YoshihitoAso [#112]

Feature Additions

• p2p/nat: Added support for the STUN protocol to improve NAT traversal, enhancing network connectivity by @YoshihitoAso [#102]

Dependency Upgrades

• golang.org/x/crypto: Upgraded from 0.27.0 to 0.31.0 [#96]
• goja: Upgraded to a newer version by @YoshihitoAso [#97]
• golang.org/x/net:
  • Upgraded from 0.29.0 to 0.33.0 [#100]
  • Upgraded from 0.34.0 to 0.36.0 [#115]

Miscellaneous

• Revised Geth version notation for better clarity and maintenance by @YoshihitoAso [#114]

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0

v2.4.0

Hello, ibet members.

This release is a semi-annual regular release.
The release includes various internal improvements.

Improvements

• ibet custom versioning by @YoshihitoAso in #85
• Upgrade Go to 1.23.1 by @YoshihitoAso in #94
• Migrate to urfave/cli/v2 by @YoshihitoAso in #92
• Upgrade golang-set by @YoshihitoAso in #93
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.17.0 to 0.23.0 by @dependabot in #82
• Bump github.com/docker/docker from 24.0.9+incompatible to 25.0.6+incompatible by @dependabot in #84
• Remove pow logic 👋👋👋 by @YoshihitoAso in #87
• go.mod: update a number of dependencies by @YoshihitoAso in #91

Bug fixes

• Fix typo by @YoshihitoAso in #86

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.0

v2.3.0

Hello, ibet members.

This release is a semi-annual regular release.
This release includes several major fixes that will help improve the ibet network.

New features 🚀

• eth, miner: add timeout for building sealing block by @YoshihitoAso in #73 #80
• geth: add new update transitions helper utility by @YoshihitoAso in #71

Improvements

• Update gh workflows by @YoshihitoAso in #69
• Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.30.0 to 1.33.0 by @dependabot in #72
• all: update to go version 1.22.1 by @YoshihitoAso in #76
• Bump github.com/docker/docker from 24.0.7+incompatible to 24.0.9+incompatible by @dependabot in #79

Bug fixes

• fix: memory leak from policy registration by @YoshihitoAso in #68
• fix undefined behavior in BitCurve.Add by @YoshihitoAso in #75

Full Changelog: v2.2.2...v2.3.0

v2.2.2

Improvements

• Bump github.com/docker/docker from 20.10.24+incompatible to 24.0.7+incompatible by @dependabot in #64
• Bump github.com/consensys/gnark-crypto from 0.12.0 to 0.12.1 by @dependabot in #65
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.14.0 to 0.17.0 by @dependabot in #66

Full Changelog: v2.2.1...v2.2.2

v2.2.1

Improvements

• Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.53.0 to 1.56.3 by @dependabot in #61
• Bump github.com/consensys/gnark-crypto from 0.4.1-0.20210426202927-39ac3d4b3f1f to 0.12.0 by @dependabot in #62
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.7.0 to 0.17.0 by @dependabot in #60
• Update codeql.yml by @YoshihitoAso in #63

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.2.1

v2.2.0

Additions and Improvements

• build: update Go to 1.21.0 by @YoshihitoAso in #48, #44
• Support GoQuorum v23.4.0 features by @YoshihitoAso in #42
• Bump 3rd-party libraries in #39, #45, #46

Bug fixes

• Fix incomplete regular expression by @YoshihitoAso in #41
• QBFT: prevent maximum request timeout overflow by @YoshihitoAso in #53
• QBFT: fix chain fork when emptyblockperiodseconds is enabled by @YoshihitoAso in #54
• Fix generating uuid requiring admin account and json rpc number of parameters by @YoshihitoAso in #55
• eth: better active protocol handler tracking by @YoshihitoAso in #57
• Fix Quorum version by @YoshihitoAso in #58

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.2.0

v2.1.0

Changed GoQuorum reference version from v22.4.4 to v22.7.6. In addition, we made the following changes.

Breaking changes ⚠️

• Remove mobile and cmd/puppeth by @YoshihitoAso in #21
• containers: Remove containers/ by @YoshihitoAso in #18
• plugin: Remove insecure TLS cipher suites by @YoshihitoAso in #33

Additions and Improvements

• Bump github.com/btcsuite/btcd from 0.20.1-beta to 0.23.2 by @dependabot in #1
• Activate prune-state cmd by @YoshihitoAso in #8
• Go version upgrade to 1.19 by @YoshihitoAso in #10 #12
• Upgrade gopsutil to v3.21 by @YoshihitoAso in #14
• Replace notify with fsnotify by @YoshihitoAso in #15
• pprof on JSON-RPC by @purplesmoke05 in #22
• Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.0.0 to 1.11.1 by @dependabot in #23
• Bump golang.org/x/text from 0.3.7 to 0.3.8 by @dependabot in #27
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.0.0-20220425223048-2871e0cb64e4 to 0.7.0 by @dependabot in #28
• all: Add golangci-lint and get rid of lint errors by @YoshihitoAso in #29

Bug fixes

• consensus/istanbul: Synchronized processing if emptyBlockPeriod is not set by @YoshihitoAso in #26 #37
• p2p/enode: store local port number as uint16 by @YoshihitoAso in #34

Full Changelog: https://github.com/BoostryJP/quorum/commits/v2.1.0