Release 0.14.3 brings many incremental improvements over 0.14.2. It does not break consensus; 0.14, 0.14.1, and 0.14.2 nodes are compatible with 0.14.3 nodes.
This marks the beginning of a per-sprint release cycle. Release notes will be shorter between releases, since new releases will be scheduled every two to three weeks.
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Gaia Performance Improvements. The read and write paths of Gaia have been refactored to run many I/O operations in parallel. This leads to faster data interaction times, even for indexed storage systems like Dropbox.
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Support for Fast Registrations. This release adds an
unsafeattribute to registration requests which, when enabled, directs core's registrar to issue the blockstack transactions preorder, register, and update, with only 4, 1, and 1 confirmations respectively. To support this, core must ignore some of the safety checks, because our resolvers will not have processed the name before the update is issued. -
Better Packaging for Test Mode. This release makes it easier to get started testing Blockstack Core and Blockstack Browser alongside a Bitcoin node in
regtestmode. Developers can register names and interact with storage without having to spend Bitcoin or wait hours for names to be registered.
More information on bugfixes can be found in GitHub issues (#454-#488 span this release).
- Improved performance of price checks
- Added zero confirmation balance checks
- In regtest, core will rewrite testnet adddresses so that browser does not need to "understand" testnet addresses
- Fixed bad behavior of setting temporary wallet keys
- Support for logging in without blockchain ID
- Issue #469 : Blockstack Core used to die in error cases when it should be able to fail more gracefully. This release fixes several such cases.