v0.16.1

• Faster Startup and Shutdown Times
• Less Frequent need to reindex due to database corruption
• Operate more efficiently on nodes with less RAM
• Functionality changes
• Add new API calls get_discussions_by_blog(), get_discussions_by_comments()
• Add first_reblogged_by field to get_state reply
• Record both SBD and GOLOS post payouts in author_reward_operation
• Add ability to mine to debug_node
• Expose get_dev_key() function analogous to the get_dev_key binary in debug_node_api
• Fix bug resulting in multicore mining attempting to mine the same nonces on each core
• Transactions downloaded from the network were not always verified when using checkpoints
• Hardfork to forbid long account names in authorities
• Hardfork to forbid using non-existing account names in authorities
• Update mining stats display to provide correct information for pow2 mining
• Fix bugs preventing creation of testnets
• Convert machine-length integer in chain state to fixed-length integer
• Various changes to how Dockerfiles build and run the code
• Remove unused ENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING compile-time constant
• Update newplugin.py for new internal API
• Transactions downloaded from the network were not always verified when using checkpoints
• Softfork to forbid long account names in authorities
• Softfork to forbid using non-existing account names in authorities
• Update mining stats display to provide correct information for pow2 mining
• Convert machine-length integer in chain state to fixed-length integer
• Various changes to how Dockerfiles build and run the code
• Remove some unused code
• Remove unused ENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING compile-time constant