Aion v.0.1.18 for March Lastweek testnet.

This is mandatory binary update for test net after Mar 29 6PM.

New build: please double check the revision number

Aion v0.1.17

Revert pending state update optimization; revert snapshotAll()

Aion v0.1.16

pool/miners must be upgraded to v0.1.10 for the new kernel version

Changelog:

• P2p/syncing bufixes
• Transaction pool and transaction propagation bugfixes
• Add database clean up
• Update node id generator
• Fix INVALID_NONCE issue
• Update timestamp each Equihash iteration
• Index database keys support for both int and long
• Re-enforce block timestamp rule
• Implement a tx cache layer for tx propagation

Aion v0.1.15 for March 3nd week public test net

Binary will be available after test net stability confirmation.

Database:

• Cleanup, additional functionality for automatic conversion when using database from old kernel version
• Improvements regarding message logging and handling of missing blocks
• Added command line functionality for database in order to remove blocks on side chains
• Updating block information and recomputing total difficulty (helps in case of database corruption)
• Removes all blocks from older levels on revert call

Fixed Bugs:

• Fixed deadlock issue in pendingTxPool and txPool
• Update for synchronizing flush method, fixed ConcurrentModificationException - BlkHdr exception

Enhancements:

• Updated clock drift tolerance to 1 second
• Udpated ant build, and refined version managing
• JSON-RPC calls for returning list of all blocks present at a certain number/height and which block is currently selected as the main blockchain
• Implementation of RPC function: debug_getBlocksByNumber(blockNum, fullTransaction)
• Config and CLI update: keeping seed nodes when creating new config.xml
• Removing sync logging
• P2P pattern refactoring and updates
• Ip to bytes conversion refactoring
• Logging of heap cache stats to monitor behaviour
• Improve handshake by adding version exchange

Aion v0.1.14 for March 2nd week public test net

Aion community please update your kernel with this release for period March 5 - 11.

• fix various p2p/syncing issues
• implement upnp
• update status dump
• fix nonce manager and LRUMap issues
• optimize EquiValidator
• modularize fastvm

how to recover from sidechain
please check how-to-recover-from-sidechain wiki
https://github.com/aionnetwork/aion/wiki/how-to-recover-from-sidechain

Aion v0.1.13 for public testnet release.

• Revised account unlock time logic
• Update and refactor P2P module
• Decoupling block propogation from SyncMgr
• Added batch data retrieval in Java API
• Code clean-up, bug fixes, and improved recovery functionality
• BlockInfo serialization change (default to RLP)
• Database caching and compression as defaults