Release 1.8.0

Blockchain node

• Privacy engine changes:
  • Added support of big privacy data streaming (with PostgreSQL or AmazonS3 storage);
  • Reduced memory consumption of privacy sync;
  • Dropped legacy privacy protocol support (version < 1.7.0).
• Smart-contract updates:
  • Implemented MVCC – multiversion concurrency control. Now it is possible to execute any contracts in parallel with the guarantee of data consistency.
• Performance optimizations:
  • Improved REST and gRPC API responsiveness;
  • Modified transaction propagation mechanism to reduce mining time (sending to miners first);
  • Reduced contract transaction memory consumption.
• Added support of GOST TLS for nodes communication.
• Added new REST and gRPC methods.
• A lot of minor fixes.

Authorization service

• Added token authorization;
• When creating a new user the password reset link will be automatically send to the user`s email;
• A bug with html injection for user feedback has been fixed;
• A bug when switching locales does not affect the emails has been fixed;
• A bug with password validation upon logging in has been fixed.

Crawler

• Added connection id 'crawler_' when connecting to node;
• A bug when starting the service without the GRPC_ADDRESSES env leads to an 'Internal liveliness probe failed' error has been fixed.

Data service

• Added missing routes to Swagger and removed deprecated ones;
• Optimized contacts search query;
• Added possibility to search by atomics child transactions;
• A bug with duplicate keys in the contract state has been fixed;
• A bug when RIDE transactions fields were encoded with base64 has been fixed;
• Fixed possible SQL injections;
• Fixed transactions search by signature;
• Fixed contracts state search query.

Client

• Added token authorization;
• A bug when clicking on "Copy data" on the Users tab copies only address instead of full info has been fixed;
• Fixed minor bugs.