1.0.4

1.0.4 Chia Blockchain 2021-04-12

Added

• Starting approximately April 21, 2021, the GUI will notify you that this version will stop working at block height 193,536 and will persistently warn you from that block on that you can not use this version (or any earlier version) to farm. This is to support the upgrade to the transaction fork.
• We now have translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Australian English, and Pirate. Thanks to @fsavaget, @darkflare, @Maahhh, @harold_257, @kontin, and @gulli. Yarr - don't be losing your 24 word treasure map...

Changed

• The plotter in bitfield mode is much improved in plotting speed (~15% faster than in 1.0.3), now requires 28% less temporary space (238.3 GiB/256 GB), and now uses its maximum memory in phase 1 and only needs 3389MiB for optimal sorting of a k32. Total writes should also be down by about 20%. On almost all machines we expect bitfield to be as fast or faster. For CPUs that predate the Nahalem architecture, bitfield plotting will not work and you will need to use no bitfield. Those CPUs were generally designed before 2010.
• The src directory in chia-blockchian has been changed to chia to avoid namespace collisions.
• GUI install builds have been simplified to rely on one .spec file in chia/
• The weight proof timeout can now be configured in config.yaml.
• Peer discovery is now retried more often after you receive initial peers.

Fixed

• We have made significant improvements and bug fixes to stop blockchain and wallet database corruption issues.
• We now pass the environment into the Daemon and this should solve some Windows and MacOS startup bugs.
• The ARM64 .deb installer will now work well on Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or newer.
• We have made improvements in weight proof generation and saving.
• Wallet start up would have a race condition that output a harmless error on startup.
• Thanks for a typo fix from @alfonsoperez.

1.0.3

1.0.3 Chia Blockchain 2021-03-30

Added

• This is a minor bug fix release for version 1.0.2
• You should review the release notes for v1.0.2 but we especially want to point out that wallet sync is much faster than in 1.0.1 and earlier versions.

Fixed

• An incorrect merge brought in unreleased features and broke chia keys.
• Omitted from the 1.0.2 changelog, we fixed one crash in harvester with the release of chaipos 1.0.0 as well.

1.0.2

1.0.2 Chia Blockchain 2021-03-30

Added

• We have released version 1.0.0 of chiapos. This includes a 20% speed increase for bitfield plotting compared to the previous version on the same machine. In many cases this will mean that bitfield plotting is as fast or faster than non bitfield plotting.
• @xorinox improved our support for RedHat related distributions in install.sh.
• @ayaseen improved our support for RedHat related distributions in install-timelord.sh.
• We have added Dutch and Polish to supported translations. Thanks @PsyDafke, @WesleyvH, @pieterhauwaerts, @bartlomiej.tokarzewski, @abstruso, @feel.the.code, and @Axadiw for contributions to translations on Crowdin.
• The GUI now supports "Exclude final directory" when plotting. This is found in the Advanced Options for step 2 on the plot creation page.

Changed

• Wallet now uses a trusted node and, when syncing from that node, Wallet does not do as many validations.
• @jespino changed chia keys show to require the --show-mnemonic-seed before it displays your 24 work private key mnemonic.
• We decreased the size of the block cache in node to perform better with longer chains.
• You can now add a private key mnemonic from a file with chia keys show.
• @Flofie caught an error in CONTRIBUTING.md.
• We no longer rely on aiter so it has been removed.
• Keyring deprecated the use of OS_X in favor of MacOS.
• "Broken pipe" error was decreased to a warning.
• Many non critical log messages were decreased from warning to info log level.
• Harvester should now log the plot file name if it finds a bad plot at error log level.

Fixed

• Peer ips were being written to the database on a per ip basis. This caused a lot of wasted disk activity and was costing full node performance.
• We fixed an issue where the last block wasn't fetched by the GUI.
• There was an edge case with full node store that can stall syncing.
• There was a potential node locking issue that could have prevented a Timelord from getting a new peak and cause a chain stall.
• We did not correctly support some Crowdin locales. Pirate English was starting to overwrite US English for example.

1.0.1

1.0.1 Chia Blockchain 2021-03-23

Added

• There is now a simple progress bar on the GUI Plot page and when you view the log from the three dots on the right.
• Users must now explicitly set the --show-mnemonic-seed flag to see their private keys when running chia keys show.
• We are now building Linux GUI installers. These should be considered beta quality for now.
• Translations now available for German, Traditional Chinese, and Danish. Thanks to @Dravenex, @MaestroOnICe, @LoudSyncro, @loppefaaret, @thirteenthd, @wong8888, @N418, and @swjz for all the translation help. You to can translate at our Crowdin project.

Changed

• The mainnet genesis is now in the initial config.yaml and the green flag components have been removed.
• Our release process and branching strategy has changed. CONTRIBUTING.md will be updated in the main branch soon with details.
• This mainnet release does not migrate previous testnet configuration files.

Fixed

• Weight proofs, especially wallet weight proofs were failing when some Blueboxed proofs of time were encountered.
• Users can now pip install e.g. chia-blockchain==1.0.1 on most platforms.
• Sometimes the GUI had an error regarding MainWindow.

1.0.0

1.0.0 First Release of Chia Blockchain 2021-03-17

Added

• This is the first production release of the Chia Blockchain. This can be installed and will wait for the green flag that will be dropped at approximately 7AM PDST (14:00 UTC) on Friday March 19, 2021. All farming rewards from that point forward will be considered valid and valuable XCH. There is a six week lock on all transactions. During those six weeks farmers will be earning their farming rewards but those rewards can not be spent.
• Initial difficulty will be set for 100PB. This may mean the initial epoch may be slow. Mainnet difficulty resets are targeted for 24 hours so this difficulty will adjust to the actual space brought online in 24 to 48 hours after launch.
• Addresses starting with txch (testnet addresses) are NOT valid on mainnet, so make sure to set up your rewards target only to mainnet (xch) addresses.
• Transactions are not enabled in the 1.0.0 version and will be soft forked in during the six week period via a 1.1.0 release.
• There will also be a 1.0.1 release after the green flag process is complete to simplify install for new users by removing the green flag alert. In the interim there will be new testnet releases using the 1.1bx version scheme.
• Starting with release 1.0.0 you usually no longer need to upgrade and 1.0.1 will be fully optional. However you will have to upgrade to 1.1 after it is out and before the six week period ends. We plan to give plenty of time between those two events up to and including pushing back the transaction start date by a short period of time.
• Thank you to @L3Sota for adding a Japanese translation via our Crowdin project.
• The generation of CoinIDs is now unique on mainnet to avoid testnet transaction replays.
• Validation of transactions will now fail after the expiration of the six week period.

Changed

• Weight proof request timeout was increased to 180 seconds.
• Mainnet uses port 8444 and other constants and service names were changed for mainnet.
• GUI locales are now extracted and compiled in npm run build.
• Daemon now logs to STDERR also.

Fixed

• GUI plotting on some Macs was not working due to locale issues with Click.
• Thank you @L3Sota for bringing this log back into 2021.
• The errant warning on Electron startup has been removed. Thanks @dkackman.

Note: while the client is waiting for the green flag, new plots will not show up on the GUI or with chia farm summary. To see new plots, restart the GUI or do chia start harvester -r.

1.0rc9

1.0rc9 aka Release Candidate 9 - 2020-03-16

Changed

• This is a hard fork/breaking change from RC6/7/8. The current plan is to drop the flag at noon pacific time, today 3/16.
• Using the real prefarm keys for this test

Fixed

• Found and fixed another green flag related issue
• Fixed an issue with weight proofs where all sub-epochs were sampled, and the size of the weight proof kept growing
• Fixed an issue with install-gui.sh, where npm audit fix was failing. (Thanks @Depado!)
• Migration with CHIA_ROOT set does not crash chia init

1.0rc8

1.0rc8 aka Release Candidate 8 - 2020-03-15

Added

• This is a hard fork/breaking change from RC6/7. TXCH Coins will not be moved forward but your plots and keys and parts of your configuration do. When you install this version before 10AM PDST on 3/16/2021 it will load up, start finding peers, and otherwise wait for the flag drop at that time to start farming. This is likely to be the last dress rehearsal for mainnet launch. Our 3/15/2021 blog post has more details on the current mainnet launch plan.
• The GUI now has a tooltip that directs users to the explanation of the plot filter.
• The GUI now has a tooltip to explain the "Disable bitfield plotting" option. Thanks @shaneo257 for the idea.
• The GUI now has a tooltip to explain Hierarchical Deterministic keys next to Receive Address on the Wallet page.

Changed

• We now use Python 3.9 to build MacOS installers.
• Harvester now catches another error class and continues to harvest. Thanks to @xorinox for this PR.
• We now use a smaller weight proof sample size to ease the load on smaller machines when syncing.
• Starting the GUI from Linux will now also error out if npm run build is run outside the venv. Huge thanks to @dkackman for that PR.
• chia farm summary will now display TXCH or XCH as appropriate.
• We added more time to our API timeouts and improved logging around times outs.

Fixed

• We no longer use the transaction cache to look up transactions for new transactions as that was causing a wallet sync bug.
• Sometimes the GUI would not pick up the fingerprint for the plotting key.
• chia farm summary displayed some incorrect amounts.
• Weight proofs were timing out.
• Changes to farming rewards target addresses from the GUI were not being saved for restart correctly.
• Signage points, recent deficit blocks, and slots for overflow challenge blocks had minor issues.

1.0rc7

1.0rc7 aka Release Candidate 7 - 2020-03-13

Changed

• Our green flag test blockchain launch worked but it uncovered a flaw in our installer versions. This release is a bug fix release to address that flaw. You should read the RC6 changes below if this is your first time installing since RC5.
• Thanks to @dkackman for implementing an early exit of the GUI if you run npm run build without being in the venv.
• chia netspace now defaults to 1000 blocks to mirror the GUI.
• The installer build process was spruced up some.

Fixed

• Setting difficulty way too low on the testnet_6 launch revealed a Timelord edge case. The full node was hardcoding the default difficulty if block height is < EPOCH_BLOCKS. However there were many overlapping blocks, so none of the blocks reached the height, and therefore the timelord infused the wrong difficulty.
• Fixed a race condition in the Timelord, where it took time to update the state, so it ignored the new_peak_timelord form the full_node, which should have reset the timelord to a good state.
• Wallet notoriously showed "not synced" when it was in sync.
• Installers were not correctly placing root TLS certificates into the bundle.
• Weight proofs had a logic typo.
• There was a typo in chia netspace. Thanks @altendky.
• There was a typo in chia plots. Thanks @AdamFiddler.

Known Issues

• Some users can't plot in the GUI in MacOS Big Sur - especially on M1. See issue 1189

1.0rc6

1.0rc6 aka Release Candidate 6 - 2020-03-11

Added

• This is a hard fork/breaking change from RC5. TXCH Coins will not be moved forward but your plots and keys and parts of your configuration do. We will be testing the final mainnet release strategy with the launch of RC6. For the test, those who are comfortable running the dev branch will update and start up their farms. All harvesters and plots will load and until the green flag drops, peers will be gossiped so your farm can establish good network connectivity. When the flag drops, each node will pull down the signed genesis challenge and start farming. Block 1 will be broadcast to anyone who hasn't seen the flag drop yet. The only difference for mainnet is that there will be 1.0 installers and a main branch release more than 24 hours before the real green flag.
• There is now basic plot queueing functionality in the GUI. By default, plotting works as it has in the past. However you can now name a queue in Step 2 Advanced Options. Chose something like first. Everything you add to the first queue will start up like it has in the past but now you can go through the steps again and create a queue named second and it will immediately start plotting as if it is unaware of and parallel with first. A great use case is that you would set first to plot 5 plots sequentially and then you'd set second to plot 5 sequentially and that would give you two parallel queues of 5 plot's each. We will be returning to plotting speed and UI soon. Thanks @jespino for this clever work around for now.
• There is now an option on the Farm page to manage your farming rewards receive addresses. This makes it easy to send your farming rewards to an offline wallet. This also checks your existing rewards addresses and warns if you do not have the matching private key. That is expected if you are using an offline wallet of course.
• Functionally has been added to the farmer rpc including checking and changing your farming rewards target addresses.
• Added the ability to translate material-ui components like Row 1 of 10. Thanks @jespino.
• Arch linux support has been added to sh install.sh. Thanks @jespino.
• Update FullBlock to Allow Generator References - a list of block heights of generators to be made available to the block program of the current block at generator runtime. This sets the stage for smart coins calling existing "libraries" already on the chain to lower fees and increase the scale of complex smart coins.

Changed

• Remove chia plots "-s" "--stripe_size" and the strip size setting in the Advanced section of the GUI. We now always use the best default of 64K for the GUI and cli.
• chia keys add takes secret words a prompt on the command line or stdin instead of command line arguments for security.
• Version 1.0.1 of chiavdf was added. This brought MPIR on Windows to the most recent release. Additionally we removed inefficient ConvertIntegerToBytes() and ConvertBytesToInt() functions, use GMP library's mpz_export/mpz_import for big integers and simple helper functions for built-in integer types. The latter are taken from chiavdf. We now require compressed forms to be encoded canonically when deserializing. This should prevent potential grinding attacks where some non-canonical encodings of a compressed form could be used to change its hash and thus the next challenges derived from it. Canonically encoded compressed forms must be reduced and must produce the same string when deserialized and serialized again.
• Version 1.0 of our BLS signature library is included. We brought Relic, gmp and MPIR up to their most recent releases. We again thank the Dash team for their fixes and improvements.
• We now hand build Apple Silicon native binary wheels for all chia-blockchain dependencies and host them at https://pypi.chia.net/simple. We are likely to hand build a MacOS ARM64 dmg available and certainly will for 1.0. You can install natively on M1 now with the git clone developer method today. Just make sure Python 3.9 is installed. python3 --version works.
• The GUI now shows you which network you are connected to on the Full Node page. It will also wait patiently for the green flag to drop on a network launch.
• In the GUI you can only plot k=32 or larger with the single exception of k=25 for testing. You will have to confirm choosing k=25 however. Thanks to @jespino for help on this and limiting the cli as well.
• The restore smart wallets from backup prompt has been improved to better get the intent across and that it can be skipped.
• At the top of the plotting wizard we have added text pointing out that you can plot without being in sync or on the internet.
• Wallet no longer automatically creates a new hierarchical deterministic wallet receive address on each start. You can and still should choose a new one with the NEW ADDRESS button for each new transaction for privacy.
• The network maximum k size is now set to k=50. We think that may be more storage than atoms in the solar system so it should be ok. But we will probably be hated for it in 200 years...
• The formula for computing iterations is simplified, so that only one division is necessary, and inverting the (1-x) into just x.
• There are new timestamp consensus rules. A block N must have a greater timestamp than block N-1. Also, a block's timestamp cannot be more than 5 minutes in the future. Note that we have decided that work factor difficulty resets are now going to be 24 hours on mainnet but are still shorter on testnet.
• A List[Tuple[uint16, str]] is added to the peer network handshake. These are the capabilities that the node supports, to add new features to the protocol in an easy - soft fork - manner. The message_id is now before the data in each message.
• Peer gossip limits were set.
• Generators have been re-worked in CLVM. We added a chialisp deserialization puzzle and improved the low-level generator. We reduce the accepted atom size to 1MB during ChiaLisp native deserialization.
• When processing mempool transactions, Coin IDs are now calculated from parent coin ID and amount
• We implemented rate limiting for full node. This can and will lead to short term bans of certain peers that didn't behave in expected ways. This is ok and normal, but strong defense against many DDOS attacks.
• requirements-dev.txt has been removed in favor of the CI actions and test scripts.
• We have moved to a new and much higher scalability download.chia.net to support the mainnet launch flag and additional download demand.
• To always get the latest testnet and then mainnet installers you can now use a latest URL: Windows and MacOS x86_64.
• Chia wheels not on Pypi and some dependecies not found there also are now on pypi.chia.net.
• Additional typing has been added to the Python code with thanks to @jespino.
• Cryptography and Keyring have been bumped to their current releases.
• PRs and commits to the chia-blockchain-gui repository will automatically have their locales updated.

Fixed

• The Farm page will now no longer get stuck at 50 TXCH farmed.
• chia farm has had multiple bugs and spelling issues addressed. Thanks to @alfonsoperez, @soulmerge and @olivernyc for your contributions.
• chia wallet had various bugs.
• Various weight proof improvements.
• Some users on Big Sur could not plot from the GUI as the log window would be stuck on "Loading."
• We believe we have fixed the chain stall/confused Timelord bug from ~ 13:00 UTC 3/10/21. We've added additional recovery logic as well.
• Logs from receiving a duplicate compacted Proof of Time are much more human friendly.
• We believe that the install/migrate process was bringing forward bad farming rewards receive addresses. We have attempted to stop that by only migrating RC3 and newer configurations. You can make sure you are not effected by using the Manage Farming Rewards tool mentioned above or putting a known good wallet receive address in both xch_target_address sections of config.yaml.
• Wallet cached transactions incorrectly in some cases.

1.0rc5

Added

• The RC5 release is a new breaking change/hard fork blockchain. Plots and keys from previous chains will work fine on RC5 but balances of TXCH will not come forward.
• We now support a "green flag" chain launch process. A new version of the software will poll download.chia.net/notify/ for a signed json file that will be the genesis block of the chain for that version. This will allow unattended start at mainnet.
• Bluebox Timelords are back. These are Timelords most anyone can run. They search through the historical chain and find large proofs of times and compact them down to their smallest representation. This significantly speeds up syncing for newly started nodes. Currently this is only supported on Linux and MacOS x86_64 but we will expand that. Any desktop or server of any age will be fast enough to be a useful Bluebox Timelord.
• Thanks to @jespino there is now chia farm show. You can now get almost exactly the same farming information on the CLI as the GUI.
• We have added Romanian to the GUI translations. Thank you to @bicilis on Crowdin. We also added a couple of additional target languages. Klingon anyone?
• chia wallet now takes get_address to get a new wallet receive address from the CLI.
• chia plots check will list out all the failed plot filenames at the end of the report. Thanks for the PR go to @eFishCent.
• Chialisp and the clvm have had the standard puzzle updated and we replaced ((c P A)) with (a P A).

Changed

• Testnets and mainnet now set their minimum k size and enforce it. RC5 testnet will reject plots of size less than k=32.
• Sub slots now require 16 blocks instead of 12.
• Thanks to @xdustinface of Dash, the BlS Signature library has been updated to 0.9 with clean ups and some speed ups. This changed how the G2 infinity element was handled and we now manage it inside of chia-blockchain, etc., instead of in blspy.
• We have updated the display of peer nodes and moved adding a peer to it's own pop up in the GUI.
• Block searching in the GUI has been improved.
• @jespino added i18n support and refactored how locales are loaded in the GUI. Additionally he moved more strings into the translation infrastructure for translators.
• In chiavdf we changed n-Wesolowski proofs to include B instead of y in segments. Proof segments now have the form (iters, B, proof) instead of (iters, y, proof). This reduces proof segment size from 208 to 141 bytes.
• The new chiavdf proof format is not compatible with the old one, however zero-Wesolowski proofs are not affected as they have zero proof segments and consist only of (y, proof).
• We made two HashPrime optimizations in chiavdf. This forces numbers being tested for primality to be odd and avoids an unnecessary update of the sprout vector by stopping after the first non-zero value. This is a breaking change as it changes the prime numbers generated from a given seed. We believe this is the final breaking change for chiavdf.
• chiabip158 was set to a gold 1.0 version.
• Comments to Chialisp and clvm source have been updated for all of the Chialisp changes over the proceeding three weeks.
• And thanks yet again to @jespino for a host of PRs to add more detailed typing to various components in chia-blockchain.
• aiohttp was updated to 3.7.4 to address a low severity security issue.
• calccrypto/uint128_t was updated in the Windows chiapos implementation. Chiapos required some changes its build process to support MacOS ARM64.

Fixed

• Harvester would crash if it encountered more than 16,000 plot files or 256 directories.
• Nodes that were interrupted by a network crash or standby on a laptop were not syncing upon reconnection in RC4.
• Sync issues could stop syncing from restarting and could lead to a peer host that you could not remove.
• Adding Click changed the behavior of chia keys add -m. The help now makes it clear that the 24 word mnemonic needs to be surrounded by a pair of quotes.
• Python root CA certificates have issues so we have added the Mozilla certificate store via curl.se and use that to connect to backup.chia.net via https, for example.
• The difficulty adjustment calculation was simplified.
• All of the chia sub repositories that were attempting to build MacOS Universal wheels were only generating x86_64 wheels internally. We have moved back to only generating x86_64 MacOS wheels on CI.
• However, we have updated and test compiled all Chia dependencies on Apple Silicon and will be making available a test .dmg for MacOS ARM64 shortly.
• Various weight proof edge cases have been fixed.
• Various typos and style clean ups were made to the Click CLI implementation. chia -upnp f was added to disable uPnP.
• chia plots check shouldn't crash when encountering plots that cause RuntimeError. PR again thanks to @eFishCent.
• Coloured coin announcements had a bug that would allow counterfeiting.