5.0.0.0-Mandatory

[5.0.0.0] 2020-09-03, mandatory, "Fern"

Added

• Backport newer uint256 types from Bitcoin #1570 (@cyrossignol)
• Implement project level rain for rainbymagnitude #1580 (@jamescowens)
• Upgrade utilities (Update checker and snapshot downloader/application) #1576 (@iFoggz)
• Provide fees collected in the block by the miner #1601 (@iFoggz)
• Add support for generating legacy superblocks from scraper stats #1603 (@cyrossignol)
• Port of the Bitcoin Logger to Gridcoin #1600 (@jamescowens)
• Implement zapwallettxes #1605 (@jamescowens)
• Implements a global event filter to suppress help question mark #1609 (@jamescowens)
• Add next target difficulty to RPC output #1615 (@cyrossignol)
• Add caching for block hashes to CBlock #1624 (@cyrossignol)
• Make toolbars and tray icon red for testnet #1637 (@jamescowens)
• Add an rpc call convergencereport #1643 (@jamescowens)
• Implement newline filter on config file read in #1645 (@jamescowens)
• Implement beacon status icon/button #1646 (@jamescowens)
• Add gridcointestnet.png #1649 (@caraka)
• Add precision to support magnitudes less than 1 #1651 (@cyrossignol)
• Replace research accrual calculations with superblock snapshots #1657 (@cyrossignol)
• Publish example gridcoinresearch.conf as a md document to the doc directory #1662 (@jamescowens)
• Add options checkbox to disable transaction notifications #1666 (@jamescowens)
• Add support for self-service beacon deletion #1695 (@cyrossignol)
• Add support for type-specific contract fee amounts #1698 (@cyrossignol)
• Add verifiedbeaconreport and pendingbeaconreport #1696 (@jamescowens)
• Add preliminary testing option for block v11 height on testnet #1706 (@cyrossignol)
• Add verified beacons manifest part to superblock validator #1711 (@cyrossignol)
• Implement beacon, vote, and superblock display categories/icons in UI transaction model #1717 (@jamescowens)
• neuralnet: Add integrity checking to researcher accrual snapshot registry #1727 (@jamescowens)
• Add workaround for scrypt assembly on macOS #1740 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Build onboarding/beacon wizard #1739 (@cyrossignol)
• doc: Add CONTRIBUTING.md from bitcoin #1723 (@div72)
• rpc: Implement inspectaccrualsnapshot and parseaccrualsnapshotfile #1744 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Add disk based state backing for verified beacon list in scraper #1751 (@jamescowens)
• Add ability to recover beacon in block version 11+ #1768 (@cyrossignol)
• refactor: Add transaction context to contract handlers #1777 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Add context for when BOINC is attached to a pool #1775 (@cyrossignol)
• doc: Clarify what to do if PR in multiple categories (for CONTRIBUTING.md) #1798 (@RoboticMind)
• qt: Add option to choose not to start the wallet minimized #1804 (@jamescowens)
• superblock: Add check for OutOfSyncByAge to SuperblockValidator::Validate #1806 (@jamescowens)
• contract: Standardize contract validation and add block context #1808 (@cyrossignol)
• add seed.gridcoin.pl to default config #1812 (@wilkart)
• gui: Implement sidestake send display #1813 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Add pool/investor pages to researcher wizard #1819 (@cyrossignol)
• ci: Port lint scripts from Bitcoin #1823 (@div72)
• doc: Create basic readme in contrib #1826 (@RoboticMind)
• gui: Implement TransactionRecord::Message #1829 (@jamescowens)
• rpc: Add private_key_available to beaconstatus #1833 (@a123b)
• gui: Validate email address in researcher wizard #1840 (@a123b)
• rpc: Add "getrawwallettransaction" RPC function #1842 (@cyrossignol)
• consensus: Set block version 11 threshold height for mainnet #1862 (@cyrossignol)

Changed

• Upgrade LevelDB from v1.17 to v1.20 #1562 (@cyrossignol)
• Re-enable scrypt optimizations #1450 (@denravonska)
• Derive CScript from prevector type (optimization) #1554 (@cyrossignol)
• Disable quorum for grandfathered blocks to speed up sync #1568 (@cyrossignol)
• Refactor hashBoinc for binary claim contexts #1558 (@cyrossignol)
• integrated_scraper_2 branch tracking PR #1559 (@jamescowens)
• Upgrade depends - OpenSSL to 1.1.1d #1581 (@jamescowens)
• Ubuntu 19.10 fixes #1590 (@denravonska)
• Force a re-parse of legacy claims in generated blocks #1592 (@cyrossignol)
• Improve the "versionreport" RPC output #1595 (@cyrossignol)
• Overhaul the core tally and accrual system #1583 (@cyrossignol)
• Overhaul the superblock quorum system #1597 (@cyrossignol)
• Add more data to the "superblocks" RPC output #1599 (@cyrossignol)
• Update Windows Build doc #1606 (@barton2526)
• Change the order of calls in gridcoinresearchd.cpp to optimize rpc shunt path #1610 (@jamescowens)
• Change staking tooltip to display frequency #1611 (@jamescowens)
• Enhancements to ETTS #1442 (@jamescowens)
• Standardize money values as integers #1614 (@cyrossignol)
• Clean up and optimize legacy coin age code #1616 (@cyrossignol)
• Some scraper cleanups #1620 (@jamescowens)
• Reorganize accrual code and fix 6-month cutoff #1630 (@cyrossignol)
• Update Copyright years #1633 (@barton2526)
• Change team whitelist delimiter to <> for CPID detection #1634 (@cyrossignol)
• Change team whitelist separator to <> to accomodate more team names #1632 (@jamescowens)
• Change Curl download speed type to support older environments #1640 (@cyrossignol)
• Optimize logo SVGs used for tray icons #1638 (@cyrossignol)
• Tweak consolidateunspent rpc function #1644 (@jamescowens)
• ETTS and staking icon enhancements #1650 (@jamescowens)
• Implement new transaction fees for block version 11 #1652 (@jamescowens)
• Optimize in-memory storage of superblock data #1653 (@cyrossignol)
• Miscellaneous superblock API improvements and housekeeping #1654 (@cyrossignol)
• Update openssl to 1.1.1f compatibility #1660 (@jamescowens)
• Optimize bdb to avoid synchronous flush of database #1659 (@jamescowens)
• Add support for CPID input to "lifetime" RPC function #1668 (@cyrossignol)
• Overhaul the contract handling system #1669 (@cyrossignol)
• Make the autostart mainnet/testnet aware #1671 (@jamescowens)
• Remove slashes from User Agent in peers tab #1674 (@div72)
• Refactor contracts for polymorphic binary payloads #1676 (@cyrossignol)
• Overhaul the beacon system #1678 (@cyrossignol)
• Replace boost::optional<T&> with non-owning pointers #1680 (@cyrossignol)
• Optimize proof-of-stake validation #1681 (@cyrossignol)
• Updated Slack link #1683 (@NeuralMiner)
• Update build-unix.md #1686 (@Quezacoatl1)
• Replace deprecated QT methods #1693 (@Pythonix)
• Made protocol.h more similar to bitcoin #1688 (@Pythonix)
• Touch up some details for block version 11 #1697 (@cyrossignol)
• More tweaks for block version 11 #1700 (@cyrossignol)
• Finish the conversion to the BCLog class based logger #1699 (@jamescowens)
• Move claim version transitional code in miner for proper signature #1712 (@cyrossignol)
• doc: Update threads in coding.txt #1730 (@div72)
• qt: Include QPainterPath in trafficgraphwidget.cpp #1733 (@div72)
• doc: Update doc/build-unix.md #1731 (@div72)
• gui: Show peers tab on connections icon click #1734 (@div72)
• refactor: Change return type of IsMine to isminetype && move wallet files to wallet directory #1722 (@div72)
• build: Updates boost to 1.73.0 for depends #1673 (@jamescowens)
• doc: Update Unit Test Readme #1743 (@RoboticMind)
• wallet: Change Assert To Error Message In kernel.cpp #1748 (@RoboticMind)
• scraper: Shorten display representation of verification codes #1754 (@cyrossignol)
• log: Change ".B." to Clear Message #1758 (@RoboticMind)
• util: Fix braindamage in GetDefaultDataDir() #1737 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Improve scraper processing of beacon verifications #1760 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Add instrumentation to convergencereport #1763 (@jamescowens)
• rpc: Improve rpc stress test script #1767 (@tunisiano187)
• Generalize enum serialization #1770 (@cyrossignol)
• scraper: Improve handling of ETags in http class and tweak verified beacon logic #1776 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Improve ProcessNetworkWideFromProjectStats and other tweaks #1778 (@jamescowens)
• researcher: Automate beacon advertisement for renewals only #1781 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Tweak behavior of beacon page in researcher wizard #1784 (@cyrossignol)
• Prepare for block version 11 hard-fork on testnet #1787 (@cyrossignol)
• scraper: Modify UpdateVerifiedBeaconsFromConsensus #1791 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Optimize OverviewPage::updateTransactions() #1794 (@jamescowens)
• ci: Adopt ci changes from Bitcoin #1795 (@div72)
• consensus: switch snapshot accrual calculation to integer arithmetic #1799 (@cyrossignol)
• voting: Overhaul the voting system #1809 (@cyrossignol)
• contract: Optimize contract replay after chain reorganization #1815 (@cyrossignol)
• contract: Reimplement transaction messages as contracts #1816 (@cyrossignol)
• staking: Sign claim contracts with coinstake transaction #1817 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Change research wizard text #1820 (@div72)
• net: Update protocol version and clean up net messaging #1824 (@cyrossignol)
• rpc, wallet: Corrections to GetAmounts #1825 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Tweak some minor researcher wizard details #1830 (@cyrossignol)
• gui: Change GetEstimatedStakingFrequency text #1836 (@jamescowens)
• scraper: Scraper global statistics cache optimization #1837 (@jamescowens)
• doc: Update Vulnerability Response Process #1843 (@RoboticMind)
• scraper: Optimization of manifest and parts sharing between ConvergedScraperStatsCache, mapManifest, and mapParts #1851 (@jamescowens)
• consensus: Update Checkpoints #1855 (@barton2526)
• docs: Update docs to build off master #1856 (@barton2526)
• gui: Fix and improve GUI combo box styles #1858 (@cyrossignol)
• build: Tweak Gridcoin installer for Fern release #1863 (@jamescowens)

Removed

• Remove old re...

4.0.6.0-Leisure

[4.0.6.0] 2019-10-22, leisure, "Ernestine"

Added

• Add testnet desktop launcher action for Linux #1516 (@caraka)
• Shuffle vSideStakeAlloc if necessary to support sidestaking to more than 6 destinations #1532 (@jamescowens)
• New Superblock format preparations for Fern #1526, #1542 (@jamescowens, @cyrossignol)
• Multisigtools
  • Consolidate multisig unspent #1529 (@iFoggz)
  • Scanforunspent #1547 (@iFoggz)
  • consolidatemsunspent and scanforunspent bug fix #1561 (@iFoggz)
• New banning misbehavior handling and Peers Tab on Debug Console #1537 (@jamescowens)
• Reimplement getunconfirmedbalance rpc #1548 (@jamescowens)
• Add CLI switch to display binary version #1553 (@cyrossignol)

Changed

• Select smallest coins for contracts #1519 (@iFoggz)
• Move some functionality from miner to SelectCoinsForStaking + Respect the coin reserve setting + Randomize UTXO order #1525 (@iFoggz)
• For voting - if url does not contain http then add it #1531 (@iFoggz)
• Backport newer serialization facilities from Bitcoin #1535 (@cyrossignol)
• Refactor ThreadSocketHandler2() Inactivity checks #1538 (@iFoggz)
• Update outdated checkpoints #1539 (@barton2526)
• Change needed to build Gridcoin for OSX using homebrew #1540 (@Git-Jiro)
• Optimize scraper traffic for expiring manifests #1542 (@jamescowens)
• Move legacy neural vote warnings to debug log level #1560 (@cyrossignol)
• Change banlist save interval to 5 minutes #1564 (@jamescowens)
• Change default rpcconsole.ui window size to better support new Peers tab #1566 (@jamescowens)

Removed

• Remove deprecated RSA weight and legacy kernel #1507 (@cyrossignol)

Fixed

• Clean up compiler warnings #1521 (@cyrossignol)
• Handle missing external CPID in client_state.xml #1530 (@cyrossignol)
• Support boost 1.70+ #1533 (@iFoggz)
• Fix diagnostics failed to make connection to NTP server #1545 (@Git-Jiro)
• Install manpages in correct system location #1546 (@Git-Jiro)
• Fix ability to show help and version without a config file #1553 (@cyrossignol)
• Refactor QT UI variable names to be more consistent, Fix Difficulty default #1563 (@barton2526)
• Fix two regressions in previous UI refactor #1565 (@barton2526)
• Fix "Owed" amount in output of "magnitude" RPC method #1569 (@cyrossignol)

4.0.5.0-Leisure

Added

• Add freedesktop.org desktop file and icon set #1438 (@a123b)
• Add warning in help for blockchain scan for importprivkey #1469 (@jamescowens)
• Consolidateunspent rpc function #1472 (@jamescowens)
• Scraper 2.0 improvements #1481, #1488, #1509, and #1514 (@jamescowens, @cyrossignol)
  • explorer mode operation
  • simplified explainmagnitude output
  • improved convergence reporting, including scraper information in the tooltip when fDebug3 is set
  • improved statistics and SB contract core caching based on a bClean flag in the cache global
  • new SB format and packing for bv11
  • new SB contract hashing (native) for bv11
  • changes to accomodate new beacon approach
  • Implement in memory versioning for team file ETags
• Implement local dynamic team requirement removal and whitelist #1502 (@cyrossignol)

Changed

• Quiet logging for getmininginfo and scraper INFO logging level #1460 (@jamescowens)
• Spelling corrections #1461, #1462 (@caraka)
• Update crypto module #1453 (@denravonska)
• Update .travis.yml for Bionic #1475 (@jamescowens)
• Create CPID classes and clean up CPID code #1477 (@cyrossignol)
• Refactor researcher context and CPID harvesting #1480 (@cyrossignol)
  • Remove boinckey export RPC method and import handler
• Notify when wallet locked in advertisebeacon RPC method #1504 (@cyrossignol)
• Notify when wallet locked in beaconstatus RPC method #1506 (@cyrossignol)
• Change spacer minimum height hint #1511 (@jamescowens)

Removed

• Remove safe mode #1434 (@denravonska)
• Remove bitcoin.moc in Makefile.qt.include #1444 (@RoboticMind)
• Clean up legacy Proof-of-Work functions #1497 (@cyrossignol)

Fixed

• Constrain walletpassphrase to 10000000 seconds #1459 (@jamescowens)
• Straighten out localization in the scraper. #1471 (@jamescowens)
• Quick fix for rainbymagnitude #1473 (@jamescowens)
• Correct negation error in scraper tooltip for vScrapersNotPublishing #1484 (@jamescowens)
• Fix staked block rejection when active researcher #1485 (@cyrossignol)
• Add back informational magnitude to generated blocks #1489 (@cyrossignol)
• Add back in the in sync check in ScraperGetNeuralContract #1492 (@jamescowens)
• Scraper correct team file processing. #1501 (@jamescowens)
• Have importwallet file path default to datadir #1508 (@jamescowens)
• Scraper add Beacon Map size check to ensure convergence #1515 (@jamescowens)

4.0.4.0-Leisure

Fixed

• Adds back the new user wizard inadvertently removed #1464 (@jamescowens).
• Repair scraper team filtering #1466 (@jamescowens)

4.0.3.0-Leisure

Added

• Replace NeuralNetwork with portable C++ scraper #1387 (@jamescowens,
  @tomasbrod, @Cycy, @TheCharlatan, @denravonska).
• Allow compile flags to be used for depends #1423 (@G-UK).
• Add stake splitting and side staking info to getmininginfo #1424
  (@jamescowens).
• Add freedesktop.org desktop file and icon set #1438 (@a123b).

Changed

• Disable Qt for windows Travis builds #1276 (@TheCharlatan).
• Replace use of AppCache PROJECT section with strongly-typed structures #1415
  (@cyrossignol).
• Change dumpwallet to use appropriate data directory #1416 (@jamescowens).
• Optimize ExtractXML() calls by avoiding unnecessary string copies #1419
  (@cyrossignol).
• Change signature of IsLockTimeWithinMinutes #1422 (@jamescowens).
• Restore old poll output for getmininginfo RPC #1437 (@a123b).
• Prevent segfault when using rpc savescraperfilemanifest #1439 (@jamescowens).
• Improve miner status messages for ineligible staking balances #1447
  (@cyrossignol).
• Enhance scraper log archiving #1449 (@jamescowens).

Fixed

• Re-enable full GUI 32-bit Windows builds - part of #1387 (@jamescowens).
• Re-activate Windows Installer #1409 (@TheCharlatan).
• Fix Depends and Travis build issues for ARM #1417 (@jamescowens).
• Fix syncupdate icons #1421 (@jamescowens).
• Fix potential BOINC crash when reading projects #1426 (@cyrossignol).
• Fix freeze when unlocking wallet #1428 (@denravonska).
• Fix RPC after high priority alert #1432 (@denravonska).
• Fix missing poll in GUI when most recent poll expired #1455 (@cyrossignol).

Removed

• Remove old, rudimentary side staking implementation #1381 (@denravonska).
• Remove auto unlock #1402 (@denravonska).
• Remove superblock forwarding #1430 (@denravonska).

4.0.2.0-Leisure

Added

• Add rainbymagnitude RPC command #1235 (@Foggyx420).
• Add stake splitting and side staking #1265 (@jamescowens).
• Detect and block Windows shutdown so wallet can exit cleanly #1309
  (@jamescowens).
• Add message support to sendfrom and sendtoaddress #1400 (@denravonska).

Changed

• Configuration options are now case insensitive #294 (@Foggyx420).
• Update command in beaconstatus help message #1312 (@chrstphrchvz).
• Improve synchronization speeds:
  • Refactor superblock pack/unpack #1194 (@denravonska).
  • Optimize neuralsecurity calculations #1255 (@denravonska).
  • Reduce hash calculations when checking blocks #1206 (@denravonska).
• Make display of private key in beaconstatus OPT-IN only #1275 (@Foggyx420).
• Store Beacon keys in Wallet #1088 (@tomasbrod).
• Use default colors for pie chart #1333 (@chrstphrchvz).
• Show hand cursor when hovering clickable labels #1332 (@chrstphrchvz).
• Update README.md #1337 (@Peppernrino).
• Fix integer overflow with displayed nonce #1297 (@personthingman2).
• Improve application cache performance #1317 (@denravonska).
• Improve reorg speeds #1263 (@denravonska).
• Update Polish translation #1375 (@michalkania).

Fixed

• Remove expired polls from overview page #1250 (@personthingman2).
• Fix plural text on block age #1304 (@scribblemaniac).
• Fix researcher staking issue if your chain head was staked by you,
  #1299 (@denravonska).
• Fix incorrect address to grcpool node #1314 (@wilkart).
• Do not replace underscores by spaces in Qt Poll URLs #1327 (@tomasbrod).
• Fix scraper SSL issues #1330 (@Foggyx420).

Removed

• Remove or merged several RPC commands #1228 (@Foggyx420):
  • newburnaddress, removed.
  • burn2: Removed.
  • cpid: Merged into projects.
  • mymagnitude: Merged into magnitude.
  • rsa: Removed, use magnitude.
  • rsaweight: Removed, use magnitude.
  • proveownership: Removed.
  • encrypt: Removed.
• Remove obsolete POW fields from RPC responses #1358 (@jamescowens).
• Remove obsolete netsoft fields for slight RAM requirement reduction
  #1336 (@denravonska).
• Remove unused attachment functionality #1345 (@denravonska).

4.0.1.0-Leisure

Fixed:

• Wrong RA scan range causing reward calculation disagreements and forks
  #1366, (@tomasbrod, @jamescowens, @denravonska).
• Fix crashes when voting in polls #1369 (@denravonska).

4.0.0.0-Mandatory

Added

• Linux nodes can now stake superblocks using forwarded contracts,
  #1060 (@tomasbrod).

Changed

• Replace interest with constant block reward #1160 (@tomasbrod).
  Fork is set to trigger at block 1420000.
• Raise coinstake output count limit to 8 #1261 (@tomasbrod).
• Port of Bitcoin hash implementation #1208 (@jamescowens).
• Minor canges for the build documentation #1091 (@Lenni).
• Allow sendmany to be used without an account specified #1158 (@Foggyx420).

Fixed

• Fix cpids and validcpids not returning the correct data #1233
  (@Foggyx420).
• Fix listsinceblock not showing mined blocks to change addresses,
  #501 (@Foggyx420).
• Fix crash when raining using a locked wallet #1236 (@Foggyx420).
• Fix invalid stake reward/fee calculation (@jamescowens).
• Fix divide by zero bug in getblockstats RPC #1292 (@Foggyx420).
• Bypass historical bad blocks on testnet #1252 (@Quezacoatl1).
• Fix MacOS memorybarrier warnings #1193 (@ghost).

Removed

• Remove neuralhash from the getpeerinfo and node stats #1123 (@Foggyx420).
• Remove obsolete NN code #1121 (@Foggyx420).
• Remove (lower) Mint Limiter #1212 (@tomasbrod).

3.7.16.0-Leisure

Fixed

• Fix burned coins incorrectly showing up in wallets, #1283 (@jamescowens).
• Fix decimal output in RPC commands, #1272 (@Foggyx420).
• Fix verbose flag in getrawtransaction RPC output, #1271 (@jamescowens).

3.7.15.0-Leisure

Changed

• Balance now includes unconfirmed coins sent by self, #1192 (@Foggyx420).