v0.0.12-alpha1

0.0.12-alpha1 release 2019-04-30

Summary

This week we’ve been laying down foundations for some important features, namely, capability-based security, signals, and GraphQL support. Some of this work is still very fresh, while other parts are rapidly maturing.

Highlights

1. Cycles of Stage-Setting and Action
2. Two-Way Communications: Groundwork for App-Level Signals
3. Security: Private Entries are Now Private
4. Data Integrity: Link Headers Now Retrievable from DHT
5. Debugging: Better Messaging for Deletion Errors
6. Releases: n3h Binaries for ia32 and ARM

See the Dev Pulse & change log for complete details.

Installation

This release consists of binary builds of:

• the hc development command-line tool
• holochain deployment conductor for different platforms.

To install, simply download and extract the binary for your platform.
See our installation quick-start instructions for details.

Rust and NodeJS are both required for hc to build and test DNA:

• Rust
• Must be nightly-2019-01-24 build with the WASM build target.
  Once you have first installed rustup:

  rustup toolchain install nightly-2019-01-24
  rustup default nightly-2019-01-24
  rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly-2019-01-24
  

• Node.js version 8 or higher
• E2E tests for Holochain apps are written in Javascript client-side and executed in NodeJS through websockets
• For further info, check out the holochain-nodejs module

Which Binary?

Download only the binaries for your operating system.

• MacOS: cli-v0.0.12-alpha1-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
• Linux: cli-v0.0.12-alpha1-x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu.tar.gz
• Windows:
• mingw build system: cli-v0.0.12-alpha1-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.tar.gz
• Visual Studio build system: cli-v0.0.12-alpha1-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz

All binaries are for 64-bit operating systems.
32-bit systems are NOT supported.