v0.0.13-alpha1

0.0.13-alpha1 release 2019-05-01

Summary

We’re continuing to create big improvements for our DevOps pipeline — especially for automated Windows builds. Work is underway to complete capability-based security, polish documentation, and improve the developer experience. Lastly, we’re getting ready for a Holochain/Holo developer retreat in May where we’ll work out the designs for some of our key components.

Highlights

1. Upcoming: Holochain/Holo Developer Retreat
2. API/Deprecation: Name Change in JSON-RPC Call
3. Updated Quick Start Guide
4. DevOps: Nix Shell and Windows Builds

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-v0.0.13-alpha1-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
• Linux: cli-v0.0.13-alpha1-x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu.tar.gz
• Windows:
• mingw build system: cli-v0.0.13-alpha1-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.tar.gz
• Visual Studio build system: cli-v0.0.13-alpha1-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz

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