v0.0.9-alpha

0.0.9-alpha release 2019-04-03

Summary

This week, the focus was largely on cryptography. More and more of our long-term work providing cryptographic support to applications is stable and being incorporated into our official releases. We’ve also started the important work of perfecting performance profiling and tuning.

Highlights

1. Data Integrity/Identity: New KeyStore Ready** — **Available to Apps and Core
2. Performance: Optimizations!
3. Network Bootstrapping: ‘P2P Ready’ Message
4. Debugging: Logging Flag for hc run
5. Lessons Learned: Closing the Gap Between Core Devs and App Devs

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-v0.0.9-alpha-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
• Linux: cli-v0.0.9-alpha-x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu.tar.gz
• Windows:
  • mingw build system: cli-v0.0.9-alpha-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.tar.gz
  • Visual Studio build system: cli-v0.0.9-alpha-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz

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