v0.44.0

[0.44.0] - 2019-10-28

Backwards Incompatible Changes

• [api] All list commands now always return paginated results, with page argument defaulting to 1 and page_size defaulting to 20, commands affected are: address_list, claim_list, channel_list, stream_list, support_list, transaction_list, utxo_list, wallet_list, account_list, peer_list, blob_list, file_list and claim_search. (#2563)
• [api] account_list now returns a paginated list of accounts without having accounts in a dictionary keyed by the ledger name, instead the ledger name is now inside the account dictionary metadata. (#2563)

API

• [refactor] updated all list commands to always return paginated results (#2563) by f1x3d
• [improvement] normalize tag names (remove duplicates, blank spaces and illegal chars) (#2482) by mirgee
• [improvement] added pagination to file_list (#2427) by osilkin98

Blobs/files

• [new feature] adds added_on field to files (#2428) by osilkin98

Claims

• [bug] clear metadata when file type changes (#2501) by mirgee

Config

• [refactor] refactored logging configuration and added more tests (#2555) by lyoshenka

Network

• [improvement] faster startup, bump aioupnp -> 0.0.15 (#2588) by jackrobison

Other

• [improvement] Convert some format() strings in lbry and torba to fstrings (#2522) by ju-sh
• [refactor] code reformatting and update unit tests to use more specific asserts (#2498) by hugovk

Tests

• [improvement] fix for stream type change integration test (#2582) by eukreign
• [improvement] added unit test for keyboard interrupt occurring on startup (#2548) by cbaumler

Wallet

• [improvement] don't error if blank password was set previously (#2577) by eukreign

Wallet server

• [bug] fix for wallet server bug related to changing the channel of a stream (#2580) by eukreign
• [bug] fix bug with resolve and conflicting claim_id segments (#2578) by eukreign