2.0 - Wee Big Shards

• Added support for Snowblossom Braid (SIP-5)
• New peering block sync mechanism
• Support for multiple shards
• Automatic database compaction (on rocksdb)
• Updated rocksdb to 6.28.2
• Added UPNP support for handling incoming connections better

1.8.0 - Advent of Blocks

1.8.0 - Advent of Blocks

New in this release, we are now building a Windows installer that includes OpenJDK.
That is the .MSI file and is super easy to run in Windows.

https://snowblossom.org/releases/index.html

• SIP4 - Input value checking set for block 151680
• Update seed nodes
• Add remote address to Shackleton explorer logs
• Switch Shackleton web handling over to new web framework
• Added explorer APIs zone and /api/total_coins
• Lower max history replies
• Add get_address_history rpc
• Fixed presentation bug in unspent with mempool
• Added public note string to iceleaf send panel

1.7.1 Mail Sort

• Added History panel to iceleaf GUI
• Added SubscribeAddressUpdates gRPC api to node to monitor addresses
• Added MonitorTool to use SubscribeAddressUpdates to monitor addresses

Release 1.7.0 - bEARN IT

1.7.0 - bEARN IT

• Allow reserving channel name in CLI
• Adding username and channel identifiers to explorer
• Switching MrPlow to continue using the same channel
• Switching from maven-jar to new maven-install based system for bazel 2.0
• Added watch-only note on wallet summary page of iceleaf GUI
• Add details button to iceleaf GUI to get xpubs and seeds of wallets
• Fixed bug in re-index for tx history - will automatically repair db on restart
• Switching to much newer version of gRPC
• Added firm warning message about 32-bit JVM
• Break and fix mining share calculation
  • Broken in commit a577f01 (2019.11.22)
  • Fixed in commit 03254fb (2020.02.03)
• Added streaming block template so MrPlow can update block template without breaking the connection
  • MrPlow will need the SnowBlossomNode to be updated to run
• Added RichList report to explorer
• Update bouncy castle to 1.65

Release 1.6.0 - The Chocolate Ten

• Changing tx_index and addr_index over to Hashed Trie mode
• Adding FBO and name values to hashed trie as well
• Those above two will involve an index rebuild to update the database
  • This should take a few minutes
• Added RPC call for get_fbo_list and get_id_list
• Added RPC option to get_transaction to return json with "send_json" option

1.5.2 - Frozen Trees

• Skip merging PeerInfo entries, really not needed
• Adding support for host_uri in configs. See https://wiki.snowblossom.org/index.php/ConfigOption/node_uri
• Add client ability to autoselect fastest node
• IceLeaf GUI client
• Xpub support for watch only wallets

1.5.1 - Verified Vortex

Release 1.5.1

• Adding SurfMiner using new wave mining method
• Updating Arktika, PoolMiner and SurfMiner to use fewer memory allocations
• Allows Arktika to read a single blob snowfield just like PoolMiner and SurfMiner
• Change rocksdb log retention to 5 files
• In client jsonrpc get_unspent add optional parameter to specify address to query
• In client jsonrpc add get_block by height or hash
• Switch to SecureRandom for seed generation since Random only uses a 64-bit seed
• Adding audit log mode: https://wiki.snowblossom.org/index.php/Audit_Log_Mode
• Calculator on explorer
• Add xpub support for seed based wallets. TODO: watch-only mode for xpubs
• RPC get status returns balance matching other balance results
• Add get_address_balance RPC
• Add optional TLS service port
• Fixed log levels so that they are respected for things outside of snowblossom

1.5.0 - Purring Chains

1.5.0 - Purring Chains

• Adding benchmarking features to Arktika
• Improve error logging in Arktika
• Add terrible vanity address generator
• Add terrible hole generator that is of no use
• Added exceptions for invalid characters in address, previously would have probably
  been a checksum failure
• Updated 'monitor' command to only print a new line when something is different
• Added ability to send 'all' to empty a wallet
• Update proto rules to new system, requires newer bazel
• Add BIP44 based seed wallets
• Switch default wallet type to BIP44
• Added 'import_seed' and 'show_seed' commands
• Added dynamic fee estimation based on mempool
• Notes for wallet type migration: https://wiki.snowblossom.org/index.php/Migrate:_Standard_Keys_to_Seed_Keys

1.4.2 - Duck's Vision

1.4.2

• Only allow 100k of low fee transactions per block when building a block
• When mempool is half full, reject new low fee transactions
• MrPool lowers difficulty if share rate is low
• Switch miners to faster MultiAtomicLong for hash counting
• Add stats outputs to arktika
• Abstract pool client interaction into PoolClient class
• Enable mining client failover among a list of pools

1.4.1 - Less Chatter

This release fixes a bug where nodes will get into a state of asking peers for mempool TX clusters over and over again, essentially not being functional nodes any longer until restarted.