5.4.9.0-leisure

[5.4.9.0], 2025-02-16, leisure

This is a maintenance leisure release and is probably the last leisure release before the
upcoming Natasha milestone mandatory release. The changes here are largely behind the scenes
bug fixes and adjustments to the build process to ensure compatibility with newer distributions.

Enjoy.

Jim Owens

P.S. the Windows, MacOS, and Debian builds are found here on the release page. Other builds are done by the maintainers for the various distributions.

Added

• depends: add cross arm64-darwin support #2775 (@div72)
• build: add missing randomness checks #2772 (@div72)
• init, registry: Support -clearallregistryhistory startup parameter #2773 (@jamescowens)

Changed

• build: omit _FORTIFY_SOURCE on debug #2793 (@div72)
• doc: cmake is required for Windows depends #2791 (@barton2526)
• CMake: Set maximum supported Boost version #2788 (@CyberTailor)
• ci: bump to MacOS 13 #2784 (@div72)
• build/cmake: disable LevelDB tests #2776 (@div72)
• util: use XDG_STATE_HOME for datadir on Flatpak #2774 (@div72)
• util, build: Support miniupnp API version 18+ #2771 (@jamescowens)
• build: explicitly include FindPkgConfig for CMake #2769 (@jamescowens)
• ci, cd: bump action versions #2763 (@div72)
• Sync CMake CI #2762 (@CyberTailor)
• cpid: Modify CPID local hasher to eliminate compiler warnings on 32 bit archs #2760 (@jamescowens)

Removed

• refactor, misc: remove CBitcoin(Address|Secret) #2634 (@div72)

Fixed

• poll, gui: Disable choice add button in poll wizard when choice limit is reached #2792 (@jamescowens)
• diagnose, rpc: fix compilation with boost 1.87 #2786 (@div72)
• node: fix build with GCC 15 #2783 (@CyberTailor)
• ci: use overwrite with brew install on MacOS CMake #2782 (@div72)
• scraper: Protect access to ConvergedStats.csv.gz with a lock #2779 (@jamescowens)
• fix build on FreeBSD #2770 (@wilkart)
• rpc/server: fix removing deprecated commands from command list #2768 (@lrusak)
• cmake bdb53: disable error for implicit-int with gcc #2767 (@lrusak)

5.4.9.0-testnet

This is simply a placeholder to hold testnet packages that use a different executable name for testnet. It is otherwise identical to the 5.4.9.0 production release.

5.4.8.4-testnet

Testnet release of 5.4.8.4 for testing. This is RC2 for 5.4.9.0 maintenance release as part of the Natasha milestone.

This is for testnet network only unless permission is granted to use on mainnet by a core dev.

5.4.8.3-testnet

Testnet release of 5.4.8.3 for testing. This is RC1 for 5.4.9.0 maintenance release as part of the Natasha milestone.

This is for testnet network only unless permission is granted to use on mainnet by a core dev.

5.4.8.2-testnet

Testnet release of 5.4.8.2 for testing.

This is for testnet network only unless permission is granted to use on mainnet by a core dev.

5.4.8.0-hotfix-1

This is a hotfix tag to address the breaking change in miniupnp API version 18+. Currently this is only necessary for Arch Linux with the latest updates.

Fixed

• util, build: Support miniupnp API version 18+ #2771 (@jamescowens)

5.4.8.0-leisure

[5.4.8.0], 2024-04-10, leisure

This release is a maintenance release that adds checkpoints post the unintended
fork when 5.4.6.0 was introduced. Given that some folks upgraded to 5.4.7.0 too
late for their wallets to correct out of the fork, some 5.4.7.0 clients continue
to spam the network. This will largely squelch that on 5.4.8.0 nodes. It also
will force the forked 5.4.7.0 or below clients to reset their blockchain and
resync from zero when they upgrade to 5.4.8.0 and run it for the first time.

It is highly encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Jim Owens

Added

• build: add option for sanitizers #2553 (@div72)
• build: CMake: Initial Windows support (MSYS2) #2733 (@CyberTailor)

Changed

• build: enforce SSE2 on x86 targets #2746 (@div72)
• consensus: Update checkpoint data for mainnet and testnet #2756 (@jamescowens)
• gui, util: Enhance verify checkpoints fail handling; use RegistryBookmarks for DB passivation #2758 (@jamescowens)

Removed

Fixed

• build, depends: fix compilation with XCode 15 #2747 (@div72)
• Fix man page installation path for cmake builds #2749 (@theMarix)
• consensus, mrc, sidestake: add mrc fees to staker to rewards to be allocated via sidestaking #2753 (@jamescowens)
• Fix Systemd unit install location #2754 (@theMarix)
• scraper: Corrections to scraper_net after removal of cntPartsRcvd decrement and increment #2755 (@jamescowens)
• rpc: fix setban segfault #2757 (@div72)

5.4.7.0-leisure

[5.4.7.0], 2024-03-13, leisure

This release is solely to implement the disconnection of version 5.4.5.0 and
below nodes as the last cleanup action due to the inadvertent fork caused at
3190603/4 as a result of the inadvertent protocol change introduced in
5.4.6.0. A more detailed explanation is in order:

The default contract version is supposed to change from 2 to 3 at the block v13
hardfork, which was envisioned to be set as part of the Natasha milestone
release. The way this is accomplished is that the default contract version is
incremented to 3, and then logic is used to ensure the contract version actually
used is 2 until the v13 fork point is reached. The fork point for v13 was not
set in version 5.4.6.0, as it was intended to be 100% protocol compatible with
5.4.0.0 - 5.4.5.0, i.e. a leisure upgrade; however, a coding omission caused tx
messages sent from 5.4.6.0 nodes to be version 3 instead of version 2
immediately. This caused nodes 5.4.5.0 and below to reject the transaction
containing the message and the block causing a fork.

This mistake is mine and mine alone, and I am regretful about it. This is the
first forking incident we have had in a number of years, but I take this type
of event very seriously. Regression testing is done as well as longer time
testnet testing and some mainnet testing before that, but this particular type
of issue is hard to catch.

By the time this actually occurred on mainnet, there was far more weight on the
5.4.6.0 side of the fork than the 5.4.5.0 side, so it made the most sense to
continue forward with the 5.4.6.0 side, and require everybody that had not
already upgraded to upgrade, essentially turning 5.4.6.0 into a mandatory.

All but a few folks have upgraded now to 5.4.6.0, but we still have a few nodes
(with aggregrate difficulty ~ 1.0) on the 5.4.5.0 fork and these nodes are
connecting to 5.4.6.0 peers. Given that the fork common block is fairly deep at
this point (the fork point was at 3190603/4 and the head of the chain is at
3194579 as of this writing), this is causing a lot of unnecessary network
traffic between 5.4.5.0 and 5.4.6.0 nodes to pass orphan blocks around.

At this point it makes sense to implement an automatic disconnect for all nodes
5.4.5.0 and below. The code already disconnected nodes below 5.4.0.0 as the
protocol version in wallets less than 5.4.0.0 is out of date. Because the
protocol version was not incremented from 5.4.5.0 to 5.4.6.0, we have to
distinguish and disconnect here based on the node sub version string, which
contains 5.4.x (and is also displayed in the peers table).

Note this is similar in concept to what we do in a normal mandatory, where we
normally disconnect pre-mandatory version nodes after a grace period from the
hard fork height. Obviously the conditions are not ideal here, but this is the
best answer at this point.

This should solve the elevated CPU usage and network bandwidth of wallets that
are receiving all of the orphan block traffic.

This release also includes the small adjustment to the Fraction class to solve
the compilation problems on Arch.

Added

• net, consensus: Ban nodes 5.4.5.0 and below #2751 (@jamescowens)

Changed

Removed

Fixed

• util: Adjust Fraction class addition overload overflow tests #2748 (@jamescowens)

5.4.6.0-hotfix-1

This hotfix includes PR2748 which corrects test suite errors

This hotfix is only necessary if C++ compiler flag
-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS is set during build. Currently this is
true for Arch distribution.

This hotfix is NOT necessary for normal wallet operation.

5.4.6.0-leisure

[5.4.6.0], 2024-03-02, leisure, "Miss Piggy"

https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/releases/tag/5.4.6.0

This is the 5.4.6.0 leisure release, the final release in the Miss Piggy
milestone.

This is an important release that contains a number of bugfixes that enhance
stability for the wallet and implement poll caching, automatic background
updates and performance improvements for polls/voting. It also includes most
of the basic machinery needed to support the v13 block version protocol which
will be in the next mandatory at the following milestone, Natasha, although the
v13 block height has not been set, so we remain at v12 for now.

Some highlights:

• GUI control of sidestaking via settings -> options -> staking has been
  implemented. Sidestaking has been converted over to integer arithmetic to
  eliminate floating point consensus issues in preparation for the v13 mandatory,
  which will support mandatory sidestaking.
• Caching of polls in the client with automatic background updating, and poll
  expiration reminders. This is a major improvement to polling. Some corrections
  were made to how the wallet handles "my vote" tracking.
• CMake build system support, which allows CMake to be used instead of
  autotools. Note this does not yet work for Windows builds, but that is coming.
  This should be helpful for maintainers.
• Removal of almost all OpenSSL dependencies in favor of upstream native
  implementations, with the exception of SSL RPC (deprecated anyway), and
  indirect use through CURL, which is required in the scraper and a few other
  areas.
• A number of important fixes and updates, including a fix for the beacon
  history stall problem that some folks have experienced, and an issue that caused
  a major fork in testnet back in September 2023.
• PR #2711 changes the JSON keys in the superblocks RPC command to lower snake
  case, which is the RPC standard. This could cause scripts that process the
  superblocks command output to fail, so a small adjustment to scripts that use
  that command may be necessary.

A number of people besides myself contributed to this release. I would like to
thank the following people:

• @adriaanjoubert
• @CyberTailor
• @barton26
• @div72
• @theMarix
• @PrestackI
• @Pythonix
• The translation volunteers on Transifex

It is highly recommended that EVERYONE upgrade to this release.

There is much planned for Gridcoin in the future. I encourage folks to join the
discussion on Discord to participate.

Jim Owens

Added

• contrib: add nix file for compilation environment #2660 (@div72)
• gui: Make main Gridcoin window geometry save unique to datadir location #2661 (@jamescowens)
• build: Initial CMake support #2676 (@CyberTailor)
• util: Add -shutdownnotify and startupnotify options from upstream #2688 (@barton2526)
• gui, staking: Implement facilities for mandatory sidestakes and sidestake GUI #2704 (@jamescowens)
• gui, voting: Implement poll result caching and poll stale indicator #2709 (@jamescowens)
• gui, projects: Implement greylist state for projects in GUI projects table #2715 (@jamescowens)
• gui, poll: Implement poll expiration reminders #2716 (@jamescowens)
• serialize: allow variants to be serialized #2729 (@div72)
• gui: Implement poll field length limiters in GUI forms #2742 (@jamescowens)

Changed

• consensus, contract, scraper, protocol, project, beacon, rpc: Replace remaining appcache sections with native structures #2639 (@jamescowens)
• build: update libsecp256k1 to v0.3.0 #2655 (@div72)
• build: Replace $(AT) with .SILENT #2674 (@barton2526)
• build: allow system bdb #2675 (@div72)
• Resize Header Column with Additional Text #2683 (@PrestackI)
• rpc: use RPCErrorCode everywhere #2687 (@Pythonix)
• wallet: SecureString to allow null characters #2690 (@barton2526)
• random: port some upstream changes #2696 (@div72)
• depends: Bump dependencies #2692 (@barton2526)
• doc: Update link to Discord server #2693 (@adriaanjoubert)
• rpc: Change capitalization, remove whitespace of rpc keys #2711 (@Pythonix)
• ci: bump MacOS version to 12 #2713 (@div72)
• depends: no-longer nuke libc++abi.so* in native_clang package #2719 (@div72)
• doc: update windows -fstack-clash-protection doc #2720 (@div72)
• Silence -Wcast-function-type warning #2721 (@div72)
• build: Use newest config.{guess,sub} available #2722 (@div72)
• refactor: use the try_lock result in TryEnter #2723 (@div72)
• Updates for file src/qt/locale/bitcoin_en.ts in pt_PT #2726 (@gridcoin-community)
• ci: do not silently fail #2727 (@div72)
• Properly include Boost Array header #2730 (@theMarix)
• build: Update depends zlib to 1.3.1 #2734 (@jamescowens)
• util: Enhance Fraction class overflow resistance #2735 (@jamescowens)
• refactor: Fix compilation warnings #2737 (@jamescowens)
• gui, util: Improve upgrade dialog #2738 (@jamescowens)
• util: Improve allocation class #2740 (@jamescowens)
• translations: translation updates for Miss Piggy release #2745 (@jamescowens)

Removed

• gui: Disable snapshot GUI action #2700 (@jamescowens)
• build, crypto, script: remove most of OpenSSL usage #2705 (@div72)
• util: remove WSL 1 workaround in fs #2717 (@div72)

Fixed

• diagnostics: fix missing arg in ETTS warning #2684 (@div72)
• misc: fix include guard in netaddress.h #2695 (@div72)
• gui: Fix expired pending beacon display #2698 (@jamescowens)
• consensus: Fix 20230904 testnet forking issue #2703 (@jamescowens)
• gui: Fix filter by type in Transaction View #2708 (@jamescowens)
• depends: make fontconfig build under clang-16 #2718 (@div72)
• diag: fix researcher mode check #2725 (@div72)
• gui: Add missing switch cases for ALREADY_IN_MEMPOOL #2728 (@jamescowens)
• beacon, registry: Fix beacon history stall #2731 (@jamescowens)
• build: Implement comp_double comparison function in certain tests #2741 (@jamescowens)
• ci: change Qt path in CMake CI #2743 (@div72)
• net: Correct -tor argument handling #2744 (@jamescowens)