CHANGELOG

RELEASE 0.7.0 BETA - Add bumpfee, bitcoin core connection and many more
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* Improve connections with bitcoin core wallet
* Support multiple bitcoin core wallets
* Allow to bump transaction fee
* Allow to remove old unconfirmed transactions from wallet
* Use segwit as default for all classes
* Add debugger to Script class
* Improve Script class
* Cleanup Input class and improve speed
* Improve fee estimates
* Fix various provider issues
* Fix MySQL en PostgreSQL issues and unittesting
* Fix p2pk script issues
* Fix issues with redeemscripts
* Rename Transaction.offline to Transaction.broadcast
* Allow to disable random transaction output order
* Use timezone UTC for all dates
* Fix SQLAlchemy session and database issues
* Check and update examples and documentation
* Add support for Python 3.12

RELEASE 0.6.15 - Small bugfixes, documentation updates
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* Some small bugfixes
* New properties for WalletKey class for multisig wallets
* Add Bcoin documentation, add FAQ, update other documentation
* Add dockerfile for Linux Mint

RELEASE 0.6.14 - Update installation instruction, docker & bugfixes
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* Update installation instructions
* Add Docker files for testing and installation testing
* Fix Bitcoind constructors
* Fix issue with hexadecimal passwords for Mnemonics
* Fix regtest address prefix

RELEASE 0.6.13 - Update config & fix some bugs
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* Rewrite configuration files for easier installation
* Fix issues with bitcoind and litecoind client
* Fix encoding issues with Python3.11 and Windows

RELEASE 0.6.12 - Prepare for Taproot
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* Parse p2tr input scripts
* Fix issues with coinbase segwit transactions
* Ignore extra signatures when creating unlocking script
* Clarify wording of amount parameter in clw
* Add parsing taproot transactions unittests

RELEASE 0.6.11 - Bugfix release
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* Fix issues with mempool.space, bcoin, litecoind and bitcoind
* Fix data type mixup in Service.getblock
* Fix installation issues with old Python versions
* Fix p2tr addresses with non-standard witness version

RELEASE 0.6.10 - Field and database encryption
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* Allow to encrypt private key fields in database
* Include examples/documentation for field and full database encryption
* Fixed various provider issues
* Fixed unittests fee issues
* Fixed secure bitcoind connection

RELEASE 0.6.9 - Bugfixes and service provider update
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* Remove Chainso provider
* Add Blockbook providers
* Fix litecoinblockexplorer, bitaps provider
* Other bugfixes and unittest issues

RELEASE 0.6.7 - Fix installation, dependencies and provider issues
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* Fix installation issues
* Use pycryptodome for Ripemd160, scrypt and AES
* Fix Litecoin issues
* Add support for p2tr addresses
* Fix support for Blocksmurfer provider
* Fix many service provider issues

RELEASE 0.6.6 - Service provider updates
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* Add new methods to bitcoind provider
* Allow to parse and send to bech32m addresses
* Limit/offset on transactions query
* Cache blockcount and increase efficiency
* Fix and update various service providers
* Cache more utxo's to reduce requests

RELEASE 0.6.5 - Improve speed and fix installation issues
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* Improve speed of Key object
* Parse block transactions as dict
* Improve and speedup unittesting
* Speedup large wallet deletion
* Allow use of pycryptodome wallet and make scrypt library optional
* Fix unidecode error in Network

RELEASE 0.6.4 - Blockchain parsing and bugfixes
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* Allow to parse blocks with unrecognised transactions
* Improve block and transaction parsing speed
* Improve fee estimates and transaction size calculation
* Fix coveralls
* Various bugfixes and provider issues

RELEASE 0.6.3 - Mempool, Github actions, bugfixes
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* Add mempool.space provider
* Move unittesting to workflow in Github Actions
* Add support for bech32m addresses
* Test regtest and update providers
* Various bugfixes

RELEASE 0.6.2 - Bugfixes October 2021
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* Fix logging issues
* Add Bitflyer client
* Remove Coinfees client
* Fix various provider and service request issues

RELEASE 0.6.1 - Minor bug fixes
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* Issues with bcoin, litcoind, bitcoind provider
* Use correct Bitcoin symbol
* Typos and other small bugfixes

RELEASE 0.6.0 - Scripts
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* Add Script class to parse, create and validate scripts
* Add Stack class and methods for script language
* Use Script class in Transaction, Input, Output, Block and Wallet
* Remove old service providers and fix provider various issues
* Use standardised method names: hex, parse, parse_hex, etc in all classes

RELEASE 0.5.3 - Bugfixes March 2021
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* Issues with unconfirmed transactions
* Delete wallet transactions
* Fix key balance update issues
* Fix various issues
* Add unittests

RELEASE 0.5.2 - Privacy & Security
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* Locktime updates
* BIP38 updates
* Random change outputs
* Random input / output order
* SQLCipher support
* Avoid dust utxos

RELEASE 0.5.1 - New Value class
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* Added new Value class to represent cryptocurrency values
* Accept Value class in Wallet and Transaction methods
* Fix some service, database and cache issues

RELEASE 0.5.0 - Refactor database and cache
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* Increase cache database efficiency and reduce storage size
* Refactor wallet and transaction database
* Remove Python 2 support
* Remove deprecated methods
* Shorter class names: Wallet, WalletTransaction, WalletKey
* Add method to retrieve input values for transactions
* Fix various bugs in Service, Wallet, Mnemonic and Transaction classes

PLEASE NOTE: It is not possible to update database from version <0.4.x to 0.5.0.
You need the updatedb.py script to copy masterkeys and recreate wallets and transactions.

RELEASE 0.4.19 - Bug fix and cache updates
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* Fix errors in Blockstream and Litecoinblockexplorer
* Increase cache efficiency

RELEASE 0.4.17 - Bug fix release
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* Fix logging, cache and database issues
* Fix several bitcoind noode issues
* Fix issues with Block object
* Fix issues with Chainso, Blocksmurfer, Blockcypher and Blockchair
* Disable cache when database problems occur
* Add Quantity class to represent very large/small numbers

RELEASE 0.4.16 - Blocks
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* Create Block object to parse, serialize and extract information
* Add getblock and getblock method to service providers
* Add caching for blocks
* Fix various issues with service providers
* Fix conversion issues, and increase speed by avoiding unnecessary conversions
* Add Dogecoin

RELEASE 0.4.15 - Integrate Blocksmurfer
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* Add support for new bitcoinlib-based Blocksmurfer provider
* Fix issues with Service class and service providers
* Fix various Bcoin issues
* Fix antique P2PK transactions
* Improve database and caching performance
* Fix issues with incorrect balance, number of txs or utoxs in cache
* Add spending transaction information in transaction outputs
* Add getblock method

RELEASE 0.4.14 - Refactor logging
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* Simplify logging and configuration
* Use pathlib module instead of os.path
* Allow to use mysql or postgresql for cache database
* Fix some issues from service providers

RELEASE 0.4.13 - Add caching
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* Cache transactions and address info retrieved from Service providers
* Increase efficiency when updating transactions
* Fix path issues in Windows
* Disable Python 3.4 support, add 3.8 tests
* Fix several transaction update issues

RELEASE 0.4.12 - Documentation and install update
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* Enable database backup
* Fix documentation build
* Review all documentation
* Add Jupyter manual
* Add various unittests
* Fix issues with service providers
* Fix many minor bugs

RELEASE 0.4.11 - Provider update
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* Add support for bcoin client
* Add support for mysql and postgresql databases
* Add blockstream, bitaps and smartbit provider
* Improve scan and update transaction methods
* Remove obsolete providers
* Fix bitcoind and litecoind issues
* Fix various provider issues

RELEASE 0.4.9, 0.4.10 - Fix install
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* Fix pip install on some platforms

RELEASE 0.4.8 - Use coverage, improve testing and fix issues
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* Add many unittests and increase coverage > 90%
* Update documentation, docstrings
* Rewrite HDWalletTransaction classes
* Improve bitcoind Service client
* Partially remove blockexplorer support and unittests
* Improve database update scripts, add version numbering

RELEASE 0.4.7 - ECDSA updates and minor fixes
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* Improve and speed up use of ECDSA cryptography methods
* No private keys in json and dict outputs by default
* Bugfixes, PEP8 fixes and docstring updates

RELEASE 0.4.6 - Use fastecdsa library
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* Use fastecda library instead of ecdsa
* Still support ecdsa library as fallback and for Windows
* Use RFC6979 deterministic signatures (from fastecdsa)
* Add support and Travis CI tests for Windows OS
* Add new Signature class to manage and create signatures
* Fix some private key generation issues and add extra tests

RELEASE 0.4.5 - Rewrite Wallet, Key and Transaction Classes
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* Add support for accounts in Segwit wallets
* Add segwit key import
* Add support for address only wallets
* Fix and update use of key paths in wallets
* Use a single method for creating wallets, mark create_multisig() as obsolete
* Return and use public keys by default
* Add dunder methods, as_dict() and as_json to main classes
* Use Address class in other classes
* Fix issues with key_depths and paths in wallets
* Update network definitions, add segwit WIFs
* Rename account_key and account_multisig_key methods to public_master()
* Performance improvements in encoding
* Many other code cleanups and bug fixes

RELEASE 0.4.4 - Fix utxo and provider issues, add pyscrypt support
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* Fix various issues with updating UTXO's
* Add pyscrypt support thanks to @x-falcon
* Fix issues with BlockExplorer and Blockr
* Allow to sign tx with HDKey
* Allow to change wallet key names

RELEASE 0.4.3 - More Segwit fixes
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* Fix various segwit issues, add unittests and update docstrings

RELEASE 0.4.2 - Segwit update
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* Fix issues with Blockchair, BlockExplorer and CryptoID provider
* Calculate vsize, virtual size for segwit transactions
* Add support for SegWit to CLI wallet
* Allow use of user defined key paths
* Support and use BIP45, BIP48, BIP49 and BIP84 key paths
* Allow to import ypub/yprv/zpub/zprv keys
* Fixed fee and transaction size estimation issues
* Fixed litecoind issues thanks to @slush0

RELEASE 0.4.0 - Segwit release
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* Added segwit support
* Added support for Python 3.7
* Add support for Blockchair provider
* Add CLTV and CSV timelock support