7.2. Release Notes

2024-08-01: substrate v2.205.2

• substrate: Improve block cache logging, and recording of trace requests

2024-07-24: substrate v2.205.1

• shiroclient: Add missing block cache optimization
• substrate: Add initial profile guided optimization (PGO) to substrate

2024-07-15: substrate v2.205.0

• shiroclient, substrate: Add prometheus metrics to expose substrate version
• shiroclient, substrate: Support arm64 architecture

2024-06-21: substrate v2.204.4

• shiroclient: Fix dependent transaction waiting off-by-one bug when checking peer block height

2024-06-10: substrate v2.204.3

• shiroclient: Add support for WithoutTargetPeers

2024-06-10: substrate v2.204.2

• substrate: Fix sideDB statedb:purge fail over when fabric 2.5 channel config not enabled

2024-06-04: substrate v2.204.1

• shiroclient: Fix license init logic

2024-06-04: substrate v2.204.0

• shiroclient: break out prometheus timing metrics by endpoint
• substrate: add simulation time prometheus metric by endpoint (substrate_tx_sim_dur)
• substrate: add key count prometheus metrics by endpoint (substrate_tx_keys)

2024-05-16: substrate v2.203.0

• shiroclient: add demo mode for easy sandbox setup

2024-05-13: substrate v2.202.0

• shiroclient: fix panic when block cache disabled

2024-04-18: substrate v2.201.0

• substrate: lazy load elps packages
• shiroclient: fix mem leak in metrics
• shiroclient: add block puller
• shiroclient: Add license digest cache
• shirocore: remove VBC

2024-03-26: substrate v2.200.0

• fabric-network-builder: Add external domain, SANS support
• shircore: update protobuf to v1.33.0

2024-03-05: substrate v2.199.0

• shiroclient: Fix blockcache dep tx waiting
• shiroclient: Add shiroclient-gw opt to disable write polling by default
• shiroclient: Add WithTargetEndpoints to select peers for endorsement

2024-03-03: substrate v2.198.0

• substrate: improve elps vm pre-heater for faster tx procesing
• shiroclient: use peer discovery on commit fallback
• plugin: support CSPRNG in local tests

2024-02-15: substrate v2.197.1

• substrate: bump deps
• shiroclient: use otelhttp http server for gateway

2024-02-12: substrate v2.197.0

• substrate: add ratelimiter
• shiroclient: fix span tree
• substrate: add profile tracing to defendpoint
• substrate: improve tracing support

2024-02-05: substrate v2.196.0

• shiroclient: fix race condition on commitment
• substrate: make preheat workers configurable, revert preheat cache size change
• substrate: add elps doc trace filters
• substrate: add better context threading
• substrate: improve tracing support

2024-01-09: substrate v2.195.0

• substrate: upgrade elps to 1.64.4
• shiroclient: add max retries option
• externalcc: fix chaincode-as-a-service

2024-01-04: substrate v2.194.0

• substrate: Improve tracing support (move from opencensus to otel)
• substrate: Bump pre-heater default size
• substrate: Internal refactor of library paths
• substrate: Update dependencies
• shiroclient: Improve chaincache logic

2023-12-04: substrate v2.193.0

• shiroclient: Add shiroclient block and transaction (chaincache) cache to reduce waiting times
• shiroclient: Improve shiroclient retry logic
• shiroclient: Add support for DependentBlock
• shiroclient: Improve context canceled handling
• shiroclient: Support WithPhylumVersion

2023-11-13: substrate v2.192.3

• shiroclient: optimize wait logic to avoid redundant waits

2023-10-31: substrate v2.192.2

• buildpack: support HLF2.5 binaries

2023-10-27: substrate v2.192.1

• shiroclient: reduce default commit timeout to 3s
• shiroclient: improve context canceled logging

2023-10-23: substrate v2.192.0

• shiroclient: fix retry backoff

2023-09-05: substrate v2.191.0

• shiroclient: make client connection keep alive (platewarmer) optional (client.plate-warmer = false)
• substrate: support purge of private data on HLF2.5
• externalcc: add pprof endpoint

2023-08-14: substrate v2.190.1

• shiroclient: do not error log OK errors
• shiroclient: reduce verbosity of INFO messages

2023-07-26: substrate v2.190.0

• shiroclient: improve context canceled error handling
• shiroclient: improve error logging

2023-07-19: substrate v2.189.0

• private library: add support for skipEncodeTx optimization

2023-07-18: substrate v2.188.0

• upgrade: elps to 1.16.2

2023-07-13: substrate v2.187.0

• update: tar artifact permissions

2023-07-13: substrate v2.186.0

• upgrade: golang to 1.20.4
• upgrade: buildenv to v0.0.67

2023-07-11: buildenv v0.0.71

• General: Improve support for private GH repos

2023-07-10: buildenv v0.0.70

• General: Add support for luther github repos

2023-06-08: buildenv v0.0.69

• General: Support private github repos

2023-06-08: buildenv v0.0.68

• General: Bump awscli to 2.11.26 and deps
• General: Update github host keys

2023-05-18: buildenv v0.0.67

• General: Use new bitbucket host keys

2023-05-05: substrate 185.0-fabric2

• fabric network builder: Update dependencies

2023-05-05: substrate 184.0-fabric2

• All services: Use golang 1.20

2023-05-03: buildenv v0.0.66

• Java: Use alpine 3.16

2023-05-02: buildenv v0.0.65

• CI: Fix dockerhub multi-arch publish

2023-05-02: buildenv v0.0.64

• CI: Fix CI publish

2023-05-01: buildenv v0.0.63

• CI: Fix CI on github

2023-05-01: buildenv v0.0.62

• General: Move to github
• Golang: Update go to 1.20.3, alpine to 3.17

2023-04-27: buildenv v0.0.61

• API: Upgrade buf to 1.17.0

2023-03-27: substrate 2.183.0-fabric2

• shiroclient gateway: Improve peer selection prioritization
• shiroclient gateway metrics: Avoid panic on missing license file

2023-03-03: buildenv v0.0.60

• Godynamic: Fix awscli versions
• Golang: Update go to 1.20.1, golangci-lint to 1.51.2, awscli to 2.11.0

2022-12-01: substrate 2.182.0-fabric2

• shiroclient gateway: Improve logging and tx retry logic

2022-11-02: substrate 2.181.0-fabric2

• shirotester: Fix mxf snapshot RNG re-use

2022-10-20: substrate 2.180.0-fabric2

• shirocore: Add base32 library (encode/decode)

2022-10-20: substrate 2.179.0-fabric2

• shiroclient metrics: Improve retry for license metrics collection

2022-09-02: buildenv v0.0.59

• Golang: Upgrade golangci-lint

2022-08-20: substrate 2.178.0-fabric2

• push proxy: Make pushproxy docker image public on dockerhub

2022-08-16: substrate 2.177.0-fabric2

• substrate: Support audience (aud) array JWTs

2022-08-08: substrate 2.176.0-fabric2

• shiroclient gateway metrics: Improve license metrics collection

2022-08-04: buildenv v0.0.58

• Golang: Support GO_BUILD_EXTRA_FLAGS

2022-07-26: substrate 2.175.0-fabric2

• shiroclient: Add genesis block hash as tag on metrics; identifies environment together with license digest (already present as tag), which identifies which customer/client is sending metrics.

2022-07-20: substrate 2.174.0-fabric2

• shiroclient: Add metrics reporting block height and server status
  
  

2022-07-08: substrate 2.173.0-fabric2

• shirocore: remove performance improvement cache that was added in substrate 2.172.0-fabric2 release due to new bug introduced reading only the first toset when iterating a tomulset
  
  

2022-06-21: buildenv v0.0.57

• Golang: Use golangci-lint for static checks

2022-06-09: substrate 2.172.0-fabric2

• shirocore: performance bug fix concerning storage-toset-next-iters & storage-toset-next-iter-fill-page duplicate iteration
• golang: bump golang to 1.16.15

2022-06-06: buildenv v0.0.56

• Golang: Update go to 1.18.3

2022-06-06: buildenv v0.0.55

• godynamic: fix aws-cli install
• js: add better support for aws help command

2022-06-03: buildenv v0.0.54

• godynamic: fix azure-cli install
• js: include python for node-gyp support

2022-05-26: buildenv v0.0.53

• go-static: use alpine, remove TINI vars

2022-05-26: buildenv v0.0.52

• internal: CI/CD release improvements

2022-05-25: buildenv v0.0.51

• internal: major changes to facilitate migration to github and circle CI
• multi-architecture: add multi-arch builds for amd64 and arm64
• api: remove prototool, add buf
• go: add staticcheck tool
• go: add jq tool
• all: fetch certificates from official ca-certificates package
• all: fetch time zone data from official tzdata packages
• debian: do not include suggested packages by default
• go-extra: use ubuntu 20.04
• static go builds: include build tags for time zone data

2022-04-28: buildenv v0.0.50

• godynamic: upgrade azcli to 2.35.0

2022-04-01: substrate v2.171.0-fabric2 Release

• substrate: fix buildpack for external chaincode

2022-03-31: substrate v2.170.0-fabric2 Release

• buildenv: bump to 0.0.49
• hyphae: use public github for libhandlebars
• shiroclient: add dependent TX ID logging
• shiroclient: bump shiroclient-sdk-go to ac2085246995

2022-03-23: buildenv v0.0.49

• alpine: bump alpine to 3.15
• golang: bump golang to 1.16.14

2022-03-17: buildenv v0.0.48

• alpine: remove old patches to fix security updates which are superfluous

2022-03-11: substrate v2.169.0-fabric2 Release

• shiroclient: improve retry logic for handling transaction commit timeouts
• substrate: fix bug in decimal-add-money
• substrate: remove set-now function from utils
• libmxf: release 0.0.4 mxf npm package with decryption bugfix

2022-02-25: buildenv v0.0.47

• godynamic: add curl

2022-01-26: substrate v2.168.0-fabric2 Release

• *shirocore: add list support in elpspath
• shiroclient: improve verbose mode (-v)

2022-01-10: substrate v2.167.0-fabric2 Release

• fabric network builder: Compatibility changes for use in containerized setups
• mxf: add public npm package for decoding mxf encrypted data off-chain
• substrate: minor bug fixes

2021-12-10: buildenv v0.0.46

• api: remove api swagger bindata generation
• godynamic: fix azure cli build

2021-11-18: substrate v2.166.0-fabric2 Release

• shirocore: add mxf-private-export function
• substrate: push luthersystems/buildpack to dockerhub for external chaincode initialization

2021-11-12: substrate v2.165.0-fabric 2 Release

• substrate: fix chaincode tar build issue introduced in v2.164.0-fabric2

2021-11-08: substrate v2.164.0-fabric2 Release

• hyphae: add to-int helper to libhandlebars to convert types to int.
• substrate: add external chaincode builds (dockerhub: luthersystems/substrate).

2021-10-15: substrate v2.163.0-fabric2 Release

• shirocore: Allow cc:creator in init endpoint in mock mode
• shirocore: Fix find-pos and find-pos-cmp bug to correctly return -1 when the index is not found.

2021-09-23: substrate v2.162.0-fabric2 Release

• substrate: Add env variable SUBSTRATE_LOG_LEVEL to change log level

2021-09-14: buildenv v0.0.45

• go-alpine: use static binary dependencies

2021-09-13: buildenv v0.0.44

• service-base-alpine: update artifacts
• alpine: apply security updates
• go-alpine: remove GOPRIVATE config

2021-08-23: buildenv v0.0.43

• go-alpine: add go-alpine image

2021-07-27: buildenv v0.0.42

• go: Change user and owner of built artifacts using $ $ environment variables

2021-07-19: substrate v2.160.0-fabric2 Release

• hyphae: Add to-str helper to libhandlebars
• hyphae: Add GetPipeHTTP to s3 package to retrieve stream of bytes.
• hyphae: Add cookie retrieval interface for magic links

2021-07-01: buildenv v0.0.41

• godynamic: Use alpine 3.13 as a stable base.

2021-06-23: substrate v2.159.0-fabric2 Release

• elps: Upgrade to v1.14.0.
• fabric network builder: Add cert_expires subcommand to list expiration dates of certificates
• fabric network builder: Add mutli-step certificate generation process for improved customizaiton (make generate-template, make generate-assets).
• buildenv: Upgrade to v0.0.40.

2021-06-16: buildenv v0.0.40

• api, go, godynamic, goextra: Cleanup build tags into common configuration.
• api: Allow including protos in custom directories.

2021-06-09: elps v1.14.0

• json: Use custom json encoder for improved performance.
• json: Reduce allocations during map serialization.
• types: Add ability to write user-defined data types.
• types: Update libschema to support user-defined data types.
• macros: Fix bugs related to macro expansion.

2021-06-09: buildenv v0.0.39

• api. go, godynamic, goextra: Properly parameterize go versions.
• api: Fix typo in make targets and add missing make targets.

2021-05-26: buildenv v0.0.38

• all: Continue to push images to ECR for backwards compatibility.

2021-05-25: buildenv v0.0.37

• api, go, godynamic, goextra, java, js, swaggercodegen: Use tini for signal handling in the default image entrypoint.
• api. go, godynamic, goextra: Upgrade to go1.16.4.

2021-05-14: substrate v2.158.0-fabric2 Release

• fabric network builder: Add fnb-extend command to generate certs for new orgs.
• fabric network builder: Use version 2.2.0 of fabric cryptogen (names private keys priv_sk among other changes).
• fabric network builder: Use client authentication (mutual TLS).
• shirocore: Fix set-exception-wrapped to properly wrap exception messages and re-throw them.
• shiroclient gateway: Add additional log lines to help debugging.
• shiroclient gateway: Retry tx simulation on chaincode 500 error, for increased resilience.
• shiroclient gateway: Move shiroclient-sdk-go to github.

2021-03-30: substrate v2.157.0-fabric2 Release

• shiroclient gateway: Improve reliability of event service connectivity.
• shiroclient: Throw phylum errors during chaincode-to-chaincode (invoke-phylum) failures.

2021-03-16: substrate v2.156.0-fabric2 Release

• shiroclient: Fix bug in internal minifer for elps symbols.
• mock substrate: Improve support for parallel go tests.

2021-03-05: substrate v2.155.0-fabric2 Release

• shiroclient gateway: Improve metrics logging during tx commit.
• shirocore: Fix bug in tx-pre-hooks execution, which sets up shirocore env before application code runs.

2021-03-04: substrate v2.154.0-fabric2 Release

• mock substrate: Fix mock-specific methods.
• shirocore: Fix symbol references in def-migration-up
• fabric network builder: Fix nchoose2 sample networks and Makefiles.

2021-03-01: substrate v2.153.0-fabric2 Release

• elps: Upgrade to v1.13.1

2021-02-25: elps v1.13.1 Release

• elpstest: Fix timing for $load benchmark.

2021-02-19: substrate v2.152.0-fabric2 Release

• shirocore: Fix bug in ymd date validations

2021-02-19: substrate v2.151.0-fabric2 Release

• shirocore: Pre-load (pre-warm) phyla to improve load times

2021-02-17: substrate v2.150.0-fabric2 Release

• mock substrate: Fix concurrency bug in plugin.

2021-02-11: substrate v2.149.0-fabric2 Release

• mock substrate: Refactor internal libraries to better support hashicorp plugin.

2021-02-09: substrate v2.148.0-fabric2 Release

• mock substrate: Add healthcheck to Hashicorp plugin.

2021-02-08: substrate v2.147.0-fabric2 Release

• fabric network builder: Fix nchoose2 network generation.

2021-02-05: substrate v2.146.0-fabric2 Release

• fabric network builder: Add support for nchoose2 vanity names.

2021-02-08: buildenv v0.0.36 Release

• all: Add public docker make targets.

2021-02-03: substrate v2.145.0-fabric2 Release

• shirocore: Add jaeger support for request tracing.
• buildenv: Upgrade to v0.0.34.

2021-01-29: buildenv v0.0.35 Release

• godynamic: Add azure cli.
• js: Add azure cli.