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v1.4.9 was skipped in lieu of v1.4.10 because of RHP incompatibility with v1.4.9-rc1. The combined changelog is below:

Jun 3, 2020:

v1.4.10

Bugs Fixed

• fixed issue where workers would freeze for a bit after a new block appeared

Other

• Add Skykey Name and ID to skykey GET responses

May 29, 2020:

v1.4.9

Key Updates

• Add FeeManager to siad to allow for applications to charge a fee
• Add start time for the API server for siad uptime
• Add new /consensus/subscribe/:id endpoint to allow subscribing to consensus change events
• Add /skykeys endpoint and siac skykey ls command
• Updated skykey encoding and format

Bugs Fixed

• fix call to expensive operation in tight loop
• fix an infinite loop which would block uploads from progressing

Other

• Optimize bandwidth consumption for RPC write calls
• Extend /daemon/alerts with criticalalerts, erroralerts and warningalerts fields along with alerts.
• Update skykey siac functions to accept httpClient and remove global httpClient reference from siac testing
• Skykeycmd test broken down to subtests.
• Create siac testing helpers.
• Add engineering guidelines to /doc
• Introduce PaymentProvider interface on the renter.
• Skynet persistence subsystems into shared system.
• Update Cobra from v0.0.5 to v1.0.0.

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v1.4.8

Key Updates

• Enable FundEphemeralAccountRPC on the host
• Enable UpdatePriceTableRPC on the host
• Add startheight and endheight flags for siac wallet transactions pagination
• Add progress bars to Skynet uploads. Those can be disabled by passing the --silent flag.
• Add the Execute Program RPC to the host
• Added Skykey API endpoints and siac commands.
• Add /skynet/portals API endpoints.
• Add MinBaseRPCPrice and MinSectorAccessPrice to siac host -v
• Add basePriceAdjustment to the host score to check for BaseRPCPrice and SectorAccessPrice price violations.
• Add support for unpinning directories from Skynet.
• Add support for unpinning multiple files in a single command.
• Change payment processing to always use ephemeral accounts, even for contract payments
• Increase renew alert severity in 2nd half of renew window
• Prioritize remote repairs
• Add SIAD_DATA_DIR environment variable which tells siad where to store the siad-specific data. This complements the SIA_DATA_DIR variable which tells siad where to store general Sia data, such as the API password, configuration, etc.
• Update the siac renter summaries to use the root flags for the API calls
• Add root flag to renter/rename so that all file in the filesystem can be renamed
• Allow for wallet/verifypassword endpoint to accept the primary seed as well as a password
• Add /renter/workers API endpoint to get the current status of the workers. This pulls it out of the log files as well.
• Add siac renter workers command to siac
• Add valid and missed proof outputs to StorageObligation for /host/contracts

Bugs Fixed

• Fix decode bug for the rpcResponse object
• Fix bug in rotation of fingerprint buckets

• fix hostdb log being incorrectly named

• Refactor the environment variables into the build package to address bug where siac and siad could be using different API Passwords.
• Fix bug in converting siafile to skyfile and enable testing.
• Fixed bug in bubble code that would overwrite the siadir metadata with old metadata
• Fixed the output of siac skynet ls not counting subdirectories.
• Fix a bug in parsePercentages and added randomized testing
• Fixed bug where backups where not being repaired
• The AggregateNumSubDirs count was fixed as it was always 0. This is a piece of metadata keeping track of the number of all subdirs of a directory, counted recursively.
• Address missed locations of API error returns for handling of Modules not running

• add missing local ranges to IsLocal function
• workers now more consistently use the most recent contract
• improved performance logging in repair.log, especially in debug mode
• general upload performance improvements (minor)

• Fixed bug in siac renter -v where the health summary wasn't considering OnDisk when deciding if the file was recoverable
• Fix panic condition in Renter's uploadheap due to change in chunk's stuck status
• renewed contracts must be marked as not good for upload and not good for renew

Other

• Add 'AccountFunding' to the Host's financial metrics
• Support multiple changelog items in one changelog file.
• Add updating changelog tail to changelog generator.
• Generate 2 patch level and 1 minor level upcoming changelog directories.
• Fixed checking number of contracts in testContractInterrupted test.
• Move generate-changelog.sh script to changelog directory.
• Generate changelog from any file extension (.md is not needed)
• Fix permission issues for Windows runner, do not perform linting during Windows tests.
• Move filenames to ignore in changelog generator to .changelogignore file
• Created Merge Request.md to document the merge request standards and process.
• Remove backslash check in SiaPath validation, add \ to list of accepted characters
• siac skynet upload with the --dry-run flag will now print more clear messages to emphasize that no files are actually uploaded.
• Move scanCheckInterval to be a build variable for the hostdb
• Skynet portals and blacklist persistence errors have been made more clear and now include the persist file locations.
• add some performance stats for upload and download speeds to /skynet/stats
• set the password and user agent automatically in client.New
• Publish test logs also for regular pipelines (not only for nightly pipelines).
• Setup Windows runner for nightly test executions.

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v1.4.7

Key Updates

• Add --dry-run parameter to Skynet upload
• Set ratio for MinBaseRPCPrice and MinSectorAccessPrice with MinDownloadBandwidthPrice

Bugs Fixed

• Don't delete hosts the renter has a contract with from hostdb
• Initiate a hostdb rescan on startup if a host the renter has a contract with isn't in the host tree
• Increase max host downtime in hostbd from 10 days to 20 days.
• Remove build.Critical and update to a metadata update

Other

• Add PaymentProcessor interface (host-side)
• Move golangci-lint to make lint and remove make lint-all.
• Add whitespace lint to catch extraneous whitespace and newlines.
• Expand SiaPath unit testing to address more edge cases.

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v1.4.6

Bugs Fixed

• Fix panic when metadata of skyfile upload exceeds modules.SectorSize
• Fix curl example for /skynet/skyfile/ post

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v1.4.5

Key Updates

• Alerts returned by /daemon/alerts route are sorted by severity
• Add --fee-included parameter to siac wallet send siacoins that allows sending an exact wallet balance with the fees included.
• Extend siac hostdb view to include all the fields returned from the API.
• siac renter delete now accepts a list of files.
• add pause and resume uploads to siac
• Extended siac renter to include number of passive and disabled contracts
• Add contract data to siac renter
• Add getters and setter to FileContract and FileContractRevision types to prevent index-out-of-bounds panics after a RenewAndClear.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed file health output of siac renter -v not adding to 100% by adding parsePercentage function.
• Fix unlock of unlocked mutex panic in the download destination writer.
• Fix potential channel double closed panic in DownloadByRootProject
• Fix divide by zero panic in renterFileHealthSummary for siac renter -v
• Fix negative currency panic in siac renter contracts view

Other

• Add timeout parameter to Skylink pin route - Also apply timeout when fetching the individual chunks
• Add SiaMux stream handler to the host
• Fix TestAccountExpiry NDF
• Add benchmark test for bubble metadata
• Add additional format instructions to the API docs and fix format errors
• Created Minor Merge Request template.
• Updated Resources.md with links to filled out README files
• Add version information to the stats endpoint
• Extract environment variables to constants and add to API docs.

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v1.4.4

Key Updates

• Add a delay when modifying large contracts on hosts to prevent hosts from becoming unresponsive due to massive disk i/o.
• Add --root parameter to siac renter delete that allows passing absolute instead of relative file paths.
• Add ability to blacklist skylinks by merkleroot.
• Uploading resumes more quickly after restart.
• Add HEAD request for skylink
• Add ability to pack many files into the same or adjacent sectors while producing unique skylinks for each file.
• Fix default expected upload/download values displaying 0 when setting an initial allowance.
• siac skynet upload now supports uploading directories. All files are uploaded individually and result in separate skylinks.
• No user-agent needed for Skylink downloads.
• Add go get command to make dependencies.
• Add flags for tag and targz for skyfile streaming.
• Add new endpoint /skynet/stats that provides statistical information about skynet, how many files were uploaded and the combined size of said files.
• The siac renter setallowance UX is considerably improved.
• Add XChaCha20 CipherKey.
• Add Skykey Manager.
• Add siac skynet unpin subcommand.
• Extend siac renter -v to show breakdown of file health.
• Add Skynet-Disable-Force header to allow disabling the force update feature on Skynet uploads
• Add bandwidth usage to siac gateway

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed bug in startup where an error being returned by the renter's blocking startup process was being missed
• Fix repair bug where unused hosts were not being properly updated for a siafile
• Fix threadgroup violation in the watchdog that allowed writing to the log file after a shutdown
• Fix bug where siac renter -v wasn't working due to the wrong flag being used.
• Fixed bug in siafile snapshot code where the hostKey() method was not used to safely acquire the host pubkey.
• Fixed siac skynet ls not working when files were passed as input. It is now able to access specific files in the Skynet folder.
• Fixed a deadlock when performing a Skynet download with no workers
• Fix a parsing bug for malformed skylinks
• fix siac update for new release verification
• Fix parameter delimiter for skylinks
• Fixed race condition in host's RPCLoopLock
• Fixed a bug which caused a call to build.Critical in the case that a contract in the renew set was marked !GoodForRenew while the contractor lock was not held

Other

• Split out renter siatests into 2 groups for faster pipelines.
• Add README to the siatest package
• Bump golangci-lint version to v1.23.8
• Add timeout parameter to Skylink route - Add go get command to make dependencies.
• Update repair loop to use uniqueRefreshPaths to reduce unnecessary bubble calls
• Add Skynet-Disable-Force header to allow disabling the force update feature on Skynet uploads
• Create generator for Changelog to improve changelog update process

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v1.4.3

Key Updates

• Introduced Skynet with initial feature set for portals, web portals, skyfiles, skylinks, uploads, downloads, and pinning
• Add data-pieces and parity-pieces flags to siac renter upload
• Integrate SiaMux
• Initialize defaults for the host's ephemeral account settings
• Add SIA_DATA_DIR environment variable for setting the data directory for siad/siac
• Made build process deterministic. Moved related scripts into release-scripts
• Add directory support to Skylinks.
• Enabled Lockcheck code anaylzer
• Added Bandwidth monitoring to the host module

Bugs Fixed

• HostDB Data race fixed and documentation updated to explain the data race concern
• Name and Dir methods of the Siapath used the filepath package when they should have used the strings package to avoid OS path separator bugs
• Fixed panic where the Host's contractmanager AddSectorBatch allowed for writing to a file after the contractmanager had shutdown
• Fixed panic where the watchdog would try to write to the contractor's log after the contractor had shutdown

Other

• Upgrade host metadata to v1.4.3
• Removed stubs from testing

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