Block Signer 1.2

Release Notes

New Features

• Support Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs)
• This release is only working for the OAN Java kernel v1.5 or later.

Migration guide

Download the blockSigner 1.2 tar file. Untar the file using

tar -xvf blockSigner-1.2.tar.gz

Then you start to use the blocksigner.

###Notice:
The blocksigner v1.2 depends on the native sodium library. Please keep the native folder at the same level of the executing jar file.

Block Signer 1.1

Release Notes

New Features

• This release is only working for the OAN java kernel v1.5 or later and the OAN rust kernel v1.3.0 or later.

Improvements

• Enhanced the block submit procedure. The OAN kernel will submit the block on-time instead of keep sending the signature to seal the staking block.
• Enhanced the logs

Block Signer 1.0

Release Notes

New Features

• Block signer can be launched either by providing a config file path or the command line arguments.
• Added support for both mainnet and amity network. Network name has to be specified when launching the block signer.

Improvements

• Reduced the sleep time between consecutive calls to the kernel.
  • Sleep time for submitSeed is reduced to 500ms.
  • Sleep time for submitSignature is reduced to 100ms.
• Display meaningful interpretation of submitSeed and submitSignature rpc results.
• Added default and verbose logging levels. If verbose logging is enabled, rpc request and response messages are printed. Logging level is an optional argument that can be provided when launching the block signer and by default is set to false.
• Added a -h argument to print the usage options.