v0.5.2

This is a minor release, which only involves ioctl changes:

• Executing contract view functions out of the block production cycle;
• Supporting overwrite semantics for account createadd;
• Avoiding password check when deleting an account locally.

v0.5.1

This is a minor release without breaking changes. In this release, we majorly:

• Fix account deletion and print action timestamp in ioctl;
• Make test account will not be merged into genesis by default;
• Improve the election lock granularity to prevent holding block process.

v0.5.0 (MainNet Alpha)

This is the official release for IoTeX blockchain mainnet alpha. In this release, we baked the blockchain which is consisted of the following components:

• Networking layer enables the peer-to-peer communication between IoTex nodes

• Blockchain APIs (through GRPC) allows applications and users to interact with blockchain.

• Ioctl allows users to interact with blockchain in console.

• Consensus runs Roll-DPoS algorithm to select the active consensus delegates among a pool of delegates (who are elected via staking and voting on Ethereum).

• Account protocol processes native IOTX token transfer.

• Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) with smart contracts written in Solidity enables developers to seamlessly port existing DApps here.

v0.5.0-rc10

Compared to rc8, rc10 contains the following improvements:

• Rate limit HTTP endpoints and P2P network
• Allowing standby mode for a delegate node
• Improving APIs
• Improving ioctl
• Bug fix in smart contract execution

v0.5.0-rc8

Compared to rc7, rc8 contains the following improvements:

• Separating block header, body and footer storage
• Improving eth election result sync efficiency
• Improving block sync efficiency
• Improving ioctl
• Providing reward details via log

v0.5.0-rc7

Compared to rc6, rc7 contains the following improvements:

• Fixing the blocksync efficiency
• Fixing the some GRPC API bugs
• Improving ioctl commands, including the delegate view
• Removing irrelevant consensus error logs

v0.5.0-rc6

Compared to rc5, rc6 contains the following improvements:

• Fixing the consensus bugs
• Fixing rewarding bugs
• Refactoring ioctl alias
• Fixing gas limit protection
• Improving APIs

v0.5.0-rc5

Compared to rc4, rc5 contains the following improvements:

• Enabling proof of lock in time slot rotation
• Adding foundation reward
• Enforcing the productivity threshold to get epoch reward
• Fixing bugs in consensus and smart contract
• Improving ioctl user experience
• Adding block LRU cache
• Enabling gas price threshold for admitting into action pool

v0.5.0-rc4

Compared to rc3, rc4 contains the following improvements:

• Improvements on ioctl and supporting more commands, including claiming BP rewards
• Fixing some security bugs
• Updating the genesis config
• Upgrading protoc-gen-go to v1.3.0
• Code improvement
• Storage size improved by ~50%

This is the initial release of ioctl (a command-line interface for interacting with IoTeX blockchains). See cli/ioctl/README.md for more information about ioctl.

v0.5.0-rc3

Compared to rc2, rc3 contains the following improvements:

• Fully removing the old genesis config
• A more comprehensive ioctl
• Improving election service robustness
• Improving block sync efficiency
• Adding block producer productivity query API
• Replacing blake2b with sha3

This is the initial release of ioctl (a command-line interface for interacting with IoTeX blockchains). See cli/ioctl/README.md for more information about ioctl.