Release type: mainnet upgrade

Who should upgrade: All the witnesses and SON operators are required to upgrade to this version

Hardfork date: 24-October-2023

Summary:

We are excited to to announce the main upgrade release 1.6.0. This release is introducing all the new features & improvements which was in active development for last one year.

This upgrade brings the ability to perform cross chain transfers between Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hive and Peerplays. The Ethereum support is available for core asset (ETH) as well as for all ERC20 tokens.

The new features include:

• Ethereum - Peerplays cross chain transfers via Ethereum Sidechain Operator Nodes (ETH-SONs)
• We have introduced ability to execute smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain based on the consensus established on the Peerplays blockchain thus making it possible to deploy the smart contracts in an autonomous, decentralised manner.
• Ability to vote for Bitcoin, Ethereum or Hive Sidechain oracles (SONs) based on network type as opposed to a single vote for all three type of Sidechain Operator Nodes (SONs)
• Introduction connection pools which provides better resilience to Sidechain Operator nodes
• Various libraries like secp256k1, BOOST etc upgraded to newer versions
• Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements across the board

This is beta release with the features ready for general availability

Major features are:

• All bugs and improvements reported against 1.5.24-beta are addressed
• Ethereum SONs - support for ETH & ERC20 tokens is available
• Improvements to SONs : withdrawal of core asset to Ethereum is changed.
• Voting for SONs separated based on sidechain network

Who should be using this release ?

• Public TESTNET must be upgraded to this version
• dApp teams and anyone interested in getting access to the new features.

This is beta release with the features ready for general availability

Major features are:

• All bugs and improvements reported against 1.5.23-beta are addressed
• Ethereum SONs - support for ETH & ERC20 tokens is available
• Improvements to SONs (Sidechain Operator Nodes)
• Voting for SONs separated based on sidechain network
• Newly developed Python test cases are integrated to the CI workflow (with updates) (https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/merge_requests/221)
• Connection pools feature introduced in https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/issues/398

Who should be using this release ?

• Public TESTNET must be upgraded to this version
• dApp teams and anyone interested in getting access to the new features.

This is beta release with the features ready for general availability

Major features are:

• Ethereum SONs - support for ETH & ERC20 tokens is available
• Improvements to SONs
• Voting for SONs separated based on sidechain network
• bug fixes and improvements to Ethereum SONs identified in the Ethereum mainnet as DEX UI integration tests are addressed (https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/merge_requests/219, https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/merge_requests/222 )
• Newly developed Python test cases are integrated to the CI workflow (https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/merge_requests/221)
• Connection pools feature introduced in https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/issues/398

Who should be using this release ?

• Public TESTNET must be upgraded to this version
• NEX features, especially Bitcoin SON and libbitcoin features should be verified against this release.
• dApp teams and anyone interested in getting access to the new features.

This is an alpha release based on the features currently in active development & contains fixes for various incompatibilities found in 1.5.21-alpha

Major features in progress are:

• Ethereum SONs - support for ETH & ERC20 tokens
• Improvements to SONs
• Voting for SONs separated based on sidechain network
• Numerous bug fixes and improvements
• Connection pools feature introduced in https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/issues/398
• Account creation failure from Python is now addressed in https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/merge_requests/213
• HIVE withdrawal bug addressed in https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/issues/509

Who should be using this release ?

dApp teams and anyone interested in getting access to the new features.

Python Peerplays 0.5.0, faucet & Peerplays JS 0.8.1 must be verified against this release.

This is an alpha release based on the features currently in active development.

Major features in progress are:

• Ethereum SONs - support for ETH & ERC20 tokens
• Improvements to SONs
• Voting for SONs separated based on sidechain network
• Numerous bug fixes and improvements

Who should be using this release ?

dApp teams and anyone interested in getting access to the new features.

Python Peerplays 0.5.0, faucet & Peerplays JS 0.8.1 must be verified against this release.

This is a release branch based on the features currently in active development.
Major features in progress are:

Improvements to SONs
Ethereum SONs preview
Numerous bug fixes and improvements

Who should be using this release ?
dApp teams and anyone interested in getting access to the new features.
All dApp teams are requested to use TESTNETs based on 1.5.20-alpa

• This is a hardfork release
• The hardfork date is 16-November- 2022, 00:00:00 UTC

Who should upgrade :

Its recommended that all the mainnet witnesses and Bitcoin & Hive SON operators to upgrade.

Summary

This release incorporates an important bug fixes to address an issue with editing of Sidechain addresses

Binaries:

witness_node : https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/jobs/3278851941/artifacts/file/build/programs/witness_node/witness_node
cli_wallet : https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/jobs/3278851941/artifacts/file/build/programs/cli_wallet/cli_wallet

• This is a hardfork release
• Replays are mandatory
• The hardfork date is 16th July 2022, 00:00:00 UTC

Who should upgrade :

Its recommended that all the mainnet witnesses and Bitcoin & Hive SON operators to upgrade.

Summary

This release incorporates important bug fixes to SONs, Bitcoin network connection & numerous enhancements. We have also added large number of automated test cases, upgraded libboost version etc.

We are also introducing the feature to ignore outdated, older witness nodes which are still running. GPOS participation rewards now include blockchain transaction fees to help increase security in the selection of witnesses, SONs, and Advisors.

OS support : 2 Ubuntu LTS version, 20.04 and 18.04 are now supported. The Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be supported until April 2023.

Features

Create cli wallet command to report sidechain deposit transaction manually

Create cli wallet command to report sidechain deposit transaction manually

Implement cli wallet command/api endpoint to retrieve voting info

https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/issues/276

Redirect transaction fees to dividends

Enable multiple SON support by default

Bring all funtions in database_api and wallet_api to a unified form

Implement the witness capability to overwrite last hard fork

Improvements & Bug Fixes

stopping witness_node with control-C corrupts chain file

Ungraceful shutdown when interrupting software with CTRL+C

Bitcoin SON on mainnet - deposit not identified

Update witness node/wallet to TLS 1.3

Refactor Bitcoin block parsing to match changes from Bitcoin v0.22

Enable building with boost version higher 1.67

Refactor importing BTC addresses into son-wallet

exception seen in witness logs

deprecated variables used in fc library

deprecation messages for auto_unit_test.hpp seen in build logs.

remove FC_REFLECT_TEMPLATE for votes_info_object

application core dumps when chain-id argument is not provided.

cli_wallet core dumps when cli_wallet -v is used

Error doesn't hep in identifying the issue with cli-wallet command

port ElasticSearch changes from Bitshares

Switch to Ubuntu 20.04 as a default platform

Error in chain_test in gitlab autobuild

ability to resign as a SON and recover my tokens)

cli wallet unable to decode memo text

Refactor importing BTC addresses into son-wallet

Witness_node: Feeding private key through option "private-key" is not allowing during witness node start up.

Add check for transfer fee when moving funds from deposit address to primary wallet

Remove hardcoded chain parameters

""ERROR_WHILE_CONVERTING_VALUE_TO_STRING" error seen in witness logs

cli_wallet SON related tests randomly fail)

Refactor GPO and DGPO, move dynamic data from GPO to DGPO

Fix hardcoded fee for issuing assets in sidechain plugin

chain getting halted when son payouts are created

Automation tasks list

When a witness is restarted without replay-blockchain option verify that the witness is not able to join the chain

Configure docker images to create core dumps on witness software crash

SON-HIVE Voting - Refactor all the places we use sidechain_type directly
SON Hive Voting - Node crashes when same SON id is used for both sidechains
SON Hive Voting - Scheduler provides invalid SON IDs
libreadline-dev package must be removed from Dockers and installation instructions
Disconnecting non compatible witness nodes happens too late

• This is a hardfork release
• Replays are mandatory
• The hardfork date is 30th April 2022, 00:00:00 UTC

Who should upgrade :

Its recommended that all the mainnet witnesses and Bitcoin & Hive SON operators to upgrade.

Summary

This release incorporates important bug fixes & numerous enhancements. We have also added large number of automated test cases, upgraded libboost version etc.

Features

Create cli wallet command to report sidechain deposit transaction manually

Create cli wallet command to report sidechain deposit transaction manually

Implement cli wallet command/api endpoint to retrieve voting info

https://gitlab.com/PBSA/peerplays/-/issues/276

Redirect transaction fees to dividends

Enable multiple SON support by default

Bring all funtions in database_api and wallet_api to a unified form

Improvements & Bug Fixes

stopping witness_node with control-C corrupts chain file

Bitcoin SON on mainnet - deposit not identified

Refactor Bitcoin block parsing to match changes from Bitcoin v0.22

Enable building with boost version higher 1.67

Refactor importing BTC addresses into son-wallet

exception seen in witness logs

deprecated variables used in fc library

deprecation messages for auto_unit_test.hpp seen in build logs.

remove FC_REFLECT_TEMPLATE for votes_info_object

application core dumps when chain-id argument is not provided.

cli_wallet core dumps when cli_wallet -v is used

Error doesn't hep in identifying the issue with cli-wallet command

port ElasticSearch changes from Bitshares

Switch to Ubuntu 20.04 as a default platform

Error in chain_test in gitlab autobuild

ability to resign as a SON and recover my tokens)

cli wallet unable to decode memo text

Refactor importing BTC addresses into son-wallet

Witness_node: Feeding private key through option "private-key" is not allowing during witness node start up.

Add check for transfer fee when moving funds from deposit address to primary wallet

Remove hardcoded chain parameters

""ERROR_WHILE_CONVERTING_VALUE_TO_STRING" error seen in witness logs

cli_wallet SON related tests randomly fail)

Refactor GPO and DGPO, move dynamic data from GPO to DGPO

Fix hardcoded fee for issuing assets in sidechain plugin

chain getting halted when son payouts are created

Automation tasks list