lbcwallet/CHANGES

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User visible changes for btcwallet
  A wallet daemon for btcd, written in Go
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Changes in 0.5.0 (Tue Mar 03 2015)
  - New features:
    - Add a new address manager package (waddrmgr) to replace the previous
      wallet/keystore package:
      - BIP0032 hierarchical deterministic keys
      - BIP0043/BIP0044 multi-account hierarchy
      - Strong focus on security:
        - Wallet master encryption keys protected by scrypt PBKDF
        - NaCl-based secretbox cryptography (XSalsa20 and Poly1305)
        - Mandatory encryption of private keys and P2SH redeeming scripts
        - Optional encryption of public data, including extended public keys
          and addresses
        - Different crypto keys for redeeming scripts to mitigate cryptanalysis
        - Hardened against memory scraping through the use of actively clearing
          private material from memory when locked
        - Different crypto keys used for public, private, and script data
        - Ability for different passphrases for public and private data
      - Multi-tier scalable key design to allow instant password changes
        regardless of the number of addresses stored
      - Import WIF keys
      - Import pay-to-script-hash scripts for things such as multi-signature
        transactions
      - Ability to export a watching-only version which does not contain any
        private key material
      - Programmatically detectable errors, including encapsulation of errors
        from packages it relies on
      - Address synchronization capabilities
    - Add a new namespaced database package (walletdb):
      - Key/value store
      - Namespace support
      - Allows multiple packages to have their own area in the database without
        worrying about conflicts
      - Read-only and read-write transactions with both manual and managed modes
      - Nested buckets
      - Supports registration of backend databases
      - Comprehensive test coverage
    - Replace the createencryptedwallet RPC with a wizard-style prompt
      (--create) to create a new walletdb-backed wallet file and import keys
      from the old Armory wallet file (if any)
    - Transaction creation changes:
      - Drop default transaction fee to 0.00001 BTC per kB
      - Use standard script flags provided by the txscript package for
        transaction creation and sanity checking
      - Randomize change output index
      - Includes amounts (total spendable, total needed, and fee) in all
        insufficient funds errors
    - Add support for simnet, the private simulation test network
    - Implement the following Bitcoin Core RPCs:
      - listreceivedbyaddress (#53)
      - lockunspent, listlockunspent (#50, #55)
      - getreceivedbyaddress
      - listreceivedbyaccount
    - Reimplement btcd RPCs which return the best block to use the block most
      recently processed by wallet to avoid confirmation races:
      - getbestblockhash
      - getblockcount
    - Perform clean shutdown on interrupt or when a stop RPC is received (#69)
    - Throttle the number of connected HTTP POST and websocket client
      connections (tunable using the rpcmaxclients and rpcmaxwebsockets config
      options)
    - Provide the ability to disable TLS when connecting to a localhost btcd or
      serving localhost clients

  - Rescan improvements:
    - Add a rescan notification for when the rescan has completed and no more
      rescan notifications are expected (#99)
    - Use the most recent partial sync height from a rescan progress
      notification when a rescan is restarted after the btcd connection is lost
    - Force a rescan if the transaction store cannot be opened (due to a
      missing file or if the deserialization failed)

  - RPC compatibility improvements:
    - Allow the use of the `*` account name to refer to all accounts
    - Make the account parameter optional for the getbalance and
      listalltransactions requests
    - Add iswatchonly field to the validateaddress response result
    - Check address equivalence in verifymessage by comparing pubkeys and pubkey
      hashes rather than requiring the address being verified to be one
      controlled by the wallet and using its private key for verification

  - Bug fixes:
     - Prevent an out-of-bounds panic when handling a gettransaction RPC.
     - Prevent a panic on client disconnect (#110).
    - Prevent double spending coins when creating multiple transactions at once
      by serializing access to the transaction creation logic (#120)
    - Mark unconfirmed transaction credits as spent when another unconfirmed
      transaction spends one (#91)
    - Exclude immature coinbase outputs from listunspent results (#103)
    - Fix several data and logic races during sync with btcd (#101)
    - Avoid a memory issue from incorrect slice usage which caused both
      duplicate and missing blocks in the transaction store when middle
      inserting transactions from a new block
    - Only spend P2PKH outputs when creating sendfrom/sendmany/sendtoaddress
      transactions (#89)
    - Return the correct UTXO set when fetching all wallet UTXOs by fixing an
      incorrect slice append
    - Remove a deadlock caused by filling the btcd notification channel (#100)
    - Avoid a confirmation race by using the most recently processed block in
      RPC handlers, rather than using the most recently notified block by btcd
    - Marshal empty JSON arrays as `[]` instead of the JSON `null` by using
      empty, non-nil Go slices
    - Flush logs and run all deferred functions before main returns and the
      process exits
    - Sync temporary transaction store flat file before closing and renaming
    - Accept hex strings with an odd number of characters

  - Notable developer-related changes:
    - Switch from the go.net websocket package to gorilla websockets
    - Refactor the RPC server:
      - Move several global variables to the rpcServer struct
      - Dynamically look up appropriate handlers for the current btcd connection
        status and wallet sync state
      - Begin creating websocket notifications by sending to one of many
        notification channels in the rpcServer struct, which are in turn
        marshalled and broadcast to each websocket client
    - Separate the RPC client code into the chain package:
      - Uses btcrpcclient for a btcd websocket RPC client
      - Converts all notification callbacks to typed messages sent over channels
      - Uses an unbounded queue for waiting notifications
    - Import a new voting pool package (votingpool):
      - Create and fetch voting pools and series from a walletdb namespace
      - Generate deposit addresses utilizing m-of-n multisig P2SH scripts
    - Improve transaction creation readability by splitting a monolithic
      function into several smaller ones
    - Check and handle all errors in some way, or explicitly comment why a
      particular error was left unchecked
    - Simplify RPC error handling by wrapping specific errors in unique types to
      create an appropriate btcjson error before the response is marshalled
    - Add a map of unspent outputs (keyed by outpoint) to the transaction store
      for quick lookup of any UTXO and access to the full wallet UTXO set
      without iterating over many transactions looking for unspent credits
    - Modify several data structures and function signatures have been modified
      to reduce the number of needed allocations and be more cache friendly

  - Miscellaneous:
    - Rewrite paths relative to the data directory when an alternate data
      directory is provided on the command line
    - Switch the websocket endpoint to `ws` to match btcd
    - Remove the getaddressbalance extension RPC to discourage address reuse and
      encourage watching for expected payments by using listunspent
    - Increase transaction creation performance by moving the sorting of
      transaction outputs by their amount out of an inner loop
    - Add additional logging to the transaction store:
      - Log each transaction added to the store
      - Log each previously unconfirmed transaction that is mined
      - [debug] Log which previous outputs are marked spent by a newly inserted
        debiting transaction
      - [debug] Log each transaction that is removed in a rollback
    - Only log rollbacks if transactions are reorged out of the old chain
    - Save logs to network-specific directories
      (e.g. ~/.btcwallet/logs/testnet3) to match btcd behavior (#114)

Changes in 0.4.0 (Sun May 25 2014)
  - Implement the following standard bitcoin server RPC requests:
    - signmessage (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/58)
    - verifymessage (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/61)
    - listunspent (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/54)
    - validateaddress (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/60)
    - addressmultisig (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/37)
    - createmultisig (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/37)
    - signrawtransaction (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/59)

  - Add authenticate extension RPC request to authenticate a websocket
    session without requiring the use of the HTTP Authorization header

  - Add btcdusername and btcdpassword options to allow separate
    authentication credentials from wallet clients when authenticating to a
    btcd websocket RPC server

  - Fix RPC response passthrough: JSON unmarshaling and marshaling is now
    delayed until necessary and JSON result objects from btcd are sent to
    clients directly without an extra decode+encode that may change the
    representation of large integer values

  - Fix several websocket client connection issues:
    - Disconnect clients are cleanly removed without hanging on any final
      sends
    - Set deadline for websocket client sends to prevent hanging on
      misbehaving clients or clients with a bad connection

  - Fix return result for dumprivkey by always padding the private key bytes
    to a length of 32

  - Fix rescan for transaction history for imported addresses
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/74)

  - Fix listsinceblock request handler to consider the minimum confirmation
    parameter (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/80)

  - Fix several RPC handlers which require an unlocked wallet to check
    for an unlocked wallet before continuing
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/65)

  - Fix handling for block rewards (coinbase transactions):
    - Update listtransactions results to use "generate" category for
      coinbase outputs
    - Prevent inclusion of immature coinbase outputs for newly created
      transactions

  - Rewrite the transaction store to handle several issues regarding
    transation malleability and performance issues
    - The new transaction store is written to disk in a different format
      then before, and upgrades will require a rescan to rebuild the
      transaction history

  - Improve rescan:
    - Begin rescan with known UTXO set at start height
    - Serialize executation of all rescan requests
    - Merge waiting rescan jobs so all jobs can be handled with a single
      rescan
    - Support parially synced addresses in the keystore and incrementally
      mark rescan progress.  If a rescan is unable to continue (wallet 
      closes, btcd disconnects, etc.) a new rescan can start at the last
      synced chain height

  - Notify (with an unsolicited notification) websocket clients of btcd
    connection state

  - Improve logging:
    - Log reason for disconnecting a websocket client

  - Updates for btcd websocket API changes

  - Stability fixes, internal API changes, general code cleanup, and comment
    corrections

Changes in 0.3.0 (Mon Feb 10 2014)
  - Use correct hash algorithm for chained addresses (fixes a bug where
    address chaining was still deterministic, but forked from Armory and
    previous btcwallet implementations)

  - Change websocket endpoint to connect to btcd 0.6.0-alpha

  - Redo server implementation to serialize handling of client requests

  - Redo account locking to greatly reduce btcwallet lockups caused by
    incorrect mutex usage

  - Open all accounts, rather than just the default account, at startup

  - Generate new addresses using pubkey chaining if keypool is depleted and
    wallet is locked

  - Make maximum keypool size a configuration option (keypoolsize)

  - Add disallowfree configuration option (default false) to force adding
    the minimum fee to all outbound transactions

  - Implement the following standard bitcoin server RPC requests:
    - getinfo (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/63)
    - getrawchangeaddress (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/41)
    - getreceivedbyaccount (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/42)
    - gettransaction (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/44)
    - keypoolrefill (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/48)
    - listsinceblock (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/52)
    - sendtoaddress (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/56)

  - Add empty (unimplemented) handlers for the following RPC requests so
    requests are not passed down to btcd:
    - getblocktemplate
    - getwork
    - stop

  - Add RPC extension request, exportwatchingwallet, to export an account
    with a watching-only wallet from an account with a hot wallet that
    may be used by a separate btcwallet instance

  - Require all account wallets to share the same passphrase

  - Change walletlock and walletpassphrase RPC requests to lock or unlock
    all account wallets

  - Allow opening accounts with watching-only wallets

  - Return txid for sendfrom RPC requests
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/64)

  - Rescan imported private keys in background
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/34)

  - Do not import duplicate private keys
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/35)

  - Write all three account files for a new account, rather than just
    the wallet (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/30)

  - Create any missing directories before writing autogenerated certificate
    pair

  - Fix rescanning of a new account's root address

  - Fix error in the wallet file serialization causing duplicate address
    encryption attempts

  - Fix issue calculating eligible transaction inputs caused by a bad
    confirmation check

  - Fix file locking issue on Windows caused by not closing files before
    renaming

  - Fix typos in README file

Changes in 0.2.1 (Thu Jan 10 2014)
  - Fix a mutex issue which caused btcwallet to lockup on all
    RPC requests needing to read or write an account

Changes in 0.2.0 (Thu Jan 09 2014)
  - Enable mainnet support (disabled by default, use --mainnet to enable)

  - Don't hardcode localhost btcd connections.  Instead, add a --connect
    option to specify the hostname or address and port of a local or
    remote btcd instance
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/1)

  - Remove --serverport port and replace with --listen.  This option works
    just like btcd's --rpclisten  and allows to specify the interfaces to
    listen for RPC connections

  - Require TLS and Basic HTTP authentication before wallet can be
    controlled over RPC

  - Refill keypool if wallet is unlocked and keypool is emptied

  - Detect and rollback saved tx/utxo info after btcd performs blockchain
    reorganizations while btcwallet was disconnected

  - Add support for the following standard bitcoin JSON-RPC calls:
    - dumpprivkey (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/9)
    - getaccount
    - getaccountaddress
    - importprivkey (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/2)
    - listtransactions (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/12)

  - Add several extension RPC calls for websocket connections:
    - getaddressbalance: get the balance associated with a single address
    - getunconfirmedbalance: get total balance for unconfirmed transactions
    - listaddresstransactions: list transactions for a single address
      (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/27)
    - listalltransactions: lists all transactions without specifying a range

  - Make RPC extensions available only to websocket connections, with the
    exception of createencryptedwallet

  - Add dummy handlers for unimplemented wallet RPC calls
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/29)

  - Add socks5/tor proxy support

  - Calculate and add minimum transaction fee to created transactions

  - Use OS-specific rename calls to provide atomic file renames which
    can replace a currently-existing file
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/20)

  - Move account files to a single directory per bitcoin network to
    prevent a future scaling issue
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/16)

  - Fix several data races and mutex mishandling

  - Fix a bug where the RPC server hung on requests requiring btcd
    when a btcd connection was never established

  - Fix a bug where creating account files did not create all necessary
    directories (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/15)

  - Fix a bug where '~' did not expand to a home or user directory
    (https://github.com/conformal/btcwallet/issues/17)

  - Fix a bug where returning account names as strings did not remove
    trailing ending 0s

  - Fix a bug where help usage was displayed twice using the -h or --help
    flag

  - Fix sample listening address in sample configuration file

  - Update sample configuration file with all available options with
    descriptions and defaults for each

Initial Release 0.1.0 (Wed Nov 13 2013)
  - Initial release