-user starts a httpauthsession with an api key and name
-user initializes jsonrpc hmac secret to sha256 of session id
-server sends new random hmac secret after each api call
-a user without an authenticated session will get a authorization error
It configured twice, once right at startup without the lbry id and then
after the settings database is available it gets reconfigured with the
lbry id and a session id.
-adds is_lagging indicator as a key from daemon_status, which is set to
True during a phase of the startup sequence, presently only during
loading_wallet if catching up with the blockchain takes longer than a
minute.
-checks if connected to internet before trying to start
-adds version() function, which can be called after the daemon is
running and returns lbrynet, lbryum, and lbry ui version information.
-daemon_status now returns how far behind its behind the blockchain
when in the loading_wallet phase of startup
-cleans up set_vars by moving to init
-set_settings accepts a dict of settings
-adds upload_log field, defaulting on true, this uploads the lbry
log file to lbry.io to help figure out if and where things aren’t
working
-default_download_directory is the key of the path where files are
saved
-gets publish working with sources
-adds check_first_run function, returns True/False
-previously only is_running would work during startup, check_first_run,
get_time_behind_blockchain, and stop have been added
-requires six 1.9, 1.10.0 produced errors
-Use localhost:5279/view?name=wonderfullife to download and render a
file
-is_running is now the only function that will work during startup
-functions output json, rather than json in your json
-uses UI stored in Resources folder of app
-going to /view?name= will download the corresponding stream and
display the file in the browser
-adds default daemon settings, currently they don’t do anything, to be
added to
-adds missing packages to setup.py
