Substrate v2.0.1 – "unbreak my build"

Changelog

2.0.0-> 2.0.1

Patch release with backports to fix broken nightly builds.
Namely contains backports of

• #7381: Make Substrate compile with latest nightly
• #7238: Fix compilation with environmental on latest nightly
• #7395: Make benchmarks compile with latest nightly
• #7838: Fix incorrect use of syn::exports (partially)
• #7854: Update to futures 0.3.9

Substrate v2.0.0 – two dot 😮

Latest Changes (since 2.0.0-rc6)

Runtime

• Rename ModuleToIndex to PalletRuntimeSetup (#7148)
• Bounties (#5715)
• pallet-collective: allow customized default vote (#6984)
• add instantiable support for treasury pallet (#7058)
• frame/authority-discovery: Have authorities() return both current and next (#6788)
• add generated weight info for pallet-collective (#6789)
• Support Staking Payout to Any Account (#6832)
• Time-delay proxies (#6770)
• Refcounts are now u32 (#7164)

Client

• Rename inspect-key to inspect (#7160)
• Send import notification always for re-orgs (#7118)
• Allow remotes to not open a legacy substream (#7075)
• Fix storage::read (#7084)
• Support hex encoded secret key for --node-key (#7052)
• Update the service tasks Grafana dashboard (#7038)
• manual seal is now consensus agnostic (#7010)
• Move subcommands from sc-cli to nodes (#6948)
• Implement request-responses protocols (#6634)
• fix bench db wipe (#6965)
• Fix benchmark read/write key tracker for keys in child storages. (#6905)
• *: Update to next libp2p version 0.24.0 (#6891)

API

• grandpa-rpc: use FinalityProofProvider to check finality for rpc (#6215)
• pow: replace the thread-base mining loop with a future-based mining worker (#7060)
• Tracing for wasm with bridging to native (#6916)
• Frame-support storage: make iterations and translate consistent (#5470)
• pow: support uniform tie breaking in fork choice (#7073)
• Make decoding of compact<perthing> saturating instead of invalid (#7062)
• Set reserved nodes with offchain worker. (#6996)
• client/*: Treat protocol name as str and not [u8] (#6967)
• Add a LightSyncState field to the chain spec (#6894)
• *: Update to next libp2p version 0.24.0 (#6891)

Runtime Migrations

• Time-delay proxies (#6770)
• Refcounts are now u32 (#7164)

Substrate v2.0.0-rc6 – Rock Hyrax

Runtime

• Custom Codec Implenetation for NPoS Election (#6720)
• Successful note_imminent_preimage is free (#6793)
• pallet-democracy use of weightinfo (#6783)
• Update Balances Pallet to use WeightInfo (#6610)
• pallet-evm: add builtin support for the four basic Ethereum precompiles (#6743)
• Allow PostDispatchInfo to disable fees (#6749)
• pallet-evm: add support for tuple-based precompile declarations (#6681)
• grandpa: allow noting that the set has stalled (#6725)

Client

• Merge Subkey into sc-cli (#4954)
• RpcHandlers Refactorings (#6846)
• client/authority-discovery: Introduce AuthorityDiscoveryService (#6760)
• Implement tracing::Event handling & parent_id for spans and events (#6672)
• Move to upstream wasmtime, refactor globals snapshot (#6759)
• Revalidate transactions only on latest best block (#6824)
• Allow task manager to have children (#6771)
• client/network: Expose DHT query duration to Prometheus (#6784)
• client/network: Add peers to DHT only if protocols match (#6549)
• Name all the tasks! (#6726)
• Child nodes can be handled by adding a child TaskManager to the parent's TaskManager (#6771)

API

• pow: add access to pre-digest for algorithm verifiers (#6900)
• babe, aura, pow: only call check_inherents if authoring version is compatible (#6862)
• Implement 'transactional' annotation for runtime functions. (#6763)
• seal: Change prefix and module name from "ext_" to "seal_" for contract callable functions (#6798)
• Add Subscription RPC for Grandpa Finality (#5732)
• seal: Fix and improve error reporting (#6773)
• Allow blacklisting blocks from being finalized again after block revert (#6301)
• BABE slot and epoch event notifications (#6563)
• Add memory-tracker feature to sp-trie to fix wasm panic (#6745)

Substrate v2.0.0-rc5+2 - River Dolphin

Changelog

2.0.0-rc4 -> 2.0.0-rc5

Runtime

• Support using system storage directly for EVM balance and nonce (#6659)
• Properly filter out duplicate voters in elections. (#6693)
• Treasury burning can be directed (#6671)
• identity: Don't let subs be re-registered (#6667)
• Regression test to ensure we don't break deterministic builds in wasm (#6597)
• allow to specify schedule time as a relative value (#6578)
• Make signature batching use specialized methods (#6616)
• Rename CheckEra to CheckMortality (#6619)
• Add WeightInfo to all pallets with benchmarks. (#6575)
• Don't require module name in inherents (#6576)
• pallet-evm: return Ok(()) when EVM execution fails (#6493)
• Make the encoded-Call Vec explicitly so in metadata (#6566)
• Allow specify schedule dispatch origin (#6387)
• pallet-evm: customizable chain id (#6537)
• Refactor as_sub to make things clearer. (#6503)

Client

• Update wasmtime to (almost) lastest master (#6662)
• Update to latest sysinfo prevents leaking fd-handlers (#6708)
• Tracing values (#6679)
• Graceful shutdown for the task manager (#6654)
• Update substrate-networking Grafana dashboard (#6649)
• *: Update to libp2p v0.21.1 (#6559)
• Send Status message on all newly-opened legacy substreams (#6593)
• babe: report equivocations (#6362)
• Support synching of blocks that are not new_best (#6508)
• Remove the service, replacing it with a struct of individual chain components (#6352)
• Fix tx-pool returning the same transaction multiple times (#6535)

API

• Better handling of stable-only build (#6569)
• Remove the service builder (#6557)
• seal: Prevent contracts from going below subsistence (#6623)
• seal: Rework contracts API (#6573)
• Make evm errors public (#6598)
• Add log rotation (#6564)
• decl_module! macro: use 'frame_system' instead of system as default ident (#6500)
• Restrict Protected to some heap types. (#6471)

Substrate v2.0.0-rc4 – Rhinoceros

Changelog

2.0.0-rc3 -> 2.0.0-rc4

Runtime

• Staking Payout Creates Controller (#6496)
• pallet-scheduler: Check that when is not in the past (#6480)
• Fix sp-api handling of multiple arguments (#6484)
• Fix issues with Operational transactions validity and prioritization. (#6435)
• pallet-atomic-swap: generialized swap action (#6421)
• Avoid multisig reentrancy (#6445)
• Root origin use no filter by default. Scheduler and Democracy dispatch without asserting BaseCallFilter (#6408)
• Scale and increase validator count (#6417)
• Pallet: Atomic Swap (#6349)
• Restrict remove_proxies (#6383)
• Stored call in multisig (#6319)
• Allow Sudo to do anything (#6375)
• vesting: Force Vested Transfer (#6368)
• Add events for balance reserve and unreserve functions (#6330)
• Introduce frozen indices. (#6307)

Client

• client/network/service: Add primary dimension to connection metrics (#6472)
• Fix Babe secondary plain slots claiming (#6451)
• add network propagated metrics (#6438)
• client/authority-discovery: Compare PeerIds and not Multihashes (#6414)
• Update sync chain info on own block import (#6424)
• Remove --legacy-network-protocol CLI flag (#6411)
• Runtime interface to add support for tracing from wasm (#6381)
• Remove penalty on duplicate Status message (#6377)
• Fix the broken weight multiplier update function (#6334)
• client/authority-discovery: Don't add own address to priority group (#6370)
• Split the service initialisation up into seperate functions (#6332)
• Fix transaction pool event sending (#6341)
• Add a [prefix]_process_start_time_seconds metric (#6315)
• new crate sc-light (#6235)
• Allow adding a prefix to the informant (#6174)

API

• seal: Remove ext_dispatch_call and ext_get_runtime_storage (#6464)
• seal: Refactor ext_gas_price (#6478)
• Implement nested storage transactions (#6269)
• Allow empty values in the storage (#6364)
• add system_dryRun (#6300)
• Introduce in-origin filtering (#6318)
• add extend_lock for StorageLock (#6323)
• Deprecate FunctionOf and remove its users (#6340)
• transaction-pool: expose blocking api for tx submission (#6325)

Substrate v2.0.0-rc3 – Red Panda

Changelog

2.0.0-rc1 -> 2.0.0-rc3

Runtime

• Introduce stacked filtering (#6273)
• Allow "anonymous" proxied accounts (#6236)
• Allow over-weight collective proposals to be closed (#6163)
• Fix Election when ForceNone V1 (#6166)

Client

• Make transaction pool prune transactions only of canonical blocks (#6123)
• Rename all the election operations (#6245)
• Sentry nodes and validator nodes also imply reserved (#6251)
• Fix peerset not filtering incoming connections in reserved-only (#6249)
• Use Subscription Manager from jsonrpc-pubsub (#6208)
• Add a Substrate networking Grafana dashboard template (#6171)
• Add subkey inspect-node-key (#6153)

Substrate v2.0.0-rc1 – Rabbit

Changelog

2.0.0-alpha.8 -> 2.0.0-rc1

Runtime

• Allow operational recovery path if on_initialize use fullblock. (#6089)
• Maximum extrinsic weight limit (#6067)

Client

• Add JSON format to import blocks and set it as default (#5816)
• Upgrade to libp2p v0.19 - Changes the default PeerId representation (#6064)

v2.0.0-alpha.8 – Anteater

2.0.0-alpha.7 -> 2.0.0-alpha.8

License Changed
From this release forward, the code is released under a new – more relaxed – license scheme: Client (sc-*) is released under "GPL 3.0 or newer with the Classpath Exception", while primitives, FRAME, the pallets, utils and test-utils are released under "Apache 2.0". More details in the Relax licensing scheme PR.

Runtime

• Democracy weight (#5828)
• Make Digest support StorageAppend (#5922)
• Added RuntimePublic for ecdsa public key. (#6029)
• Benchmarks for elections-phragmen pallet (#5845)

Client

• Meter block import results via prometheus (#6025)
• Monitor transactions rejected from the pool as invalid (#5992)
• client/network: Remove default Kademlia DHT in favor of per protocol DHT (#5993)
• Allow passing multiple --log CLI options (#5982)
• client: Replace unsafe_rpc_expose with an RpcMethods enum (#5729)

v2.0.0-alpha.7 – Angelfish

2.0.0-alpha.6 -> 2.0.0-alpha.7

Runtime

• Use storage::append in the implementation of the storage types (#5889)
• pallet-sudo: Store DispatchResult in Sudid event (#5804)
• Enable Offchain Equalise (#5683)
• Add support for custom runtime upgrade logic (#5782)
• Require fn token in decl_storage get (#5717)
• Child trie api changes BREAKING (#4857)
• Pass max-total to RewardRemainder on end_era (#5697)
• Transaction versioning in the RuntimeVersion (#5582)
• emit TipClosed event on success tip payout (#5656)

Client

• Adds export-state subcommand (#5842)
• Drop ClientProvider (#5823)
• Move spawning tasks from thread pools to Service's TaskManager for block importing (#5647)
• Reputation penalty for sending empty block response (#5814)
• Move sc-client into sc-service (#5502)
• Use new block requests protocol (#5760)
• Fix leak in stream notifications (#5739)
• network: Only insert global addresses into the DHT. (#5735)
• enum Pays for PaysFee (#5733)
• Migrate away from SimpleDispatchInfo (#5686)
• Child trie api changes BREAKING (#4857)
• subkey: compute and inspect a moduleid (#5676)
• Listen on ipv6 by default as well (#5677)
• Adjustments to Kademlia-related metrics (#5660)
• client/authority-discovery: Allow to be run by sentry node (#5568)
• Add alternative RPC methods to system_networkState (#5643)
• Several tweaks to networking Prometheus metrics (#5636)
• Use a Kademlia instance per ProtocolId. (#5045)
• Report tasks metrics to Prometheus (#5619)

API

• Child trie api changes BREAKING (#4857)
• Pass max-total to RewardRemainder on end_era (#5697)
• Implement iter for doublemap (#5504)

v2.0.0-alpha.6 – Alligator

Changelog 2.0.0-alpha.5 -> 2.0.0-alpha.6

Runtime

• Unsigned Validation best practices (#5563)
• Generate Unit Tests for Benchmarks (#5527)
• Mandate weight annotation (#5357)
• Make Staking pallet using a proper Time module. (#4662)
• Pass transaction source to validate_transaction (#5366)
• on_initialize return weight consumed and default cost to default DispatchInfo instead of zero (#5382)

Client

• Add new RPC method to get the chain type (#5576)
• Reuse wasmtime instances, the PR (#5567)
• Prometheus Metrics: Turn notifications_total counter into notifications_sizes histogram (#5535)
• Make verbosity level mandatory with telemetry opt (#5057)
• Additional Metrics collected and exposed via prometheus (#5414)
• Switch to new light client protocol (#5472)
• client/finality-grandpa: Instrument until-imported queue (#5438)
• Batch benchmarks together with * notation. (#5436)
• src/service/src/builder: Fix memory metric exposed in bytes not KiB (#5459)
• Make transactions and block announces use notifications substre… (#5360)
• Adds state_queryStorageAt (#5362)
• Offchain Phragmén BREAKING. (#4517)
• sc_rpc::system::SystemInfo.impl_version now returns the full version (2.0.0-alpha.2-b950f731c-x86_64-linux-gnu) instead of the short version (1.0.0) (#5271)

API

• Unsigned Validation best practices (#5563)
• Split the Roles in three types (#5520)
• Pass transaction source to validate_transaction (#5366)
• on_initialize return weight consumed and default cost to default DispatchInfo instead of zero (#5382)