v1.0.2

cmd/geth: bumped version 1.0.2

Thawing (1.0.1) Hotfix 1

This release includes several bug fixes and improvements and includes the thawing process.

• Start of thawing process #1578
• Difficulty adjust scheme #1588
• Miner transaction sorting #1583
• Default, community chosen genesis block #1569
• Crash in chain manager #1568
• Log number fixes #1545
• Go 1.5 ready (crypto fix) #1536
• Fix for eth_call and eth_estimateGas #1534
• console resend method fix #1461

Frontier (1.0.0)

This is the first major and first live-net version of the go-ethereum client geth (1.0.0) and marks a major milestone in the history of Ethereum and the Go Ethereum codebase.

• Protocol changes:
  • 5 ETH reward per block
  • Target block time upped to 15s
  • Temp hard limit of 5000g
• Downloader fixes and improvements
• Mining improvements and state syncing issues resolved
• Canary fixes
• License update
• Genesis loading

Release 0.9.38 - RC2

This is the Frontier RC2 release. This release fixes the following issues:

• Windows fixes for account creation #1453
• Syncing DoS protection #1451, #1450
• web3 update to 0.8.1
• Possible (though hardly!) chain DoS fixed #1443
• Miner log events #1439

For a list of changes included in this release please see Frontier RC2.

Release 0.9.36 - Frozen

This is version 0.9.36 and is a major release in the history of Ethereum and the Go Ethereum team. This release marks a feature stop and is a pre-release for Frontier and will go down in history as the "Frozen" release.

This release improves and fixes the following:

• Fixes to receipt storage and added RPC getters for the receipts #1399, #1397
• Bad block reporting #1400
• Lazy validation for miners #1389
• Recover tools #1373
• Massively reduces state size, disk throughput and transaction processing #1396
• Account management improvements #1283
• Improved block downloading & implemented Protocol version 61 #1333
• Web3.js 0.8.0 #1430

For a list of changes included in this release please see Milestone 0.9.36 and Milestone Frontier.

Hotfix release 0.9.34-1

This release fixes a potential crash. For changes see https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v0.9.34

Release 0.9.34

This is release 0.9.34 and addresses the following issues and improvements:

• Core optimisations & immutability of consensus types (#1301)
• Monitoring and metrics system. Please see the Metrics and Monitoring wiki for more info (#1321 #1346)
• New keystore encryption scheme (+ backward compatibility) (#1085)

For a list of changes included in this release please see Milestone 0.9.34. For the next release please see Milestone 0.9.36

Release 0.9.32

This is release 0.9.32 and addresses the following issues and improvements:

• Downloader potential DOS attack #1314
• Removed old version of mist #1302
• Core optimisations #1282
• Integration of the finalised console
  • Attach to a running geth node with geth attach
  • Start in console mode with geth console
• RPC raw transaction eth_sendRawTransaction #1267

For a list of changes included in this release please see Milestone 0.9.32. For the next release please see Milestone 0.9.34

Release 0.9.30 - Consolation

This is release "Consolation" and addresses the following issues and improvements:

• Optimisations on the VM 1228
  • Structured logging
  • Program Counter change
• A new RPC layer and added IPC 1200
• Downloader improvements
• GPO (Gas Price Oracle). The GPO advices on gas price. Please refer to the GPO article for more information.
• P2P improvements 1261
• Transaction pool improvement 1260. This issue fixes network load.
• Implemented a new console (make console) which communicates over IPC.

For a list of changes included in this release please see Milestone 0.9.30

Release 0.9.28

This is a stability and security fix and is required for all users.

Highlights

• Security issue EC Recover and right padding up to 128
• Downloader security improvements
• Chucking of max size blocks and transactions
• Improved parallelisation of nonce checks during import
• Improved transaction handling
• Automated ARM builds

For a full list of changes check v0.9.26 / v0.9.28