CHANGELOG.adoc

bitcoinj-addons Changes

A high-level view of the changes in each bitcoinj-addons binary release.

v0.2.7-SNAPSHOT

bitcoinj-proxy

• Upgrade to Ratpack 1.5.1

v0.2.6

Released: 2017.10.16

bitcoinj-rpcclient

• Simplify UntypedRPCClient interface (subclasses of AbstractRPCClient not affected)

• Improve JavaDoc

bitcoinj-cli

• Add org.slf4j:slf4j-simple as a runtime dependency.

bitcoinj-money

• Upgrade to XChange 4.2.3

bitcoinj-proxy

• Upgrade to Ratpack 1.5.0

• Add org.slf4j:slf4j-simple as a runtime dependency.

All submodules

• Upgrade to bitcoinj 0.14.5

• Upgrade to Groovy 2.5.0-beta-2

v0.2.5

Released: 2017.08.09

bitcoinj-rpcclient

• JSONRPCExtension now extends IOException

• BitcoinClient handles thread interruption in waitFor* methods

bitcoinj-money

• Upgrade to XChange 4.2.1

• Removed compile-time and transitive dependencies on specific XChange implementations

v0.2.4

Released: 2017.07.16

bitcoinj-rpcclient

• Fix: Look for bitcoin.conf in ~/.bitcoin on Linux (lower-case 'b')

• Improved error-handling and concurrency

• Partial support for JSON-RPC 2.0 (tested with Parity)

• Preliminary support for Ethereum/Parity JSON-RPC

• Update Ethereum calls for Parity and add a few methods

• Core JSON-RPC implementation moved from bitcoinj.rpc to jsonrpc subpackage.

bitcoinj-money

• Improve concurrency and error-handling in BaseXChangeExchangeRateProvider

bitcoinj-daemon and bitcoinj-peerserver

• Upgrade Spring Boot to 1.5.4

bitcoinj-proxy

• Move core JSON-RPC classes to com.msgilligan.jsonrpc.ratpack

All submodules

• Upgrade Groovy to 2.5.0-beta-1

• Use Groovy invokedynamic ("indy") jars and compiler flag

• Upgrade several Gradle build plugins

Breaking and potentially breaking changes

• Core JSON-RPC implementation moved from bitcoinj.rpc to jsonrpc subpackage.

v0.2.3

Released: 2017.05.22

All submodules

• Fix error when Gradle bintrayUpload task run on root project

• Upgrade Groovy to 2.4.11

• Upgrade Gradle to 3.5

bitcoinj-money

• Add Coinbase ExchangeRateProvider

• Upgrade to XChange 4.2.0

bitcoinj-json

• Add AddressKeyDeserializer for deserializing to Map<Address, Object>

v0.2.2

Released: 2017.04.26

All submodules

• Update README.adoc

• Assorted code, build, JavaDoc improvements

• build.gradle reads JDK7_HOME environment variable to compile Java 7 modules with correct classpath

• Upgrade bitcoinj to 0.14.4

• Upgrade jackson-core and jackson-databind to 2.8.7 (in modules that use Jackson)

• Upgrade Groovy to 2.4.10

• Upgrade Spock to 1.1-rc-4

• Upgrade SLF4J to 1.7.25

bitcoinj-rpcclient

• New RPC methods: addnode, getaddednodeinfo

• Deprecate BitcoinClient#generateBlock

• Disable hack enabling self-signed SSL RPC servers

bitcoinj-json

• Add ECKey serializer (does not serialize private key)

• Fix incorrectly named JSON properties in BlockChainInfo POJO

• Fix deprecation warnings in serializers/deserializers

bitcoinj-money

• Upgrade to Moneta BP 1.1 (Java 7 Backport of JavaMoney Reference Implementation)

• Upgrade to XChange 4.1.0

bitcoinj-proxy

• Significant code cleanup, simplification, and modularization

• Create Guice module and use for registry

• Use Guice injection in handlers

• Use Guice and Retrofit to create a Retrofit-based Ratpack async JSON-RPC client

• Upgrade Ratpack to 1.5.0-rc-1

• Upgrade Gradle Shadow Plugin to 1.2.4

v0.2.1

Released: 2016.11.06

Features/Changes

• rpcclient: Include Base64.java (from Android) and use it for Android support

v0.2.0

Released: 2016.10.24

Breaking and potentially breaking changes

• Bitcoin RPC clients require Bitcoin Core 0.10.4 (or Omni Core 0.0.11.1) or later

• Migrate to using generate to generate blocks in regtest (with fallback for earlier versions)

• Start migration away from getinfo to getblockchaininfo, getnetworkinfo

• Many dependency version bumps, notably Jackson 2.8.1 and Spring Boot 1.4.0

• Add proof-of-concept Ratpack-based JSON-RPC proxy server in bitcoinj-proxy

• Handle new JSON properties that show up in responses on bitcoind 0.13+

• Be generally more forgiving of new JSON properties in JSON-RPC responses

• Add tests for creating/sending standalone bitcoinj Transactions

• Add integration tests for OP_RETURN and Bare Multisig transactions via P2P and RPC

• Make RPCConfig a Jackson POJO (for use in configuration files)

• Move more test fixture methods from Spock base classes to Groovy traits

v0.1.3

Released: 2016.08.22

Features/Changes

• In BaseXChangeExchangeRateProvider correctly handle exchanges that don’t provide a timestamp (e.g. Poloniex)

• Proof-of-concept Ethereum RPC client

• Add basic Spock test for OP_RETURN

• Fix and un-ignore TransactionSpec."Can create and serialize a transaction" Spock test

• Added generate RPC method

• Add .travis.yml for Travis CI testing

• Improved support for logging during tests

• Miscellaneous code cleanup and commenting

• Update to Gradle 2.14.1

• Update to Spock 1.1-rc2

v0.1.2

Released: 2016.06.29

Features/Changes

• ExchangeRateObserver will now get a notification immediately after subscribing if data already present

• Improved error handling/logging for JSON parsing exceptions in RPCClient

• bitcoinj-dsljs: Proof-of-concept model for JavaScript integration via Nashorn.

Potentially Breaking

• notify method renamed to onExchangeRateChange in ExchangeRateObserver interface

v0.1.1

Released: 2016.06.19

Features/Changes

• Improvements to bitcoin.conf reading classes

• new BitcoinScriptingClient

  • Has typed Java methods and dynamic, Groovy fallback methods

  • No configuration constructor that uses bitcoin.conf

• new AbstractRPCClient to allow alternate HTTP transport client

• new DynamicRPCFallback Groovy trait to add dynamic methods to any RPCClient subclass

• new NamecoinScriptingClient and namecoin.conf file reading support

• add listAddressGroupings method to BitcoinClient

• Fix: correctly pass command-line args to daemon and peerserver apps

• Update to bitcoinj 0.14.3

• Update to Groovy 2.4.7

• Other library updates (slf4j)

Potentially Breaking

• Remove some deprecated methods

v0.1.0

Released: 2016.05.25

Features/Changes

• Added very basic code to parse bitcoin.conf for RPC connection parameters

v0.0.14

Released: 2016.05.17

Features/Changes

• Update to bitcoinj 0.14.1 (adapt to breaking changes)

v0.0.13

Released: 2016.04.28

Features/Changes

• Add ObservableExchangeRateProvider interface for BaseXChangeExchangeRateProvider

• Allow multiple conversions of different pairs in one BaseXChangeExchangeRateProvider

v0.0.12

Released: 2016.04.22

Features/Changes

• Add bitcoinj-money (JavaMoney support) module

  • BaseXChangeExchangeRateProvider and subclasses for Bitfinex and Itbit

  • BitcoinCurrencyProvider to add "BTC" currency code to Java

• rename bitcoinj-groovy module to bitcoinj-dsl

• Bump Gradle (wrapper) to 2.12

• Bump Gradle Shadow plugin to 1.2.3

• Bump bitcoinj to 0.13.6

• Bump Groovy to 2.4.6

• Update PeerServer to Angular.js 1.4.8 and Bootstrap 3.3.6

Potentially Breaking

• bitcoinj-groovy module renamed to bitcoinj-dsl

v0.0.11

Released: 2015.11.24

Features/Changes

• Consistently use Groovy 2.4.5 (via ext.groovyVersion)

• Ignore unknown properties in RPC getinfo call (causes crash in Omni client)

• Add MainNet integration smoke test for bitcoinj-rpcclient

• Upgrade to bitcoinj 0.13.3

• Add minimal Namecoin RPC client and Namecoin address support (NMCMainNetParams)

• WIP Spock test based on "Working with Contracts" bitcoinj documentation page.

• A little bit of HTML formatting for in peers.html in PeerServer

• Use WebJars to replace local copies of angular, jquery, bootstrap, etc.

• Update versions of front-end libraries using WebJars

• Add BlockCypherSyncing trait that uses BlockCypher API for syncing

v0.0.10

Released: 2015.10.06

Potentially Breaking

• Deprecated BTC utility class removed.

• Alternate RPCClient constructors removed (doesn’t affect BitcoinClient)

• Some methods return POJOs where they previously returned Map.

Features/Changes

• BitcoinClient constructor now takes a bitcoinj NetworkParameters instance.

• Add Jackson/JSON POJOs: WalletTransactionInfo, RawTransactionInfo, BlockInfo

• Significant JavaDoc improvements.

• Code cleanup and simplification.

• Upgrade CLI module to use Apache Commons CLI version 1.3.1

• Replace type conversion hack in BitcoinJCLI with a more-extensible type conversion mechanism.

v0.0.9

Released: 2015.09.29

This is the first release with a CHANGELOG.

Potentially Breaking

• RPC client API, BitcoinClient is now using bitcoinj types for almost all JSON-RPC parameters and return types. See Issue #9 to track progress.

• RPC client API, setGenerate() (also generateBlock(), generateBlocks()) when talking to bitcoind 0.9.x or earlier will return an empty list rather than null. If server is 0.10.x or later, will return a list of Sha256Hash.

Features/Changes

• JSON-RPC client and server are now sharing Jackson JSON serializer, deserializers, and POJOs in the bitcoinj-json module.

• JSON-RPC server now has a skeleton implementation of getinfo.

• Miscelleneous documentation improvements.

Bug fixes

• Issue #10 Broken links in doc/index.adoc fixed

REL-0.0.1 - v0.0.8

Very early releases. See commit history for details.