Brass Golem Beta 0.19.0

Changelog

Major updates to Golem Core

• Introduce more mature "Docker for Windows" as a replacement to "Docker Toolbox" on Windows
• Add support for Hyper-V, Windows' native hypervisor (#3328)
• Introduce Golem Marketplace (#3482)
  • Enable providers to send offers to multiple requestors at the same time (#3362)
  • Enable offer buffering on Requestor's end (#3390)
  • Track provider idle time (#3372)
  • Implement reputation (#3422)
  • Implement provider ordering algorithm (#3453)
  • Introduce provider selection algorithm (#3479)
  • Implement provider price function (#3526)
  • Add additional statistics for requestors and providers
  • Send provider stats to monitor
• Add full support for all Concent use cases on testnet

Minor updates to Golem Core

• Move boot2docker ISO to a CDN (#3757)
• Add Ability to set custom gas price during withdrawal (#3183)
• Warn users when current gas price exceeds reasonable limits (#3446)
• Enable frame restarts on finished tasks (#3889)
• Fix order of preferred geth nodes (#3579)
• Fix installation of hyperg on Linux (#3599)
• Fix locks in crossbar for binaries (#3621)
• Initialize hardware presets in Node.start (#3646)
• Show wget progress bars in linux installer (#3631)
• Add an RPC endpoint to check VT/VT-x support in the OS (#3751)
• Add helper scripts to facilitate running Golem from sources on different platforms (#1888)
• Fix race condition in golemcli (#3429)
• Send more detailed OS information to monitor (#3430)
• Reserve a CPU for the host on win and mac when needed (#3664)
• Allow specification of whole directories in task definitions
• Purge support for LuxRender from Golem
• Optimize blender executions for multi-frame subtasks
• Various improvements to Golem's command line interface and RPC API
• Various stability improvements

Concent

• Add a distinct status to possible task states during the creation of Concent deposits (#3538)
• Add RPC support for retrieval and acceptance of Concent Terms of Service (#3562)
• Ensure that send_to_concent will not sign already signed msg (#3602)
• Support for toggling Concent through RPC (#3665)
• Ensure deposit is in a locked state when creating tasks with Concent enabled (#3682)
• Add an integration test for Concent UC5 / Forced Payment (#2526)
• Add an RPC endpoint for estimated Concent deposit payment and tx fee (#3801)
• Various fixes to Concent acceptance and integration tests

Golem Internals

• Add Hyper-V events to RPC (#3681)
• Simplify registration of new RPC endpoints (#3368)
• Add more granular control over Concent deposits to Golem's Ethereum Transaction System (#3365)
• Sign all messages before adding to DB (#3437, #3515)
• Always require the node id when retrieving messages from the DB (#3532)
• Move TaskHeader and its dependencies to golem-messages (#3655)
• Make TaskHeader part of the WantToComputeTask message (#3718)
• Ensure the methods using Golem Smart Contract Interface properly detect if it had been initialized (#3443)
• Remove collission between Golem's internal async helper module and Python 3.5's async keyword (#3468)
• Enable the StatusPublisher to keep last status of all components (#2701)
• Remove scipy and ssim dependencies from Golem core (#3401)
• Enforce ordering in requirement files (#3620)
• Put offer_pooling_interval in config (#3487)
• Improve logged events in Golem code

Golem Client (Electron)

• New Gas fee slider on withdraw modal
• New Resource section on Network tab - which allows the user to toggle advanced options easily
• New footer implementation - easier access to logs, detailed Golem components' status
• New Wallet Card implementation with more detailed information (Locked, Unconverted amounts, GNTb contract address)
• Blockies Identicon avatar based on generated ethereum address
• Blender GPU benchmark added
• Custom Geth section in Settings Tab
• Error Boundary implemented to show user meaningful error message, if anything is missing or broken in code wise.
• Modal logic re-implemented with React Portals for some of the important modals.
• Electron security update from 2.0.13 to 2.0.17
• Web3.js dependency removed, no more Scrypt dependency error on Windows.
• Node-sass dependency replaced with Dart-sass, no more node-sass compilation error
• Outdated golem version message added for the golem versions lower than v0.19
• Dependency audit, fix, migration - passed
• Luxrender support has been removed
• support for Concent (testnet only)
  • Concent Settings
  • Toggle Concent On/Off
  • Unlock deposit option
  • Concent deposit information in Transaction Tube component
  • Concent ToS
  • Concent Onboarding
  • Concent Deposit History in Transaction History section
  • Estimated concent deposit cost implemented in Task Details screen
• New animations
• Tons of style implementations, improvements and fixes.
• UX improvements, fixes

Brass Golem Beta 0.18.3

Changelog

• allow golemcli to be run by users with limited privileges (write access to Golem’s data directory is not required)
• add better handling of issues encountered during load of previously-executed tasks
• send information regarding GPU support to the Golem statistics server
• fixes and stability improvements to the end-to-end integration tests

Brass Golem Beta 0.18.2

Changelog

• Fix issues in the Golem onboarding flow (first launch of an application)
• Better statistics reporting to stats.golem.network
• Improvements to the provider state RPC call
• Stability improvements to the integration tests

Brass Golem Beta 0.18.1

Changelog

• fixes golemcli account info command on mainnet (#3491)
• unify the addresses stored in the payment history (#3492)
• fix issues with verification timeouts in the new verificator (#3493)

Brass Golem Beta 0.18.0

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Golem core

• enable nVidia GPU rendering for Linux providers (#3045 / #3385)
• eliminate unecessary propagation of timed-out tasks in Golem network (#3259)
• address a deficiency in the VirtualBox driver during both initial installation and update (#3369)
• add an ability to specify the main scene file through CLI (#3388)
• replace "Docker Toolbox" with "Docker for Mac" on OSX (#3203)

RPC / CLI

• update the connection_status RPC call to expose raw status data (#2702)
• add support for getting the current provider status through RPC (#2817)
• add tasks purge call to RPC to clean-up old tasks (#3303)
• add WAMP Challenge-Response authentication and enable roles for the RPC communications (#3171)
• add golemcli support for the comp.tasks.check (task test) RPC call (#3062)
• return the task id in the Client.{create,restart}_task: RPC calls (#3031)

Concent

• add an RPC endpoint to provide the current deposit balance (#3290)
• wait for requestor deposit confirmation when adding tasks with Concent service enabled (#3247)
• verify requestors' balance and deposit (#3191)
• correct support for the task's concent_enabled flag (#3304 / #3333 / #3227)
• RPC support for deposit transactions (#3278)
• ensure that the provider is able to specify their Ethereum address in the TaskToCompute message (include modified WantToComputeTask in TTC) (#3314)

Golem Electron (front-end)

• GPU support
• File/folder dialogs for Windows & Linux
• Support for custom datadir & custom RPC address
• Challenge-Response Authentication implemented
• Connecting network issue fixed on Windows
• Excessive CPU usage problems resolved
• UX improvements

Other

• add a local Golem integration test with Concent disabled (#3214)
• fix the issue with deadlocking Docker job
• fixes and improvements to golem automated test suite
• various fixes and stability improvements to Golem Core

Brass Golem Beta 0.17.1

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Golem Core

• support for sharing of performance information between Golem nodes
• support for new local test result GUI
• DockerToolbox upgrade to 18.06.0 and fix for VirtualBox Driver service setup after upgrade
• support for partial task restart
• various stability improvements and optimizations
• better support for interoperation between Golem clients of differing versions

Blender Verification

• improvements to blender result verification and verification error handling
• BlenderReferenceGenerator refactor
• Golem-Verificator without docker-py / docker dependency

Transaction subsystem

• improvements to incoming transaction tracking
• refactor TransactionSystem to have its own Ethereum key to allow ethereum account vs Golem identity separation
• separate the TransactionSystem's data directory
• Cleanup overdue income events

Concent support

• fix issue preventing upload of files to Concent
• partial support for Concent's Force Payment use case
• fix issues with Concent integration tests

Electron

• New local task test component applied
• New History list
• Restart modal implementation
• Public key validation fix
• Provider switch logic fixed
• Wording fixes

Brass Golem Beta 0.17.0

• Introduce netmasking to improve robustness of the networking layer
• Improve Blender verification
• Update docker toolbox version
• Improve geth support
• Use actual gas price for fee calculation
• Improve Golem's Smart Contracts Interface
• Improve handling of users' GNT funds in certain edge case scenarios
• Add better gas cost estimation for ETH withdrawals
• Add Support for Concent Additional Verification use case
• Add Concent ForcePayment acceptance tests
• Add Concent integration tests
• Tweak Golem/Concent time constants
• Various RPC/CLI improvements
• Various fixes for Golem<->Concent communication
• Fix new version detection in the Golem client

Brass Golem Beta 0.16.2

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• Fix awaiting incoming payments

Brass Golem Beta 0.16.1

Changelog:

• Payments system refactor: transactions are re-broadcasted anytime they go missing from the tx pool and we stop doing it only after they are confirmed by required number of blocks.
• Web3 library update
• Bugfixes & optimizations

Brass Golem Beta 0.16.0

Changelog:

• Different, optimized cryptographic methods for message signing and serializing
• New additional settings for choosing providers based on their performance
• Updated Terms of Use
• Possibility to define the number of samples per pixel in Blender scenes
• Improved verification metrics for comparing images
• More friendly CLI options results, eg. "golemcli res show" or "golemcli task subtasks"
• Modified runtime environment configurations
• GNT is converted to GNTB as soon as possible: in previous versions, GNT was automatically converted to GNTB when it was necessary, Ie. when a user was trying to add a new task. From now on, we'll be doing the conversion earlier, right when we have enough ETH to cover the gas price.
• Bugfixes & optimizations