Tari Release v0.8.4

This release adds the stand alone SHA3 miner tari_mining_node to the installers. Some stability fixes were added to prevent store and forward message floods.

Binaries are available here

Tari Mining Node

To mine with the tari_mining_node, you’ll need to start a tari_base_node and a tari_console_wallet with GRPC enabled (both are enabled by default). The mining node mines at least 50% faster than the previous miner included in the base node. You can specify the number of threads to mine by changing the num_mining_threads under the [mining_node] section of the config.

Changes since v0.8.2

Base Node

• #2635 [base-node] Add user agent to peer display info (#2635)
• #2626 [base-node] Add duplicate input_output tx validator

Wallet

• #2656 [wallet] Fixed timelocked balance
• #2632 [wallet] Update TXO validation protocol to use RPC interface to base node
• #2624 [wallet] Set confirmations required via libwallet and config
• #2644 [wallet] Add unique constraint to commitment in outputs table
• #2637 [wallet] Update Transaction Receiver protocol to persist transaction earlier
• #2625 [wallet] Remove the Tor identity getter from the FFI
• #2614 [wallet] New Transaction Validation protocol for Wallet
• #2619 [wallet] Add tx sending mechanism to wallet
• #2658 [wallet] Fix wallet startup

Mining Node

• #2652 [mining-node] Recreated symlinks without extension
• #2649 [mining-node] Add mining node to distribution

Merge Mining Proxy

• #2631 [mmproxy] Fix missing Content-Type header in some json responses
• #2616 [merge-mining] submit_block returns OK if block was submitted for tari or monero

Other

• #2655 [tests] Remove cancelled output excluded test
• #2647 [tests] Minor improvements to DHT logging
• #2653 [tests] Speed up Transaction Info Cucumber test
• #2643 [common] Dont propagate messages we have already
• #2612 [ci] Optimize integration tests
• #2651 [tests] Fix num confirmations test backend
• #2641 [common] Retry peers that have been marked as offline after a length of time
• #2650 [ci] Allow CI to use latest mdbook
• #2627 [tests] Double spend test for mempool transaction selection
• #2623 [chore] Add extra logging to help investigate fee mismatch
• #2630 [common] Shorter ban for RPC negotiation timeout in header sync, RPC timeout configurable
• #2629 [chore] Clean up duplicate check
• #2628 [tests] Add test_find_duplicate_input
• #2648 [ci] Run cargo test with verbose output
• #2638 [common] Ban peers that flood messages
• #2636 [explorer] Add a nodejs block explorer
• #2634 [fix] Dont store messages of a banned peer
• #2613 [tests] Add unit tests for lock heights
• #2660 [tests] Fix flaky test
• #2659 [common] Fix Windows runtime startup issues