Laitetaan tähän vielä pätkä viimeisimmästä 0.4 -sarjan julkaisutekstistä, josta ilmenee osa viime aikoina vahvasti panostavan java-kehittäjämme tuotannosta. Erityisesti viime kuukausina työstetty websocket-teknologian onnistunut lanseeraus hyvin eri alustoille skaalautuvan html5-pohjaisen thin client-käyttöliittymän kanssa kannattaa panna merkille - verrattaessa FIMKin valmiuksia lähivuosien haastajiin kryptoskenessä.
[i]FIMK 0.4.0 is based on NXT 1.4.13 (plus the critical parts of 1.4.16)
- Fixed the recent forking issues
- Upgraded to NXT 1.4.13/16 (most recent NXT release)
Tons of upstream (NXT) security updates and general improvements.
– Improvements in exception handling, transaction validation, error logging.
– Prevent server from starting if any of the startup tasks failed.
– Avoid unnecessary DNS queries.
– No longer process or return “comment” parameters in Asset Transfer.
– Stores all derived objects in the database, instead of keeping all of them
in memory.
– Startup time is now reduced to a few seconds only.
– Everywhere, object ids that used to be Longs are now primitive longs.
– Preserve and re-process unconfirmed transactions after fork resolution
pop-off.
– Improved propagation of unconfirmed transactions.
– Multiple minor improvements and optimizations based on profiling results.
– Updated to latest Jetty version
– Allow re-broadcasting of transactions already in the unconfirmed pool.
– Show correct timestamps in asset transfer history.
– Only try to set account public key when inside a database transaction,
fixes a bug in setting public keys for accounts that never had an
outgoing transaction.
– Improved default H2 cache size allocation.
– Disabled the SSLv3 protocol when using SSL for the API.
– Fixed incorrect guaranteed balance bug in getAccountLessors API.
– Cache hallmarked peer account balances to reduce number of database calls.
– Other minor performance improvements and bugfixes.
– Fixed decryption of purchased DGS goods.
– Fixed missing DGS purchase feedbacks.
– Implemented full text search using the Lucene library, as supported by H2.
– Show purchase counts and public feedback counts in all API responses
returning Goods JSON, unless includeCounts parameter is false.
– Increased default purchase delivery deadline to 168 hours (1 week).
– Include full peer info in getPeers API if includePeerInfo=true, to avoid
having to do a separate getPeer request for each peer.
– Allow transaction signing in signTransaction to skip the validation of the
transaction bytes being signed, if an optional validate=false parameter is
added.
– Allow sending messages with no recipient.
– Automatically blacklist peers with version older than 0.3.3
– After the Monetary System block, the order in which transactions in a block
are executed will be determined by the block forger, instead of by id,
default being by arrival time at the forger’s node.
– Improvements in blockchain download to prevent getting stuck on the wrong
fork.
– Nodes will download blocks in batches of not more than 719 blocks at a time
from a single peer, and after each such batch will verify with
nxt.numberOfForkConfirmations other peers (default 5) if this is the best
fork, before continuing, unless the downloaded batch is of less than 10
blocks.
– Rescan status is now saved in the database, to prevent the database from
being left in an inconsistent state when a rescan fails or is interrupted.
Once a rescan has been scheduled, it will be triggered again at restart,
until it completes successfully.
– Improvements in the processing of unconfirmed transactions.
– Fixed currency decimals issue.
– Fixed minor bugs in MS transaction validation.
– Additional validations of Monetary System transactions, and bugfixes
in existing validations.
– Bugfixes in currency minting and in MintWorker.
– Improved peer networking to run the sending of blocks and transactions
to peers in a background thread.
– Do not log currency exchanges of zero amount.
– Fixed setting of peer state. Improvements in connecting to peers.
– Enforce that currency exchange offer expiration height is after the current
blockchain height.
– The Message Pattern in AccountInfo feature, introduced in 1.4.0e, has been
disabled, and will not be activated. This is to prevent
possible denial of service attacks by malicious regular expression patterns
which can cause excessive CPU load with certain inputs.
– Enhanced nxt.allowedBotHosts property to also accepts a range of addresses
using CIDR notation.
– Allow no more than one unconfirmed minting transaction per account and minted
currency to be accepted in the unconfirmed pool.
– Better validation of hallmarks for peers with multiple addresses. Do not
blacklist peers with invalid hallmarks but just treat them as not hallmarked.
– Minor peer networking improvement, addPeers and processBlock requests are now
executed in the background.
– Improvements in fork resolution. The peer networking getNextBlocks API no
longer limits the number of blocks returned to 1 MB total payload size,
but always returns 720 blocks, if available.
– Fixed a bug in transaction bytes parsing which could cause signature
verification failed errors and break forging.
– When downloading the blockchain, require at most one fork confirmation when
still below the last hardcoded checkpoint.
– Peer port handling has been improved to allow different peers to share the
same IP address provided they use different ports.
– To prevent overloading a node with invalid peer addresses, the maximum total
number of known peers is limited to nxt.maxNumberOfKnownPeers (default 2000).
Once this number has been reached, new peer addresses are not added, and peers
that have been last connected to more than a week ago are removed from the known
peer list, provided the node has enough connected public peers, until the number
of known peers is again reduced to below nxt.minNumberOfKnownPeers (default
1000).
– Improved database performance by storing currency supply and reserve per unit
data in a separate table.
– Fixed a bug in transaction validation that could break blockchain downloading.
– The default (and minimum allowed) value for nxt.maxRollback is now 1441.
– Restrict maximum HTTP request and response size in peer networking to prevent
potential out of memory attacks.
– Improved fork resolution by allowing a better difficulty block pushed from a
peer to replace the current last block.
– When forging, do not accept a peer block with hit time after the next hit time
of a currently forging account (i.e. prevent front-running in forging).
– Removed the possibility of a forger to miss his turn. Even if late, the block
will still be generated and submitted.
– Delay forging and submission of blocks by 20 s, configurable via the
nxt.forgingDelay property, in order to be able to accumulate more transactions
in the forged block. The arrival of a front-running block from a peer however
cancels that delay and the next block is generated up to 3 s earlier instead,
which can be controlled via the nxt.forgingSpeedup property.
– Better logging of peer networking errors. Log, but do not blacklist missing or
malformed JSON responses.
– Database optimization. Moved the public key of accounts, transaction senders,
and block forgers to a separate table, resulting in 15% reduction of total
database size.
– Enforce that the nxt-default.properties file used matches the version of the
current release.
– Peer networking improvements, better logging, bugfixes.
- FIMK now has an embedded WebSocket server, it’s separate from the existing
API server.
The WebSocket protocol is an improvement of the more than 25 year
old HTTP protocol. WebSockets are faster, more efficient and allow for
two-way communication.
See these posts for background information:
http://fimkchat.com/2015/03/connecting-to-fimk-websockets/
http://fimkchat.com/2015/03/fimk-adds-websocket-support-to-its-core/
- New functionality for FIMK is now exposed as asynchronous RPC calls accessed
over the WebSocket server.
Because of the two-way communication abilities of WebSockets now RPC calls
can be created that do work in a background thread on the server and will
notify the client when they are ready. Meanwhile the server and client can
be used as normal.
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The old API server is turned off by default. If you need to access it you can
enable it in nxt.properties through ‘nxt.enableAPIServer=true’
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A bridge exists in the callFunction RPC to call any old API method by name,
the old API calls are accessed from memory so no need to actually run/start
the API server (saves memory/cpu).
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Tons of new RPC calls, each one tailored to support a different aspect of the
FIMK client (aka MofoWallet).
List of new RPC calls (WebSocket API).
– CallAPIFunction
Call any old API calls in the old HTTP API server. We support each call
listed here http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/Nxt_API. It is not necessary
for the API server to be running.
– GetAccount
Returns the account balance, name and some other account related things.
– GetAccountAssets
Allows to paginate through list of account owned assets. Asset data always
includes the asset name, decimal places etc for easy access on the client.
Pagination is index based.
– GetAccountCurrencies
Allows pagination through all currencies owned by an account, currency
details are always included.
Pagination is index based.
– GetAccountPosts
Allows to paginate through all POSTS written by an account.
POSTS are stored in the mofo_post database table.
Pagination is index based.
– GetAssetPosts
Same as account posts but works for asset posts
– GetComments
Allows to paginate over comments for account and asset posts.
Pagination is index based.
– GetCommentCount
Returns the number of comments for a post.
– GetAccounts
Returns balances for multiple accounts
– GetActivity
Returns blocks, transactions and trades. This extensive RPC call can be used
to return all trades + transactions spanning a selection of blocks. Supports
a filter mechanism to query for transactions based on time and on a range
of transaction types.
– GetActivityStatistics
Returns network statistics, average block time, block rewards per day, week
month.
– GetAskOrder, GetBidOrder
Returns an ask/bid order.
– GetAsset
Does what it says
– GetAssetChartData
There is a listener that listens trades in blocks. The asset prices are
bundled per hour, 3 hour, day and week to get a moving average and open,
close, high, low and average prices.
These moving averages (and open/close etc) are stored in a new table in the
database and this RPC accesses that data.
– GetAssetOrders, GetAssetTrades
Does what it says. Pagination is index based.
– GetBlockchainState
Minimalist blockchain state includes only height and timestamp.
– GetForgingStats
Allows paginating over the list of top forgers for the past 24 hours.
Pagination is timestamp based.
– GetMyOpenOrders
Allows paginating over all open orders but for a list of accounts.
Pagination is index based.
– GetRecentTransactions
Returns recent transactions (includes unconfirmed) for a list of accounts.
Supports the same filter mechanism as GetActivity RPC.
Pagination is index based.
- New feature… Write POSTS/BLOGS linked to an Account or Asset. The POSTS are
stored on the blockchain (for now) and are entered through AM (arbitrary
messages). The AM format was chosen instead of a new transaction type in
order to stay compatible with NXT and allow the functionality to be used in
multi-currency MofoWallet client.
The POSTS are stored in the database and are fully aware of blockchain reorgs.
Note: POSTS are limited to accounts and assets but will be extended to
currencies and goods on the goods store.
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New feature… Write COMMENTS to POSTS/BLOGS every account can leave a comment
on each Asset or Account POST.
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Added tests for most new functionality
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Upcoming big feature PRIVATE ASSETS.
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