This improves the help text for stakedifficulty field of the
getmininginfo RPC to clarify it is the value for the next block.
Also, update the JSON-RPC docs entry to include the field which should
have been done previously.
The github markdown interpreter has been changed such that it no longer
allows spaces in between the brackets and parenthesis of links and now
requires a newline in between anchors and other formatting. This
updates all of the markdown files accordingly.
While here, it also corrects a couple of inconsistencies in some of the
README.md files and correct some previous merge conflicts.
This commit introduces package connmgr which contains connection
management related functionality.
The following is an overview of the features the package provides:
- Maintain fixed number of outbound connections
- Optional connect-only mode
- Retry persistent connections with increasing back-off
- Source peers from DNS seeds
- Use Tor to resolve DNS
- Dynamic ban scores
- Test coverage
In addition, btcd has been refactored to make use of the new package by
extending the connection manager to work with the server to source and
maintain peer connections. The following is a broad overview of the
changes to integrate the package:
- Simplify peer state by removing pending, retry peers
- Refactor to remove retries which are now handled by connmgr
- Use callback to add addresses sourced from the DNS seed
Finally the following connection-related things have been improved as a
part of this refactor:
- Fixes 100% cpu usage when network is down
- Fixes issues with max peers
- Simplify outbound peer connections management
Contains the following commits:
- 711f33450c
- b6b1e55d1e
- Reverted because Travis is already at a more recent version
- bd4e64d1d4
Also, the merge commit contains the necessary decred-specific
alterations, converts all other references to sha to hash to keep with
the spirit of the merged commits, and various other cleanup intended to
bring the code bases more in line with one another.
This is mostly a backport of some of the same modifications made in
Decred along with a few additional things cleaned up. In particular,
this updates the code to make use of the new chainhash package.
Also, since this required API changes anyways and the hash algorithm is
no longer tied specifically to SHA, all other functions throughout the
code base which had "Sha" in their name have been changed to Hash so
they are not incorrectly implying the hash algorithm.
The following is an overview of the changes:
- Remove the wire.ShaHash type
- Update all references to wire.ShaHash to the new chainhash.Hash type
- Rename the following functions and update all references:
- wire.BlockHeader.BlockSha -> BlockHash
- wire.MsgBlock.BlockSha -> BlockHash
- wire.MsgBlock.TxShas -> TxHashes
- wire.MsgTx.TxSha -> TxHash
- blockchain.ShaHashToBig -> HashToBig
- peer.ShaFunc -> peer.HashFunc
- Rename all variables that included sha in their name to include hash
instead
- Update for function name changes in other dependent packages such as
btcutil
- Update copyright dates on all modified files
- Update glide.lock file to use the required version of btcutil
Contains the following upstream commits:
- 87182a2ddf
- This commit does not apply to Decred so it has been reverted
- 89af747603
- This commit has already been cherry picked and is a NOOP
- d0cdd53720
- This commit has already been cherry picked and is a NOOP
- df20c1074c
- ff0c787237
- 6e133b58da
- 34a94b7d0b
- 14ccab80e7
Contains the following upstream commits:
- 00bddf7540
- 250228c32f
- f1bd2f8d6e
- cbbe3a8bbe
- aa03d68e1e
In addition to the normal required changes for syncing, the following
changes have been made in order to facilitate integration of the new
package into Decred:
- Removed check in PushRejectMsg against protocol version since all
peers since the initial version support it
- Fixed leaked timer in `syncMiningStateAfterSync` function
- Add the Decred-specific OnGetMiningState and OnMiningState handlers to
the new peer package
- Add handler for the new mining state messages to the 'serverPeer' type
and register them
- Use the new constant for wire.InitialProtocolVersion in the reject
message instead of hard coded number
- Remove logic specific to the regression network since Decred does not
have it
This commit updates the main README.md and docs/README.md files to
replace the references to the now dead btcgui project with the
Windows-only Paymetheus project.
While here, it also updates some information to make it more current and
accurately describe the current status.
rpcserver:
If the locktime is given, the transaction inputs will be set to a
non-max value, activating the locktime. The locktime for the
new transaction will be set to the given value.
This mimics Bitcoin Core commit 212bcca92089f406d9313dbe6d0e1d25143d61ff
This commit introduces package peer which contains peer related features
refactored from peer.go.
The following is an overview of the features the package provides:
- Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin
communications via the peer-to-peer protocol
- Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages
- Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol
version negotiation
- Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses
- Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional
channel for notification when the message is actually sent
- Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory
detection and avoidance
- Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect
- Flexible peer configuration
- Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening
for incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish
connections as they see fit (proxies, etc.)
- User agent name and version
- Bitcoin network
- Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc.)
- Maximum supported protocol version
- Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages
- Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does
not specify the related flag to signal support
- Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough
- Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions
- Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read
and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol
version
- Helper functions for pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and
reject messages
- These could all be sent manually via the standard message output
function, but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such
as duplicate filtering and address randomization
- Full documentation with example usage
- Test coverage
In addition to the addition of the new package, btcd has been refactored
to make use of the new package by extending the basic peer it provides to
work with the blockmanager and server to act as a full node. The
following is a broad overview of the changes to integrate the package:
- The server is responsible for all connection management including
persistent peers and banning
- Callbacks for all messages that are required to implement a full node
are registered
- Logic necessary to serve data and behave as a full node is now in the
callback registered with the peer
Finally, the following peer-related things have been improved as a part
of this refactor:
- Don't log or send reject message due to peer disconnects
- Remove trace logs that aren't particularly helpful
- Finish an old TODO to switch the queue WaitGroup over to a channel
- Improve various comments and fix some code consistency cases
- Improve a few logging bits
- Implement a most-recently-used nonce tracking for detecting self
connections and generate a unique nonce for each peer
This allows clients watching for both to know when all mined
transaction notifications for the block have been received.
Otherwise, clients would be aware that there is a new block, see the
exact same block hash/height in the next tx notifications, but never
know when all txs from the block have been received and processed.
This fixes a synchronization issue in btcwallet where the wallet would
mark itself synced to some block height before any of those blocks'
transactions were processed. If the RPC connection is lost between
sending the blockconnected notification and receiving the last
transaction notification, the wallet would not know of this and
continue with missing transactions.
Tor stream isolation randomizes proxy user credentials resulting in
Tor creating a new circuit for each connection. This makes it more
difficult to correlate connections.
Idea from Wladimir J. van der Laan via Bitcoin Core.
Create GenerateCmd in btcjson v2. Update tests to check GenerateCmd.
Update chaincfg/params.go with a new bool in Params, GenerateSupported,
with true values in SimNetParams and RegressionNetParams and false in
the others.
Create new flag, discreteMining, in CPUMiner struct.
Add GenerateNBlocks function to cpuminer.go and handleGenerate
function to rpcserver.go.
Update documentation for the RPC calls.
