release-notes-0.4.0.md

Tapyrus Signer version 0.4.0 is now available for download at: https://github.com/chaintope/tapyrus-signer/releases/tag/v0.4.0/

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/chaintope/tapyrus-signer/issues

Project source code is hosted at github; you can get source-only tarballs/zipballs directly from there: https://github.com/chaintope/tapyrus-signer/tarball/v0.4.0

0.4.0 change log

Trustless setup

• New command line tool tapyrus-setup is available.

• The nodevss message is removed. Key generation protocol is treated in out of Tapyrus Signer Network using tapyrus-setup.

• See setup for more detail.

Federation management

• Make it possible to manage the signing member through configuring federations.toml.

• Remove config parameters publickeys, privatekey, threshold from signer.toml. Write federation parameters in federations.toml instead.

• See configuration for more detail.

New message

• Add blockparticipants to share signers list who participate the signing round.

• See #29 (comment).

New block header field

• Replace the block header field 'appPubkey' to the multipurpose field 'xfield'.

• At v0.4.0, we support None and AggregatePublicKey type only.

• See Block Structure Expansion for Signed-Blocks for more detail.

Support Snappy

• Add feature to support Snappy package manager.

Others

• Includes some fixes and improvement of codes.