What's new in Bitmessage 0.6.3.2 Beta
Feb 19, 2018
- This version is an update on 0.6.3 with a more strict exploit mitigation code. Users of 0.6.2 should either upgrade to 0.6.3.2 or downgrade to 0.6.1.
New in Bitmessage 0.6.2 Beta (Mar 5, 2017)
- Usability:
- many minor usability improvements, in particular helpful for beginners
- get rid of confusing log messages
- improved feedback when busy during shutdown
- UI feedback when problems with proxy
- UI feedback when local time is wrong
- UI feedback when C PoW module is not available
- folder loading performance improved
- translations updated
- chan join/create interface redesigned
- can select OpenCL vendor if multiple are available (previously it would have crashed)
- locale initialisation fixes
- contact support form and About dialog show the GIT head
- added setup.py (setuptools) for easier installation
- gentle warning if sending to a chan with a too low TTL
- message retransmit timing now works as the description
- Fixes:
- networking subsystem stability fixes
- multiprocessing python PoW fixed
- message parser fixes
- many smaller fixes
- OpenBSD listening socket fix (works IPv4-only mode instead of not at all)
- Backend:
- try to auto-build PoW module
- networking subsystem performance improvements
- refactoring of configuration interface, inventory, downloading and uploading tracking, known nodes and other minor parts
- refactoring to reduce circular imports and global variables
- support for OpenSSL 1.1.0 and LibreSSL
- some network parameters configurable, but mostly only through directly editing keys.dat
- network settings allow an optimised bootstrap provider mode
- Developers:
- extended encoding available for testing. Use it by holding Shift while clicking on Send
- extended encoding can be extended by adding new classes to the "messagetypes" directory
- directory structure reorganisation to get rid of obsolete code
- OS X:
- binary works with OpenCL
- updated to Python 2.7.13 and OpenSSL 1.0.2k
- Infrastructure:
- 3 additional bootstrap nodes
- new server for building/testing
- transifex webhooks automate translation workflow
- integration with landscape.io for code quality checking
New in Bitmessage 0.6.1 Beta (Aug 22, 2016)
- Translation update and localisation fixes
- Minor bug fixes
- Minor UI improvements
- Namecoin integration fixed and improved
- SMTP server and client interface
- Tor hidden service support
- C PoW builds and runs on *BSD
- upgraded to Python 2.7.12 and OpenSSL 1.0.2h
New in Bitmessage 0.6.0 Beta (Aug 22, 2016)
- QT interface overhaul
- Opportunistic TLS support
- Mitigation of some deanonymisation attacks
- C (using OpenSSL) and OpenCL PoW modules
- Performance improvements (backend as well as QT GUI)
- UPnP support
- Improved bootstrapping over Tor
- Translation updates
- Lots of tiny bugfixes and some minor security improvements
- Integration of mailchuck.com email gateway
New in Bitmessage 0.4.4 Beta (Oct 24, 2014)
- Added ability to limit network transfer rate
- Updated to Protocol Version 3
- Removed use of memoryview so that we can support python 2.7.3
- Make use of l10n for localizations
New in Bitmessage 0.4.3 Beta (Aug 5, 2014)
- Support pyelliptic's updated HMAC algorithm. We'll remove support for the old method after an upgrade period.
- Improved version check
- Refactored decodeBase58 function
- Ignore duplicate messages
- Added bytes received/sent counts and rate on the network information tab
- Fix unicode handling in 'View HTML code as formatted text'
- Refactor handling of packet headers
- Use pointMult function instead of arithmetic.privtopub since it is faster
- Fixed issue where client wasn't waiting for a verack before continuing on with the conversation
- Fixed CPU hogging by implementing tab-based refresh improvements
- Added curses interface
- Added support for IPv6
- Added a 'trustedpeer' option to keys.dat
- Limit maximum object size to 20 MB
- Support email-like > quote characters and reply-below-quote
- Added Japanese and Dutch language files; updated Norwegian and Russian languages files
New in Bitmessage 0.4.2 Beta (May 30, 2014)
- Added Norwegian, Chinese, and Arabic translations
- sock.sendall function isn't atomic. Let sendDataThread be the only thread which sends data.
- Moved API code to api.py
- Populate comboBoxSendFrom when replying
- Added option to show recent broadcasts when subscribing
- Fixed issue: If Windows username contained an international character, Bitmessage wouldn't start
- Added some code for FreeBSD compatibility
- Moved responsibility for processing network objects to the new ObjectProcessorThread
- Refactored main QT module
- Moved popup menus initialization to separate methods
- Simplified inbox loading
- Moved magic strings to the model scope constants so they won't be created every time.
- Updated list of defaultKnownNodes
- Fixed issue: [Linux] When too many messages arrive too quickly, exception occurs: "Exceeded maximum number of notifications"
- Fixed issue: creating then deleting an Address in short time crashes class_singleWorker.py
- Refactored code which displays messages to improve code readability
- load "Sent To" label from subscriptions if available
- Removed code to add chans to our address book as it is no longer necessary
- Added identicons
- Modified addresses.decodeAddress so that API command decodeAddress works properly
- Added API commands createChan, joinChan, leaveChan, deleteAddress
- In pyelliptic, check the return value of RAND_bytes to make sure enough random data was generated
- Don't store messages in UI table (and thus in memory), pull from SQL inventory as needed
- Fix typos in API commands addSubscription and getInboxMessagesByAddress
- Add feature in settings menu to give up resending a message after a specified period of time
New in Bitmessage 0.4.1 Beta (Oct 10, 2013)
- Fixed whitelist bug
- Fixed chan bug
- Added addressversion field to pubkeys table
- Sending messages to a chan no longer uses anything in the pubkeys table
- Sending messages to yourself is now fully supported
- Change _verifyAddress function to support v4 addresses
New in Bitmessage 0.4.0 Beta (Oct 10, 2013)
- Raised default demanded difficulty from 1 to 2 for new addresses
- Added v4 addresses: pubkeys are now encrypted and tagged in the inventory
- Use locks when accessing dictionary inventory
- Refactored the way inv and addr messages are shared
- Give user feedback when disk is full
- Added chan true/false to listAddresses results
- When replying using chan address, send to whole chan not just sender
- Refactored of the way PyBitmessage looks for interesting new objects in large inv messages from peers
- Show inventory lookup rate on Network Status tab
- Added SqlBulkExecute class so we can update inventory with only one commit
- Updated Russian translations
- Move duplicated SQL code into helper
- Allow specification of alternate settings dir via BITMESSAGE_HOME environment variable
- Removed use of gevent. Removed class_bgWorker.py
- Added Sip and PyQt to includes in build_osx.py
- Show number of each message type processed in the API command clientStatus
- Use fast PoW unless we're explicitly a frozen (binary) version of the code
- Enable user-set localization in settings
- Fix Archlinux package creation
- Fallback to language only localization when region doesn't match
- Fixed brew install instructions
- Added German translation
- Made inbox and sent messages table panels read-only
- Allow inbox and sent preview panels to resize
- Count RE: as a reply header, just like Re: so we don't chain Re: RE:
- Fix for traceback on OSX
- Added backend ability to understand shorter addresses
- Convert 'API Error' to raise APIError()
- Added option in settings to allow sending to a mobile device (app not yet done)
- Added ability to start daemon mode when using Bitmessage as a module
- Improved the way client detects locale
- Added API commands: getInboxMessageIds, getSentMessageIds, listAddressBookEntries, trashSentMessageByAckData, addAddressBookEntry, deleteAddressBookEntry, listAddresses2, listSubscriptions
- Set a maximum frequency for playing sounds
- Show Invalid Method error in same format as other API errors
- Update status of separate broadcasts separately even if the sent data is identical
- Added Namecoin integration
- Internally distinguish peers by IP and port
- Inbox message retrieval API functions now also returns read status
New in Bitmessage 0.3.5 Beta (Oct 10, 2013)
- Added right-click option to mark a message as unread
- Prompt user to connect at first startup
- Install into /usr/local by default
- Add a missing `rm -f` to the uninstall task.
- Use system text color for enabled addresses instead of black
- Added support for Chans
- Start storing msgid in sent table
- Optionally play sounds on connection/disconnection or when messages arrive
- Adding configuration option to listen for connections when using SOCKS
- Added packaging for multiple distros (Arch, Puppy, Slack, etc.)
- Added Russian translation
- Added search support in the UI
- Added 'make uninstall'
- To improve OSX support, use PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 if PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC is unavailable
- Added better warnings for OSX users who are using old versions of Python
- Repaired debian packaging
- Altered Makefile to avoid needing to chase changes
- Added logger module
- Added bgWorker class for background tasks
- Added use of gevent module
- On not-Windows: Fix insecure keyfile permissions
- Fix 100% CPU usage issue
New in Bitmessage 0.3.4 Beta (Oct 10, 2013)
- Added a new global variable user option: doTimingAttackMitigation
- Moved a variety of classes and functions out of bitmessagemain.py and to their own modules
- New API command: getSentMessageByAckData
- Modified the getAllSentMessages and getSentMessageById commands to return ackData
- API commands to get messages now return actual encoding type
- Bugfix: Unicode chars in localtime prevented the gui from starting
- Added 'Save message as...' option in Inbox
- Added OS X Build scripts
- Added option to subscribe to an address in your address book
- Added getInboxMessageById API command
- Updated icons to have sRGB profile to prevent warnings
- Added French translation
- Switched addr, msg, broadcast, and getpubkey message types to 8 byte time. Last remaining type is pubkey.
- Added tooltips to show the full subject of messages
- Added Maximum Acceptable Difficulty fields in the settings
- Send out pubkey immediately after generating deterministic addresses rather than waiting for a request