Let There Be Less Typos (v1.5.1)

This release fixes typo that set the EIP155 hard fork block to zero in --testnet mode.
For other changes in this release, please see the 1.5.1 milestone.

1.5.0 Release notes

Geth 1.5 contains about 8 months of work and includes many new features and fixes. The
most prominent features include:

• Ethereum hard fork No. 4 containing EIP155 (replay
  protection), EIP161 (state clearing), and EIP170 (code size limit).
• Improvements to the RPC API (see below)
• Initial release of the stable Go API, iOS and Android support. APIs are released as a
  preview and will receive more changes in the upcoming weeks. We expect to freeze certain
  Go APIs in the 1.5.4 release.

For a full rundown and a more detailed post about the changes please see the Whoa ... Geth 1.5.

This release overhauls the build infrastructure. Release packages are now built on Travis,
AppVeyor and CircleCI. Archives are available from geth.ethereum.org

Database Upgrade

The 1.5.0 release changes the structure of the blockchain database. Geth will upgrade the database
during normal operation, but you cannot revert to the previous 1.4.x releases. If you
do want to revert, you'll need to keep a backup of the chaindata directory or resync.

Changes to the RPC API

• Breaking Change: eth_sign prepends a known string to the input and hashes the
  message on the server side. See PR #2940 for more information.
• We have also added personal_sign and personal_recover.
• Block responses now include the mixDigest.
• Transaction responses include v, r and s values.
• In receipt responses, the root field is now prefixed with 0x.
• personal_importRawKey makes it possible to import an unencrypted private key via RPC.
• eth_getRawTransaction returns the RLP encoding of a transaction.
• debug_traceTransaction can filter the EVM through an arbitrary JavaScript map/reduce
  function on the server side. See documentation for more details.
• You can subscribe to real time events when using the WebSocket and IPC
  transports. See Pub/Sub documentation for more details.

Changes for Go Developers (and people building from git)

• Go dependencies are now vendored using the vendor/ directory. If you use Go 1.5 or Go 1.6, you
  need to set GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 in your environment.
• The develop branch is deprecated. All development will happen on the master branch.
  This makes it easier for you to get the latest changes. We will continue to keep the
  develop branch in sync with master for one more month to ease the transition.
• If you want to stick to stable releases only, please use the release/1.5 branch.
• Releases will happen more frequently (promise).

Experimental Features

Note that these features are highly experimental. Expect bugs and breakage while we
stabilise them over the next couple of releases.

• Geth can now run in light client mode with the --light flag. Light client mode syncs
  recent block headers and fetches state values on demand. Note that very few light client
  servers are available yet. You too can be a server using the --lightserv flag.
• The Swarm daemon (bzzd) and associated helper tools are included and somewhat
  functional.
• Whisper v5 PoC code is included in the repository, but not enabled yet.
• You can now use go-ethereum as a library in Android (Java) and iOS (ObjC/Swift)
  projects. abigen has gained preliminary support for creating Java bindings to Ethereum
  contracts.

Please report any issues you encounter.

You can find GPG-signed binaries for all supported platforms on https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads.

Let There Be Light (v1.5.0)

Geth 1.5 contains about 8 months of work and includes many new features and fixes. The
most prominent features include:

• Ethereum hard fork No. 4 containing EIP155 (replay
  protection), EIP161 (state clearing), and EIP170 (code size limit).
• Improvements to the RPC API (see below)
• Initial release of the stable Go API, iOS and Android support. APIs are released as a
  preview and will receive more changes in the upcoming weeks. We expect to freeze certain
  Go APIs in the 1.5.4 release.

For a full rundown and a more detailed post about the changes please see the Whoa ... Geth 1.5.

This release overhauls the build infrastructure. Release packages are now built on Travis,
AppVeyor and CircleCI. Archives are available from geth.ethereum.org

Database Upgrade

The 1.5.0 release changes the structure of the blockchain database. Geth will upgrade the database
during normal operation, but you cannot revert to the previous 1.4.x releases. If you
do want to revert, you'll need to keep a backup of the chaindata directory or resync.

Changes to the RPC API

• Breaking Change: eth_sign prepends a known string to the input and hashes the
  message on the server side. See PR #2940 for more information.
• We have also added personal_sign and personal_recover.
• Block responses now include the mixDigest.
• Transaction responses include v, r and s values.
• In receipt responses, the root field is now prefixed with 0x.
• personal_importRawKey makes it possible to import an unencrypted private key via RPC.
• eth_getRawTransaction returns the RLP encoding of a transaction.
• debug_traceTransaction can filter the EVM through an arbitrary JavaScript map/reduce
  function on the server side. See documentation for more details.
• You can subscribe to real time events when using the WebSocket and IPC
  transports. See Pub/Sub documentation for more details.

Changes for Go Developers (and people building from git)

• Go dependencies are now vendored using the vendor/ directory. If you use Go 1.5 or Go 1.6, you
  need to set GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 in your environment.
• The develop branch is deprecated. All development will happen on the master branch.
  This makes it easier for you to get the latest changes. We will continue to keep the
  develop branch in sync with master for one more month to ease the transition.
• If you want to stick to stable releases only, please use the release/1.5 branch.
• Releases will happen more frequently (promise).

Experimental Features

Note that these features are highly experimental. Expect bugs and breakage while we
stabilise them over the next couple of releases.

• Geth can now run in light client mode with the --light flag. Light client mode syncs
  recent block headers and fetches state values on demand. Note that very few light client
  servers are available yet. You too can be a server using the --lightserv flag.
• The Swarm daemon (bzzd) and associated helper tools are included and somewhat
  functional.
• Whisper v5 PoC code is included in the repository, but not enabled yet.
• You can now use go-ethereum as a library in Android (Java) and iOS (ObjC/Swift)
  projects. abigen has gained preliminary support for creating Java bindings to Ethereum
  contracts.

Please report any issues you encounter.

You can find GPG-signed binaries for all supported platforms on https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads.

Garbage Man (v1.4.19)

Geth 1.4.19 contains only the Ethereum hard fork No. 4 which includes EIP#155 (replay
protection), EIP#161 (state clearing), and EIP#170 (code size limit).

Note 7 (v1.4.18)

This is release Note 7 💥 and includes the EIP150 1b/1c Hardfork and a few fixes:

• Import reporter improvement #3120
• Trie memory fix #3135
• Expvar debug flag #3136
• Transaction pool soft limitations #3138

Note for users running geth on the Ethereum Classic network (--oppose-dao-fork):

The EIP150 transition is programmed to occur at block 2463000 whether or not --oppose-dao-fork is used.
If you use this option please migrate to the geth client maintained by Ethereum Classic developers.

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Poolaid (v1.4.17)

This release limits the number of transactions per-user and globally so as to limit maximum memory consumption and egress network traffic.

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Dear Diary (v1.4.16)

This release improves block processing performance to work around recent DoS attacks. It also disables the --jitvm A/B test which previously enabled the experimental JIT VM for 10% of geth users.

The DoS issue that began affecting the network two days ago has been remediated by adding state journalling to Geth. Journalling means that we no longer need to copy a transaction's state when a call is made; this is the root cause of many of the recently identified issues. Journalling, along with other recent improvements in response to other attacks, should also make Geth significantly faster at importing transactions.

Come at me Bro (1.4.15)

Geth 1.4.15 is a hotfix release to address two DoS attack vectors abused on the mainnet:

• Wasted CPU resources by abusing the EVMs JUMPDEST cache's key generation.
• Huge memory and CPU consumption by abusing quadratic contract state dirty tracking.

Please update ASAP. Further optimizations will most probably follow as we comb the code for bottlenecks.

What else should we rewrite? (1.4.14)

This is a Geth pre-release to counter the network DoS attacks from yesterday and those detected today. It is a prerelease (to help people get back on track fast) with further updates coming soon. As always, please keep an eye on your nodes while using as it features a new bleeding edge caching mechanism.

Note, initial attack blocks may process slower as cold data is loaded from the disk, but the longer Geth runs the less impact such transactions should have.

Being a pre-release, we won't land this code just yet in the master branch, also inherently meaning we won't be providing stable binaries from the usual channels (brew, ppa, chocolatey), however cross builds are available for testing below. Mist builds containing the pre-release will also be available.

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🔩 [xgo build bot] Published geth 1.4.14-prerelease (f88bca7) - release/1.4 branch

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Disclaimer: All of these binaries have been cross-compiled from Linux. Their primary goal is to provide access to unsupported or experimental platforms. We cannot guarantee that a cross compiler will produce the same performing code as a native build will. For any issues found, please contact @karalabe.

Into the Woods (1.4.13)

This patch is a hotfix release to mitigate last weeks DoS attacks, and those ongoing currently against Geth nodes in the network.

This patch should still be considered bleeding-edge. We advise exchanges and other users running business-critical applications that intend to run this release to simultaneously run a different client node and trigger a circuit breaker in case there is another DoS vulnerability or consensus failure. Users should continue to be on the alert for new patches and attacks against the network. Once enough nodes run the patch and the situation sufficiently stabilizes we will advise miners to slowly raise the gas limit.

There will be an additional patch created over the next several weeks to implement some more permanent fixes including cache journaling and cache-miss mitigation.

From Shanghai, with love (1.4.12)

Hotfix release for a network DOS attack! Please update ASAP.